Art
Amy Sherald Paints a ‘Sublime’ Portrait of Black America in New Whitney Show
At the Whitney Museum of American Art, celebrated painter Amy Sherald is unveiling American Sublime, marking her first New York museum solo show. In a suite of nearly 50 paintings, including her powerful portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, the exhibition traces her journey from 2007 into today in lyrical compositions, centering the beauty and depth of Black life in America.Sherald paints with a steady, loving hand. Taking technical cues from the American Realist tradition – a movement which originated in the halls of HBCUs – she captures the faces of those left out of the art historical narrative, each opulent in their ordinariness and radiant individuality.“Sherald’s contemplative subjects appear most concerned with their own interiority, prioritizing their own peace and self-...
‘Hallyu! The Korean Wave’ Lands at Museum Rietberg This Year
After successful showcases in London, Boston, and San Francisco, Hallyu! The Korean Wave is now making its fourth appearance in Zurich, showing at the historic Museum Rietberg this Spring/Summer season.The touring exhibition, curated by the Victoria and Albert Museum, responds to the growing popularity of contemporary Korean culture across the globe. Going back to the late ‘90s, it spotlights nearly three decades of art, design, music, and cinema that have all individually played a part in the country’s modern-day movement, widely recognized as “Hallyu” or “Korean Wave.”Everything from K-pop to K-dramas are featured in the exhibition via a mixed media archive comprising magazines and photographs as well as costumes from the hit Netflix show Squid Game and a reproduction of the set from the...
The Hole’s Latest Group Show Explores the Art of Video Game Aesthetics
Over the last several years, contemporary art widened a curious eye toward video games. More than a pastime, these games have helped shape how we feel, understand and interact with the world around us – both online and off.A new group show at The Hole in Tribeca brings this influence into sharp focus. Titled LFG, the exhibition features a lineup of 13 international artists, each interested in gaming as a visual language and cultural force. Together, they ask: what happens when art grows up on boss fights, glitches and open-worlds?Circling Kévin Bray’s iconic animated sculpture, 4exs, the exhibition offers a multi-medium survey: Gao Hang brings a health kit, a classic in-game item, into pixelated reality; while Ksawery Komputery and Luke Murphy evoke the glitchy feedback with code and light...
Kenny Schachter Questions “The Hand of The Artist” in Latest Jupiter Show
Kenny Schachter’s latest show at Jupiter on NYC's Lower East Side is a nod to Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Benjamin argued that mass-produced modes of mechanical reproduction, whether in media or culture, undermines the "aura" of art. Schacter describes Benjamin as a "prescient thinker" who would be aghast at how people today are highly engaged with Internet culture and technology including AI.Schacter is a key figure when it comes to conversations, concepts and material revolving around art and technology, automation and authorship. For his latest show, Art in the Age of Robotic Reproduction, he reflects on Benjamin's essay through a collection of tech-meets-handmade work that question creativity and challenge the "hand of the artist...
Royal Enfield’s Flying Flea Debuts ‘Motototem’ Art Bike by Mattia Biagi
At Salone del Mobile 2025 in Milan, Royal Enfield’s new electric sub-brand, Flying Flea, unveiled a fusion of design and innovation — a one-off art bike named Motototem, created in collaboration with Italian artist Mattia Biagi.Built upon the FF-C6, Flying Flea’s flagship electric motorcycle, Motototem transforms the EV into a sculptural artwork. Biagi reimagined components like the forged aluminum frame and magnesium battery case using natural materials, including travertine, clay, bronze, stone, leather and blown glass. The result is a deeply symbolic, sensory-rich vehicle that explores themes of nature, history and human connection.The bronze handlebars and footpegs carry the artist’s fingerprint. The headlight and taillight have been replaced with hand-blown glass forms, while the tank...
Wassily Kandinsky’s Sketchbooks Offer New Insights Into His Art
Wassily Kandinsky, best known as the pioneer of abstract painting, kept a trove of sketchbooks between 1889 and 1935. Twelve of these sketchbooks are now the focus of a new release from No More Rulers. Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks, edited by Larry Warsh and Dieter Buchhart, pulls together select pages that shed light on how the artist’s ideas and visual language took shape over the years.The book features studies on composition, space and color that echo throughout Kandinsky’s later works. Alongside drawings are handwritten notes, personal reflections and the occasional poem which point to artists and writers who influenced his thinking at the time.Also included are printed manifestos where Kandinsky outlines his growing views on abstraction, revealing the thought process behind his ...
Qualeasha Wood’s ‘Malware’ Exposes the Underbelly of Being Chronically Online
For Qualeasha Wood, a glitch can be good. In her latest solo show at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, the Philly-based artist delves into the glitch as aesthetic and a language for moving through a world where selfhood is constantly mediated and warped. Balancing digital disenchantment with an optimistic eye, Wood puts a spin on body horror conventions in her latest body of work, composed of tapestries, tuftings and video.In Malware, jacquard tapestries turn digital pixels into hand-stitched poetry. Lit by the white-blue glow of a computer screen, Wood emblazons her signature webcam self-portraits with confessions of burnout and online overexposure, taking the form of Python and Java script. Her videos give this code a second life, using it to pixelate and datamosh her body out of recognition.Mo...
Mark Leckey’s ‘As Above So Below’ Brings Visions of Ecstasy to Paris
Where one sees a typical highway bridge, a street lamp or a road sign, Mark Leckey sees something extraordinary – a gateway into the ecstatic, transcendence beyond the self. Working across video, sculpture, and performance, the British artist transforms the mundane into magic, linking music, dance and the pulse of a city to the sublime.In Paris, Lafayette Anticipations presents As Above So Below, Leckey’s latest solo exhibition. Spanning from the late 1990s to today, audiences will see from the cult-classic British youth film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) to more recent works like Mercy I Cry City (2024), and 20 some works in between. Centered on the theme of ecstasy and the ecstatic, the show makes sense of the artist's own disorienting experiences – moments of overwhelming emotion tha...
Tilda Swinton Is Getting Her Own Museum Retrospective
An Oscar-winning star with the mystique of a cult icon, Tilda Swinton’s cross-creative career is one that defines convention. From her debut in Derek Jarman’s 1986 Caravaggio biopic to playing an eccentric art critic in Julio Torres’ Problemista, her ties to the art world run deep, blurring the lines between mainstream success and the avant-garde every step of the way.This September, the performer, fashion icon and art darling will head to the Eye Filmmuseum for the occassion of Tilda Swinton – Ongoing, a retrospective exhibition tracing through her career and collaborations, curated by Swinton herself.“With the honour of this extraordinary invitation, Eye has given me the opportunity to reflect on the mechanics of my working practice over the past forty years,” Swinton expressed in a rece...
Italy’s First Landmark ‘Graffiti’ Exhibition Opens at Museion
Italy’s first major graffiti exhibition has arrived at the Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano. Curated by Leonie Radine and Ned Vena, Graffiti brings together a constellation of 60 pioneering voices working within and beyond the medium, including Futura 2000, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Rammellzee, Lee Quiñones and Shaun Crawford.Spanning 1,500 square meters across two floors, the exhibition explores how the raw, expressive energy of street art made its way into the studio. Beginning with pre-graffiti spray paintings of the 1950s, Graffiti traces through notable graffiti names of the 1980s and lands with contemporary artists who incorporate elements of the medium into their practices.“Graffiti was how I found my way into being an artist, but it is also how I see thin...
Dozie Kanu Champions Sculptural Alchemy in New Milan Show
Some artists look to break boundaries; Dozie Kanu prefers to dismantle them and see what's left standing. Working at the intersection of fine art, design and social critique, Kanu’s practice culls from personal histories and the weight of the everyday world only to emerge as something entirely new – part relic, part provocation and part poetic sleight of hand.For his latest solo exhibition at Federico Vavassori in Milan, not opposed to tossing bricks into the quotidian, your honour, Kanu gives a new life industrial remnants and found materials – car rims, chain links, shattered ceramics – reconsidering the idea of worth, function and utility. Through these interventions, the artist expands on his sculptural alchemy, a critical aspect of his ongoing dialogue with mass media, pop culture and...
Tate Britain Spotlights the Uncanny Genius of Ed Atkins
In Ed Atkins’ world, bodies are restless, weightless and deeply confused. They float, moan, glitch, laugh and sometimes fall apart entirely, moving through the world as if constantly reminded of their own existence. Hyper-present yet simultaneously estranged, Atkins' bodies – like our own, at times – are vessels for feeling that don't quite know what to do with themselves.Tate Britain has just opened the doors to the UK’s largest survey of Atkins' work. A knack for the intimate and absurd has led him to become one of the biggest names in British digital art, and rightly so. Known for his computer-generated animations, the uncanny is his strength, reworking contemporary technologies only for something startlingly human to emerge: love, longing and grief, finished in pixel perfection.The epo...
