Art
Through the Lens: Chris Skylark
Chris Skylark’s photographic journey began as an internet kid from Atlanta. Like many others in the heyday of Tumblr, he bought a camera to document his own style and latest pick-ups, chasing aesthetic highs and sharing them with friends. Coming up in the city’s bustling music scene, friends became subjects, and subjects became stars, with Playboi Carti and Lil Yachty passing through Skylark’s frame before becoming household names. While their rise pulled him with, the artist found himself drifting toward something more experimental and raw — something more than simply documenting the moment.The pandemic marked a turning point in Skylark's creative journey. At the time, he was living and working with Metro Boomin, often venturing out to catch some visions in a restless pursuit of captures ...
Thomas J Price’s 12-Foot Bronzes Take Over New York
British artist Thomas J Price arrives in New York with a monumental double presence: a massive sculpture in the heart of Times Square and a major solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, his first with Wooster Street gallery. Through stillness and scale, Price asks: Who gets to stand tall in public space? Who gets to be remembered in bronze?Mounted beneath the circus of billboards is Grounded in the Stars (2023), a 12-foot woman towering above passersby with quiet confidence. Rather than being based on a single person, the subject culminates in a composite of faces from places around the globe, resisting assumption in her open-ended identity. The slight bend of knee and ease of stance recall the contrapposto of Michaelangelo’s David, yet her presence redefines sculptural conventions of trium...
Ai Weiwei is Bringing a Massive Camo-Covered Installation to New York City
This fall, acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei will plant a major outdoor installation at New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, kicking off the park's Art X Freedom program which commissions artists to create public, site-specific works circling visions of social justice.Titled Camouflage, the installation will transform the park's 3.5-acre landscape. An open-air structure clad in camouflage netting will rise at the park's southernmost tip, cloaking over the bust of Roosevelt and his engraved Four Freedoms. The granite embankments flanking the park will also be covered, creating a shifting play of light and water, with views across to the United Nations headquarters.Drawing on the park's Louis Kahn-helmed design, history and symbolic link to the UN, the piece inte...
Emma Stern’s ‘Hell is Hot’ Turns Internet Fetish Into High Art
New York-based artist Emma Stern unveiled her latest solo exhibition, Hell is Hot, at Almine Rech's Paris outpost. Expanding her cast of latex-slick avatars, this new body of work offer a new lens for embodiment, desire and perversion, with an off-kilter brand of feminism, one of the Crash (1996) variety. Between all its adorable "bunny-eared" and "mermaid-tailed" monsters, Stern captures the collision of fantasy and flesh in all its dreamy, disarming intensity.The artist's process begins in 3D software, digitally sculpting bodies that are later translated into lush gradients and vaporous washes of paint. Her figures — part doll, part cyborg — stand as monuments to the hyper-sexualized imagery of the internet, while also reimagining it with a meticulous, almost devotional hand. Every shimm...
Arthur Jafa Honored in Eclectic Program at Paris’s Bourse de Commerce
Running alongside the Pinault Collection’s major exhibition Corps et Âmes, the Bourse de Commerce has launched a dynamic music and performance series curated by Cyrus Goberville, paying tribute to the seminal work and spirit of Arthur Jafa.Corps et Âmes brings together nearly 100 works by 40 artists from the Pinault Collection, from Auguste Rodin and Ana Mendieta to Georg Baselitz and David Hammons, to explore the body’s place in contemporary art. Freed from traditional representations, the body here becomes a vessel of inner forces, consciousness, and transformation. In the building’s central rotunda, Arthur Jafa’s searing film "Love is the Message, the Message is Death" sets the emotional pulse of the exhibition, weaving a visceral tapestry of African American history through music and i...
EDGLRD Drops Alien “FLEXRX” Deck Series
EDGLRD is back on its otherworldly wave. Helmed by Harmony Korine, the skate and design collective has just unveiled its “Flexrx” board series, offering a fresh batch of decks. The drop features five new designs, crafted in collaboration with some of notable names in the sport: Mike Arnold, Eric Koston, Elijah Odom, Sean Pablo and Vincent Tourzery.The boards present a shift from the horned demons of AGGRO DR1FT and BABY INVASION into something a little more alien. Crafted from North American Hard Rock Maple and stamped with the name of the collaborating skater, each built-to-ride deck dons a unique, chrome-cast creature, evoking surreal and seductive undertones in their ominous auras. View this post on Instagram A post shared by EDGLRD (@edglrd)For those looking to cop a board, t...
Ferg Unmasks Darold Brown the Painter
Up a narrow stairwell in SoHo, past a black metal door and into a clean white loft, Ferg is doing something he hasn’t done in a long time: slowing down. The space is bare. No crew, no clutter, no chairs. Just two rooms. One for painting, one for music. It’s quiet, focused, built entirely for the work.We got the first look inside as he prepared CHOSEN, his debut solo exhibition. The title says a lot. There was no gallery hand-holding this one, no splashy art-world PR campaign. Though, Ferg worked with the expert curator Anne-Laure Lemaitre and Larry Warsh of No More Rulers to bring his vision to life, this presentation was something largely personal. It resulted in a body of work made by Darold Brown, not for the culture, not for approval, just for himself.That shift started with the cover ...
Barry McGee Cuts Through the Noise in ‘I’m Listening’
Bay Area graffiti legend Barry McGee is days away from unveiling his latest solo exhibition at Perrotin Paris. For his second show at the French outpost, the artist fills the space with constellations of frames, floor-to-ceiling installations, bursts of spray, evoking an urgent sense of presence throughout.Titled I’m Listening, McGee confronts the noise of modern life – a relentless hum that drowns out the simple joys of nature's harmonies. “I focus on everything that is shitty on our little planet right now. But I also celebrate all these incredible things that humans invent to stay positive and healthy,” he expressed. It’s a duality that threads through the show, offering both critique of and optimism for our shared state of reality.Expanding on themes from his secret Cherry Picking exhi...
Roy Nachum and Timbaland Take Us Behind ‘Maestros and the Machines’
Mercer Labs is officially opening the doors to its latest immersive exhibition, Maestros and the Machines. Led by co-founder and multidisciplinary artist Roy Nachum, the show is grounded in the immortality of art, reimagining works from history’s greats through the tools and technology of today.Housed at their 36,000-square-foot homebase in lower Manhattan, the exhibition features larger-than-life installations, infinity rooms, pool 360-degree projections and responsive robotic sculptures, inviting audiences to step in and beyond the gilded frame with works shift and react in real time.Expanding on the conceptual ambition, 4D soundscapes serve as guiding lights, shaping the emotional rhythm of the room-to-room experience. Mercer Labs enlisted pioneering producer Timbaland to bring the aura...
Artist Plate Project Reveals 2025 Artist Lineup
The Coalition for the Homeless' Artist Plate Project is back for its 2025 edition with a fresh crop of artist-designed plates, providing meals for low-income New Yorkers.Coinciding with the upcoming Frieze New York in early May, this year’s selection features an impressive lineup of 50 emerging and established creatives, including Takashi Murakami, Rashid Johnson, Yoshitomo Nara, Philip Guston, Sterling Ruby and the late Robert Indiana among others so far.Since its founding in 2020, the project has raised more than $7 million USD for its parent organization through collaborations with over 150 acclaimed artists, working with local organizations to provide emergency food, clothing, eviction prevention, job training to those in need — the funds from the sale of each edition alone can feed mo...
Sony Announces Winners for 2025 World Photography Awards
Sony, in partnership with the World Photography Organisation, has revealed the winners of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards. Selected from a pool of nearly half-a-million submissions across 56 countries, this year’s winners represent the best in global photography, ranging categories of portraiture, sport, nature, landscape, wildlife, street photography, still-life and more.London-based Zed Nelson claimed the coveted Photographer of the Year title for his four-continent series The Anthropocene Illusion, which examines humanity’s increasingly estranged relationship to nature, confronting artifice in our perceptions of wilderness. While in the Open category, French photographer Olivier Unia took the cake with Tbourida La Chute, which captures the intensity of a traditional Moroccan eque...
A Major Yoshitomo Nara Retrospective is Coming to London
This summer, London’s Hayward Gallery will play host to a major retrospective of the iconic Yoshitomo Nara. Featuring more than 150 works created over the last 40 years, the eponymous exhibition welcomes audiences into the world of one of Japan’s most celebrated artists.Known for his child-like characters, fashioned with wide gazes and a slight rebel touch, Nara often uses his cherubic figures to explore real world issues and calls to action: “I’m interested in both the individual human experience and the wider political landscape in which humanity exists.”Having grown up during the height of the Vietnam War, his brothers’ participation in the era’s student movements nurtured Nara’s ongoing interest in environmental issues and world peace. “Hippie culture’s emphasis on community also reson...
