Artworks

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...

The artist behind the duct-taped banana, which auctioned for over $6 million USD last November, Maurizio Cattelan, continues to make headlines in the global art sector. This time, the news centers around his gold toilet at the Blenheim Palace in England which was stolen by four male suspects. The perpetrators only took five minutes to haul it out of the institution and it was never recovered, as per ARTnews. Entitled “America” (2016), the stolen work is a fully-functioning toilet made of 18-karat, 103 kilogram gold that was situated in the guides’ restroom. Though, visitors were allowed to view the work via booking time slots to use the toilet. The work was originally part of an exhibition alongside other conceptual objects by Cattelan back in 2019 at the 18th-century castle in Oxfordshire...

Even in the heat of New York’s rat race, take a look around anywhere and you’ll see a portrait of humanity; you’ll find millions learning to live side-by-side in a place where fractured paths converge and isolation gives way to a new genre of unity. This premise serves as the focus of Steel Shards, the latest conceptual installation by Gregory Orekhov. In his mosaic of mirror-polished, stainless steel surfaces atop the waters of Central Park, the Russian sculptor wants us to stop and smell the roses.Captured within these floating shards are glimpses of sky, clouds and the tops of skyscrapers, punctuated by lush bursts of green. As sunlight fractures across the steel, the city’s outlines appear to break apart and come back together, creating an interplay of fragility and strength.Renderings...

Following his 'Noir' exhibition at Gagosian Los Angeles, Alex Israel returns with a partnership with Aspen One and the Aspen Art Museum. The renowned artist has created an ode to Old Hollywood within the space of Aspen Mountain’s iconic Ruthie’s restaurant. Entitled ‘Heaven,’ this is dubbed as the world’s first-ever ski-in/ski-out art installation.Israel’s immersive installation explores celebrity memory in the social media age. This landmark collaboration showcases over 30 life-size portraits, extending from custom-designed lift tickets to a full-scale mountain venue.This exhibit is part of Aspen One’s commitment to bringing contemporary art in unexpected on-mountain settings through its 'Art in Unexpected Places' program, which is entering its 20th year.'Heaven' remains open through Febr...

The Driven Artists Racing Team (DART Car) tapped American artist Mickalene Thomas to design a custom wrap for their debut McLaren Artura GT4 race car, making the launch of the women-led motorsports team. The team will unveil the inaugural commission at New York’s Classic Car Club on February 18, before its track-bound debut this spring.Renderings reveal bold, reflective streaks of colors and patterns wrapped around the exterior, as the front of the vehicle bears an abstract portrait of a woman's face. In addition to the car itself, Thomas, fresh off her London All About Love opening, has also designed bespoke suits and hand-painted helmets for the drivers.“This collaboration with DART Car embodies the perfect union of art and feminism as a potent fusion of creativity, speed, and female emp...