Art

SummaryThe seventh edition of the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. artist biennial is currently on view through March 1, 2026Curated by Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha, this edition features 28 artists across generations and mediums from the greater L.A. areaUnconfined to a single theme, the works on view span painting, installation, sculpture, film, photography, sound, video and theater, reflecting the city's mosaic of culture“Neither myth nor monolith, Los Angeles is many things to many people, and its dissonance is perhaps its most distinguishing feature,” wrote the Hammer Museum, in the lead-up to its acclaimed Made in L.A. biennial. Now in its seventh edition, the showcase returns, this time with the spotlight on 28 artists whose practices span generations, lineages and mediums. As the...

SummaryThe experience marks 25 years 'One Piece' first aired in JapanThe exhibition encompasses 11 rooms and runs until November 30 in Mercer Labs' NYC locationToei Animation and Mercer Labs have joined forces for "ONE PIECE x MERCER LABS", an immersive exhibition celebrating Eiichiro Oda’s legendary anime series. Open now at Mercer Labs, the experience marks over 25 years since One Piece first aired in Japan. Today, the franchise spans 15 feature films, countless games and one of the most devoted fanbases in anime history.The exhibition encompasses 11 rooms, reimagining the "Land of Wano" arc through large-scale installations of sound, light and motion. Visitors enter through the "Window Room," where a circular ceiling screen revisits the Straw Hat Crew’s voyage to the samurai-filled nati...

SummaryAcclaimed photographer Juergen Teller is set to open his expansive you are invited mid-career survey at Onassis Ready in Athens GreeceOpening on October 19, the exhibition will feature some of Teller's most iconic images and videos, alongside never-before-seen works, personal portraits and still-lifes, spanning his early days in London todaySat at the vanguard of fashion photography, Juergen Teller has built a career off a defiant eye. Internationally renowned for his celebrity portraits, provocative editorials and striking luxury campaigns, his work dismantles the fantasy of perfection, opting for an unguarded immediacy that's blunt, beautiful and above all, alive.Now, Teller is ushering in a new chapter. For his latest move, the German photographer is gearing up to open you are in...

Summary'Outside of America' highlights Lee Quiñones' longstanding practice of using art as a form of social commentaryThe landmark exhibition will feature his iconic subway murals to his more recent work that has never been shown to the publicLondon’s Woodbury House will host a monumental exhibition centering on he influential New York City-based, Puerto Rican artist Lee Quiñones. Entitled Outside is America, the presentation will highlight Quiñones’ longstanding practice of using art as a form of social commentary to highlight socio-political issues including nuclear war, poverty, racism and classism. The exhibition will also shed light on his impactful contributions to the New York City street art movement such as his iconic subway car murals in 1974 to his developing artist years in the...

SummaryEsmaa Mohamoud explores the fragility of innocence and the soul in What Does Webster's Say About Soul?, now on view at Roberts Projects in Los AngelesFeaturing five new shea butter and black granite sculptures, the show hones in on themes of mortality, sacredness and the precarity of existence through the lens of Black youthAt Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, Esmaa Mohamoud probes into the injured soul. What Does Webster's Say About Soul?, titled after a line in Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 spoken word track "Comment #1", moves through questions of harm, injustice and endurance through the interiority of Black youth as they confront the theft of innocence and the precarity of their own existence.Building on a body conceptual interventions into Black visual culture — be it Cadillac low rid...

SummaryOpake and Slawn fuse anime-inspired works with chaotic overpainting in 'TABOO'The project spans a 'Big Issue' cover, limited drops and a surprise London pop-upTwo of the UK’s most unfiltered names, Opake and Slawn, are linking up for TABOO, a project that blurs the line between what’s explicit, what’s acceptable and what gets shut down. It started on September 15 with Opake stepping in as guest editor for The Big Issue. He designed the cover and sat down with Slawn for an unfiltered conversation on labels, censorship, faith, addiction and how breaking rules can sometimes be the best way forward.The collaboration takes shape on September 25 with a release of hand-painted skate decks, original canvases and editioned prints on Slawn’s site. The centerpiece of the collaboration is a ful...

SummaryMarina Abramović deconstructs her famous "Blue Period" and "Red Period" video-based works as 1,200 individual photographic stillsEach still is unique and one of one, offering collectors a chance to acquire a tangible piece of her performancesIn a new exhibition at Saatchi Yates in London, renowned conceptual artist Marina Abramović is giving her work a radical new form. The landmark show reimagines two of her famous performance videos, "Blue Period" and "Red Period," by transforming them into a series of 1,200 individual photographic stills.Akin to the artist periods of Picasso and Matisse, Abramović’s pieces explore the extremes of human emotion and physical endurance in her own chapter. In "Red Period," she is seen in a close up, bathed in red light with her expression shifting be...