Art

Heritage auction house Christie's will be listing Claude Monet's Nymphéas for auction. This will be the first time the painting has been presented at auction since its inception 125 years ago. Painted circa 1897-1899, the painting is renowned because it was one of the first paintings Monet created based off his water-lily pond at his Giverny home, inspiring numerous legendary works. This work is one of seven from his first Nymphéas series which feature different sizes, colors and details but still keep the desired effect on the viewer.A notable innovation of this painting is that it is the first of Monet's works to exclude the horizon line. It is closely cropped to ensure the viewer focuses on all the details on the pond's surface. Cristian Albu, the deputy chairman and head of 20th/21st c...

Robin F. Williams’ fifth solo exhibition, Good Mourning, will be on view at P.P.O.W. Gallery from September 6 through October 26, 2024. The show builds on the artist’s previous examinations of gender in advertising, pop culture, and film with radiant imagination and a masterful hand. This lean into cinema motions toward its power in defining collective memories and social norms in the off-screen world.Through creating these horror-inspired gouaches, Williams brings attention to figurative tropes of women in these films as they look for the ‘paintings’ in popular B-slashers and psychological thrillers, such as Carrie, Suspiria, Ganja & Hess, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. From gaping screams to peeking heads behind door frames, these recurrences lend themselves to the ‘fan fiction’ ap...

In an orchestra, the cadenza is that moment when the soloist steps into the spotlight, often improvising as the main melody fades into the background. This extended, spontaneous passage has inspired The SHOPHOUSE Hong Kong’s latest group exhibition, featuring original works by Han-Chiao, Alexander Skate, Astrid Styma, Wang Wenting, Alice Xinyan Wang, Wang Zibo, Suyi Xu, and Zheng Lanxiong.Titled Daylight Cadenza, the exhibition delves into the artists’ personal memories of summertime, capturing elusive scenes from the everyday mundane to portraits of strangers. The works evoke a spectrum of emotions, from curiosity to playfulness, offering viewers a journey through intimate, sometimes intense, diaristic episodes from the diverse lives of the artists."The exhibition moves through crescendos...

How do you evolve toward your future? This question encapsulates the essence of ‘GRIT & MAGIC’ by Los Angeles-based creative collective and non-profit, DREAMHAUS. Staged at SUPERVSN, the group showcased the final projects of their internship program this past weekend. The show was presented in hand with “The Road To Lost Emotions," DREAMHAUS’ 360° mobile excursion.Founded by Nikkolas Mohhamed and Mike Reesé in South Central, DREAMHAUS looks to fine art to inspire and support local young creatives. ‘GRIT & MAGIC’ welcomed the city to the minds of four burgeoning artists—Kaya Balugo, Tina Rudasingwa, Youree Choi, and Dylan Uema—following the completion of their summer internship season. The program served as a compass for participants to navigate their place in the creative economy, ...

Back in May, Lauren Halsey relayed a major announcement that she will open a sculpture park in her hometown of South Central Los Angeles in California. It will be a temporary installation that mimics the aesthetics of her monumental rooftop presentation which she unveiled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City last year. Halsey continues to maneuver the contemporary art sector with a new multifaceted presentation entitled emajendat to be held Serpentine in London -- signaling the artist's first institutional exhibition in the United Kingdom. Transforming the gallery’s space into an “immersive funk garden,” Halsey’s site-specific installation will reflect the institution’s surrounding Kensington Gardens with the artist injecting her distinctive visual vocabulary across works th...

Superheroes from the Marvel and DC Comics universe may dominate the showtimes of most cinemas today, but it wasn't too long ago that these stories were only found in the tiny comic strips found in niche corner stores. Thames & Hudson has published a new book chronicling the vast history of comic art from 1964 to 2024, bridging a dialogue between the unique graphic stories that manifested across Europe, Asia and the U.S. The book catalogs a new exhibition held at Paris' Centre Pompidou, which showcases how comics played a counter-cultural role from the '60s till the present day. Packed over 288 pages, the six decade survey covers early titles, such as Jean-Claude Forest’s Barbarella in France, the avant-garde '60s Japanese manga Garo to Robert Crumb’s Zap Comix and the Peanuts gang. Ran...

Wutopia Lab’s 'Flickering Peak' is a playful convergence of light and space. The architectural project was completed in Coffee Village, Hainan, reimagining the Sun River Art Center into ‘three mountains and a sea’, a loose translation from a classical Taoist story. The central and auxiliary buildings of the art center, cloaked in a white semi-transparent facade, create three peaks in the distance. Situated at the heart of the island, an artificial sea cradles the entrance of the art center to satiate the desire for an ocean view.The project is a marriage of history and modern architecture, serving as a rich site for cultural significance. Coffee Village was once home to a plantation established by overseas Chinese workers returning from Indonesia. The land’s history of struggle and exile t...

American artist JJ Manford is showcasing a new solo exhibition of paintings at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. Based in Brooklyn, Manford is known for creating vibrant interior spaces using oil stick on canvas that radiate with a textured dreamlike effect depicting his interests across travel, architecture, midcentury furniture and art history. In Fifth Season, Manford presents 13 new paintings riddled with references to the many art and design heroes that inspire his practice. From graphic compositions by Keith Haring, Poul Henningsen's PH5 hanging lamp to sculptures by Asger Jorn and Alexander Calder, each composition offers juxtapositions between a range of objects, spaces and ideas. While his paintings might appear informed by real life settings or photographs, Manford intuitively builds eac...

Shinsegae Gallery will host ‘The Flower Cutter Rests on Dust Covered Steps’, a solo exhibition by Sterling Ruby, from September 5 to November 30 at Shinsegae Gallery Cheongdam in Seoul, South Korea. Ruby, a leading contemporary American artist, showcases new works that span various mediums, each rooted in material, process, and history.The exhibition unfolds across several rooms, each dedicated to distinct projects—from sensual ceramics and symbolic collages to austere aluminum sculptures and explosive paintings. The title evokes a gardener's role in nurturing growth, decay, and renewal, with the artworks revealing a sense of melancholy and the fragility of nature and civilizations.Key pieces include Basin Theology/Dracula Boat, a ceramic symbolizing the transition between life and the und...

Photographer Adam Jason Cohen has worked with everyone from Nike to the NBA and Arc'Teryx to adidas — he even recently shot some of Knoll's Bauhaus icons at the famed Venice Beach Skatepark. His latest project, however is a deeply personal one: a zine full of photos Cohen took of Virgil Abloh in 2019, shortly after the opening of Abloh's "Figures of Speech" exhibit at MCA Chicago. Dubbed Chicago, 2019, the zine provides a peek behind the curtain during a pivotal point in Abloh's career, and also serves as a tribute to the city the late creative force loved so much."I had been sitting on a small body of work from that time, so I pared it down to a studio visit and portraits," Cohen mentioned. "So I reworked [the images] and pared [them] down to a studio visit and selection of portraits." Ph...

Keiichi Tanaami, the acclaimed Japanese pop artist whose maximalist compositions conflated high and low, East and West, died on August 9 due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage. He was 88. Working across painting, animation, sculpture and installation, Tanaami is regarded as one of the most influential Japanese artists following the postwar period. His erotic, surreal and sometimes disorienting artworks conflated Western pop cultural references, such as American warplanes, Coca-Cola bottles and the mass produced pastiche of pop art, with traditional Japanese art forms and motifs, from kimonos and supernatural creatures to ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Andy Warhol and Tanaami had great respect for one another. After a visit to New York in 1967, the Japanese artist recalled: "Like Warhol, I decided not...

British rapper Little Simz has been tapped as the next guest curator of the Tate Modern Lates series of after-hour events. Launched in 2016, Tate Lates features a mix of panel discussions, music, workshops and performances — previously enlisting collective BBZ London and Canadian artist Megan Rooney for curatorial duties, as well as showcasing DJ sets by Floating Points and Nabihah Iqbal, amongst others. “Since launching in 2016, Tate Modern Lates have become a cornerstone of London’s artistic nightlife,” Jessye Bloomfield, the series's creative producer, told Artnet. “Little Simz is bringing an incredible line-up that celebrates London’s creative talent and the artists and collectives who inspire her.”It'll be a night to remember as Simz will take over the institution from 6pm to 10pm, st...