Art
Awake NY Opens ‘Silent Echoes’ by Leyla Fischer
Awake NY is kicking off its Fall/Winter 2025 season with Silent Echoes, a new installation by artist Leyla Fischer. The show opens October 18, from 6 to 8PM ET, at Awake’s Orchard Street flagship, which will transform into a small, meditative gallery space for the occasion.At the heart of Silent Echoes are Fischer's signature dog figures, painted in thick layers of oil that imbue instinct and reflection. The canvases, titled "Guardians of Valor," "Hidden Identity," "Masters of Angels," "Downfall," "Yer Blues" and "She Loves You" will be displayed as well each carrying a quiet tension. Fischer’s work has long explored questions of faith, identity, and emotion, but rarely through direct storytelling. Instead, her paintings feel like moments of pause, balancing between strength and vulnerabil...
New Print Sale Rallies Art World for Palestine
SummaryPerformance artist Millie Brown and White Label Editions launch a collection of signed limited-edition prints to support The Zaynab ProjectThe sale runs until October 24, with each print is priced at £250 GBPWhite Label Editions has joined forces with British artist Millie Brown to unite artists in an act of solidarity, launching a series of signed, limited-edition prints to raise funds for The Zaynab Project, a nonprofit providing emergency aid, medical support and education for children in Gaza.From Turner Prize winner Martin Creed and East Village legend Kenny Scharf to Patrick Martinez, Tali Lennox and Miles Greenberg, figures shaping contemporary art's new vanguard, the initiative collects an international roster of 18 names. Each print is priced at £250 GBP and is available on...
JOOPITER Launches First Standalone Tattoo Auction “Inked: Tattoos by Contemporary Artists”
SummaryJOOPITER launched its first standalone tattoo auction, "Inked: Tattoos by Contemporary Artists"Sixteen renowned artists created limited-edition designs intended to be permanently worn on the bodyThe auction, featuring a historic design by the late Lawrence Weiner, runs from October 22 to 31JOOPITER is launching its first-ever standalone tattoo auction, Inked: Tattoos by Contemporary Artists, a commission-based project that explores the body as the ultimate site for art collection. Curated by Sharon Coplan, the auction brings together sixteen globally renowned figures from the worlds of contemporary art, fashion, and design.Each participating artist, including Derrick Adams, Thom Browne, Jeffrey Gibson, Marilyn Minter, Peter Marino, Mickalene Thomas, and the late Lawrence Weiner, cre...
Elmgreen & Dragset Go Prada Mode
As the art world rolls into London for Frieze week, Prada joins in on the cultural conversation. For the thirteenth iteration of Prada Mode, the Milanese fashion house reunites with Elmgreen & Dragset, the acclaimed duo behind the cult Prada Marfa, for a new immersive installation, titled “The Audience”.Within a makeshift cinema inside the newly restored Town Hall in King's Cross, a hazy film loops on-screen. Peppered throughout the seats are five hyperrealistic sculptures of moviegoers, posed in expressions of fascination, frustration and distraction, while another sculpture, lounging in the mezzanine, wears an apathetic gaze with her phone in-hand.By redirecting the attention of visitors away from the screen and toward the immediate environment, the piece reconsiders what it means to...
Harmony Korine, Zaha Hadid & More Cultural Icons Spotlighted in ‘THE DEEP STATE’
Cultural Counsel is releasing a new book titled THE DEEP STATE: ART, CULTURE & FLORIDA, a lengthy dive into the strange beauty and contradictions that define the Sunshine State. The book traces Florida’s creative evolution from its earliest days to the present, uncovering forgotten stories, overlooked voices and the mix of icons and outsiders who helped shape its unique cultural landscape.Set to launch this December during Art Basel Miami Beach, THE DEEP STATE features work by Harmony Korine, who designed the cover alongside Zaha Hadid, John Singer Sargent and Bunny Yeager. Through essays, photographs and conversations with cultural figures, it explores how Florida became both a haven and a hallucination for creative minds.The book is packed with interesting stories that blur the line ...
Nan Goldin Embraces Her Cinematic Side in ‘This Will Not End Well’
SummaryAcclaimed American photographer Nan Goldin opens This Will Not End Well, her first major European retrospective, at Pirelli HangarBicocca in MilanThe exhibition features the largest corpus of slideshows presented together, alongside two recent works and the artist's first sound installation“I have always wanted to be a filmmaker,” says photographer Nan Goldin. “My slideshows are films made up of stills.” It's this cinematic sensibility that underpins This Will Not End Well, the first major European retrospective dedicated to Goldin, the filmmaker, now on view at Milan's Pirelli HangarBicocca. Originally presented at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, the exhibition traces the evolution of one of contemporary photography's most influential voices, in an intimate, immersive journey throug...
illy Announces its Latest ‘illy Art Collection’ with Swiss Artist John Armleder
As Frieze kicked off in London today, illy – the heritage Italian coffee house known for merging art and espresso culture – unveiled Swiss artist John Armleder as the latest collaborator its longstanding series: the illy Art Collection.illy – with its iconic minimalist red sans-serif logo – isn’t just synonymous with premium Italian coffee, it’s also deeply tied to the art world. Since 1992, the brand has invited artists from around the world to reimagine the classic white espresso cup, collaborations that have transformed thousands of tiny porcelain canvases into a vibrant and evolving collection of art.Titled Tastes, the brand's latest collaboration saw it enlist the help of multidisciplinary Swiss artist John Armleder – whose work spans painting, sculpture, performance and more, and has...
7 Must-See Exhibitions During Frieze London
Frieze week has taken over London, pulling artists, collectors and casual art wanderers into a citywide orbit of openings, parties and late-night conversations. Beyond the fair tents in Regent’s Park, the programming spills across town as Rick Owens and Michele Lamy explore the poetry of decay in Rust Never Sleeps at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, while São Paulo’s Sonia Gomes brings warmth and memory to Pace with É preciso não ter medo de criar.At White Cube, Cai Guo-Qiang ignites Gunpowder and Abstraction and Peter Doig transforms the Serpentine into a space of sound and stillness complete with custom towering speakers in House of Music. These are some of our favorite shows to check out in London this Frieze week.Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s ‘Rust Never Sleeps’Carpenters Workshop Gallery ...
Nina Chanel Gets Her First Definitive Artist Monograph
Whether it’s a public mural or a painting displayed in a white cube, Nina Chanel’s bold and frenetic compositions are instantly recognizable. Chanel, known for her vibrant paintings that depict varying subjects across race, celebrity, religion, politics and popular culture, has been honored with her first artist monolograph courtesy of Phaidon and published by Monacelli.The monograph details a sprawling collection of over 300 works that sheds light on the context and inspirations behind 300 works including large-scale paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, murals and brand collaborations such as Jordan Brand, Tiffany & Co, Mattel and more. Insight the book are texts by a coterie of influential art world figures including Richard J. Powell who is a seminal authority on Af...
Inside ‘Q3,’ ProblemChild Advisory’s Corporate Fever Dream
SummaryConceptual curatorial project ProblemChild Advisory opens Q3, a new group exhibition, at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New YorkFeaturing work by 10 underground names, the show captures the cost of life under perpetual accelerationAs the third fiscal quarter comes to a close, ProblemChild Advisory wants us to stop and take stock of the emotional fallout left by endless cycles of production and consumption.Staged at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York, the Q3 group show captures the unease of this transitional moment — how it ripples and refracts into other facets of everylife life. Described by the gallery as a “surreal cocktail of brawls, shots, shadows, pixies, pixels, girls, gremlins, yogis, business deals, actors, horses, hooligans and a puppy,” the showcase brings forth a compelling body...
AllRightsReserved and KAWS Debut Exclusive Sesame Street Figure Collection
SummaryKAWS and AllRightsReserved are collaborating with Sesame Street on a new vinyl figure collectionThe five characters are reimagined with KAWS’s signature X-eyes aestheticGlobal pre-order begins October 16 on the DDT StoreKAWS and AllRightsReserved are teaming up with Sesame Street for an exclusive figure collection. This launch, following their initial partnership in 2018, serves as an extension of the artist's iconic visual universe.The collection brings together five beloved Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie and Oscar the Grouch. Each figure has been meticulously reimagined in KAWS's signature aesthetic with the X-eyes, and their poses taking inspiration from past KAWS figures. The toys, which are made of vinyl, will be available for purchase individually or as ...
Devin B. Johnson Gains New Momentum in ‘Crossing’
SummaryDevin B. Johnson has opened Crossing, his new solo exhibition, at Nicodim Gallery in New YorkThe showcase features a new suite of figurative and abastract paintings that elevates recurring themes, like memory, momentum and community identity into new formsNicodim in New York has lifted the veil on Crossing, Devin B. Johnson's second solo outing with the gallery. Described as "his most focused body of work to-date," Johnson's latest suite of paintings traces the fault lines between recurrent themes — entropy, legacy, memory, the collapse of form — into new expressions, drawing a map of where he's been and all that's yet to come.When approaching a canvas, Johnson first lays down figurative anchors drawn from found photographs, keepsakes and other discarded objects of affection, then c...
