Art
George Condo Is Back at Hauser & Wirth
SummaryAmerican artist George Condo resumes worldwide representation with Hauser & Wirth after a year apartThe representation news comes alongside the announcement of two major shows at the mega-gallery's Paris and Palo Alto spaces in 2027George Condo and Hauser & Wirth are back together. Condo recently renewed his partnership with the gallery, which also announced two major shows at its Paris and Palo Alto locations next year.The news arrives less than a year after Condo departed Hauser & Wirth for Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt, ending his six-year run with the mega-gallery. A spokesperson confirmed that the artist will continue his longtime relationship with Sprüth Magers, whose gallerist, Monika Sprüth, first exhibited Condo’s work in 1984.Curatorial details about the upcoming...
Casa Batlló Unveils ‘Gaudí-Miró-Gomis: Deconstructed’ Exhibition in Barcelona
SummaryCasa Batlló Contemporary and Fundació Joan Miró present 'Gaudí-Miró-Gomis: Deconstructed' in Barcelona through January 2027.The show pairs Miró’s sculptures and Gomis’s photography with an immersive regional soundscape.Tomorrow Bureau utilizes advanced digital archaeology to reframe these historical Catalan archives.Hosted inside Antoni Gaudí’s architectural masterpiece, Casa Batlló, in Barcelona, the exhibition Gaudí-Miró-Gomis: Deconstructed has been unveiled. Curated by Joana Seguro and Ester Ramos, the show situates Gaudí’s architectural legacy in dialogue with Miró’s sculptural and graphic works and Gomis’s photographic interpretations, offering fresh perspectives on their shared cultural environment.This major presentation forms a key part of the region's Gaudi Year 2026 celeb...
The Best Photo Shows at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026
The photography world has touched down in the South of France for Les Rencontres d’Arles. Known as the best of its kind, the international photography festival makes the ancient city its exhibition space: everywhere from churches and crypts, municipal buildings and historical landmarks, even the local Monoprix, becomes a stunning, albeit unlikely home for some of the world’s most compelling images.The beloved event is back for its 57th edition with a rich refresh of perspectives and styles from its emerging to established range. Attention to complexity and nuance sets the stage for this year’s iteration, which aims to “not to artificially soften the violence of reality, but to bring out its depth,” Les Rencontres d’Arles wrote. “To face a sometimes unsettling world while continuing to find...
BTS and the British Museum Launch the Korea Gallery Art Trail
SummaryCollaborates with the British Museum for a curated art trail inside the Korea Foundation GalleryLinks five historical artifacts to themes from the band's latest album and Arirang world tourPreviews a major 2,000-year survey of Korean creativity opening at the museum in October 2026Global music icons BTS have officially partnered with the British Museum to launch a dedicated art trail inside the prestigious Korea Foundation Gallery. Sang-ah Kim curated the specialized exhibition to highlight five distinct historical objects connecting traditional Korean craftsmanship to the thematic core of the group's fifth studio album. The cultural activation serves as a major focal point of a larger citywide takeover across London. This localized event supports the ongoing BTS THE CITY ARIRANG wo...
NANZUKA To Expand Its Tokyo Footprint With a New Shibuya Gallery This Fall
SummaryNANZUKA is set to expand its contemporary art footprint with a new gallery location in Shibuya, Tokyo.The venue's custom interior aesthetics and spatial branding were designed by the late Keiichi Tanaami.The new flagship space is scheduled to officially open to the public on September 12, 2026.NANZUKA has announced the opening of a new gallery space in Shibuya, Tokyo, expanding its forward-thinking curatorial presence inside one of the city's most dynamic cultural districts.The visual identity and overarching interior design of the new venue feature custom spatial designs and branding entirely conceived by the legendary Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami before his passing in 2024. Known for its commitment to bridging the gap between academic contemporary art and peripheral creativ...
teamLab Borderless Tokyo Breaks the Mirror in New Exhibit “On the Asymmetry of the Universe”
SummaryteamLab Borderless in Tokyo has opened "On the Asymmetry of the Universe," a special exhibition commemorating the reopening of the museum's Light Sculpture - Flow artwork space, running from July 8 through October 8The exhibition introduces two new series: "Asymmetric Existence," which constructs a single sculpture from two light forms that exist in separate spatial planes (one only in physical space, one only inside a mirror), and "Chromatic Existence," where sculpture is generated entirely by the self-organizing order of colorBoth series extend teamLab's ongoing investigation into sculpture as spatial existence defined by perception and order rather than material surface boundariesteamLab Borderless in Tokyo has opened "On the Asymmetry of the Universe," a special exhibition marki...
Chloé Wise Takes a Trip Into the Unknown in ‘Extrasensory’
SummaryArtist Chloe Wise presents Extrasensory at Basel's KBH.G museum, open through September 6The exhibition features three immersive spaces created around her new film, PsyFi*, which explores humanity's centuries-long fascination with the extraterrestrial unknownThere’s now a portal between Area 51 and Basel; we have Chloe Wise to thank. An esoteric roadside shop makes a fitting opening for her new solo exhibition at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger. Extrasensory is her go at finding meaning in the unexplainable. UFO paraphernalia, religious hangings, tarot decks, and alien souvenirs rest beside prayer candles complete with the stars of the show’s central film, PsyFi* — JT, Miles Greenberg, and Moses Sumney. If they’re her angels, consider us believers.On through September 6, the presenta...
Ed Curtis on the Surprises That Lie Beneath His evian® Collaboration
London-based Ed Curtis is letting go of control of his art and allowing the materials to speak for themselves. Marking a turning point in his practice – which has led him to create large-scale installations, design a clothing line and collaborate with other well-known artists – the creative’s new-found approach is proving to uncover a new sense of discovery, which he’s now bringing to a special collaboration with evian®. The recent project, which celebrates 200 years of the brand, sees Curtis join British artists Hattie Stewart and Diana al-Shammari in designing limited-edition bottle bags. Paying homage to evian®’s longstanding connection to Wimbledon, he takes the one-of-a-kind opportunity to delve into the vibrant world of tennis iconography and push his latest process even further. “I ...
Pierre Huyghe Makes Fondation Beyeler His Maze of Monsters
From MoMA to Berghain, Pierre Huyghe’s speculative fiction knows no bounds. Next stop for the French artist is Fondation Beyeler, where he’s turning the Swiss museum into his “soulscape,” a winding, enigmatic portrait of his inner world.Ambiguous yet ambitious, Huyghe’s new exhibition expands on the artist’s exploration between binaries – the metaphysical and fictional, the living and dead, the human and non-human. Ants spill from apertures in the walls, while masked figures twitch in corners alone. It's as if each room is a portal into its own alternate dimension, shifting in voices, states, and modalities.As with many of Huyghe’s works, it’s key to embrace the in-between, traversing through the labyrinth of new film, sound-based works, installations, and living organisms. But threading i...
Another $5 Million USD Jewelry Heist Hits France, This Time at the Musée Lalique
SummaryMasked thieves have successfully breached the Musée Lalique to steal approximately 27 pieces of archival jewelryThe targeted artifacts highlight the pioneering Art Nouveau and Art Deco techniques developed by René LaliqueThe early morning raid follows a massive daytime robbery at the Louvre less than a year priorThe Musée Lalique has officially confirmed a massive breach of its archives following a highly coordinated early morning break-in. The targeted theft specifically focused on the institution's jewelry gallery, resulting in the loss of several early 20th-century masterpieces designed by the legendary French glassmaker René Lalique.The stolen inventory highlights the highly specific physical construction techniques that defined Lalique’s pioneering aesthetic. Unlike traditional...
Artists Rework Carhartt WIP Classics for OOW®’s NYC Public Art Show
Summary Public vitrine network OOW® teamed up with Carhartt WIP for a three-artist exhibition seriesArtists Suckybat, Titus McBeath, and Dozie Kanu reimagine the label's 60”x60” Dearborn Canvas and Detroit Jacket for new commissions on view at the platform's window galleries in lower ManhattanWorkwear is the canvas for an ongoing exhibition series by OOW® and Carhartt WIP. Up at OOW®’s Tribeca and Chinatown outposts, the label handed over its staples to artists Suckybat, Titus McBeath, and Dozie Kanu, each tasked to grace the 60”x60” Dearborn Canvas and a Detroit Jacket.Launched last year by Alife's Rob 1970 and artist-ethnographer Eoghan Dempsey as a global vitrine network, OOW® has quickly established itself as a favorite in the scene. Its latest public art project arrives in three parts...
M+ CHANEL Senior Curator Silke Schmickl on Building a New Era for Asian Avant-Garde Cinema
The third edition of the M+ Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival (AAGFF), supported by CHANEL, concluded on May 31st after three days of film, music and performance exploring space as both an artistic principle and a geopolitical subject. Highlights included the world premiere of ‘Lamya Gargash × Vivian Wang: Tracking Nomadism (Live)’, a newly commissioned live cinema collaboration supported by Chanel, alongside Rirkrit Tiravanija’s interactive ping-pong installation and screenings of landmark works by Nam June Paik and Xu Bing.Now in its third year, AAGFF has cemented itself as one of Asia’s most vital platforms for experimental film and moving image art, drawing independent filmmakers, artists and creative communities across the region under one roof. This edition’s theme built on last year’s...
