Art
Adriana Oliver Returns to Tokyo With ‘BECOMING’ at GALLERY TARGET
SummaryGALLERY TARGET will host Adriana Oliver’s solo exhibition, BECOMING, from March 5 – 28, 2026The exhibition explores transformation and identity through bold, pop‑art‑rooted works inspired by 1960s sports advertising aestheticsIt also features a Coffee Supreme collaboration with limited-edition merchandiseGALLERY TARGET in Tokyo is set to present BECOMING, a solo exhibition by Barcelona-based painter Adriana Oliver. Marking her first show in Japan in four years, the exhibition explores the concept of transformation as a continuous state of "becoming" rather than a singular event.For BECOMING, Oliver uses the visual language of 1960s sports advertisements - characterized by vibrant colors and graphical compositions - to reconstruct modern narratives around identity and selfhood. In th...
Blankmag Books is New York’s Living Archive of Counterculture
Few spots feel as true to New York’s art scene as Blankmag Books. Cozied beneath a technicolored glass awning, the subterranean store announces itself modestly overhead — “books and souvenirs” — though this is largely a loose, humble description of what’s inside.Print shops, like many good things in life, tend to reveal themselves incidentally. You wander without a title in mind, happening upon one while out buying a gift for a friend, or making a pitstop on the way to your next destination. I stumbled upon Blankmag during a lunch break shortly after its opening last summer. It was one of those reminders that entire worlds can open up to you when you take a chance on curiosity, even if just for a few minutes.Blankmag Books is the latest entrant in the city’s new-old wave of bookstores. Ori...
LA Art Week’s Hottest (Anti)Fair is an Abandoned Discount Store
SummaryArtist Barry McGee, Jeffrey Deitch and The Hole present 99CENT, a massive installation at a shuttered discount store, for Los Angeles Art WeekRunning through March 1, the show brings together an eclectic showcase from over 100 artists, spanning painting, sculpture, illustration and performanceArt Week is gaining momentum in Los Angeles as visitors from the around the globe descend on the City of Angels for a packed itinerary, hitting marquee events like Frieze, Felix Art Fair, Post-Fair and the inaugural edition of Enzo. Just a block down from LACMA at 6121 Wilshire Boulevard, however, an alternative “anti-fair” crowd brews. To set the scene, just imagine: 100 artists walk into a 99 cent store.In the two days since opening, the aptly titled 99CENT has quickly made its way to the top...
Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Orchid Show at the NYBG Celebrates City Grit With Blooming Beauty
SummaryThe New York Botanical Garden presents Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Concrete Jungle, transforming the conservatory with over 7,000 orchidsRunning until April 26, 2026, the immersive displays include a floral brownstone, laundromat and a subway station reimagining NYC urban lifeThe New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has unveiled its 23rd annual orchid exhibition, The Orchid Show: Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Concrete Jungle, running through April 26, 2026. Transforming the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory into a botanical love letter to New York City, the installation reimagines the city's urban grit through thousands of vibrant orchids. Visitors are guided through a series of life-sized floral vignettes that elevate everyday city scenes, including a two-story black-painted brownstone adorned with casca...
Tomokazu Matsuyama Lights Up Times Square With “Morning Again”
SummaryTomokazu Matsuyama debuts “Morning Again” at Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment, running nightly from April 1 – 30, 2026Over 90 LED screens synchronize for three minutes, replacing ads with abstract imagery of hope, rhythm, self‑expression, and transformationFor one month starting April 1, 2026, Brooklyn-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama will take over New York’s Times Square with his latest digital public art project, "Morning Again." As part of the prestigious Midnight Moment program, the city’s largest and longest-running digital art series, Matsuyama’s work will synchronize across more than 96 massive LED screens from 41st to 49th Streets. Every night for three minutes - from 11:57 p.m. to midnight - the usual commercial advertisements will vanish, replaced by a 180-second cinemat...
SOST To Host “The Art Of The Craft” Event In D.C.’s Shaw Neighborhood
SOST, a three-story venue nestled in the heart of Washington's Shaw neighborhood, will host "The Art Of The Craft: Liviing Black History."
The Loewe Foundation’s 2026 Craft Prize Finalists Are Here
SummaryThe Loewe Foundation has announced the shortlist of 30 finalists for the 2026 Craft PrizeThe winner and two special mentions will be announced on May 12 ahead of the finalist presentation at the National Gallery in Singapore, running from May 13 through June 14Loewe’s craft-forward beginnings trace back to the quiet leather workshop in 1840’s Madrid. Now a global phenomenon, the house has always considered itself a creative incubator at heart, inviting craftspeople of all backgrounds for a dialogue of fashion and art. Former creative director Jonathan Anderson’s decade-long tenure was characterized by an ardent return to artisanal excellence and innovation, leading him to launch the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize in 2016, one of the most highly anticipated annual fashion-art crossover...
An In-Depth Look at Hypeart and Bonhams’ ‘Under the Same Sky’ Exhibition
Across the vast landscape of artmaking since the late 20th century, artists on the West Coast have explored many thresholds and states of being — decay and seduction, struggle and release, birth and aftermath. Embracing new materials and social realities, artists turned inward, while engaging with the energies unraveling around them. The lines between interior and exterior give way. Embodiment, emotion and environment fold into one another under the same sky. This is a careful dance best exemplified in Ernie Barnes’ Sketch for Boxing No. 2 (circa 1984). The intense and energetic composition suspends conflict at a midpoint when force gives way to a moment of mutual recognition. Rather than a rigorous struggle for power or display of brute force, the strength of each boxer emanates through ...
The Playful Afterlife of Empire in Mohamed Monaiseer’s “I, Pet Lion”
As long as art has told us a story of beauty, it’s told us one of power. Egyptian artist Mohamed Monaiseer anchors itself in this duality in his series “I, the Pet Lion” recently presented with Cairo-based Gypsum Gallery at Art Basel Qatar, exploring how colonial history makes its way into “seductive yet insidious” objects of play. While glittering, regal and whimsical, Monaiseer’s works don’t aim to soften power’s edges, but expose how aesthetics of domination disguise themselves in even our most unassuming rituals.Monaiseer traces how the language of conflict embeds itself in what we know play to be — if war is a game, then people are its pawns. Chessboards and Ludo sets hang beside shields and banners clad with mythical creatures, recalling childhood relics while collapsing the lines be...
Anish Kapoor Presents New ‘Mirror Works’ in NYC
Summary ‘Mirror Works’ spotlights Anish Kapoor’s reflective stainless-steel sculptures that distort space and perception The New York show arrives amid a major run of international museum exhibitionsA focused presentation of mirror sculptures by Anish Kapoor has opened in New York's Lisson Gallery under the title 'Mirror Works', bringing together pieces created between 2010 and the present. The exhibition continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of scale, color, volume and material, foregrounding stainless-steel forms that shift and destabilize the viewer’s sense of space.Known for transforming perception into a physical experience, Kapoor approaches sculpture not as a static object but as a spatial event. His reflective surfaces bend architecture, swallow light and return distorted...
Hypeart to Present ‘Under the Same Sky’ With Bonhams During Frieze LA 2026
Summary Hypeart and Bonhams are partnering to present the "Under the Same Sky" exhibition at Frieze LA 2026 The curated collection highlights Postwar West Coast art that blends internal emotions with the outside worldAs the global art world gathers on the West Coast for Frieze Los Angeles next week, Hypeart is proud to announce the next chapter of our ongoing curatorial partnership with Bonhams. Co-curated by Hypeart’s Erin Ikeuchi and Keith Estiler, a special presentation titled Under the Same Sky will be featured within Bonhams' Made in California and Beyond exhibition and auction.The curation explores the rich legacy and energy of Postwar West Coast art. It captures a unique era when artists were responding to shifting social realities and experimenting with unconventional materials. Ra...
Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka Spotlights Jeff Koons in ‘Paintings and Banality’
SummaryThe show brings together key works from the 1980s to the artist’s more recent large-scale paintingsThe exhibition shows how Koons transforms the familiar into something largerTo mark the 20th anniversary of the Espaces Louis Vuitton and the 10th anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program, Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka is presenting a focused exhibition of Jeff Koons. The show brings together key works from the 1980s to the artist’s more recent large-scale paintings, offering a concise look at how his practice has evolved over four decades.Titled Paintings and Banality, the exhibition highlights Koons’s long-standing interest in everyday objects and popular culture. Since the 1980s, he has blurred the line between high art and mass culture, using images drawn fro...
