Art
Elmgreen & Dragset Go Prada Mode
As the art world rolls into London for Frieze week, Prada joins in on the cultural conversation. For the thirteenth iteration of Prada Mode, the Milanese fashion house reunites with Elmgreen & Dragset, the acclaimed duo behind the cult Prada Marfa, for a new immersive installation, titled “The Audience”.Within a makeshift cinema inside the newly restored Town Hall in King's Cross, a hazy film loops on-screen. Peppered throughout the seats are five hyperrealistic sculptures of moviegoers, posed in expressions of fascination, frustration and distraction, while another sculpture, lounging in the mezzanine, wears an apathetic gaze with her phone in-hand.By redirecting the attention of visitors away from the screen and toward the immediate environment, the piece reconsiders what it means to...
Harmony Korine, Zaha Hadid & More Cultural Icons Spotlighted in ‘THE DEEP STATE’
Cultural Counsel is releasing a new book titled THE DEEP STATE: ART, CULTURE & FLORIDA, a lengthy dive into the strange beauty and contradictions that define the Sunshine State. The book traces Florida’s creative evolution from its earliest days to the present, uncovering forgotten stories, overlooked voices and the mix of icons and outsiders who helped shape its unique cultural landscape.Set to launch this December during Art Basel Miami Beach, THE DEEP STATE features work by Harmony Korine, who designed the cover alongside Zaha Hadid, John Singer Sargent and Bunny Yeager. Through essays, photographs and conversations with cultural figures, it explores how Florida became both a haven and a hallucination for creative minds.The book is packed with interesting stories that blur the line ...
Nan Goldin Embraces Her Cinematic Side in ‘This Will Not End Well’
SummaryAcclaimed American photographer Nan Goldin opens This Will Not End Well, her first major European retrospective, at Pirelli HangarBicocca in MilanThe exhibition features the largest corpus of slideshows presented together, alongside two recent works and the artist's first sound installation“I have always wanted to be a filmmaker,” says photographer Nan Goldin. “My slideshows are films made up of stills.” It's this cinematic sensibility that underpins This Will Not End Well, the first major European retrospective dedicated to Goldin, the filmmaker, now on view at Milan's Pirelli HangarBicocca. Originally presented at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, the exhibition traces the evolution of one of contemporary photography's most influential voices, in an intimate, immersive journey throug...
illy Announces its Latest ‘illy Art Collection’ with Swiss Artist John Armleder
As Frieze kicked off in London today, illy – the heritage Italian coffee house known for merging art and espresso culture – unveiled Swiss artist John Armleder as the latest collaborator its longstanding series: the illy Art Collection.illy – with its iconic minimalist red sans-serif logo – isn’t just synonymous with premium Italian coffee, it’s also deeply tied to the art world. Since 1992, the brand has invited artists from around the world to reimagine the classic white espresso cup, collaborations that have transformed thousands of tiny porcelain canvases into a vibrant and evolving collection of art.Titled Tastes, the brand's latest collaboration saw it enlist the help of multidisciplinary Swiss artist John Armleder – whose work spans painting, sculpture, performance and more, and has...
7 Must-See Exhibitions During Frieze London
Frieze week has taken over London, pulling artists, collectors and casual art wanderers into a citywide orbit of openings, parties and late-night conversations. Beyond the fair tents in Regent’s Park, the programming spills across town as Rick Owens and Michele Lamy explore the poetry of decay in Rust Never Sleeps at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, while São Paulo’s Sonia Gomes brings warmth and memory to Pace with É preciso não ter medo de criar.At White Cube, Cai Guo-Qiang ignites Gunpowder and Abstraction and Peter Doig transforms the Serpentine into a space of sound and stillness complete with custom towering speakers in House of Music. These are some of our favorite shows to check out in London this Frieze week.Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s ‘Rust Never Sleeps’Carpenters Workshop Gallery ...
Nina Chanel Gets Her First Definitive Artist Monograph
Whether it’s a public mural or a painting displayed in a white cube, Nina Chanel’s bold and frenetic compositions are instantly recognizable. Chanel, known for her vibrant paintings that depict varying subjects across race, celebrity, religion, politics and popular culture, has been honored with her first artist monolograph courtesy of Phaidon and published by Monacelli.The monograph details a sprawling collection of over 300 works that sheds light on the context and inspirations behind 300 works including large-scale paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, murals and brand collaborations such as Jordan Brand, Tiffany & Co, Mattel and more. Insight the book are texts by a coterie of influential art world figures including Richard J. Powell who is a seminal authority on Af...
Inside ‘Q3,’ ProblemChild Advisory’s Corporate Fever Dream
SummaryConceptual curatorial project ProblemChild Advisory opens Q3, a new group exhibition, at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New YorkFeaturing work by 10 underground names, the show captures the cost of life under perpetual accelerationAs the third fiscal quarter comes to a close, ProblemChild Advisory wants us to stop and take stock of the emotional fallout left by endless cycles of production and consumption.Staged at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York, the Q3 group show captures the unease of this transitional moment — how it ripples and refracts into other facets of everylife life. Described by the gallery as a “surreal cocktail of brawls, shots, shadows, pixies, pixels, girls, gremlins, yogis, business deals, actors, horses, hooligans and a puppy,” the showcase brings forth a compelling body...
AllRightsReserved and KAWS Debut Exclusive Sesame Street Figure Collection
SummaryKAWS and AllRightsReserved are collaborating with Sesame Street on a new vinyl figure collectionThe five characters are reimagined with KAWS’s signature X-eyes aestheticGlobal pre-order begins October 16 on the DDT StoreKAWS and AllRightsReserved are teaming up with Sesame Street for an exclusive figure collection. This launch, following their initial partnership in 2018, serves as an extension of the artist's iconic visual universe.The collection brings together five beloved Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie and Oscar the Grouch. Each figure has been meticulously reimagined in KAWS's signature aesthetic with the X-eyes, and their poses taking inspiration from past KAWS figures. The toys, which are made of vinyl, will be available for purchase individually or as ...
Devin B. Johnson Gains New Momentum in ‘Crossing’
SummaryDevin B. Johnson has opened Crossing, his new solo exhibition, at Nicodim Gallery in New YorkThe showcase features a new suite of figurative and abastract paintings that elevates recurring themes, like memory, momentum and community identity into new formsNicodim in New York has lifted the veil on Crossing, Devin B. Johnson's second solo outing with the gallery. Described as "his most focused body of work to-date," Johnson's latest suite of paintings traces the fault lines between recurrent themes — entropy, legacy, memory, the collapse of form — into new expressions, drawing a map of where he's been and all that's yet to come.When approaching a canvas, Johnson first lays down figurative anchors drawn from found photographs, keepsakes and other discarded objects of affection, then c...
Invader Touches Down in Tennessee
SummaryInvader will create his first-ever pool artwork for the upcoming Ray Nashville building in TennesseeSet to open in early 2027, renderings of the artwork reveal a Space Invader-like figures inlaid across the pool floor and a frieze of characters along the rimIf you've ever wandered through Paris, you're likely no stranger to Invader, the street artist who's been slowly turning the French capital into his personal arcade. For the last two decades, Invader, born Franck Slama, has kept steadfast in his craft, leaving his 8-bit imprint on over 79 cities across 20 countries.In the wake of Triple Trouble, his ongoing show with Damien Hirst and Shepard Fairey, the artist announces his first ever Nashville "invasion": a rooftop mosaic at Ray Nashville, an upcoming residential space weaving f...
Upcoming Bob Ross Auction to Benefit Public TV Stations Facing Funding Cuts
SummaryAround 30 Bob Ross paintings head to the auction block in support of public television stations facing funding cutsThe auction series kicks off with a three-piece sale at Bonhams Los Angeles on November 11Dozens of original artworks by Bob Ross, the soft-spoken legend of at-home art, will go under the hammer in a series of auctions to benefit public TV stations scrambling for new financial lifelines after recent federal funding cuts. The collection includes around 30 paintings, many of which were created on-air during Ross's hit PBS series, The Joy of Painting.The first auction of three works is slated for November 11 at Bonhams in Los Angeles, with subsequent sales planned for London, New York, Boston and online. All proceeds will go toward stations nationwide that run content from...
Jon Rafman’s ‘Nine Eyes of Google Street View’ Gets the Museum Treatment
SummaryJon Rafman's “Nine Eyes of Google Street View” takes center stage in Report a concern - The Nine Eyes Archives, now on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtThe exhibition features original images from the ongoing “Nine Eyes” project, alongside a film and a new AI piece based off the seriesWhen Google unleashed its fleet of camera-mounted Street View cars in 2007, it accidentally gave rise to a new way of seeing — an endless, automated stare that captured life's strange, funny, poetic and sometimes brutal moments as they unravelled. It's a gaze, indifferent to beauty and morality, that caught the attention of Canadian artist Jon Rafman.In 2008, Rafman began his own archive of unusual captures, blossoming into “Nine Eyes of Google Street View,” a move that would later become one of t...
