Art

The UCCA Ceramics Museum, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, is a new cultural landmark in Yixing, a city renowned for its pottery, especially purple clay pottery. Known as the "pottery city," Yixing's deep connection to ceramics makes it an ideal home for the museum, which is part of a redevelopment plan to revitalize the area while preserving its pottery heritage.Inspired by the nearby Shushan mountain, the museum’s design mimics a mountain range, with its ceramic-clad roof reflecting the legacy of the dragon kiln, a centuries-old local tradition. Openings in the structure connect it to nearby pottery factories and the canal, emphasizing its historical significance.Inside, the building features an inverted shell roof supported by wooden lattice beams, creating a dynamic and inviting ...

Johnny Depp, best known for his iconic roles as Captain Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands, is now making his mark in the art world with a major exhibition in New York called A Bunch of Stuff. This immersive showcase dives into Depp’s artistic journey through paintings, collages, and personal artifacts, all reflecting his life experiences. Held in a sprawling Chelsea venue, the exhibit takes visitors through red-curtained pathways into themed spaces like the White Box, which displays a wide array of his works, and the Black Box, where an animated film plays on loop.Depp’s creations range from hand-lettered slogans like “Question Everything” to his graffiti-style “Hedy Lamarr” series, inspired by his collaboration with Jeff Beck. Known for his fondness for painting skulls, his work also i...

Los Angeles-based artist Cleon Peterson has worked with Joyride Design and Case Studyo to release two new limited edition pendants entitled LIVE TO KILL, KILL TO LIVE. Available in Sterling silver and a 14K gold-plated option, each iteration is limited to a run of 50 and will come with a 50cm curb chain, as well as a signed certificate of authenticity. According to Peterson, the pendant “serves as a reminder that life is struggle, but we find liberation through personal responsibility.” Rather than glorify brutality, the artist examines the role violence has played within the scope of history — a “cyclical struggle”, he says, adding that he looks to “provoke reflection on the fine line between survival and destruction, and the complex reality that violence and beauty coexist in the human ...

Fondation Louis Vuitton celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a new exhibition, Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &…, running through February 24, 2025. The show is all about Pop Art, paying homage to one of the most influential art movements of the 1960s through the lens of Tom Wesselmann who is a key figure of the era.The exhibition features 150 works by Wesselmann, alongside 70 pieces from 35 artists, spanning generations and nationalities, all linked by a shared "Pop" sensibility. Artists like Derrick Adams, Ai Weiwei, KAWS, and Yayoi Kusama are included in the monumental presentation. Altogether, the show traces Pop Art's journey from its Dadaist roots to more contemporary expressions.Guest curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer emphasize that this isn’t just a retro...

otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE has announced Steve Harrison's upcoming exhibit, Last Supper.The project is a collaboration between the ceramicist and Jun Takahashi, composer Olivier Cong, tea sommelier Nana Chan and chef Margaret Xu. "Last Supper" will be presented in two parts — the exhibition and a meal — that will serve as notable cross-disciplinary commentaries on the prevailing power of sacred traditions and the transformative potential of collaborative artistry.Taking inspiration from the biblical event, the Last Supper exhibition will feature a series of 24 ash-colored irregular beakers that pays homage to the Chinese custom of utilizing bowls as the main "plate" during meals. "A bowl is the most organic, simplest form," Harrison said, with the utilitarian beaker reflecting the commun...

Opening on November 1 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Shifting Landscapes examines how current political, environmental, and social challenges influence artists’ views of the world. While traditional landscape art often depicts serene or documentary scenes, this exhibition presents a broader perspective. Drawn mostly from the Whitney’s collection, many of the 120 pieces are being shown for the first time.Featuring over 80 artists, the works span various media—including photographs, installations, films, sculptures, paintings, and digital pieces—covering topics like industrialization’s impact on nature, the role of geopolitical borders, and the reshaping of space. The exhibition is organized into thematic sections that explore the complex relationships between people and the land aro...

Brooklyn-based artist Austin Lee is known for creating surreal abstract paintings that appear as if Gumby were to roam through a hallucinatory N64 video game. He utilizes AR and VR like a drawing pad to envision these bizarre environments to comment on the continuous story of art history, as well as probe into the positive and adverse effects that have resulted through the hybridization of technology with daily life. If gazing at his work wasn't enough immersion, Lee announced that fans will now be able to traverse his uncanny worlds through a new online video game called "Sculpture Park."The digital realm was a way for Lee to showcase all his work in one place, where prickly colored spires, lounging figures and sprouting tulips appear as users journey across the chromatic landscape. "I th...

New Zealand artist Francis Upritchard has unveiled her first Scandinavian exhibition at Copenhagen's Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Any Noise Annoys an Oyster presents over 100 eccentric figures that the London-based artist created that look to challenge ideas of the past and society's visions of the future. Curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Upritchard's spindly beings are inspired by ancient art, Asian folklore, 20th century European sculpture and science fiction literature. But while they may appear to represent a different muse from a bygone era, she doesn't really see them as "personalities," Upritchard explains. “Instead, I kind of see them as costumes, almost like a coat hanger. And it’s much more for me about playing with texture and color and shape. I often think about tropes of how fi...

Art Basel's Paris edition has introduced a playful initiative called Oh La La! at its new venue, the Grand Palais. This program invites 35 exhibitors to showcase unusual and thought-provoking artworks during the fair’s first two public days. The concept centers on surprise and excitement, encouraging galleries to present rarely seen works across diverse themes like love, Surrealism and queer identity.Galerie Templon highlights Fluxus artist Ben Vautier’s work, "Je peut tout me permettre" (1971), as a humorous nod to his legacy. Galerie Layr takes a different approach, featuring Käthe Kollwitz's historical artwork in a contemporary setting. Meanwhile, Paris’ galerie anne barrault exhibits Roland Topor’s "Oh la la" (1973), a mysterious drawing by the French avant-garde artist.Oh La La! also ...

There are few cities that capture the charm and imagination like Paris. Sure, the French capital is much more grittier and unapologetic than the typical picturesque images seen across social media. But there's something about Paris that has drawn and cultivated some of the biggest artists across centuries. It comes as no surprise then, that Art Basel chose to nestle a fair in the City of Light, joining its flagships in Switzerland, Hong Kong and Miami Beach.While the Paris iteration had previously opened in 2022 under the name Paris+ by Art Basel, this year's edition is the first at the monumental Grand Palais. The inaugural Art Basel Paris will feature 194 galleries, including 51 first-time participants from across the globe, split into the Galeries, Emergence, Premise, Conversations and ...

To coincide with the upcoming Art Basel Paris, Almine Rech has unveiled a new solo exhibition of works by legendary Light and Space artist James Turrell. Path Taken will comprise of a new light work from Turrell’s Glassworks series, first started in 2004, but whose research dates as far back as the 1960s. Deceptively simple, the central work on view challenges viewers' perception of space through a translucent rectangular piece that gradually changes in hue through an LED over the course of an hour. "When people speak about light they use for description a ‘vocabulary of light’: near death experience, religious transformation, spiritual journeys…" Turrell recalled in a 2004 interview. "My work is about the thingness of light itself, feeling the light, there is no religious message! Gold ha...

Los Angeles-based artist Robert Moreland will soon release the sequel to his print series with Detroit gallery Louis Buhl & Co. Following the large-scale work Red Rectangle (2023), the forthcoming print will also incorporate a similar geometric sensibility that has led Moreland to transpose the same three-dimensional effect in his wall works to the printed surface.Blue Switchback with Curve distorts the eye through a cobalt hue that appears to give way to a cylindrical passage in the middle, thanks to calculated shapes and a spot varnish that Moreland employed to imbue a sense of depth. "By mimicking the dynamic interplay of light on his sculptural works, Moreland successfully translates the tactile experience of his physical constructions onto paper, bridging the gap between two and t...