SummaryArc ZERO: Eclipse by Studio JT brings a glowing ring of mist and light to SeoulThe installation uses water and light, not screens, for a real-time atmospheric effectBuilt with The Ton, it follows a CODA Award-winning version in TaiwanA monumental new public artwork has landed in Seoul, turning heads and shifting the skyline with an ethereal presence. Titled Arc ZERO: Eclipse, the large-scale oculus installation by designer James Tapscott and his team at Studio JT forms a ring of mist and light suspended in space.The structure, fabricated with a bespoke diamond-profile ring, disperses water vapor in a precise, controlled flow. As the mist rises, it catches the shifting light of Seoul’s day and night, creating a glowing halo that subtly evolves with the atmosphere. Designed to minimiz...
This fall, acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei will plant a major outdoor installation at New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, kicking off the park's Art X Freedom program which commissions artists to create public, site-specific works circling visions of social justice.Titled Camouflage, the installation will transform the park's 3.5-acre landscape. An open-air structure clad in camouflage netting will rise at the park's southernmost tip, cloaking over the bust of Roosevelt and his engraved Four Freedoms. The granite embankments flanking the park will also be covered, creating a shifting play of light and water, with views across to the United Nations headquarters.Drawing on the park's Louis Kahn-helmed design, history and symbolic link to the UN, the piece inte...
EDGLRD is back on its otherworldly wave. Helmed by Harmony Korine, the skate and design collective has just unveiled its “Flexrx” board series, offering a fresh batch of decks. The drop features five new designs, crafted in collaboration with some of notable names in the sport: Mike Arnold, Eric Koston, Elijah Odom, Sean Pablo and Vincent Tourzery.The boards present a shift from the horned demons of AGGRO DR1FT and BABY INVASION into something a little more alien. Crafted from North American Hard Rock Maple and stamped with the name of the collaborating skater, each built-to-ride deck dons a unique, chrome-cast creature, evoking surreal and seductive undertones in their ominous auras. View this post on Instagram A post shared by EDGLRD (@edglrd)For those looking to cop a board, t...
The Coalition for the Homeless' Artist Plate Project is back for its 2025 edition with a fresh crop of artist-designed plates, providing meals for low-income New Yorkers.Coinciding with the upcoming Frieze New York in early May, this year’s selection features an impressive lineup of 50 emerging and established creatives, including Takashi Murakami, Rashid Johnson, Yoshitomo Nara, Philip Guston, Sterling Ruby and the late Robert Indiana among others so far.Since its founding in 2020, the project has raised more than $7 million USD for its parent organization through collaborations with over 150 acclaimed artists, working with local organizations to provide emergency food, clothing, eviction prevention, job training to those in need — the funds from the sale of each edition alone can feed mo...
Weekend Two of Coachella is heating up in Indio, California, and amid the sonic pulse and creative chaos of the live performances, art takes on a life of its own with the desert as its stage. Curated by Public Art Company in collaboration with longtime Goldenvoice Art Director Paul Clemente, this year’s art lineup invites festivalgoers into moments of stillness, play and surreal wonder as they journey between stages.As returning favorites from Robert Bose, Do LaB, Don Kennell, Raices Cultura and NEWSUBSTANCE made a comeback, a fresh crop of installations has also taken root. Let’s take a look at the newly commissioned works at this year’s festival.Take FlightLondon-based design studio Isabel + Helen unveiled a 60-foot kinetic sculpture inspired by 19th-century flying machines. Dozens of wi...
American artist Lachlan Turczan is currently presenting six interactive halo sculptures at Milan Design Week 2025, as a part of Google’s Making the Invisible Visible exhibition. Known for his explorations of light and water, Turczan deconstructs the idea of form, resulting in artworks that reimagines the intangible with a material iridescence.Housed in Garage 21, Lucida (I-VI) lights up the darkness with ethereal hues of white, blue and purple. As visitors pass through the luminous veil, their presence subtly bends its shape, appearing as curtains swaying in the wind, or quiet ripples of sunlit waters. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lachlan Turczan (@lachlanturczan)Turczan and his team use a combination of lidar, infrared and normal vision cameras to sculpt these ep...
Damien Hirst is partnering with HENI to unveil The Dreams, a series of 40 original works on canvas and eight limited edition prints, blending butterflies and spin paintings – two of his most iconic motifs.“These dream prints are like capturing a star or a heartbeat,” the artist explained. “It’s the same explosion of color and movement, trapped in time and space.” Navigating the tension between nature, artifice, motion and stillness, a sense of curiosity and childlike play threads throughout the collection.Hirst began his first spin painting experiments in 1992, the same year as his first Turner Prize nomination, a move toward mechanized art and the aesthetics of randomness. Butterflies, on the other hand, act as a "universal trigger" for love, beauty and the ephemerality of life. A recurri...
On the outskirts of Otsunomiya, Japan, Takashi Kuribayashi is redefining the boundaries between contemporary art and wellbeing. For Oya Genkiro No.6, his most recent permanent installation, the experiential artist invites to visitors to let loose in thick clouds of herbal steam and become part of the work itself.At first glance, Genkiro rises like the remnants of an ancient tree with its towering 59-foot form sculpted from local hinoki planks. Step closer and a narrow hallway of mirrors emerges. Moving further, a multi-storied, glass-lined core reveals itself, thick plums of a herbal steam envelop visitors in an immersive sensory ritual. View this post on Instagram A post shared by takashi kuribayashi (@takashikuri)Heat, scent and weight of the air shift awareness inward, turning...
Iconic filmmaker, elusive visual artist, and self-proclaimed night owl Jim Jarmusch is difficult to pin down. However, he and The Skateroom have teamed up for the first time to release an exclusive collaboration, available only for the next 48 hours. True to his persona, the deck's artwork also has a late-night origin story. Nearly 40 years ago, the filmmaker sat up into the early hours of the night, photographing a series of snapshots from influential black and white movies on an analog TV screen. Those photos remained hidden in the archives until now. The result is a hauntingly simplistic but beautiful visual collage. Each deck features a random combination of three snapshots. Like much of his work, the dreamlike narrative between each photo is up to the viewer's interpretation. To honor...
Celebrated performance artist Marina Abramović is making a return to the Web3 space with her latest four-piece NFT collection, Marina Abramović Element (MAE). Created in partnership with digital art platform TAEX, the first drop of the collection will go live on Ethereum this May.Rooted in Legend, a fictional story written by Abramović and developed by TAEX, the project delves into her artistic philosophy and journey through three primary NFT drops – Art, Life and Marina Abramović Method – immersing audiences in different aspects of her creative practice. Tokens within each installment vary in rarity, ranging from still images, looped animations and works that move with moon cycles in real-time, spanning 960 unique digital artworks in total.The MAE collection culminates in its fourth and f...
Ahead of this year’s Met Gala, renowned photographer Tyler Mitchell unveils a new photo essay for Costume Institute's Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibition catalogue. Mitchell turns his lens toward the modern dandies of Harlem wearing looks from the exhibition and vintage gems of their own.When The Met enlisted Mitchell to photograph this year’s catalogue, he proposed something more. Instead of simply documenting mannequins, he sought to capture the essence of dandyism in motion – a living portrait of the undeniable presence that Black men have brought to tailoring across history.The 372-page “love letter to modern Black dandyism” includes an accompanying essay penned by Mitchell, which continues his exploration of performance, presentation and contemporary iterations of the style, d...
German performance and choreographer Anne Imhof has unveiled her largest performance to date in New York. Titled "DOOM: HOUSE OF HOPE," the three-hour-long immersive piece transforms the Park Avenue Armory’s 55,000 square foot drill hall into a powerful landscape of community, hope and chaos.Housed between a gym floor overlay and a striking red doomsday clock on a hanging jumbotron, audiences are immediately welcomed into Imhof’s moody, teen universe. A loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, a patchwork of props and people adorn "DOOM" – from cheerleaders and basketball players to a baby-punk band and two dozen Cadillac Escalades.Featuring a cast of 60 dancers, artists, musicians, poets and skaters – including actress Talia Ryder and Eliza Douglas, Balenciaga’s darling and I...