Art
RAE BK Opens Five-Room Exhibition ‘Faraday Cage’ in Upstate New York
Summary'Faraday Cage' invites viewers to step into a world of personal and political uneaseThe exhibition is a fusion of diaristic murals, video installations and domestic objectsArtist RAE BK, a fixture of the downtown New York City art scene, has taken his latest creative project far from his familiar streets. His new immersive exhibition, Faraday Cage, is not staged in a gallery but installed inside a small, unassuming prefab house in upstate New York. The five-room show, which opened on August 16, invites viewers to step into a world of personal and political unease that features his signature, motley crew of sprayed and scavenged characters.The exhibition is a fusion of diaristic murals, video installations and domestic objects that have been repurposed into unsettling art. Animatroni...
Yuko Nishikawa Transforms Lindberg Eyewear into Moving Sculpture
SummaryThe presentation merges modern architectural design with the sculptural craft of Brooklyn-based artist Yuko NishikawaNishikawa transformed components like laser-cut titanium and precision-milled acetate into a series of delicate, kinetic sculpturesDanish eyewear label Lindberg has unveiled a special installation at the Armory Show 2025 situated at the Javits Center in New York City. The presentation merges modern architectural design with the sculptural craft of Brooklyn-based artist Yuko Nishikawa. The brand’s Spring/Summer 2025 sunglasses collection is staged in the space with the artist reimagining its core materials as new forms of expression in a series of delicate, suspended mobiles.More precisely, Nishikawa transformed components like laser-cut titanium and precision-milled a...
Hypeart Visits: In ‘Without Gravity,’ Kennedy Yanko Makes a Homecoming
For Kennedy Yanko, gravity is more of a suggestion than a rule. The St. Louis-born artist has mastered the art of sculptural alchemy, building a name for herself through her signature paint skin works – sheets of dried paint take on a leathery alterlife, later draped atop metal salvage – which earned their own double showcase in New York earlier this year. While garnering a reputation as a vital voice in the medium, Yanko insists, "I'm a painter that makes sculpture."Now, she's bringing that claim full circle with her latest exhibition at Pace Prints. On view through October 4, Without Gravity marks a sort of 2D homecoming for the now Miami-based artist, as she brings forth a family of multilayered compositions, echoing the gestural drama and perceptual essence her three-dimensional painti...
Ai Weiwei to Unveil New Handbook at NYC’s Strand Bookstore
SummaryBook launch and talk with Ai Weiwei at Strand Bookstore this Sept 5'Ai Weiwei Handbook' published by No More Rulers, highlights art and activismThe Strand Book Store will host a special event this Friday, September 5, with Ai Weiwei appearing in conversation with writer Orville Schell to celebrate the launch of Ai Weiwei Handbook published by No More Rulers. The talk offers audiences a rare opportunity to hear directly from the artist about his work and activism, as well as the making of the new volume. Tickets for the event can be purchased here.Ai Weiwei Handbook is the latest release in a new series by No More Rulers spotlighting visionary artists. The book serves as a compact and affordable guide to Ai’s career, presenting his work across sculpture, photography, film, architectu...
The Hypeart Guide to Frieze Seoul 2025
SummaryThe 2025 edition of Frieze Seoul welcomes over 120 presenting galleries with a joint booth by P21 and Gallery Vacancy, as well as NANZUKA UNDERGROUND's star-studded presentation featured on the fairgroundsStandout satellite shows include Antony Gormley's Inextricable at White Cube, the Nude, Flesh and Love group show at Jason Haam, the inaugural exhibition at Frieze House Seoul and the debut installation for Maison Margiela's "Line 2" projectLee Bul's monumental retrospective at Leeum Museum of Art, Adrián Villar Rojas' The Language of the Enemy at Art Sonje Center and the 13th edition of Seoul Mediacity Biennale are among the museum highlightsFrieze Seoul is back in full swing, now in its fourth edition. Running through September 6 at COEX in Gangnam, the 2025 fair delivers a hefty...
Guillermo del Toro Takes His Treasured Horror Collection to Auction
SummaryHorror maestro Guillermo del Toro is teaming up with Heritage Auctions for a three-part sale of relics from his infamous 10,000-piece cabinet of curiositiesThe first installment of the Bleak House auction will start on September 26 with hundreds of concept artworks, memorabilia and artifacts up for grabsFrom his early Cronos to his most recent Frankenstein - which earned a near 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival - Guillermo del Toro has secured the title as the "godfather of modern Gothic." Offscreen, his love for the occult, monstrous and macabre manifests as a two-story residence in suburban Los Angeles, with over 10,000 artworks, books and artifacts collected over a lifetime. Sure, tons of creative big shots have skeletons in the closet, but del Toro's infamou...
Max Siedentopf and Gentle Monster’s HAUS NOWHERE Unveils “More Is More”
SummaryGentle Monster's HAUS NOWHERE has unveiled its first art project created in collaboration with Namibian-German artist and director Max Siedentopf"More Is More" is now on view in Seoul, Dosan, Shanghai and ShenzenEven if you've never heard of HAUS NOWHERE, you know HAUS NOWHERE. The Gentle Monster brainchild behind this massive, two-faced cyborg for the eyewear label's Margiela collab or Nudake's crossaint-clad Shainghai store, the experimental project is on a mission to rewrite the rules of retail.For the launch of its new Seoul outpost, HAUS NOWHERE has unveiled its first major artwork, "More Is More," created in collaboration with artist and director Max Siedentopf. Lauded for his surreal, hyperrealistic sculptures, Siedentopf pushes the brand's "space unlike any other" mantra int...
ICA Miami to Host Largest Survey of Joyce Pensato
SummaryICA Miami will bring together over 60 works by the late American painter, Joyce PensatoPensato is widely recognized for her abstract compositions featuring iconic cartoon charactersThe exhibition will kick off during Miami Art Week in DecemberThis December, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami will host a monumental exhibition on the late, seminal American painter Joyce Pensato. Bringing together over 60 works across five decades, the survey signals the artist’s largest presentation yet that offers viewers an insightful look into the artist’s extensive practice that traces her earlier methods of gestural abstraction to her popular compositions comprised of black and white figuration. The namesake exhibition will highlight Pensato’s early Batman drawings from 1976, oil paintings ...
Rashid Johnson’s “Dutchman” Returns to New York’s Russian & Turkish Baths
SummaryAcclaimed artist Rashid Johnson is bringing his adaptation of Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman" (1964) back for a limited run of performancesThe performance's themes of race, violence and assimilation are heightened by its unusually immersive choice of venueRashid Johnson's "Dutchman" is making a highly-anticipated return to the Russian & Turkish Baths for a five-night run, starting September 24. Debuted 2013, the seminal Performa-commissioned performance marked the artist's directorial debut, setting him on a path beyond visual art. Over a decade later, he revisits Amiri Baraka's 1964, Obie-winning portrait of race and sexuality with renewed urgency.Baraka premiered his "Dutchman" in at the storied Cherry Lane Theatre in 1964, with its 2007 revival catching the attention of one Johnson...
Petra Collins Opens ‘fangirl,’ Her First Museum Show
SummaryDaelim Museum in Seoul is currently presenting fangirl, the inaugural museum presentation by Canadian photographer Petra CollinsWith over 500 works on view, spanning photography, video, installation, archival material and editorial projects, the showcase offers an in-depth survey of Collins' lush universeAcclaimed photographer and director Petra Collins has opened the doors to her first large-scale solo exhibition at the Daelim Museum in Seoul. Now on view through December 31, fangirl presents a sweeping, 500-piece dive into the evolution behind one of fashion's most beloved image-makers.Collins' name has become shorthand for a certain mood: opulent, cinematic, surreal and entirely seared with the raw interiority of youth. The self-taught photographer came onto the scene at 15, post...
Manuel Mathieu Confronts Rage in ‘Bury Your Masters’ Exhibition
SummaryMathieu is a multidisciplinary artist who works across painting, drawing, ceramics and installationHis compositions are biomorphic, harnessing an abstract yet fluid appearance that yield subtle hints of figuration. In September, London’s Pilar Corrîas gallery will stage the second solo exhibition of Manuel Mathieu. Hailing from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Mathieu is a multidisciplinary artist who works across painting, drawing, ceramics and installation. His compositions are biomorphic, harnessing an abstract yet fluid appearance that yield subtle hints of figuration. For the show, entitled Bury Your Masters, Mathieu holds in a quiet rage as each work probes the state of an unfair reality. More precisely, he “excavates inherited legacies (familial, political and spiritual) to question an...
‘Breathless in Glowing Air’ Captures Beauty Before It’s Lost
SummaryNew York-based publisher Pomegranate Press is celebrating its 10th anniversary with Breathless in Glowing Air, a massive group exhibition staged at London's 10 14 galleryOn view through September 19, the exhibition presents work by 62 photographers documenting the overlooked beauty of the everydayPomegranate Press is ringing in double digits and to celebrate, the indie imprint has mounted Breathless in Glowing Air, a 100-piece look back on a decade-long devotion to contemporary image-making.With no singular theme confining the curation, the group show captures the moments that might otherwise slip through the cracks. It anchors itself in the paradoxically enduring beauty of life at its most fleeting: the touch shared between two lovers that lasts a lifetime, roadside dust kicked up ...
