Art

Desert X is back for its fifth U.S. edition, planting a suite of site-specific installations in Southern California’s Coachella Valley. Curated by Neville Wakefield and Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas, this year’s exhibition features the work of 11 international artists, each responding to the vast desert landscape, in a living dialogue of art, land and deep time.The 2025 iteration spotlights the region’s resilient spirit, looking to the wisdom embedded in the timeless landscape as subject and focus. “Curated by the place it temporarily inhabits, Desert X reveals the [landscape] as a canvas of real and imagined histories, narrating tales of displacement, sovereignty and adaptation superimposed over visible testaments of time,” Garcia-Maestas noted in a recent statement.Works on view explore themes ...

The human body stands as, perhaps, one of the earliest sources of artistic inspiration. Traditionally used to explore ideas of holiness, beauty and virtue, the 20th century saw a turn in interrogation of flesh form, shifting toward conversations of identity and performance to forge a language for the many ways we move throughout the world.A new exhibition at Paris' Bourse de Commerce, fittingly titled Corps et âmes, explores how modern and contemporary artists approach this connection between the body and soul. Drawing one hundred works from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition spotlights corporeal articulations across painting, sculpture, photography, video and drawing, featuring the likes of 40 notable names, such as Arthur Jafa, Duane Hanson, Ana Mendieta, David Hammons, Kara Walker, ...

British-Nigerian photographer and filmmaker Gabriel Moses is set to unveil his largest exhibition yet. Titled Selah, the show will present over 70 photographs and 20 films from the self-taught, South London-native, showcasing new works alongside his impressive oeuvre in arenas of art, music, fashion and sport.Unfolding across two floors of 180 Studios, which also hosted his debut exhibition, Selah culls a constellation of works from Moses’ career, including music videos like “FE!N” by Travis Scott and Playboi Carti, and "Lost Times" by Schoolboy Q, in addition to portraits of Skepta, Slawn, Alek Wek, Jude Bellingham and more.Also on view is the premiere of The Last Hour, his latest short film executive produced by (di)vision and GOAT. Shot in Atlanta, Georgia, 180 Studios describes the pie...

Often lacking a recognizable face or shape, abstract works are magic for the imagination as they leave loose interpretations--allowing viewers to impose their own meanings and interpretations without constraint. Swedish painter, David von Bahr, exercises abstraction through personal motion and physical movements. He relies on both methodical and intuitive approaches to create an obtrusive mash of paint and strokes on canvas. The artist is currently the focus of a solo show called Energized at Gallery Steinsland Berliner in Stockholm, Sweden. On view through April 5, the presentation features a bold selection of abstract pieces. One work looks like it’s on fire, entangled in a forest of wispy flames set against a black backdrop. Another painting, seemingly features a stack of spliced bio ma...

It's an entirely impossible feat to capture the extraordinarily outrageous life of Leigh Bowery, but a retrospective at Tate Modern feels like an honorable place to start. Bowery was a larger than life figure who permeated all aspects of modern culture, even still to this day. From performance artist to club promoter to model, Bowery's wild eclecticism escaped all formal boundaries of definition. Bowery initially rose to fame as a club promoter and underground performance artist in 1980s London, among other things, working the door for the short-lived but infamous nightclub Taboo. Known as one of the hardest doors and hottest places to be, Bowery, alongside a generation of club kids, cultivated a defiant art scene that did not flinch in the face of their political context. For the first ti...

For American artist Paul Pfeiffer, an image is a door into the collective consciousness. Working across sculpture, video, photography and installation, Pfeiffer constructs his own visual vernacular of spectacle, returning to the question, “Is the image making us, or do we make images?” or put simply: “Who’s using who?”The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum is currently hosting Pfeiffer’s largest survey exhibition in Europe, spotlighting over thirty works created over the last twenty-five years. After debuting at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles, Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom makes sense of our fixation on the spectacular, shining a light on the moments and images that make us.Drawing a connection between religious icons and the contemporary cult of celebrity – pop stars, act...