Art

Night Gallery presents Form and Feeling, a dynamic group exhibition featuring the works of Tony Bluestone, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Tomashi Jackson, Sahar Khoury, RJ Messineo, Marisa Takal, Zoe Walsh and Sarah Zapata. Across a suite of sculptures and paintings, the show invites viewers to critically consider how emotions are encoded into materiality and find life in the objects we create.Infused with the modernist ethos, where form served both as a method of controlling expression and a channel for new means of feeling, each work indulges in its own affective realm. From melting textiles to thick, buttery brushstrokes sprawled across canvases, the exhibition faces this journey of emotion, headfirst, unafraid and daring in its visual approach.Curated by Ashton Cooper, Form and Feeling take...

The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Walker Art Center are coming together to unveil the first major museum survey of artist Christine Sun Kim. In a showcase of over 90 works spanning from 2011 to today, the expansive retrospective shines a light on Kim’s exploration of Deaf lived experiences, delving into her relationship to spoken language, the complexities of communication and reflections on life amidst shared social spaces.Unfolding across three floors of the museum, All Day All Night brings Kim’s innovative use of musical notation, infographics and (written and sign) language into focus. Her work often examines the systematic marginalization of Deaf individuals, culminating in a captivating interplay of the poetic, political and, at times, humorous. In song with this protest aga...

Ken Burns has stepped out of his usual Americana-focused content to produce a new documentary covering the life of Leonardo da Vinci. It's the first time the 15-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker has covered a topic outside U.S. discourse, such as his detailed accounts on Jazz (2001), the American Civil War (1990) and Hemingway (2021), which have inextricably become textbook material in their own right — opting to instead add a humanist view on one of the most creative visionaries in history. Streaming now on PBS, the two-part documentary on the Italian polymath was created in collaboration with Burns' daughter Sarah and her husband David McMahon. Painter, cartographer, sculptor, engineer, architect, scientist — da Vinci's boundless curiosity could not be contained within one discipline, w...

Ai Weiwei has never been fond of the authorities, emblematic of his Study of Perspective (1995-2011) series, in which the Chinese dissident artist photographed himself giving the bird to iconic monuments and established power structures. Reuniting with London studio Avant Arte, Weiwei distills his choice symbol into a new print edition featuring a medley of middle fingers. Available in a blue and black option, the circular artworks are each handmade using a carved wooden block loaded with black ink, introducing unique variations in texture to the surface of the artwork. Created in collaboration with fellow British printer Make-Ready, the compositions emit a lustrous finish that hark to Weiwei’s porcelain sculptures, which are also inspired by ancient Chinese ceramics from the Yuan and Ming...

Rizzoli returns with a poignant new monograph highlighting the late and important postwar Japanese artist, Keiichi Tanaami who passed away in August this year. Recognized for his interdisciplinary work across paper, magazine covers and large-scale paintings, Tanaaami’s genre-defying practice spawns characters from a fantastical world intermixed with raw, diaristic scenes and elements that were largely inspired by the artists' experiences of living through the United States’ atomic attack on Japan during World War II. The hardcover book, edited by Kaleidoscope and Capsule’s Alessio Ascari, thematically details his prolific career into five sections: Eros, Underground, Pop, Tradition and Landscape. The comprehensive tome also delves into Tanaami’s more nuanced projects in eroticism, surreali...

Templon Gallery in New York has lifted the veil on Whispered Tales, a new solo exhibition by Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck, now on view through December 21, 2024. Known for his evocative, monochromatic sculptures, Op de Beek transforms the gallery space into a playground of frozen figures. Blending classical sculptural techniques with a cinematographic sensibility, the artist explores the fleeting essence of existence, capturing tender moments before they fade away forever.From a young ballerina posed in her mother’s oversized high heels to an ornamental Victorian carousel full of skeletal riders, the artist flutters between  the eternal and ephemeral in a series of silent scenes. “The way the artist plays with the perception of scale and atmosphere sparks a disconnect, a feeling of stra...

It's not long ago that skateboarding was ostracized by both the media and many of the brands that now cater to its community, having first dismissed it as an outsider sport for those on the periphery. From the 1980s till roughly the turn of the century, however, cultural luminaries from hip hop and skate circles forged a new paradigm within the yet-to-be-coined world of streetwear, setting the stage for where the pulse of culture is today. Having helped shape this rise, American director, designer and photographer Jacob Rosenberg has been instrumental in cultivating the visual expression that has now turned legend for some of skateboarding's most legendary imprints and figures.As a mainstay within the skate community since its founding in 2006, Los Angeles's HVW8 gallery will showcase a se...

Inaccurate sports statues have become something of a trend, with England captain and Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane being the latest player to join a long list of stars who've received, let's say, inauthentic bronze doppelgangers. Like the statues of Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Maradona and Dwyane Wade, Kane's sculpture, which was unveiled this past Monday in greater London's Waltham Forest borough, where he was born and raised, has already received a wave of criticism pointing out its visual inaccuracies. “If you think about it historically, a public statue was there to immortalize, show off and loudly boast of the achievements and accomplishments of the person," art critic Estelle Lovatt said in an interview. "If it doesn’t really bear a resemblance to the person, it’s quite difficult to ...

Five years on from her Swimmer portrait, French painter Claire Tabouret is reuniting with London-based creative studio Avant Arte to release a new limited edition tapestry. Paysage d’Intérieur (printemps) embarks on Tabouret's Fluff paintings, weaving together a verdant landscape that pays homage to Post-Impressionism, from Paul Cézanne to Vincent van Gogh. Born in Marseille and based in Los Angeles, Tabouret is well-known for her intimate portraits of youth, playing on themes related to memory and nostalgia, as well as vulnerability and innocence, emblematic of her moody compositions that allude to the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. Tabouret has shown a meteoric rise within art circles over the past decade, showcasing solo shows across the globe and currently represented by heavywei...

SCOPE Art Show returns to Miami Beach for its 23rd edition from December 3–8, 2024, showcasing over 85 international exhibitors from 15 countries. Known for its dynamic fusion of art, culture, technology, and wellness, this year’s theme, Interdependence, celebrates the collaborative spirit of creativity. Visitors can expect a diverse array of experiences, from monumental installations to engaging panels and exclusive events.The New Contemporary, SCOPE’s signature platform for large-scale works, will feature new commissions by Yinka Ilori MBE and Lua Brice. Ilori’s "Lift Me Higher With Joy" invites interaction with community-focused seating risers, while Lua Brice’s "Folding Light" creates an immersive environment using sound and light. Also on the show floor, Dr. Esther Mahlangu’s 26-foot ...

Ahead of Sotheby’s inaugural sale on November 21, the auction house has unveiled an immersive presentation of Art in Transit: 31 Keith Haring Subway Drawings from the Collection of Larry Warsh. Staged in a replication of a vintage New York subway station, this body of work culminates the collection efforts of No More Rulers founder Larry Warsh, making its first collective appearance in over a decade.Amidst a display of benches, turnstiles and tiled walls, the exhibition transports viewers to the 23rd Street station in 1980s New York, harkening back to a moment of personal significance for the American artist. “I remember most clearly an afternoon of drawing in a studio with large doors that opened onto twenty-second street,” Haring recalled. “All kinds of people would stop and look at the ...

Los Angeles-based artist Jake Vanden Berge is showcasing a new solo exhibition at London's lbf contemporary. I Made My Bed of Flowers And Now I Have to Step In It marks his UK debut, presenting a suite of new paintings that reference his experiences growing up in Los Angeles' Whittier suburb, while simultaneously exploring the canons of art history, juxtaposing his own modern interpretation on memory and nostalgia. Vanden Berge often distills thoughts in ghostly split-cell compositions made of oil and inkjet on canvas, such as the cropped images of a woman's lips and a subdued field of tulips with more aggressive images of a doberman ready to attack. He purposefully looks to spark tension between disparate imagery as a survey into perception, prompting the onlooker to realign their gaze to...