Art
Pharrell Williams Curates ‘FEMMES’ Group Show at Perrotin Paris
After nearly a decade, Pharrell Williams is putting curator hat back on for a new show at Perrotin Paris. In FEMMES, a powerful group exhibition, the creative polymath celebrates the enduring impact of Black women – “the artists who transform the world through the power of their hands” – through a kaleidoscopic exploration of femininity, calling on the wife, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and muses who have shaped him.FEMMES showcases work by 39 international artists from pioneers like Esther Mahlangu and Carrie Mae Weems to rising stars Emma Prempeh and Naomi Lulendo, and art icons such as Mickalene Thomas, Nina Chanel Abney and Prince Gyasi.The show comes as a long-awaited follow-up to the Williams-curated exhibition G I R L, inspired by his sophomore album, at the Parisian gallery...
Dan Friedman’s ‘Why Shouldn’t I Have Fun All Day’ Immerses Us in His Artistry
Dan Friedman's Why Shouldn't I Have Fun All Day? marks the first gallery presentation of the late artist's work since 1994. Staged in Lower Manhattan's Superhouse, the exhibition arrives in honor of the 30th anniversary of Friedman's passing in 1995 and is an immersive imagining of the artist's Washington Square Park residence.In the late 1970s, Friedman transformed his one-bedroom apartment into what he called "a living sketchbook" for his art, using every surface as a canvas. "I created an extreme caricature of the beautiful modern American home to bring into question our notion of what is a beautiful modern American home," he stated at the time. The installation emulates the same energy of the pivotal Lower East Side artist's apartment as documented in his influential 1994 work Radical ...
Peter Tomka Explores Life After Loss in ‘Bachelor Suite’
Webber Gallery presents Bachelor Suite, the latest series by Los Angeles-based photographer Peter Tomka. Through a mix of original and found images, Tomka explores themes of loss, reconstruction and queer identity, creating a fragmented yet deeply personal narrative.Tomka’s process involves cropping and repurposing thousands of photographs - both his own and researched imagery - to build layered compositions. These digital negatives are inverted, enlarged and projected onto light-sensitive paper through a makeshift glory hole, now symbolically cut through a mattress. This technique ties into his ongoing exploration of queer spaces, dreams and eroticism, echoing his previous project, Watering Hole.Set in Tomka’s apartment in Koreatown’s historic Gaylord Apartments, Bachelor Suite blurs priv...
Art Basel Reveals Exhibitor Lineup and New Sector for Its 2025 Edition
Art Basel has unveiled the roster for the 2025 edition of its marquee Swiss fair this summer. Under the direction of Maike Cruse, the flagships’ 55th edition will showcase 291 galleries, hailing from 42 countries and territories, launching its new Premiere sector, dedicated to "ultra-contemporary" artworks.Premiere will highlight 10 galleries displaying works, by up to three artists, created in the past five years. The section will see Chapter NY, presenting Antonia Kuo’s photochemical paintings and Erin Jane Nelson’s ceramics; alongside Beijing’s Magician Space where Liu Ding reflects on multi-valenced trauma in his latest installation Survivors. Making a Basel debut, London’s Edel Assanti will spotlight Lonnie Holley’s multi-medium practice.Other galleries from this year’s newcoming clas...
Mickalene Thomas Revvs Up DART Car’s Custom McLaren
The Driven Artists Racing Team (DART Car) tapped American artist Mickalene Thomas to design a custom wrap for their debut McLaren Artura GT4 race car, making the launch of the women-led motorsports team. The team will unveil the inaugural commission at New York’s Classic Car Club on February 18, before its track-bound debut this spring.Renderings reveal bold, reflective streaks of colors and patterns wrapped around the exterior, as the front of the vehicle bears an abstract portrait of a woman's face. In addition to the car itself, Thomas, fresh off her London All About Love opening, has also designed bespoke suits and hand-painted helmets for the drivers.“This collaboration with DART Car embodies the perfect union of art and feminism as a potent fusion of creativity, speed, and female emp...
Highlights from Hypeart’s ‘THRESHOLD’ Exhibition at Bonhams LA
Threshold is an exploration of boundaries—those we face, those we break and those that confine us. Curated by Hypeart, this upcoming exhibition at Bonhams LA is a moment of transition, a pause between the known and the unknown, forcing us to confront our environment and our place within it With works from Shepard Fairey, George Condo, Beverly Pepper, Sam Gilliam and others, Threshold invites viewers to engage with art that challenges conventions, blurs lines and forges new paths. The exhibition, on view from February 18-21, will examine shifting boundaries in art and society.In a charitable partnership, Hypeart and Bonhams has collaborated with Project Angel Food to present works by Elizabeth Neel and Margo Wolowiec as part of Threshold. The proceeds from the sale of these specific works, ...
Hassan Hajjaj’s Eclectic Portraits Capture Moments of Cultural Connection
Hannah Traore Gallery is lifting the veil on a new solo showcase by Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj. Through a collection of portraits taken over the course of two decades, Hajjaj presents a visual dialogue between North African heritage and Western iconography, breathing vibrant life into every aspect of his work – from the subjects' sartorial style down to the colorful, multi-patterned frames.People of My Time reflects the ethos of the artist’s practice. Hajjaj weaves traditional Moroccan traditions with British pop iconography, where the faces of Imaan Hammam, Che Lovelace, Honey Dijon, Sarah Perles and Afrikan Boy serve as his creative muses.Surrounding each portrait, frames created from repurposed floor mates, conjures the bustle of Medina, adorning the figures with a tactile real...
Loewe Foundation Announces 2025 Craft Prize Shortlist
The LOEWE FOUNDATION has released the shortlist for the 2025 Craft Prize. Chosen from a pool of over 4,500 applications, the final lineup of 30 artists from 18 countries will present their works in a special group exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid from May 30 through June 29, 2025.The 2025 prize winner will be announced on May 29, during the show’s opening ceremony, and will receive a €50,000 award. The artist will be selected by a jury of 13 leading names in design, architecture, journalism, criticism and museum curatorship.“Year on year it gives me such pleasure to see the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize provide a platform for extraordinary talent, and change the perception of craft internationally,” said the Foundation's president Sheila Loewe. “Over the past decad...
Cosmo Whyte Brings a Pixelated Past Into Full Focus
The Arts Club of Chicago presents The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone, a solo exhibition by Jamaica-born, Los Angeles-based artist Cosmo Whyte, now on view through April 2. In a showcase of works across several mediums, Whyte finds clarity in the haze of memory, exploring the inescapable connection between the personal and collective through the idea of spectacle.Using his later father’s architectural archives as a point of departure, Whyte interrogates the act of seeing: “What makes a witness? And what does it mean to have become one?” Uncovering new layers of meaning along the way, the artist employs a postmodernist approach to imagery, reworking photographs to reveal to alternative contexts.Standouts include "4x4 Timing/Hush Now, Don’t Explain" (2023), a multi-fold steel ...
Metrograph to Host “Memoriam Marathon” of David Lynch Films
The Metrograph in New York is set to present In Dreams, an all-day, tribute to the legendary late David Lynch, on February 19. Following his passing last month, the theater takes a look back and honors Lynch's artistic legacy, promising “a full day of terror, bliss, crackpot comedy, ominous whooshing… and collective celebration of a titan of American art.”The “memoriam marathon” will see several of the director’s most pivotal films – Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart – alongside an introduction by cinematographer and Lynch’s longtime collaborator Frederick Elmes."It’s been such a privilege to be part of David's unique vision, one that transports us to worlds that are familiar and mysterious, frightening and dark, beautiful and inspirational,” expressed Elmes, w...
Huma Bhabha Mounts Towering Sculptures at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Huma Bhabha’s "Before The End" brings four towering bronze sculptures to Brooklyn Bridge Park, their haunting forms set against the Manhattan skyline. Presented by the Public Art Fund, the exhibition, running through March 2025, draws on Bhabha’s fascination with apocalyptic imagery, sci-fi and horror. The title comes from medieval writer Vincent of Beauvais, whose dark visions resonate with the artist’s own concerns about the state of the world.The figures—cast from carved cork and skeletal fragments—serve as both warnings and witnesses. “I titled it Before The End. I didn’t even know what was coming,” said Bhabha to Artnet, who created the works in 2023.Bhabha’s packed schedule continues with "Encounters: Giacometti" at London’s Barbican Centre in May 2025, where her sculptures will be d...
Andres Serrano and Barry X Ball Rework Religious Iconography in ‘Pious & Profane’
Back in June 2023, Pope Francis welcomed some 200 artists, writers and creatives to celebrate the Vatican’s contemporary art collection. Among the artists representing the United States were Barry X Ball and Andres Serrano whose 1987 work Immersion (Piss Christ) – a photograph of a plastic crucifix steeped in urine – scandalized the art world and U.S. senators alike. Despite the many works ripe for backlash from Christian protestors, the Pope applauded the arts for its ability to bring hope to the world, without shying away from the depths and darkness of humanity.At Patricia Low Contemporary in Gstaad, Switzerland, Serrano and Ball reflect on their Vatican visit in a new duet show. Titled Pious & Profane, the exhibition draws a connection between these two seemingly disparate concepts...
