Art

Pioneer Works is currently showcasing a solo exhibition by American Artist inspired by the life and legacy of science fiction luminary Octavia E. Butler. With titular cues from her seminal, post-apocalyptic novel Parable of the Sower, Shaper of God circles similar ideas of climate change, unchecked power and corporate greed through a striking display of sculpture, installation, drawing and video.The exhibition interlaces Butler’s resonant, speculative worlds with intimate details of her life, tracing her radical, political imagination through lived experiences. In “Estella Butler’s Apple Valley Autonomy" (2024,) for example, Artist reimagines her grandmother’s chicken coop and explores how its burning gave rise to the prevalence of fire in her most famed stories. Complementing the sculptur...

Pioneer Works is currently showcasing a solo exhibition by American Artist inspired by the life and legacy of science fiction luminary Octavia E. Butler. With titular cues from her seminal, post-apocalyptic novel Parable of the Sower, Shaper of God circles similar ideas of climate change, unchecked power and corporate greed through a striking display of sculpture, installation, drawing and video.The exhibition interlaces Butler’s resonant, speculative worlds with intimate details of her life, tracing her radical, political imagination through lived experiences. In “Estella Butler’s Apple Valley Autonomy" (2024,) for example, Artist reimagines her grandmother’s chicken coop and explores how its burning gave rise to the prevalence of fire in her most famed stories. Complementing the sculptur...

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has released the lineup for the highly anticipated Made in L.A. biennial running from October to early January 2026. Composed of 27 artists, the exhibition will shift its focus to those working in the greater LA area.For the seventh edition of the biennial, curators Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha pooled a group of multigenerational artists who work across a variety of mediums. Featured works include a presentation by esteemed conceptual artist John Knight, architectural explorations by Hood Century Modern founder Jerald Cooper, a choreographic composition by Will Rawls and a stage production by Leila Weinraub and avant-garde duo New Theater Hollywood (Max Pitegoff and Calla Henkel.)While this year’s theme has yet to be announced, the curators note that ...

The U.S. Copyright Office has just ruled that AI art created with text prompts, or "purely AI-generated material," cannot be copyrighted. The decision, detailed in a report published on January 29, offers some clarity in the murky legal territory surrounding AI within creative industries, emphasizing the dangers of “using AI as a stand-in for human creativity.”The report stems from an ongoing investigation into AI-generated works which began in 2023, and considered over 10,000 contributions from the public – including artists, performers, directors and musicians. The report notes that “prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an A.I. system the authors of the output,” though works created using AI “assistance” are protected under copyright law, and even those ...

Japanese contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara has teamed up to create a line of merchandise and the official poster for FireAid, a benefit concert which was held on January 30 at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome and Kia Forum. Proceeds went to support communities recovering from the recent wildfires in LA as per ARTnews.Orchestrated by music industry titans alongside Live Nation and the LA Clippers, the concert boasts an all-star roster, including Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Nicks, Katy Perry and Joni Mitchell. Longtime fans of Nara’s work, the Azoffs brought him on board early with help from dealer Tim Blum, recognizing his history of involvement in humanitarian causes.Nara’s commitment to disaster relief—shaped by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami—...

At the nexus of art, poetry and performance, Precious Okoyomon explores the interplay between play, chaos and regeneration. They first gained widespread attention following their presentation at the 2022 Venice Biennale, where they transformed the Arsenale into a sprawling, lush ecosystem, braiding natural flows with Afro-futuristic visions. Now, Okoyomon is bringing their imaginative worlds to Austria with ONE EITHER LOVES ONESELF OR KNOWS ONESELF, a solo exhibition featuring new works, at Kunsthaus Bregenz.Through a series of expansive installations, the show transforms the museum into a dreamscape. From psychoanalytic consulting rooms reimagined with cute and mischievous devils, to a suspended sea of stuffed animals, the artist confronts intimate desires and fears with an unflinching si...

Whaam! Gallery is gearing up to open SPORTS, a showcase of paintings by San Francisco-based artist Yarrow Slaps. In this body of work, Slaps pulls autobiographical memories and merges them with the figures of icons across various arenas of pop culture – sports, music, books and video games – forging an electric visual landscape that is both personally and collectively resonant.Inspired by the “create a player” mode in video games, the artist delves into the complexities of identity and selfhood, crafting characters who exist somewhere between the “mortal and divine." In this world, Slaps captures the likes of legends, such as Lisa Leslie, Nipsey Hussle and Allen Iverson, many of which are framed by a hand-painted character select screen equipped with cheeky player stats and their own arsen...

Plato Gallery in New York is currently presenting Heart Left in the Bag, a solo exhibition by Katya Muromtseva, and Here’s Looking at You, an all-women group exhibition, both on view until February 8, 2025. Grounded in ideas of identity, memory and self-representation, the two concurrent shows reimagine the personal and collective narratives of women from around the world, turning to art as a tool for reclamation while offering poignant meditations of power along the way.In the ground floor gallery, USSR-born artist Katya Muromtseva makes her New York solo debut with a series of lush watercolor portraits in Heart Left in the Bag. Taking the form of shadowy blooms, each work was created during interviews with female immigrants that now reside in the U.S., as each participant is asked: “When...

This spring, Berlin’s art scene is set to receive a unique addition with a new gallery space in Schöneberg, launched by Pace Gallery and Galerie Judin. Staged in a restored 1950s gas station, the space will become a new home to galleries, offices, a café and a bookshop run by the publishing group Die Zeit.Opening on May 1, the new space will kick off Gallery Weekend Berlin with a group exhibition jointly presented by the two galleries. The inaugural show will mark the beginning of a year-round rotation between the two galleries, with Pace hosting two shows annually and Galerie Judin helming three.Originally built in 1954 as part of the postwar reconstruction in West Berlin, the gas station had become abandoned in 1986 and remained so until it caught the attention of Galerie Judin founder J...

On the heels of their recent retrospective release, the art-fashion collective MSCHF is heading to Tokyo for their latest exhibition, Material Values, at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND. Opening on February 1, the exhibition follows the group's 2024 presentation of No Shoes. No Phones. No Service, and will feature a showcase of new works that delve into “the definition and value of art,” bringing light to capitalist critique with the collective’s signature style of wit, humor and, of course, mischief.The show circles “MATERIAL VALUE SCULPTURES,” a new sculptural series which fits cramped, indium-cast human figures atop online devices that track the real-time market value of the rare metal. As the value of indium rises, so does the temperature of the sculptures; each piece will hit a melting point, whe...