Art
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...
Hypeart Visits: Sydnie Jimenez Keeps Her Ceramics Grounded in the Personal
Before she ever touched clay, Sydnie Jimenez was drawing. As a kid growing up in North Georgia, she sketched characters inspired by the cartoons and comics that filled her world such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman Beyond and Naruto. That early love for animated forms never left her. Years later, after moving to Chicago to study at the School of the Art Institute, she discovered ceramics and realized she could bring those drawings into three-dimensional life. What started with hand-built busts soon evolved into full-bodied figures: raw, wide-eyed, Black and Brown, often nude and full of character. The sculptures mirror people she had known, imagined or maybe needed to see in the world.Chicago became her second home, a place where she found community in the art scene and room to exp...
teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi Is a Living Universe Where Art Breathes and Light Floats
Stepping into teamLab’s Phenomena Abu Dhabi is like entering a living universe where art breathes, evolves, and reacts to your presence.Set to open to the public on April 18, 2025, this groundbreaking 17,000-square-meter space in the Saadiyat Cultural District invites visitors to let go of expectations and plunge headfirst into the unknown. It’s a place where digital meets natural, where spheres of light and voids of levitation rewrite our understanding of physical space.Crafted by the internationally acclaimed art collective teamLab, this immersive destination is built around the idea that art doesn't exist in isolation. Here, the environment itself produces the phenomena that become the artworks. It’s a radical break from traditional installations—what you see, hear, and feel is in const...
Lauren Halsey Curates Art “Kiccbacc” at Chicago’s Anthony Gallery
The Chicago art scene is gearing up for this year’s edition of EXPO, and with it comes resonance, a powerful group exhibition curated by Lauren Halsey at West Loop’s Anthony Gallery. Bringing together an exciting lineup of 30 emerging and established artists, Halsey refuses white-cube sterility, and nurtures, as she puts it, “the spirit of a kiccbacc” – an opportunity for pleasure, rekindling old connections and cultivating new ones.Spanning installation, painting, photography, mixed-media and sculptures, resonance thrives in its multiplicity. Each work takes root in Halsey’s ethos of community-driven creativity, and threaded together by the figuration of people, plants and animals as metaphors for interconnectedness, care and lived experience.Best known for her large-scale foil collages, ...
Sophie Thun Channels Darkroom Romance in New Switzerland Show
For Vienna-based photographer Sophie Thun, the darkroom is both a laboratory and sanctuary. In Wet Rooms, her latest exhibition at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, the artist immerses viewers in this personal and alchemical space, bringing her rich analog practice into focus, and with it, a romance of soft red hues and rippling chemical baths.Toying with ideas of scale and trompe-lœil, Thun sheathes the gallery in collages of photograms and large-format prints, where she overlays her own image onto the spaces she’s inhabited – homes, studios, and galleries. Through this approach, she joins a lineage of women exploring mise-en-abyme – the image within the image – as a strategy of self-reflection and resistance.Both the creator and subject of the image, Thun disrupts conventional codes of the ...
Michael Kagan Shifts Gears with Formula 1-Inspired ’Downforce’ Exhibition
Brooklyn-based artist Michael Kagan brings his latest solo show, Downforce, to life with 16 new collage works inspired by the fast-paced world of Formula One racing.Shifting from paint to paper, Kagan layers monoprints, created using squeegees and brushes, to capture the intensity, motion and drama of the sport. The show’s title, Downforce, references the aerodynamic force that keeps F1 cars glued to the track at over 200 mph. For Kagan, it also symbolizes human endurance and control under extreme pressure.The collages spotlight iconic F1 moments, like Lewis Hamilton’s first Grand Prix win in "Global Player" and the fiery crash between Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc in "Moving Through Time" and "Space." Instead of focusing on facial features, Kagan uses bold colors and sponsor logos t...
Closer Look at Coachella’s Art Playground
Weekend Two of Coachella is heating up in Indio, California, and amid the sonic pulse and creative chaos of the live performances, art takes on a life of its own with the desert as its stage. Curated by Public Art Company in collaboration with longtime Goldenvoice Art Director Paul Clemente, this year’s art lineup invites festivalgoers into moments of stillness, play and surreal wonder as they journey between stages.As returning favorites from Robert Bose, Do LaB, Don Kennell, Raices Cultura and NEWSUBSTANCE made a comeback, a fresh crop of installations has also taken root. Let’s take a look at the newly commissioned works at this year’s festival.Take FlightLondon-based design studio Isabel + Helen unveiled a 60-foot kinetic sculpture inspired by 19th-century flying machines. Dozens of wi...
Nate Lowman Readies First Solo Exhibition in Japan: ‘This Neighborhood’s Changed’
American artist Nate Lowman is preparing to open his first solo exhibition in Japan, This Neighborhood's Changed. Curated by Matt Black (the Paris-born, New York-based creative behind the contemporary art platform REFLECTIONS), Lowman's debut Japan show will feature a mix of new works and some of the artist's most celebrated pieces.Open from April 26 to May 25, the exhibition will highlight the past and present of Lowman's thought-provoking portfolio. "Through his pop-influenced visuals filled with both humor and social commentary, Lowman forces us to rethink the meaning behind the images we are surrounded with," reads the official description. Lowman's older works, including his bullet hole canvases and Edvard Munch-inspired remixes, will sit alongside new pieces, like those inspired by "...
London Graffiti Show Shut Down After Vandalism Controversy
A graffiti show at London’s Piccadilly Circus was abruptly shut down last Thursday for, well, graffiti.Long Dark Tunnel, which had been open for just three weeks, presented a "gallery takeover" by notable names in the scene, including 10Foot, Tox and Fume. Organized by Arts Arkade and London magazine Big Issue, the show followed a 10Foot guest-edited edition, which featured an interview between Banksy and Tox.The closure came after a “fuck the king” tag was found scrawled on the walls of the venue and nearby buildings, all owned by the Crown Estate – the monarch’s £15.5 billion property portfolio.“The criminal damage we’ve experienced is totally unacceptable and is not a matter we take lightly,” Arts Arkade wrote in an Instagram post, announcing the shutdown. While there’s no indication th...
Florida Gallery Charged for Selling Bootleg Warhols
Last week the FBI raided the Miami Fine Art Gallery in Florida for allegedly selling forged art including artworks they falsely authenticated as real paintings by the late Pop Art icon, Andy Warhol. The outpost is owned by the art dealer, Leslie Roberts, who has been charged in federal court for “conspiring to sell forged art,” as per Artnet. “The 62-year-old dealer used fraudulent invoices and authentication documents to sell the works, officials claim.”Accompanying Roberts in charges is a 37-year old man named Carlos Miguel Rodriguez Melendez who was hit with charges for wire fraud that linked to the forged artwork . Both individuals were arrested, but as of now, are free on bail with a slated April 21 arraignment. If they’re found guilty, the pair face up to 20 years in federal prison. ...
Amoako Boafo Brings a Slice of Accra to Gagosian London in ‘I Do Not Come to You by Chance’
Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo’s ascent to art stardom has been nothing short of stellar. In 2021, his work was launched into space, marking a major moment for the artist and African contemporary art at large. That same year, Kim Jones tapped him to create visuals for Dior’s Summer 2021 campaign, and later, he caught the attention of mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, who referred to him as the “future of portraiture.”Now the renowned painter is making his UK solo debut with I Do Not Come to You by Chance at Gagosian London – a celebration of his Accra roots and a tribute to the artistic community that gave way to his meteoric rise. Unfolding across three rooms, the exhibition introduces a new body of fingertip-painted works – celebrations of Black joy that “counter the flawed narrative of stereoty...
In ‘The Sprayed Dear,’ Katharina Grosse’s Dreamy Art Knows No Bounds
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is getting a chromatic makeover with The Sprayed Dear, the latest solo exhibition by celebrated German artist Katharina Grosse. Based between Berlin and New Zealand, Grosse has spent over three decades redefining what painting can be, moving beyond the canvas to embrace entire landscapes, buildings and sculptural form.For Grosse, a painting has no end nor edge. Using her signature spray technique, she sweeps pigment across surfaces in immersive dreamlike waves whose borderless forms create a harmonic unity. “For me, two-dimensional painting doesn't exist,” the artist explained. “The canvas itself is a three-dimensional, haptic object and a painting can appear anywhere. On an egg, in the crook of your arm, in snow and ice or on the beach."Circling this philosophy are...
