Art
DIRTY TEDDY GALLERY Examines the Fragility of Reality In ‘There’s a Strange Looking Man at My Door’
SummaryDIRTY TEDDY GALLERY's Hong Kong exhibition explores psychological collapse and irrationalityNatural materials are crucial in shaping the exhibition's unsettling breakdown of perception and emotional controlThe exhibition runs until May 11 at otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSEDIRTY TEDDY GALLERY presents There’s a Strange Looking Man at My Door, their first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Hosted by THE SHOPHOUSE at its otherthings space. The exhibition examines psychological collapse, exploring the disconnection from reality and the irrationality that arises despite intelligence. Drawing inspiration from Michel Foucault’s theories on madness, the works reshape familiar forms into surreal, fragmented structures that blur the boundary between perception and illusion.Through artwear, masks and ...
Joshua Vides Unveils Monochrome Garage for ‘Check Engine Light’ in NYC
Joshua Vides has pulled Check Engine Light into New York City, transforming Morton Street Partners into a high-contrast mechanic’s workshop complete with painted foam tires, racing hoods, limited-edition acrylic tools and a fully customized limousine as its striking centerpiece.Following the success of the Los Angeles debut, the NYC iteration deepens Vides’ exploration of car culture, craftsmanship, and consumer aspiration, all rendered in his signature black-and-white sketch style. The show, produced in collaboration with Cart Dept and No More Rulers, turns the gallery into a surreal garage where utility becomes art and the familiar becomes cartoonishly uncanny.At the heart of the project is a zine and limited edition print released by No More Rulers as part of its Capturing Creativity se...
Luka Dončić Funds Restoration of Vandalized Kobe and Gigi Bryant Mural
Luka Dončić has covered the full cost to restore a vandalized mural of Kobe and Gigi Bryant in downtown Los Angeles. The mural, titled “Mambas Forever,” depicts the late Lakers legend in his iconic uniform, holding his daughter, Gianna, in a warm embrace. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Kobe & Gianna Bryant Murals (@kobemural)On Monday, the Instagram account @kobemural shared videos of the damage, directing fans to a GoFundMe campaign started by Louie “Sloe” Motion, the artist behind the mural. By Tuesday, the donation goal was reached, thanks to the Los Angeles Lakers guard’s $5,000 donation,“I’m proud he is a Laker now and representing Los Angeles and I know Kobe is proud,” Motion told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m sure this alone will have him in the hearts of everyone in ...
Gao Hang Opens ‘Screen Life Drawing’ at Tang Contemporary Beijing
Houston-based artist Gao Hang makes a powerful homecoming with Screen Life Drawing, his first solo show in China, at Tang Contemporary Art’s Beijing Headquarters.At first glance, his neon figures and low-poly forms might recall the clunky charm of ’90s video game graphics, yet beneath the titular punchlines, like Your Boss and Your Boss’ Boss and Two Good Looking Asians, are powerful observations of a "carnival of virtual identity," as the gallery describes; a reality where “self-improvement” takes the shape of KPI competitions and existential meaning has been hollowed out.Intentionally awkward and, at times, visually dissonant, in Screen Life Drawing sketching gets an algorithmic treatment: technical flaws become aesthetic emblems and an in-person reality crumbles at the hands of digital ...
Takashi Murakami Brings ‘JAPONISME’ Full Circle at Gagosian
Takashi Murakami reimagines art history in his upcoming JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige, staged at Gagosian’s West 21st Street gallery in New York from May 8 through July 12.On view are 121 new and recent (re)works produced in response to the enduring influence of the ukiyo-e school, particularly Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views for its strength in narrative, style and technique. In a nod to Japonisme – the 19th-century Western fascination with Japanese art – Murakami also re-envisions paintings by European Impressionists and Post-Impressionists who were inspired by the movement through his own eyes, closing the loop on cultural exchange while reclaiming the visual language of pictorial flatness, asymmetrical splendor and blushing colors.The showcase expands o...
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 ...
