Art

At 87 years old, timelessly venerated painter David Hockney will undertake one of his biggest exhibitions yet. This spring, the artist will take over the entirety of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building, staging an exhibition titled "David Hockney, 25." “This exhibition means an enormous amount because it is the largest exhibition I’ve ever had—11 rooms in the Fondation Louis Vuitton," said Hockney in a statement. "Some of the most recent paintings I’m working on now will be included in it, and I think it’s going to be very good."Curated with artistic director Suzanne Pagé, guest curator Sir Norman Rosenthal, and François Michaud, Hockney remained closely involved in the show's process. Alongside his partner and studio manager, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, the exhibition primarily focus...

Friedman Benda will present Far Afield, a solo exhibition by Misha Kahn at the 2025 edition of Salone del Mobile. Known for his experimental approach to materials and form, Kahn transforms the space into a surreal, tactile landscape that challenges conventional design.At the heart of the exhibition is "Azimuth," a sprawling grid of colorful mirrors inspired by a type of archaic celestial measurement. Acting as a cosmic reflection tool, it places viewers at its center. “It reflects our desire to measure ourselves against our abyss,” Kahn explains, with radiating irises of color capturing an infinite interplay between perspective and perception.Other standout pieces include "Euphausiids Delight (Final Moments)," a densely tangled center table inspired by the swarming movement of marine crust...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia — A Conversation offers a fresh perspective on the legacy of Pablo Picasso through an innovative cross-cultural exhibition. More than 60 masterpieces by Picasso, on loan from Musée National Picasso-Paris (MnPP), will be displayed alongside around 130 works by 30 Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections. Spanning the early 20th century to the present, this showcase creates a dialogue that explores connections and contrasts across generations and regions.Co-organized by M+ and MnPP, the exhibition is part of the French May Arts Festival 2025 and is supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Marking the first major exhibition of Picasso in Hong Kong in over a decade, the event highlights an unprecedented collabor...

Art has long since influenced fashion and vice versa. However, there's rarely been a tangible dissection of the relationship between the two. Designers like Yves Saint Laurent, Marni, Loewe, and Prada have frequently referenced artworks on the runway. Meanwhile, iconic artists have often been referred to as arbiters of all-around culture and taste. For the first time, the Musée du Louvre-Lens, a northern outpost of the historic museum, has set out to thoroughly analyze the two in an exhibition titled "The Art of Dressing: Dressing Like an Artist." Curated by Annabelle Ténèze, Director of the Musée du Louvre-Lens, and Olivier Gabet, Director of the Objets d’Arts, the exhibition features over 200 works, including previously archived couture gowns, sculptures, photographs, and paintings. Each...

American artist Robert Zehnder is making a return to C L E A R I N G for Resurrection, his latest solo exhibition, now on view through April 12. In this surreal suite of oil paintings, Zehnder unpacks the idea transformation, fusing historical tradition and digital landscapes to construct a new mythology.While the landscapes of Resurrection take clear cues from American Regionalism, they ditch nostalgia in favor of something more slippery. Rather than mere places, these near-melting scenes operate as states of mind – metaphors for how we consume, construct and deconstruct meaning. The land itself seems to breathe, shifting between crisp realism and dreamlike abstraction, as if in a perpetual state of flux.Playing on the physical and historical, the artist also brings digital escapism into ...

WHAAM! gallery has unveiled Turnover, the first US solo exhibition by Japan-based artist ancco. Showcasing a new series of ceramic sculptures within an immersive installation, Turnover delves into themes of time, transformation and resilience, weaving together personal and societal cycles into an introspective body of work.Rooted in her lived experiences, ancco’s work is shaped by her battle with atopic eczema. She explores the accelerated pace of decay, whether in the body or in society and how it influences her creative process. Drawing a parallel between the rapid turnover of her own skin and the relentless churn of modern culture, she transforms personal affliction into artistic expression.A key inspiration for Turnover comes from old mass-produced toys and stuffed animals ancco discov...

Kiang Malingue is playing host to Three Stories: Monsters, Opium, Time, an exhibition of recent films and video installations by Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen. Structured around trailokya, the three realms of spiritual existence, the show unfolds across the gallery’s multi-storied building, each dedicated to its own domain: the netherworld, earth and heaven.Ho, known for his incisive reflections on temporality, presents three major works created over the last several years: “Night March of Hundred Monsters” (2021), O for Opium (2023) and the over 40-piece suite of Timepieces (2023). Together, they navigate the spectral histories of Japanese through yōkai (folkloric demons), the aesthetics of the opium trade and the elusive nature of time itself. Blurring myth and history, Th...