Art
Perrotin LA To Host Takashi Murakami’s Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis’
SummaryTakashi Murakami’s Hark Back to Ukiyo-e exhibition opens at Perrotin Los Angeles on February 14, 2026Featuring 24 new works, the show highlights large-scale reinterpretations of Utamaro and Kiyonaga’s bijinga, alongside Monet-inspired piecesPerrotin Los Angeles is set to present Takashi Murakami’s latest solo exhibition, Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis on February 14, 2026.Featuring 24 new paintings, the exhibition explores the historical dialogue between Japanese ukiyo-e prints and European Impressionism, particularly the influence of bijinga - pictures of beautiful women - on artists such as Monet. Inspired by a recent visit to Monet’s Giverny, Murakami advances his Superflat theory by tracing how Edo-period compositions, costumes, and sensual gestur...
Jana Frost on Building Worlds Through Collage
Jana Frost builds immersive, symbolic worlds through collage, animation and set design, moving between physical and digital space. Now based in London after years of relocating, her practice reflects that sense of movement and impermanence. She studied fine art at Tallinn University in Estonia, but her education has remained ongoing, shaped by continued research into symbolism, philosophy and psychology, which inform the layered visual narratives running through her work.Originally trained in ceramics and sculpture, Frost gradually shifted away from material-heavy processes as frequent moving made traditional studio practice difficult to sustain. Collage emerged as both a practical solution and a conceptual fit. Principles central to sculpture such as composition, balance and storytelling ...
A Tour Through ‘Korean Treasures’ With Audrey Nuna
After hallyu hit the global stage, South Korea’s creative imprint is ever-present. From the boom of Korean cinema and K-pop to the Gwangju Biennale if you lean more art connoisseur, the so-called soft powerhouse has proven a finesse on all cultural fronts. At the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, a new exhibition is turning back the clock to chart the artistic evolution that made this moment possible.Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared marks the first major of US exhibition of works hailing from the renowned collection of Lee Kun-Hee, the 23,000-piece strong trove assembled by the late Samsung chairman over seven decades. With over 200 works, including 14 designated National Treasures, on view, the showcase offers a rare look into one of Asia's most significant private...
JOOPITER Curates “The Contemporary Take” Featuring 25 Rare Andy Warhol Prints
SummaryJOOPITER, Pharrell Williams’ auction house, has launched "The Contemporary Take: Andy Warhol Prints," a curated sale focusing on the artist's revolutionary approach to color serialization and high-edition printmakingKey highlights include the Sunset series (originally commissioned for a Minneapolis hotel), the iconic Flowers series, and the Mick Jagger portrait, alongside the vibrant orange and pink Camouflage prints from Warhol’s final 1987 portfolioCurated by Global Head of Sale Caitlin Donovan, the auction emphasizes Warhol's enduring influence on the print market, showcasing his transition from commercial imagery to defining contemporary art through repetition and bold colorPharrell Williams’ digital auction house JOOPITER is spotlighting the master of Pop Art with its latest re...
Through the Lens: Exactitudes
If uniformity spells out the death of personal style, maybe our fear of sameness is something worth learning from. Garment by garment, we assemble ourselves in ways as intimately entwined with one another as with our own bodies. Because even when we think ‘I’m one of a kind,’ we do it in unison.This paradox sits at the center of Exactitudes, the cult photo project and fashion anthropology study by Dutch photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek. A portmanteau of “exact” and “attitude,” the project is heralded as one of the most influential photo series in contemporary fashion, and works by arranging grids of 12 portraits of participants bound by obsession, subculture or sartorial resemblance. From fur-clad Italian women, Beijing screamers, to buff leathermen in Rotterdam, ea...
Asspizza Opens an Art Show
Asspizza, born Austin Babbitt, has a reputation that precedes him. Like any name plucked from the fashion mythology of 2010s SoHo, it’s one that braces you for chaos.I sit opposite Babbitt at a West Village office in the hours leading up to his new art show, and, to my surprise, catch him in a serene state: putting finishing touches on a canvas, dousing it in loose, free-handed doodles. He bumps soft country music and hums back. Splayed across his all-new art car are thick Steve Jobs and Bruce Lee biographies he’s ready to open once the show wraps, he says.Next after his 2024 debut with Amanda Bynes, last week the artist-designer unveiled his second exhibition with Larry Warsh’s CART Department at its new space in lower Manhattan. On view through January 28, the show takes over Free Parkin...
Jacob Rochester Muses on Music as a Memory Device in ‘Input/Output’
SummaryJacob Rochester heads to Plato Gallery in New York to open Input/Ouput, his latest solo exhibitionFeaturing a suite of new and recent oil paintings, the showcase explores music as a unifier, bridging generations and genres, eras and placesPress play on your favorite song and, only a matter of measures in, you're already somewhere else — a different time or place, maybe surrounded by a sea of familiar faces. Music, and its immense, connective power, is a central for Jacob Rochester, an artist who translates the warmth and intimacy of sound into a rich, canvas-based language.The Los Angeles-based artist goes bicoastal with Input/Output, his New York solo debut. Now on view at Plato through March 7, the show brings together a family of new and recent works that trace familial ties, eve...
Amoako Boafo Brings Accra to LA in ‘I Bring Home with Me’
SummaryOpening on January 17, the exhibition is anchored by an architectural collaboration with designer Glenn DeRocheThe show transports the sensory energy of Accra, Ghana to Los AngelesFor his third solo presentation with Roberts Projects, contemporary heavyweight Amoako Boafo is blurring the lines between creation and exhibition. Titled I Bring Home with Me, the show transports the sensory energy of Accra, Ghana to Los Angeles by physically recreating the artist’s studio within the gallery walls.Opening on January 17, the exhibition is anchored by an architectural collaboration with designer Glenn DeRoche. The installation is more than a backdrop; it is a 1:1 scale exploration of "home" as a mobile concept. Visitors enter through a threshold of vibrant monstera-patterned wallpaper, movi...
The Art of ‘Masquerade’
Behind an unmarked entrance in Midtown Manhattan is an opera house. Guests aren't to arrive with tickets, but with a secret password, sent just hours before, in appropriate dress: somewhere between cocktail attire and black tie, strictly in black, white or silver. Oh, and a mask. Doors open. A couture-clad crowd disperses and surrender their phones before slipping into the maze of crimson-painted backrooms that lay just beyond.Enter Masquerade, the Phantom of the Opera experience by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Directed by Diane Paulus, the production, billed as the "world's first immersive musical," serves as a sort of Phantom prequel, steeping theater-goers into the lore of its "OG" ("Opera Ghost") antihero.The evening unravels across five stories of the ex-art supply shop, and much lik...
STPI Launches Inaugural ‘The Print Show & Symposium’ at Singapore Art Week 2026
SummaryThe debut exhibition runs from January 22 to 31, 2026, as a key highlight of Singapore Art Week27 world-renowned artists including Louise Bourgeois and Do Ho Suh are featured in the showcaseA concurrent symposium titled "The Politics of Print" will gather global experts to discuss the medium's futureSTPI is set to redefine the regional art landscape during Singapore Art Week 2026 with the launch of The Print Show & Symposium, a new platform dedicated to the vitality of printmaking. Positioned as a "nodal point of connection" by Executive Director Emi Eu, the initiative moves beyond the traditional art fair model to create an intimate, dialogue-driven environment for collectors and enthusiasts.The Print Show serves as the program's visual anchor, presenting a curated selection of...
Abu Dhabi Opens Highly Anticipated Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi has finally begun welcoming visitors to its 35,000 sqm institution.Located in Saadiyat Cultural District, the globally renowned museum comes as part of a line-up of new cultural hubs opening in the area, including teamLab Phenomena as well as Zayed National Museum, which opened this month, and the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.Designed by architectural firm Mecanoo, the new building doubles up as a striking landmark with an angular silhouette and overhanging plants that mimic a natural rock formation. Inside, the museum’s impressive design continues in six permanent galleries showcasing the earth’s 13.8 billion-year history through expansive displays.The pinnacle of the museum’s offerings proves to be the famed Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen, widely know...
The Art of ‘EDIT’: Inside TIDE’s Debut Exhibition in Hong Kong
Japanese contemporary artist TIDE has officially debuted EDIT, his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, bringing his signature monochromatic world to the city for the first time. Spanning two key creative hubs - a main showcase at WKM Gallery and an exclusive takeover of BELOWGROUND - the exhibition marks a new chapter for an artist whose round-eyed cat character has become a recognizable icon of domestic life and childhood wonder.EDIT signals a shift in TIDE's practice, moving toward a more deliberate process of patience and revision. By revisiting canvases over extended periods to erase and overdraw, the artist builds a "hidden history" within each piece, adding a layer of atmospheric depth to his work.Hypebeast sat down with TIDE and William Kayne Mukai, the owner and director of WKM Gal...
