Art
Explore Pan Daijing’s Sonic Abyss in ‘Sudden Places’
SummaryPan Daijing opens Sudden Places, her first museum solo exhibition, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.On view through July, the show features a range of sound and sculptural installations alongside new paintings.The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis presents the first U.S. solo museum exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Pan Daijing. Born in Guiyang and based in Berlin, Daijing is known for crafting immersive, emotionally charged environments that span sound, sculpture, video, architecture and, above all, performance. A self-taught composer, she's drawn attention in recent years for her bold explorations of experimental and industrial sound, earning her a place among the inaugural medalists of the Art Basel Awards.In Sudden Places, the artist transforms the white-walled Burnet...
teamlab Biovortex Kyoto Set To Open This Fall
SummaryteamLab Biovortex Kyoto opens Fall 2025 as a permanent immersive art museumIt will feature interactive installations such as "Massless Amorphous Sculpture" and "Massless Suns"The museum will showcase a rotating selection of worksOpening this fall, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto will be the latest permanent immersive art museum by the acclaimed collective teamLab. Located near Kyoto Station, the museum is part of the city's broader urban revitalization initiative. This project aims to establish a dynamic cultural and creative hub, fostering a new synergy around art, youth, and innovation.The concept behind "Biovortex" suggests a swirling center of life and interconnectedness, themes deeply resonant with teamLab's artistic philosophy. Among the highlighted installations, "Massless Amorphous ...
Ross + Kramer Extends Kenny Scharf’s ‘Look Both Ways’ Exhibition
SummaryRoss + Kramer has extended Kenny Scharf’s Look Both Ways exhibition until June 28The show includes an array of artworks that span Scharf's expansive career from the 1980s to the presentRoss + Kramer has extended Kenny Scharf’s Look Both Ways exhibition. Originally scheduled to run until May 24, 2025, the exhibition now remains open beyond its initial closing date. Featuring a dynamic mix of paintings and sculptures, this significant showcase spans Scharf's expansive career from the 1980s to the present.Coined as the "father of street art," Kenny Scharf gained prominence in the '80s amidst the vibrant East Village art movement. His signature use of spray paint on canvas reflects his street-art origins, translating into a bold, vibrant and "candy-coated" visual universe that humorousl...
Gwon Osang’s ‘Sculptural Report’ Finds Home in Uncanny Delights
SummaryGwon Osang: The Sculptural Report is now on view at the Arario Museum in Jeju through September 21.The exhibition delves into Gwon's practice and its evolutions, from his iconic “Deodorant Types” to his most recent imaginations of classical artworks.The Arario Museum in Jeju, South Korea presents The Sculptural Report, a comprehensive survey of works by multi-media artist Gwon Osang. Stretching from his early photosculptures to his latest works, the show takes a deep dive into the artist’s ever-evolving approach to sculpture, tracing the artist’s restless curiosity and knack for boundary-pushing forms.Gwon first turned heads with his 1998 series “Deodorant Types.” The series consisted of life-sculptures constructed from hundreds of images of loved ones, bringing to mind the feel of...
Frist Art Museum Unpacks the Fabric of American Identity in New Quilt Show
SummaryFabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will be on view in Nashville from June 27 through October 12.Featuring nearly 50 quilts and coverlets from the MFA Boston's textile collection, the exhibition explores the medium's evolution and its unsung makers.The humble quilt has long been a major player in folk art museums around the country, though in recent years it's made its way into the more mainstream spotlight. Following this path, Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, a forthcoming exhibition at Nashville's Frist Art Museum, will present a nearly 50-piece quilt and coverlet showcase hailing from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, each its own immaculate patchwork of the personal and the political.Spanning more than 300 years of U.S. hist...
Artnet to Go Private Following Beowolff Buyout of $65 Million USD
SummaryBeowolff Capital is acquiring Artnet for $65 million USD, offering €11.25 EUR per share—a 97% premiumThe deal includes a 29.99% stake from Weng Fine Art AG, ending a years-long control battleBeowolff Capital has announced a $65 million USD deal to acquire Artnet, with plans to take the company private. The investment firm has already secured 65% of Artnet’s share capital and is offering €11.25 EUR per share to the remaining shareholders, representing a 97% premium over the company’s closing price on March 3, the last trading day before rumors of the takeover surfaced. As part of the deal, Beowolff will purchase a 29.99% stake from Weng Fine Art AG for nearly €20 million, effectively ending a years-long power struggle between Artnet and the German art investment firm. The transaction...
Art, Americana and Absurdity Collide in Tyrell Winston’s ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’
SummaryTyrrell Winston’s A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing explores a "Future Nostalgia" conceptThe exhibition features ten layered text-based works, blending Americana motifs and cultural critiqueHosted by Stems Gallery, it runs until June 22, 2025Tyrrell Winston has presented his latest exhibition, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, at Stems Gallery. The exhibition explores a concept he terms "Future Nostalgia" — a future not yet realized, viewed through the lens of past and present.Rooted in Detroit’s industrial legacy, automotive history and Motown music, the collection embodies the artist's home city’s material and cultural imprint. Winston’s approach resonates with Mark Fisher’s hauntology, where artistic innovation often cycles back to the past, reinforcing the concept that alternative visions of...
Aryo Toh Djojo’s ‘Spectra’ Explores Multidimensional Reality Through Art, Sound & Atmosphere
SummaryPerrotin Hong Kong presents Aryo Toh Djojo's latest exhibition,SpectraThe show highlights new artworks, spanning thermochromic and abstract pieces explore hidden knowledge and inner consciousnessThe exhibition will run from May 24 through July 5, 2025Opening today, Perrotin Hong Kong will be unveil Aryo Toh Djojo’s newest exhibition, Spectra. Shaped by temperature, sound and atmospheric conditions, the LA-based artist transforms traditional painting into an evolving sensory experience. His latest body of work merges explores the interplay between inner clarity and cosmic revelation, inviting viewers to engage with perception as a gateway to expanded consciousness. Toh Djojo believes everyone exist within a multidimensional reality, where meditation, hypnosis and altered states can r...
HypeArt Visits: Ji Zou Paints a Portal Between the Digital and Divine
Looking at a Ji Zou painting is something akin to a haunting. Ancestral presence and personal stake unfold like bygone memories, with new meanings revealed one veil at a time. What’s left is an ever-evolving image — subtle, sublime, and like every good ghost story, bone-deep.This quality can be traced back to the Hmong ghost stories of their childhood. “In our culture, we don’t have fairy tales,” Zou told Hypeart, “so I’ve come to associate monsters with comfort.” It’s an inheritance that pulses through their immediate environment, from traditional costume fabrics that slink off chairs to paintings punctuated with silver shamanic emblems and the charms that bless the latticed fences on the walk to their studio in Ridgewood.Brought up in the sprawl of suburban Michigan, Zou, like many other...
Chiharu Shiota’s Woven Works Explore Life After the Body
Beijing’s Red Brick Art Museum is playing host to Silent Emptiness, a major solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota. Curated by Yan Shijie, the show marks a defining moment in her career, expanding on her core concept of “presence in absence.” Through a host of newly-commissioned installations, Shiota captures the intangible with a divine, fibrous language, approaching the enlightenment in Eastern philosophy and confronting life and death head-on.In “Metamorphosis of Consciousness,” emptiness is imagined as ethereal curtains of wings and lights. Drawing inspiration from Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi’s dream of becoming a butterfly, the installation is grounded by a serene sense of transformation and a coexistence between body and consciousness. “While each time we slip into sl...
Nadya Tolokonnikova to Stage 10-Day Performance from Inside Prison Cell
SummaryPussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova will stage a 10-day-long performance inside a mock Russian jail cell, running from June 4 through 15 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.The installation explores themes of confinement, control and surveillance, and will be viewable via surveillance camera footage and peepholes.In 2012, punk rock band Pussy Riot took to Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour for a sub-minute performance of their song “Punk Prayer.” While the piece has since been heralded as one of the best artworks of the 21st century, the event landed Nadya Tolokonnikova, the group’s co-founder, in a Russian prison for two years on the grounds of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” Now, over a decade later, Tolokonnikova is going back behind bars, bu...
Lorna Simpson’s Decade of Painting Gets a Met Spotlight
SummaryThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting the first museum survey of paintings by acclaimed artist Lorna Simpson.Now on view through November 2, the exhibition features over 30 of works from the last 10 years.For Lorna Simpson, images are always up for negotiation. A pioneer of conceptual photography, the New York-based artist is lauded for her ability to unravel the ways we reckon and wrestle with identity, challenging traditional narratives through text and image. Expanding on her impressive oeuvre of film, photography and collage, Simpson has spent the last decade delving into painting, building on her earlier themes while introducing new visual textures and techniques.The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting the first museum survey dedicated to Simpson's painterly cha...
