Art

A new exhibition at the Bata Shoe Museum is placing a spotlight on the age-old question: what is art? Now through March 2026, Art/Wear: Sneakers x Artists offers a glimpse into the growing trend of artist and sneaker collaborations, featuring a selection of drops by 48 venerable artists including Takashi Murakami, Virgil Abloh, Futura and Javier Calleja. In a massive display of works, the exhibition charts through the past and present of commercial collaborations, highlighting new dimensions of footwear, art and above all, creative expression.“Sneakers and artist collabs are increasingly finding their way into conventional art venues such as museums and auction houses with some elevated to a status similar to limited edition artist prints,” says BSM director and senior curator Elizabeth Se...

Italian police have uncovered a pan-European forgery ring responsible for producing and selling counterfeit artworks attributed to dozens artists including Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí and Banksy. As of November 11, the Carabinieri art squad and Pisa’s prosecutor’s office have announced that 38 individuals are currently under investigation for forgery, handling stolen goods and illegal art sales.The investigation, codenamed “Operation Cariatide,” began in March 2023 when Italy’s art police confiscated 200 fake pieces, which included a Modigliani caryatid, from a businessman in Pisa. More recently, a string of suspicious online auctions led investigators to uncover the forgery network and six of their workshops – two in Tuscany, one in Venice and three abroad – where the replic...

Ur Kasin is making his London debut with a new solo exhibition entitled All Is Blurred. Staged at JD Malat Gallery, the exhibition features six large-scale oil paintings that transform everyday moments into richly layered surrealist scenes. Echoing the tender messiness of a coming of age, each work depicts a slice of life in an unforgiving world.Coursing through euphoric highs and descents into numbness, the exhibition takes viewers on the thundering, psychological journey that is growing up, a time where every emotion is rich in its own right. The works are anchored by themes of self-discovery and existentialism as Kasin’s character hopes to find himself in plumes of smoke, McDonald’s drive-through meals and ice-cold bottles of Asahi. Seeking refuge in indulgence, the figure brings light ...

Afterstepping down from his eponymous label back in March, and revealing his final runway showcase in June, Dries Van Noten has shifted his focus. The designer has announced the opening of his Common Ground exhibition, which, per a press release, explores the "multifaceted concept of home" through the work of six contemporary artists.Curated by Brian Boa – the founder of Los Angeles' Trading Places – the exhibition opens today, November 9 at The Little House, and features work from EFE, Martine Syms, Mark Lecky, Lloyd Foster, Walid Labri and Hassan Rahim."The exhibition invites viewers to explore the essence of home as a feeling, a sense of security and a personal representation, while addressing the themes of belonging and identity," a press release explicates.EFE and Rahim each contribut...

Make Room Los Angeles is presenting Office Illusions by Jacopo Pagin, on view now through December 17, 2024, marking the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. Blurring the lines between myth and reality, Pagin explores the turn of the millennium, shaped by a seductive vision of endless progress and control.In his series of large-scale paintings, the artist immerses viewers in distorted office landscapes filled with desks, computers and pens. Stark and sterile, these reimagined artifacts reflect the shiny allure of corporate power that consumed the 1990s and early 2000s, while sending a flare from a future where the prospects of success and stability have become increasingly hollow.Banal furniture plays a central role in the exhibition. Across the gallery space, an installation of bla...

Sam Conant – more commonly known as Cones – is a staple in the hip-hop space. Throughout his decade in the game, the music photographer has amassed quite the collection of photos – concert, candid, and everything in between – of the new age of hip-hop talent. Cones has compiled some of the highlights into his first-ever photo book: a 328-page offering entitled Happy To Be Here.Between 2014 and 2023, Cones flicked up some of the most prominent figures in the rap ether, including of Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Lil Tecca, A$AP Rocky, Metro Boomin, Post Malone and Offset – who all appear in the pages of Happy To Be Here. “Although the photos captured in Happy To Be Here document my time spent chasing down hip-hop icons over the past decade as I found my footing in the industry, this book is r...

At Tai Kwun Contemporary, Tao Hui opens the doors to his cabinet of curiosities that is In the Land Beyond Living, now on view until February 2, 2025. Through painting, video, sculpture and sound, the Beijing-based artist renders a world of struggle through his signature, absurdist approach. From migrant workers in booming cities to the nouveau riche socialites with a spiritual hunger, he hunts for new ways to make sense out of conflicting, complex realities.For Hui’s first institutional foray in Hong Kong, the exhibition features five newly-commissioned installations alongside other recent works. Central to the exhibition is “Chilling Terror Sweeps the North,” an immersive video installation housed with a semi-opaque, paneled structure. Blending dreams and reality, the film’s surrealist t...

To the boomers, digital art was largely confined to 8-bit Atari graphics or that Metal Gear Solid video game they regrettably purchased for their kids. Today, however, the medium has skyrocketed past its early childlike associations to be incorporated in almost every function of daily life — from simple emoji avatars and virtual reality programs to the infinitely manipulatable capabilities found in Photoshop and artificial intelligence.London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has released a new book that chronicles the growth of digital art from its early beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Written and edited by curators Pita Arreola, Corinna Gardner and Melanie Lenz, the publications draws from the V&A's extensive archives to trace the work of mathematicians, computer animato...

Two screenprints from Andy Warhol’s 1985 Reigning Queens series have been stolen, and the other two destroyed, from a gallery in the Netherlands during a botched robbery. Last Friday morning, residents of Oisterwijk were shaken by the sound of an explosion. CCTV footage captured the thieves blasting open the doors of MPV Gallery and swiping the pieces from the walls, though to their surprise, the artworks didn’t fit in their car.Police have since recovered the getaway vehicle and detained one suspect, though they are still seeking witnesses as their investigation continues. “It is appalling,” gallery owner Mark Peet Visser shares with the Art Newspaper. “It is also unprofessional for a criminal to work like this, with explosives that are far too heavy and a getaway car that is too small fo...

As the clash between dairy and non-dairy camps rages on, both sides can recognize the upper lips featured in MilkPEP’s iconic got milk? campaign. Through the 90s and 00s, photos of celebrities sporting thin, white mustaches dominated our cultural consciousness, but even though the campaign successfully took over commercials and cafeterias across the country, consumers are becoming increasingly reluctant toward milk’s once-promising health benefits.The campaign’s two-word question plays a significant role in Jens Settergren’s sensorial installation at Viborg Kunsthal. Through a suite of sleek LED simulations, Milk Plus follows the aesthetic journey of dairy marketing and its contributions to a tech-mediated body. Here, the Danish artist constructs a sci-fi world of his own. In a storm of bl...

Altman Siegel is showcasing a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Troy Lamarr Chew II, now on view through December 21, 2024. For his second show with the gallery, the Los-Angeles based artist, best known for his realist paintings, confronts Eurocentric traditions of Black exclusion with an iridescent invisibility.Chew summons a new suite of paintings that reimagine his close friends and family as invisible, bringing a well-deserved spotlight to a cast of unsung heroes. While each figure is composed with assiduous precision, there is something missing: in place of skin is a distorted refraction of their immediate surroundings – the clothes they wear and their places of work.The series was inspired by his experience as a driver in San Francisco, though it was through this lacking vi...