Art
Felipe Pantone and Etai Bring Their ‘Parallel Practices’ to Albertz Benda This Summer
SummaryAlbertz Benda Los Angeles hosts a joint exhibition by Felipe Pantone and Etai from July 17 to August 8, 2026Mid-century furniture is digitally remapped and upholstered with custom Limonta fabricsAlbertz Benda is set to present Parallel Practices: Tailored Structures & Kinetic Surfaces, a landmark exhibition marking the very first collaboration between Felipe Pantone and rising fashion-design voice Etai. The presentation will be hosted within the distinct domestic architecture of the gallery's Los Angeles location, which is housed in a mid-century modern home. Rather than treating the pieces as standalone objects, the exhibition arranges Pantone’s wall-based artworks and their collaborative furniture pieces into an interconnected artistic system that explores questions of utility...
Matt McCormick and Mike Tyson’s “Judgment Day” Turns the Most Defining Night in Boxing Into a Blind-Pack Fine Art Drop
SummaryVisual artist Matt McCormick and Mike Tyson have announced “Judgment Day,” a limited-edition blind-pack fine art print collection under McCormick's “Past The Line” project, centered on November 22, 1986 — the night 20-year-old Tyson became the youngest world heavyweight champion in historyThe collection is available in two editions: the Gold Pack, hand-signed by both McCormick and Tyson, and the Silver Pack, hand-signed by McCormick alone, both blind-packed with numbered variants so the edition size printed on each piece tells you exactly how many of that variant existMcCormick's work does not depict the fight itself but the pause immediately after; the instant before the outcome was called, when the reverberations of what just happened had not yet settledMatt McCormick and Mike Tys...
Inside Museo Jumex’s Soccer-Inspired Art Shows
SummaryMuseo Jumex in Mexico City is currently staging Football & Art: A Shared Emotion through July 26, spotlighting art's fascination with football across generations and mediumsObjects of Glory, a sprawling showcase of iconic sports memorabilia opening June 10, spans the game from its origins to todayFootball fever is on the up, and Mexico City's Museo Jumex is joining the kickoff with two new exhibitions geared towards contemporary art and design's longstanding love for sports.First up is Football & Art: A Shared Emotion, now running through July 26. One of the many soccer-inspired shows cropping up around Mexico City, the exhibition, presented as part of the Host City Mexico City Cultural Corridor, maps the Beautiful Game across generations and mediums — painting, sculpture, i...
Arghavan Khosravi Brings Diasporic Narratives to ‘What Remains’
SummaryUffner & Liu presents Arghavan Khosravi's What Remains in New York through July 2, 2026The exhibition features multi-paneled sculptural canvases and her new Altar SeriesWorks blend Persian miniature traditions with surrealist, mixed‑media compositionsUffner & Liu in New York is presenting What Remains, a solo exhibition by Iranian artist Arghavan Khosravi. Marking her third solo showcase with the gallery, the exhibition unveils a compelling evolution in Khosravi’s dynamic studio practice.The showcase brings together three large-scale wall works, a freestanding sculpture and a suite of intimate, small-scale multi-media compositions. Each piece operates as an intricate, multi-dimensional system—featuring hinged panels, divided surfaces, and elements that shift between compartm...
Lorna Simpson Comes Full Circle in Venice with ‘Third Person’
SummaryAmerican artist Lorna Simpson has unveiled a new solo exhibition in Venice, titled Third PersonStaged at Punta della Dogana, the exhibition features over 50 cross-medium artworks in a sweeping review of Simpson's practice from the last decadeThe show is now on view through November 22Buzz around Lorna Simpson’s new solo, Third Person, is sweeping Venice. Following a blockbuster Met exhibition last spring, the multi-disciplinary pioneer heads to Punta della Dogana, the Venetian art museum designed by Tadao Ando, for her most significant European show yet.Featuring over 50 artworks – paintings, collages, sculptures, installation and film – the exhibition matches the painterly focus on Source Notes, the first museum show to delve into Simpson’s canvases. She’s also debuting new works f...
How Arno Rafael Minkkinen and Iittala Are Creating a Conversation with the Past
On the 90th anniversary of the archetypal Aalto vase, Iittala invites a collective of contemporary artists to reinterpret the icon through their craft. Turning the object into a source of inspiration, The Spirit of Aalto aims to bring its design to new audiences in art and design while celebrating its longstanding legacy. From its inception, when Alvar Aalto presented the vase at a design competition, to the various limited-edition releases with master artisans, collaboration lands at the core of the Aalto vase’s history. By welcoming artists, photographers and illustrators, the new creative series continues to echo the same principle that design lives on through the people who interact with it. Among those putting their perspective on the Aalto vase is acclaimed Finnish photographer Arno...
A Major Nan Goldin Show Is Coming to London
SummaryHayward Gallery at London's Southbank Centre has announced You Never Did Anything Wrong, Nan Goldin's first major UK show in over 20 yearsThe showcase examines the artist and activists's extensive autobiographical oeuvre and will be on view from November 24, 2026 through March 7, 2027Nan Goldin is London bound. For the first time in over 20 years, the acclaimed American artist and activist gets the spotlight at a major UK institution with You Never Did Anything Wrong, opening at Hayward Gallery this November.Goldin, the chronicler of 1980’s New York, is known for capturing vulnerable moments of love and loss. Over the last 50 years, she’s become a force in contemporary photography, pulling the medium into the center of contemporary art discourse, with honest, tender captures that cl...
DREAMHAUS and Vox Collegiate Turn a Classroom Into an Immersive Wellness Space
Summary DREAMHAUS transformed a classroom at South LA’s Vox Collegiate middle school into "Vox Peak," an immersive spatial wellness sanctuary for students and staff. The project serves as a blueprint for creative design in education and officially opens during a community Wellness Fair on Saturday, May 30.LA-based art collective and creative agency DREAMHAUS is teaming up with Vox Collegiate, a charter middle school in South LA, to launch "Vox Peak." This is a dedicated, immersive wellness space built right inside a classroom. Designed for students, staff and the local community, the space is focused on reflection, emotional awareness and restorative care.DREAMHAUS has been partnering with Vox Collegiate since the school opened back in 2017. Last year, the school tapped the agency to help ...
‘The Japanese Tattoo’ Celebrates the Craftsmen Preserving a Misunderstood Art Form
SummaryManami Okazaki’s The Japanese Tattoo explores Japan’s tattoo cultureThe book offers rare access to horishi masters and multigenerational tattoo families with an extensive documentation of archival images and new photographyRetailing at $50 USD via Penguin Random HouseTokyo‑based journalist and author Manami Okazaki has released The Japanese Tattoo, a comprehensive study of Japan’s tattoo culture that bridges tradition and modernity.It provides an illuminating study of a craft that, while globally recognized, remains widely misunderstood. Okazaki artfully navigates the apparent contradiction defining the contemporary tattoo scene in Japan: the friction between the deeply private, hidden world of traditional horishi (master tattoo artists) and the highly visible, modern landscape of s...
In Pol Taburet’s New Show, Paranoia Is the Point
SummaryFrench artist Pol Taburet presents Paranoia as Method, his new solo exhibition at Villa Medici in RomeOn through July 15, the exhibition wraps the villa in sculptures, paintings and charcoal drawings, all completed during his spring residency at the institutionFor all their uncanny, Pol Taburet’s aren't inspired by dreams, he says. His figures, drifting between human and animal, evoke transformation, mortality and the uneasy space between life and death, each crescendoing with spiritual tension as it nears completion.Fresh off a spring stint at curator Pier Paolo Pancotto’s Art Club residency at Villa Medici in Rome, the French artist has unveiled a new suite of works in a solo show, Paranoia as Method. Now on view through July 15, the exhibition envelops the villa’s gardens, loggia...
Unauthorized Larry Gagosian Documentary Goes Inside His Art Empire
SummaryCameras roll on Shadow Man: Inside The Secret World of Larry Gagosian, an unauthorized documentary on the New York mega-dealerDirected Barry Avrich, little is known about the project so far save from interviews with former employees and artistsGagosian's team was allegedly unaware of the project when Page Six broke the newsLarry Gagosian, the New York titan art dealer, is the unbeknownst star of an upcoming documentary by director Barry Avrich.From what we know about Shadow Man: Inside The Secret World of Larry Gagosian so far, “former employees and artists are lining up to tell their juicy Larry stories and scoop on the inner workings of the Gagosian empire,” wrote Page Six, who first broke the story after rumors about the film made their rounds. The project was later confirmed by ...
“James Turrell: Lifting the Veil” at Gagosian Hong Kong Brings Five Decades of Light Art to One of the World’s Most Luminous Cities
SummaryGagosian Hong Kong opens “James Turrell: Lifting the Veil” on May 28, a survey exhibition spanning holograms, prints, three new Glasswork pieces, and documentation of the artist's Skyspaces and Roden Crater projectThe exhibition marks a rare opportunity to encounter Turrell's practice in Asia, where his philosophical alignment with traditions of emptiness, atmosphere, and perceptual threshold carries particular cultural resonanceLifting the Veil runs through August 1 at the Pedder Building in CentralJames Turrell has spent more than five decades treating light not as a tool but as the thing itself, and on May 28, Gagosian Hong Kong opens “Lifting the Veil,” a survey exhibition that brings together holograms, prints, three Glasswork pieces, and documentary material from the artist's ...
