Art
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...
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 "...
