Art

The RMS Titanic sunk over 112 years ago, but the tragic legacy left by the ocean liner continues to capture imaginations a century later. As popularized through James Cameron's 1997 film, there was a wealth of art on board the ship, many of which have either been lost completely or continue to lay dormant, submerged 12,500 feet on the seafloor. Researchers recently uncovered a two-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Diana of Versailles that once stood on top of a fireplace mantle in a first class lounge.The discovery was recorded by RMS Titanic Inc, a Georgia-based company that owns the legal rights to inspect the ship's wreckage, who recently spent 20 days taking millions of high resolution scans of the site to track “historically significant and at-risk artifacts [that] can be identified for s...

Following the announcement and inaugural exhibition of the Asia Culture Center (ACC) Future Prize recipient, the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism presents a new solo exhibition by Ayoung Kim. Delivery Dancer’s Arc: Inverse broadens Kim’s foray into science fiction, futurism, and archaeology in a multi-channel video and sculptural project.For this large-scale installation, Kim constructs a calendar marker, ticking with mathematical movements, to establish a new rhythm of time. At the center of the exhibition hall sits a three-sided screen that invites onlookers into a virtual world of LED and rubble. Made with generative AI, the artist keenly conjures futurity in both form and focus.The show will expand on the Delivery Dancer’s prequels, as the protagonists find themselves in a clas...

Uzbekistan typically isn't the first destination on art radars, but the Central Asian country will soon play host to its own biennial in 2025, drawing in a number of local and world-renowned artists, including Sir Antony Gormley and Himali Singh Soin to Aziza Azim and Behzod Boltaev.Los Angeles-based curator Diana Campbell will organize the inaugural edition of the Bukhara Biennial, who brings over a decade of experience — having helmed the role of artistic director of the Dhaka Art Summit since 2013, as well as working on exhibitions across Europe, Asia and the Americas. “For centuries, religious and cultural traditions from all corners of the world have commingled in Bukhara, resulting in a rich atmosphere of learning, craft and artistic production,” Campbell said in a statement. “It has...

At the heart of the Hakgojae Gallery stands a trunk-less white elephant, frozen in motion. A nod to Joseon’s white elephant and the Buddhist parable of blind men, the animal has become a powerful symbol for social inclusion. Against the typical art gallery taboo, audiences are invited to touch the sculpture.  To understand the elephant’s unusual form, artist Oum Jeongsoon embraces tactile experience as a new line of sight.I Thought I Lost It! brings together the work of three artists who remind us of the social role of art. Exploring collective resilience, this group exhibition looks at the loss of communal spirit amidst East Asia’s rapid urbanization.Hailing from China, Japan, and Korea, each artist mediates how art comprehends and catalyzes social change. Ding Yi, a pioneer in experiment...

Much of the world's shopping, banking, entertainment and social interactions occur online. Yet, the mechanisms that underpin these tools remain largely unknown to many, argues Copenhagen's Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The institution's latest group show, Poetics of Encryption, explores the dark underbelly of society's digital dependency and how these ominous forces are able to shape collective moods and cultural narratives. Curated by Nadim Samma, author of Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene., the exhibition presents multi-media works from 38 international artists, including Trevor Paglen, Carsten Nicolai, Émilie Brout and Maxime Marion. Like Samma's introspective survey, the art on view probes into encryption as a technical process and a metaphor for the Technocene, in which inform...

Back in March, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) presented the first playable basketball court to ever be installed in an arts institution made in collaboration with adidas Basketball. CAMH continues its intuitive public programming with a monumental showcase featuring thought-provoking works by seminal artist Theaster Gates. Entitled ‘Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege,’ the presentation navigates complex, socio-political dynamics through large-scale paintings, multimedia installations, and sculptures. Gates continues to probe the Black experience and everyday lives of marginalized communities through large-scale works that touch on widely overlooked issues such as displacement, gentrification and racism in both the social and domestic contexts. One work entitled “WE WILL S...

Nearly 200 years since its creation, Katsushika Hokusai's Kanagawa-oki nami-ura (Under the Wave off Kanagawa) is arguably the most recognizable Japanese artwork in the island nation's history. Commonly referred to as The Great Wave, Hokusai's woodblock print depicts the towering might of the seas as Mount Fuji stands as a tiny sliver in the distance. Experts believe that roughly 5,000 to 8,000 of the original woodblock prints exist today, but a much smaller batch that is in pristine condition. This fall, Bonhams and Christie's will soon auction two original prints from the latter group of Great Wave prints. “An example in good condition with no in-painting, with a good look, and is fresh to the market can typically sell for between $500,000 and $1.5m USD,” said Jeff Olson, Bonhams' directo...

Jamaica-born, New York-based artist, Paul Anthony Smith, will uncover his solo exhibition, Antillean, at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. The show continues Smith’s exploration of unease and obscurity within issues of diasporic identity. In a departure from still images, these paintings disrupt the crystal clarity of photographic information to invoke new ways of seeing.The exhibition began as a series of photographs Smith captured during Carnival season in Trinidad and Tobago. The images, first printed on canvas or linen, underwent a series of picotage and spray paint treatments, as Smith complicates the simple translation of sharp photographs into literal meaning.Standout works, such as “Caricom 2”, conjure patterns of Caribbean breeze blocks and window grates to underscore the experie...

A garage holds what time forgot, but the art market might not. Resurfacing fifty years after their original purchase, a collection of 10 lithographs by Salvador Dalí will go to the block after their rediscovery in a London garage. Alongside five lithographs by Théo Tobiasse, the French painter and engraver, the pieces are expected to bring in several thousand dollars at the Hansons Richmond auction on September 30.Chris Kirkham came across these works following an invitation to the consignor’s property located in Berkeley Square, an area known for its historic charm. The consignor purchased the lithographs for £500 EUR (approximately £2,400 or $3,100 EUR today) from a London gallery before it went under in the late 1970s. Today, this collection is set to fetch ten times their original inve...