Art
See How Celebrity Nail Artist Coca Michelle Creates An Exclusive Desperados-Inspired Vibe Nail Set
Desperados has launched its latest campaign titled “The Beer with Latin Vibe” ushering in a new era for the brand.Having recently announced the appointment of Latin GRAMMY award-winning OVY ON THE DRUMS as its artistic director -- celebrating the highly influential Latin music scene -- the news was accompanied by the release of the hit single “GUAO GUAO” by the Colombian artist and Venezuelan rapper MICRO TDH.Breaking down the background of the collaboration, OVY ON THE DRUMS says, “I worked closely with my friend MICRO TDH to bring the perfect vibe and catchy lyrics to the track ‘GUAO GUAO’, which encompasses everything Desperados’ new campaign stands for. The track has such a great feeling — it’s got a timeless sound that globally transcends the Latin Vibe into all cultures all over the ...
Jeffrey Deitch Presents Nina Chanel Abney’s ‘Winging It’ Exhibition
Jeffrey Deitch has opened a new exhibition by American contemporary artist Nina Chanel Abney. Titled Winging It, the artist explores themes of spirituality, resilience and modern survival through her diverse body of works, which includes vibrant paintings, works on paper, sculptures as well as an immersive installation.At the heart of the exhibition is a monumental reredos-inspired installation, featuring a vinyl mural and an animated neon sign depicting Jesus creating a rainbow. Accompanied by letter board signs with modern mantras, the installation reclaims spiritual imagery for all, offering affirming messages and transforming everyday sayings into spiritual affirmations.The show critiques the commodification of belief while celebrating adaptability and humor, examining how people const...
Buffalo AKG’s ‘Hi-Vis’ Brings 10 Years of Public Art Indoors
For the past decade, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s Public Art Initiative has transformed the city’s streets with bold, thought-provoking works. Now, the museum is bringing those artists inside with Hi-Vis, an exhibition celebrating their contributions. Featuring artists like FUTURA 2000 Shantell Martin, Felipe Pantone and more, the show highlights the impact of public art in Buffalo.Housed on the third floor of the museum’s new Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building, Hi-Vis runs through June 9, 2025. It’s curated by the museum’s Public Art Team—Aaron Ott, Eric Jones and Zack Boehler—who have played a key role in shaping Buffalo’s visual landscape.Alongside the exhibition, the museum has produced a documentary, Hi-Vis: Ten Years of Public Art, which reflects on the initiative’s journey:By bringing the...
New Museum Expands with $125M OMA-Designed Building
The New Museum in NYC is set to unveil its biggest expansion yet. In Fall 2025, its new 60,000-square-foot addition, designed by OMA with Cooper Robertson, will open, doubling gallery space and improving accessibility with new elevators, an atrium stairway and an outdoor plaza. It will also create dedicated spaces for artist residencies and give NEW INC, the museum’s cultural incubator, a permanent home. The $125 million USD project, with $82 million USD going toward construction, is named in honor of the late philanthropist Toby Devan Lewis, whose $30 million USD gift is the largest in the museum’s history.The inaugural exhibition, New Humans: Memories of the Future, will take over the expanded space, featuring more than 150 artists exploring how history and the future intersect. Sarah Lu...
Project Angel Food & Bonhams Host ‘ANGEL ART’ Auction for LA Wildfire Relief
Project Angel Food's latest charity auction with Bonhams, ANGEL ART 2025, marks its 22nd edition and the first since 2019. Originally launched in 1993 with David Hockney as Honorary Chair, the event has raised over $11 million USD to date. This year, the goal is to raise $400,000 USD to support those affected by the recent devastating fires in Los Angeles. The organization has seen a 10% surge in clients served, many of whom are elderly or dealing with respiratory conditions worsened by poor air quality.Among the highlights of ANGEL ART 2025 are contributions from artists who lost their homes or were displaced by the fires, demonstrating the resilience of the creative community. Moreover, Hypeart featured select works from the charity auction in their 'THRESHOLD' exhibition at Bonhams LA d...
Step Into teamLab Phenomena in Abu Dhabi
teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi is set to open its door to the public within the city’s Saadiyat Cultural District.Spanning 17,000 square meters of space, the new museum explores the artworks as phenomena that stem from their environments. Every installation is thoughtfully conceptualized to invite and immerse visitors in the artworks’ collective existence, thus allowing them to assimilate with the surroundings.Underscoring the interconnectedness of existence and the environment, the concept of "environmental phenomena" also suggests that existence is not tied to matter, but rather to elements like air, water and light transformed by their surroundings. As long as the environment is maintained, the artworks will continue to exist even if physically disrupted.Guests will find themselves envelop...
Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa Puts Community First in ‘Blood Be Water’
A sense of sincerity bleeds from Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa’s artworks. From ethereal airbrush and charcoal compositions to raw ceramic and multi-media works, each of Samayoa’s pieces find iridescent life in narratives of nostalgia and resilience.Following presentations at Good Mother Gallery and pt.2, Samayoa is gearing up for Blood Be Water, his upcoming exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art San José (ICA San José). In his first institutional solo, the Oakland-based pays homage to the forces that shaped him: muralist language, his Mexican-Guatemalan heritage and the community that believed in him every step of the way.The title stems from the saying “blood is thicker than water,” which prioritizes inherited familial bonds over other relationships. Rather, Blood Be Wate...
Digital Art Fair Cancels 2025 Edition
The 2025 edition of Hong Kong’s Digital Art Fair is officially cancelled, as per an announcement posted on Instagram last Sunday, with organizers attributing it to “reasons beyond its control,” though government officials later revealed that the fair failed to secure sufficient funding.A statement from Hong Kong’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau published on Monday noted that while the fair had applied for funding from the Mega Arts and Cultural Events Fund, a government-led initiative to bolster Hong Kong as an “East-meets-West center for international cultural exchange.”However, it lacked “adequate” information for an “assessment of its artistic merits, attractiveness to tourists and economic benefits,” and by the time the application was received, tickets were already rolling out.Lau...
Webber Gallery to Host ‘Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs’ Exhibition in LA
Webber Gallery and independent publisher, MACK have partnered up to host the first exhibition featuring Yorgos Lanthimos’ photographic works. Titled Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs, the upcoming exhibition will include photography from the renowned filmmaker’s recent books, i shall sing these songs beautifully and Kinds of Kindness, alongside stills from the set of Poor Things as featured in the Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken photo book. As a globally renowned filmmaker, Lanthimos is reputed for his distinctive cinematic vision and ambitious world-building that explores human relationships through an absurdist lens. With this exhibition, visitors will be given a fresh perspective on Lanthimos’ artistic practice, showcasing real set locations from New Orleans and Budapest, along wit...
NANZUKA ART INSTITUTE To Open Major Hajime Sorayama Restropective in Shanghai
NANZUKA will soon present a retrospective exhibition on Hajime Sorayama, the renowned Japanese illustrator who’s known for his superrealist artworks featuring sexy robots.Entitled, Light, Reflection, Transparency exhibition will include a vast body of artworks from as far back as the 1970s. As highlighted in the show’s title, light, reflection and transparency are elements that are explored and pursued in Sorayama’s art — evidence of the artist’s constant strife in depicting light beyond the constraints of traditional painting.In Sorayama's illustrations, human figures, animals and extinct creatures like dinosaurs are depicted alongside robots, offering a speculative vision of a future where organic life forms merge with mechanical civilization. These creations are deliberately crafted to ...
Do Ho Suh’s ‘Walk the House’ Explores the Many Meanings of Home
A major survey exhibition of works by South Korean artist Do Ho Suh is coming to the Tate Modern this spring, marking his first London solo in over twenty years. Titled The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House, the show traces three decades of Suh's compelling practice, adding new site-specific works to his iconic oeuvre of translucent architecture. The artist takes viewers on an introspective journey that explores the multifaceted nature of home, identity and how we inhabit the world, culling personal and collective memory in a dynamic and reflective showcase.The title of the show, Walk the House, draws from an expression referring to the hanok, a traditional Korean house that can be disassembled and rebuilt at a new site. Drawing on the idea of a transportable home, Suh bears wi...
Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Was Stolen in Just 5 Minutes
The artist behind the duct-taped banana, which auctioned for over $6 million USD last November, Maurizio Cattelan, continues to make headlines in the global art sector. This time, the news centers around his gold toilet at the Blenheim Palace in England which was stolen by four male suspects. The perpetrators only took five minutes to haul it out of the institution and it was never recovered, as per ARTnews. Entitled “America” (2016), the stolen work is a fully-functioning toilet made of 18-karat, 103 kilogram gold that was situated in the guides’ restroom. Though, visitors were allowed to view the work via booking time slots to use the toilet. The work was originally part of an exhibition alongside other conceptual objects by Cattelan back in 2019 at the 18th-century castle in Oxfordshire...
