Art
Andy Warhol’s “Serial Portraits” Is Coming to Espace Louis Vuitton in Tokyo
SummaryEspace Louis Vuitton Tokyo is hosting an exhibition of Andy Warhol's serial portraitsThe free exhibition runs from October 2, 2025, to February 15, 2026Part of Fondation Louis Vuitton’s global Hors‑les‑murs programOpening on October 2, Andy Warhol: Serial Portraits – Selected Works from the Collection will be presented at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo as part of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program, which brings works from its Paris collection to audiences worldwide.The exhibition focuses on Warhol’s exploration of the portrait format, showcasing a curated selection that spans from his most recognizable images to lesser‑known works. Drawn from the Fondation’s holdings, the display includes pieces such as "Self‑Portraits" (1977–1986), highlighting the artist’s fascination...
The Slow Death of the Contemporary Art Gallery
The contemporary art gallery as we know it is dying. In cities like New York and Los Angeles, dedicated spaces that once buzzed with foot traffic and formal openings are now struggling with rising rents and changing expectations. The old model, where a gallery does everything for its artists, feels like it's falling apart.Big gallery chains, the ones built on endless art fairs, multiple cities and huge rosters of artists, are losing their grip. Last month, Tim Blum announced he would close his Blum & Poe galleries in L.A. and Tokyo and even stop plans for a new one in Tribeca. He was blunt about the reason: "This is not about the market. This is about the system," he told ARTnews, pointing out that collectors have more power than ever to negotiate. His decision echoes a wider feeling a...
Ai Weiwei Subverts the Swoosh in “Colored Vase” Edition
SummaryAi Weiwei and Avant Arte have teamed up on a “Colored Vase,” a five-piece sculptural edition that probes the tension between tradition and commercializationPriced at $1,554 USD each, the works will be available for a one-week window starting August 28Ai Weiwei has built a career on turning tradition inside out, consistently returning to ancient Chinese pottery to confront politics of value, heritage and power. In his provocative 1995 piece “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” Weiwei did just that, reframing destruction as its own act of preservation. In other works, centuries-old vases are graced with a logomaniac touch, weaving symbols of commercial emblems into objects of deep cultural heritage.The iconic artist and activist builds on this dialogue in a new five-piece collaboration with ...
HUF and Mia Scarpa Go Acidic Americana in New Capsule
Mia Scarpa keeps her grip on the compressor, delivering dreamy airbrushed works that sit at the forefront of a 21st century digital folk sensibility. The Los Angeles-based artist is teaming up with skate-streetwear label HUF for a new capsule collection, distilling her unmistakable visual world into a range of wearables, fittingly grounded in a West Coast edge.The lineup spans heavyweight tees, webbed belts and denim shorts, each emblazoned with Scarpa’s hand in the details. True to her practice, the designs tap into ideas of memory and nostalgia through plumes of color, pattern and composition, as the artist recalls fond memories from her RISD stint.Highlights include a five-piece run of one-one-one Cromer shorts, each graced with a unique airbrushed design — a deer frozen in night vision...
Anish Kapoor and Climate Activists Take Over Gas Rig with “BUTCHERED”
SummaryClimate activists from Greenpeace installed Anish Kapoor's “BUTCHERED” on a Shell gas rig in the North SeaThe piece references the violence, loss and destruction wrought on by titanic oil and gas extraction initiatives and corporationsActivists from the climate organization Greenpeace have unveiled a new artwork by Anish Kapoor on a Shell gas platform in the North Sea. Titled “BUTCHERED,” the artwork arrives as the UK records its fourth heatwave of the summer, and in the words of Kapoor, is “a reference to the destruction – the bleeding – of our globe of our state, of being.”On the morning of August 13, seven Greenpeace members scaled Shell's Skiff platform, located 45 nautical miles off the coast of Norfolk before mounting a 12-by-8 meter canvas to the side of the rig. The activist...
Marguerite Piard Turns a Tender Lens on Female Nudity in ‘Les Veilleuses’
SummaryFrench artist Marguerite Piard is set to open Les Veilleuses at Stems Gallery in Brussels on August 14Through her work, Piard urges audiences to challenge perceptions of female nudityStems Gallery is set to open a new solo exhibition by Marguerite Piard at its Brussels flagship. In Les Veilleuses, which translates to The Night Lights, paintings of friends, family and lovers find home in intimate settings, awash with warm, humane hues — “Les Veilleuses is about our loved ones,” as the gallery described.Piard's tender, often tightly-framed, captures transport us to an emotional limbo akin to the silence shared between two friends. Echoing this sentiment is her unique choice of canvas, opting for sculpted wooden panels or smooth slabs of stone. Here, the artist presents bodies in an et...
Bobby Mills’ ‘Charred’ Exhibition Presents a Dialogue Between Fragility and Mass
SummaryBobby Mills' "Charred" exhibition features furniture and objects made from charred English burr oakInspired by North Devon’s landscapes, each salvaged piece fuses natural form with craftsmanshipOn view at otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE until August 20, 2025otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE is currently hosting Bobby Mills' solo exhibition, Charred. This showcase marks the craftsman and designer's second solo exhibition, featuring his latest body of work in charred English burr oak -- a rare and visually striking timber whose swirling grain patterns evoke the turbulence of a fossilized storm.Created in Mills’ small studio in North Devon, each piece reflects the surrounding environment from the vast dunes to the west and ancient oak valleys to the north, infusing the work with a deep connect...
Newcastle United’s Magpie Emblem Inspires a New Exhibition
Back in March, Newcastle United took home the trophy for the Carabao Cup, marking its first domestic cup win in 70 years – five months later, and the club isn’t done celebrating as it hosted a commemorative art exhibition in Seoul, Korea. Coinciding with its Asia tour, the free-to-attend exhibition aimed to give fans in the country a closer look at Newcastle United’s history through archival imagery and posters. Besides the historic display, it also delivered several specially commissioned works from Joonho Ko, a local concept artist known for his moody editorial cartoons and vibrant animations. In a unique blend of Korean culture and football spirit, Ko reimagines the club’s magpie motif through the lens of ancient folklore, where the bird is regarded as a symbol of good luck and prosperi...
twentynine Is the 2000s Inspired Teen Zine That Feels Like Your Internet Brain on Print
What happens when a tech-savvy performance artist and a whimsical fashion designer decide to rewire nostalgia through AI? You get twentynine—a wildly imaginative, tongue-in-cheek magazine and gallery project from artist Maya Man (aka @mayaontheinternet) and designer Isabella Lalonde (aka @BeepyBella). Built with the help of Lenovo and Intel, twentynine reclaims the chaos and charm of early 2000s teen magazines—and turns it into something surreal, self-aware and deeply reflective of our hyper-digital times.At its core, Maya and Bella’s project is truly about pushing ideas further with the right tools—and for that, the Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition became an essential part of their process. They’re not outsourcing creativity to machines. In fact, Maya trained AI models using a diffusion...
Carhartt WIP Taps Okniceok for Pencil-Drawn T-Shirt Collection
SummaryCarhartt WIP teamed up with New York-based illustrator Oknotok on a collection of T-shirts featuring an eclectic mix of illustrationsOf the three designs, two are offered in black and whiteCarhartt WIP enlisted New York-based Oknotok, also known as Danny Ische, for a run of graphic T-shirts. Culling inspiration from childhood memory and internet culture, the illustrative wearables deliver nostalgia, pixelated play with a photorealist bite.The capsule includes several designs across men and women's fits, two of which are available in black and white. Keeping it classic, all three tees are emblazoned with the Carhartt WIP on the front chest, though reimagined by the artist's surrealist signature. The emblematic "C" takes on the form of a spiral staircase and poised swan, while a toss ...
Egypt’s $1 Billion USD Archeological Museum to Open This Fall
SummaryThe Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) opens November 1, housing over 100,000 artifactsLocated near the Giza pyramids, it's the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilizationIt will display King Tutankhamun's complete tomb collection for the first timeA landmark cultural project, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), is set to officially open its doors to the public on November 1, marking a new era for tourism and archaeology in Egypt. Located on the Giza Plateau just two kilometers from the iconic pyramids, the billion-dollar institution will be the largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization.The GEM is a monumental achievement, spanning 120 acres and housing over 100,000 artifacts, with more than 20,000 being shown to the public for the first time. The museum's m...
Immerse Yourself in ‘The City of Nam June Paik’
SummaryThe Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin, South Korea is currently presenting The City of Nam June Paik: The Sea Fused with The Sun, now on view through October 19Featuring works by Paik, Yiyun Kang, Gijeong Goo, Hyewon Kwon, and Inhwa Yeom, the exhibition explores the departure of screens and video as reflections of our reality to reality itselfIn this day and age, the ubiquity of screen technology is less of a sci-fi dream than it is a fact of life. Just as Denis Villeneuve envisioned it in Blade Runner 2049, modern cities are something akin to seas of screens, plucking the internet-fueled image ecosystems from our personal devices and enmeshing it into the physical world.In this accelerated flood of media, video and moving image no longer simply reflects reality, but become it. It'...
