Art
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...
Maureen Paley Displays Photocopier Works by Pati Hill & Wolfgang Tillmans
Maureen Paley presents a photographic showcase featuring Pati Hill and Wolfgang Tillmans as part of Air de Paris at Studio M for Condo 2025. The exhibition highlights both artists’ use of photocopiers as a creative tool, manipulating images to produce abstract compositions and portraits of inanimate objects—where the machine itself becomes both the subject and the means of production.“The principles on which the copier works—yes/no, multiplicity, instantaneousness—are those that govern much of modern life. Letting the copier impose rather than imposing on it may reveal something about our times and what lies ahead,” wrote Pati Hill in Letters to Jill, A Catalogue and Some Notes on Copying (1979), reprinted by Mousse in 2020.The exhibition features Hill’s distinctive xerographs from 1977 to...
Christie’s First AI Art Auction Sparks Backlash
Thousands of artists are calling on Christie’s to cancel its upcoming “Augmented Intelligence” auction, the first major sale dedicated to art made with artificial intelligence, slated to run from February 20 to March 5.The auction explores the role of human agency in the age of AI, tracing the evolution of art and technology over several decades. The sale of 20 lots expects to bring in $600,000, with works by Harold Cohen, an early AI art pioneer, alongside a lineup of contemporary artists experimenting with emerging technologies, such as Refik Anadol, Pindar Van Arman, Sasha Stiles, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.The open letter, addressed to Christie’s digital art specialists, now contains 4,000 signatures, including artists Karla Ortiz and Kelly McKernan who filed a class-action lawsuit...
Hypeart to Unveil ‘THRESHOLD’ Exhibition at Bonhams LA
Hypeart’s Threshold at Bonhams LA will explore the tension between history and change, featuring works by Shepard Fairey, Beverly Pepper, Sam Gilliam and more. The exhibition, on view from February 18-21, will examine shifting boundaries in art and society. A special event reception and panel discussion on February 20 will bring together Shepard Fairey, renowned artist and activist; Richard Scarry, art curator and dealer; Larry Warsh, art collector and founder of No More Rulers; Keith Estiler, Managing Editor at Hypeart/HYPEBEAST; Ralph Taylor, Global Head of 20th/21st Century Art at Bonhams; and Isabel Norsten, Specialist in Post-War & Contemporary Art at Bonhams. The discussion will explore the exhibition’s themes and mark the launch of Fairey-isms, a new book by No More Rulers and p...
Helmut Lang Announces New Sculptural Exhibition in Los Angeles
After retiring from his namesake label in 2005, creative polymath Helmut Lang turned his attention to art, culling his extensive garment archive into raw material for his large-scale sculptures. Though his personal collection of the brand is no longer, having been transformed into artworks and donated to art and fashion collections around the world, Lang's fascination with materials' second life stayed central to his practice.Now, Lang's chimeric sculptures are coming to Los Angeles in What remains behind, his latest solo exhibition housed at the Schindler House of the MAK Center. Curated by Neville Wakefield, the show explores, in the artist's own words, an affinity for materials “with a past, elements with irreplaceable presence and with scars and memories of a former purpose.”Lang fills...
George Rouy is Making His U.S. Debut with ‘The Bleed, Part II’
Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles is set to unveil a new solo exhibition by British artist George Rouy, running from February 18 through June 1. Entitled The Bleed, Part II, the show comes as the second act of the rising star's London presentation and will see a new suite of compositions in his distorted, fleshy signature, expanding on a study of "human mass, multiplicity and movement."The exhibition draws its title from Rouy’s concept of “the bleed,” which describes how figures and voids coalesce on canvas, resulting in an oozing flow between forms. This idea is deepened by “the surrounds,” zones where flesh and bodily properties meet forces of mass, volume and entropy without mercy.With faces enfolded, blurred or removed altogether, the artist challenges the power of photographic and sc...
MASA Galeria and Luhring Augustine Team Up for New Mexico City Show
In the heat of Mexico City Art Week, MASA Galeria is teaming up with New York-based Luhring Augustine for their second collaborative exhibition. Housed at MASA’s historic homebase, the show brings together six artists and designers – three from each respective gallery – pairing voices from Mexico and beyond in cross-cultural, visual dialogue.Grounded by the idea of friendship and its states of flux, the show nurtures a space where, as the galleries note, “unexpected encounters among recognizable idiosyncrasies arise.” Works on view come to life through an agency of their own, reflecting an excitement to “embrace an identification, even admiration or affection, with someone considered other than oneself.”Unfolding across three rooms, the exhibition traces a series of connections in artistic...
Retrospective of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Coming-of-Age Films Hits New York
Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) took the world of cinema by storm with his 1997 masterpiece House. A campy, cult-classic horror, the film set the stage for his idiosyncratic signature as an artist and director, brimming with otherworldly fantasias, pop-art boldness and acidic surrealism. While the film catapulted him to fame, its towering influence has often eclipsed the range of his work overseas.Now, Obayashi’s teenage symphonies are getting their flowers in Obayashi ‘80s, a film series presented by the Japan Society in New York, running from February 7 through February 14, 2025. With six films rarely seen outside of Japan, the series presents the beloved Onomichi Trilogy alongside Kadokawa-era classics, evoking a bittersweet nostalgia for a yesteryear that exists just be...
Must See Booths at Zona Maco 2025
With Zona Maco celebrating two decades as a cornerstone of the Latin American art scene, this year’s edition highlights bold solo installs to thought-provoking group presentations. Rodrigo Ramírez distorts identity through visceral, layered paintings, while Lewinale Havette reclaims femininity and migration with striking compositions. Pachi Muruchu and Livien Yin weave narratives of heritage and time, Ana Segovia reinvents cinematic nostalgia, while Chavis Mármol delves into the complexities of love and identity.Adding to the excitement, visitors can vote for their favorite piece from a shortlist of 20, with the winning artist and gallery splitting a $100,000 USD prize from the Erarta Foundation in honor of the fair’s 20th anniversary. Check out our roundup of standout presentations at Zon...
Victoria Beckham’s Contemporary Picks Are on View at Her London Boutique
Designer, entrepreneur and art collector Victoria Beckham is teaming up with Sotheby’s to showcase a selection of contemporary artworks at her boutique in Mayfair, London before they go under the hammer in London and New York.The exhibition follows Beckham’s 2018 project with the auction house, which centered around old masters’ portraits. This time, the collaboration shifts focus to some of her favorite names in contemporary art – including Yoshitomo Nara, George Condo, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Gerhard Richter, Yves Klein and Richard Prince – displayed across the three-story Georgian townhouse.The curation revolves around works with commanding uses of color, texture and scale. Standouts include Nara’s cute and cunning “Cosmic Eyes (in the Milky Lake)”; “Red Joy,”...
Collector Justin Sun Sues David Geffen Over “Stolen” Giacometti Sculpture
Crypto mogul Justin Sun, who made headlines for purchasing – and eating – Maurizio Cattalan’s banana artwork last year, is suing billionaire collector and entertainment executive David Geffen over a $78.4 million Alberto Giacometti sculpture that he claims was stolen.Sun purchased Le Nez at Sotheby’s in 2021, and now claims that his art advisor, Xiong Zihan Sydney, went rogue and orchestrated the sale to Geffen through an elaborate string of fabricated documents and forged signatures.While, Sun previously “expressed an interest” in finding a buyer who would pay more than $80 million. Sun claims that the advisor made a deal without his knowledge, exchanging the Giacometti for two artworks from Geffen’s collection, together worth $55 million, along with $10.5 million in cash. Court papers sa...
