Art

Naples, once the home of lavish Roman villas and the city of Pompeii, has since given the world the joys of pizza, one of football's most passionate fanbases, and not to mention, a haven for pickpocketing. The Southern Italian city will also soon host one “the biggest cultural infrastructure in Europe," per a report by The Art Newspaper. The city's Albergo dei Poveri, Europe's second largest public building, is currently undergoing renovations to house the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN). The former hospital was originally ordered to be built in 1751 by Carlo III, the Bourbon King of Naples and Sicily, who looked to shelter roughly 8,000 men, women, children and senior citizens. The panopticon concept never played out as planned, as the various families and groups inside di...

DRIFT is presenting Living Landscape, featuring two interactive artworks, at LUMA Arles. To celebrate the exhibition's opening, the artist duo performed a drone show, Electric Sky, above the museum's Frank Gehry-designed tower. The drones mimicked movements from Van Gogh’s paintings, using a swarming algorithm against the night sky. This performance complements the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles exhibition, Van Gogh and the Stars, marking the return of "Starry Night" to Arles after 136 years.Living Landscape includes two installations, Murmuring Minds and Coded Nature, which explore swarming behavior to showcase the visible and invisible aspects of nature. Ralph Nauta, co-founder of DRIFT, explains that their work examines patterns, social structures, and human reactions to these forms.D...

A new art exhibition entitled After Human, by Alice Zucca, at the Steinhauser Gallery in Slovakia is challenging visitors to think deeply about the future of humanity and technology. The show dives into post-humanism, exploring how technology seamlessly integrates into our lives and reshapes our identity. It asks profound questions about existence, ethics, and the blurring lines between human and machine.Featuring works by Andreas Senoner (Italy), Chino Moya (Spain), Dan Maczynski (Poland), Genevieve Capitanio (Switzerland), and Rony Plesl (Czech Republic), the exhibition takes inspiration from past intellectual movements, moving beyond the human-centered thinking of the Renaissance to embrace a future where technology and biology intertwine. Through advances in AI, genetic engineering, an...

MIMA in Brussels is hosting a solo exhibition by Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, known as Vhils. Renowned for his unique technique of removing surface layers from walls and other media, Vhils creates art that reflects on identity, the interplay between people and their environment, and contemporary urban life. Since 2005, he has exhibited his work in over 30 countries.Titled Multitude: Carving Memories in the Digital Age, the exhibition explores our relationship with cities, featuring wall carvings, billboards, cityscapes, videos, and installations spread across MIMA's ground, first, and second floors. This collection offers insights into Vhils' approach to urban life and human identity.In conjunction with the exhibition, Vhils has created a new permanent public wall in central Brussels...

The Armory Show, now part of the Frieze network, has revealed its exhibitors for the 30th anniversary edition, with American Express as the lead partner. This year’s event will feature over 235 galleries from more than 30 countries, hosted at the Javits Center from September 6-8, with a VIP Preview Day on September 5.The show will welcome back over 145 exhibitors from the previous edition, including notable names such as 303 Gallery (New York), Galeria Raquel Arnaud (Sao Paulo), and Victoria Miro (London, Venice). Additionally, more than 25 galleries are returning after a hiatus, including Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York, Aspen) and Jeffrey Deitch (New York, Los Angeles).Newcomers to the show include Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago), Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles, Mexico City), and ...

Nxworries has enlisted Rhymezlikedimez to curate a handful of captivating visuals for Why Lawd?'s release, including a special iteration of the album's vinyl cover art, "86Sentra" visual and now, another limited-edition print. Dropping exclusively at the album's upcoming ‘X Records’ pop-up at Gold Line, Rhymez has translated the artwork from the special-edition Stones Throw vinyl cover into a vibrant holographic print.Printed on 220gsm holographic paper, the print is an expanded version of the vinyl – perfect for those looking to cop the collectible art but don't have a record player. Anderson .Paak dons his signature sunglasses and stands with a bra in hand, while Knxwledge posts up in the background engrossed in his phone. Why Lawd? is written in the clouds of smoke above the two musicia...

Ah, simulation theory, the idea that we’re living in a supercomputer controlled by a higher intelligence. It’s the kind of jargon you’d likely hear at the afters, cornered into a conversation with a stranger that you can’t seem to get out of or with that one uncle at a family gathering that your parents told you to be wary of. While shrugged off by religious and non-religious folk alike, simulation theory is also equally as un-dismissable as any creation story out there — adding to its intrigue.“I believe it,” laughs Gao Hang, the Chinese-born, Houston-based artist known for creating graphically-charged compositions that look like cropped-in Nintendo 64 graphics merged with a hard-edge abstract painting from the likes of John McLaughlin or the late Frank Stella. “It’s the other us,” Hang t...

The National Art Center, Tokyo, is hosting the first major retrospective of Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami. This exhibition, titled "Adventures in Memory," explores Tanaami's extensive and varied body of work, showcasing his impact on modern art and featuring his newest creations.For over 60 years, Tanaami has produced a wide range of art, including paintings, collages, sculptures, animations, videos, and installations. The exhibition delves into the theme of "memory," presenting new paintings, sculptures, and animations, as well as important graphic designs from the late 1960s and early 1970s, colorful wooden sculptures from the 1980s, and some of his early pop art pieces recently discovered in his studio.Tanaami began his career as a designer at Musashino Art University and became the f...

A selection of Keith Haring's Subway Drawings will soon be on view at The Modern Institute in Glasgow. The forthcoming exhibition will highlight the American artist's impact on art over the past 40 years, paying special emphasis on Haring's explorations into language and semiotics. Haring created hundreds of subway artworks with white chalk between 1980 and 1985, scribbling his now iconic visual lexicon that commented on gender, sexuality and the flux of urban life — which in New York at the time, had just began recovering from a destructive fiscal crisis several years prior. "I remember noticing a panel in the Times Square station and immediately going aboveground and buying chalk," Haring recalled. "After the first drawing things just fell into place. I began drawing on the subways as a ...

Los Angeles-based artist Steven Harrington will release four limited edition art toys of his alter ego, Mello the dog. The collectible coincides with his first ever museum solo exhibition, Stay Mello, which is currently on view at Seoul's Amorepacific Museum of Art. As the most comprehensive survey on Harrington's work to date, the show traces his early beginnings as a graduate of Art Center College of Design and his many collaborations in the streetwear world to his imprint in fine art. "A lot of artists are never given the chance to see their work in a museum like this within their lifetime," Harrington previously told Hypeart. "So it’s a tremendous honor. Overall, working with the team was a really big learning experience in not only how to look at the work, but how to organize it and l...

Londoners will be able to immerse themselves in one of Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Rooms through a new solo exhibition at Victoria Miro this September. The forthcoming show, the Japanese artist's 14th with the gallery, will also include a series of new paintings entitled Every Day I Pray For Love, an exploration into line, color and form.Locals don't have to wait to the autumn to get a first glimpse at Kusama's latest work, as she'll install her first ever UK public installation at Liverpool Street Station. Entitled Infinite Accumulation, the work showcases Kusama's affinity for polka dots as the art winds and expands "into linked forms that interact with and define public spaces outside the station," according to a statement. The installation is "designed in response to the architecture of th...