Art

In celebration of the NCAA Men's Final Four arriving in the city, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and adidas Basketball present CAMH COURT, the first-ever playable basketball court in an art museum. Commissioned to design the basketball court, backboards, and basketballs is locally-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.The main court is designed to conform to CAMH"s Brown Foundation Gallery's parallelogram shape while matching the dimensions of a regulation court. Displaying Hancock's vivid imagination are striped Bringback characters and bright illustrations which are spread all along the floors, walls, and entrance.Throughout the exhibition, various programs and events will be hosted at the venue with support from adidas Basketball. All activations will culminate in the CAMH Ball on Apri 2...

From his The Bird's Nest to Sunflower Seeds and many more, Ai Weiwei has solidified himself as one of the most renowned visual artists in contemporary culture. Now his catalog is growing even larger with the debut of his largest LEGO artwork at London's the Design Museum.Titled Water Lilies #1, the eye-catching piece is modeled after Claude Monet's Water Lilies (1914 — 26), which currently resides at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. What makes Weiwei's piece especially unique is its usage of 650,000 LEGO bricks in 22 different hues – spanning 15 meters in length. The new piece by Weiwei is a part of his first design-focused exhibition, which is set to open next month and also marks the artist's largest UK show in eight years."Our world is complex and collapsing towards an ...

There has been just as much excitement as there is disdain for the growing use of AI in art. While the former camp lauds the potential to create seemingly infinite amounts of visuals and moodboards simply from a text prompt, many within the art community are concerned regarding the infringement these developmental tools will impose in the years to come. The U.S. Copyright Office has weighed in on the debate and have ultimately assessed that only human-made works are eligible for protection. In a report published last week, the Office cites a 2018 submission in which the applicant described their work as "autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine.” After a series of appeals, the artwork was ultimately denied a copyright because it was made “without any creative contr...

To celebrate the Iranian New Year, also known as Nowruz, San Francisco-based creative studio Even/Odd has worked with the Kiarostami Foundation on a special range of products celebrating the late filmmaker's impact on the world cinema. For those unfamiliar, Abbas Kiarostami created films that straddled the line between fiction and reality. Having passed away in Paris at age 76, Kiarostami had an uncanny ability to illuminate the hopes and fears of humanity, such as in his seminal film, Where is the Friend’s House? and his Palm D’Or winning Taste of Cherry. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Even/Odd (@evenodd.studio)The project was helmed by Even/Odd founder Mohammad Gorjestani alongside creative director Omid Fatemi, both of whom looked to capture the artistic complexity of Kiaro...

Pipilotti Rist has unveiled a new site-specific video on the facade of the M+ Museum in Hong Kong. Globally recognized for her sensorial videos and installations, the Swiss artist typically creates immersive environments where the audience is invited to sit and observe colorful depictions of the human body, and our changing relationship with technology. In her latest work, Hand Me Your Trust, Rist bypasses the space of a gallery and museum altogether to present a towering meditation on the bustling lights and skyscrapers that constitute the Hong Kong skyline and the hands that made them. Emblematic of her cinematic style, each scene showcases various hands — some abstract, others literal depictions — as they float in and out of space. View this post on InstagramA post shared by M+, Museum ...

Artist Ai Weiwei is famous for flipping off global landmarks in one of his most notable series, Study of Perspective. Now, in a new online art project from Avant Arte, you can put the visionary's famous middle finger in the foreground of various searchable locations yourself.Titled "Middle Finger," the platform allows users to superimpose Weiwei's extended, angry arm over a selection of notable landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and Trump Tower, among others. Additionally, the initiative features a slew of renowned artworks by Vincent Van Gogh, Hans Holbein The Younger and Banksy; and for those with more personal agendas, it lets users download a high-resolution cut-out of the artist's middle finger, which can be edited onto any picture.“We...

It's been over a decade since KAWS has exhibited in Paris. Much has changed in the art world in that time, and especially so for the street artist-turned-global-icon — from his partnerships with Fortnite, AllRightsReserved and General Mills to his rotator belt of vinyl figures and a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. For his latest solo exhibition, KAWS reflects on the concept of time itself at Skarstedt Gallery's Paris location.The works in TIME OFF stem back to NO EXIT, an earlier painting the artist created in 2020, during the height of confinement. Unlike the narrative depictions of the latter, KAWS' latest paintings are more introspective — serving as a reflection on the fleeting nature of time. CHUM, the artist's Michelin Man-inspired character, is seen throughout each painting,...

Sony and the World Photography Organisation have announced the winners for its annual World Photography Awards for 2023. The program began 16 years ago as a way to celebrate photographers of all statures — from the youth level to seasoned professionals. Winners receive $25,000 USD, Sony digital imaging equipment and will have their work featured in the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition and book.Nearly half a million images were entered in this year's competition, ranging portraiture, landscape, sport, nature and wildlife, as well as still-life, travel, street photography and more. "If pictures act as role models, we, photographers, also shape the view of people with our publications. Through my pictures, I want to show dignity, diversity, perfection and also (supposedly) imperfectio...

Banksy had just put the finishing touches on his latest artwork on an abandoned farmhouse in in Kent, England, when shortly after completion, a construction crew demolished the building. Entitled Morning is Broken, the work featured a silhouetted cat and a boy with arms outstretched opening two dilapidated sheets of iron, which were shaped like curtains.The elusive street artist confirmed the artwork on Instagram yesterday, March 16, but it's unclear if he knew of the house's fate. The construction crew certainly wasn't aware, as George Caudwell, one of the contractors in charge told KentOnline they had "no idea it was a Banksy" and felt "sick" upon realization. “We started demolishing it yesterday. The landowner watched us do it and didn’t know either," Caudwell added. This is the second ...