Exhibitions

SummaryIMAZ Foundation, a new cultural platform and nonprofit, launches this week with its inaugural showcase and auction, Chapter OneThe exhibition features 11 footballs, each created in the style of a different artistThe show opens on June 24 at The Atelier at Ideal Glass Studios in New York and closes on June 28The World Cup is heating up in New York and IMAZ Foundation is harnessing football fanfare for change. The new nonprofit and cultural platform is launching this week with its debut show and silent auction, Chapter One, on June 24, carrying the game’s spirit off the pitch and into the gallery.Curated by artist and 404 ArtCollection founder Javier Martin, the exhibition invites eleven contemporary names — Dustin Yellin, Lucia Hierro, Jamel Robinson, Sebastian Errazuriz, Ryan Schnei...

SummaryRefik Anadol opens Dataland, a new museum dedicated to AI art in Los Angeles'Machine Dreams: Rainforest' transforms rainforest data into immersive sensory installationsRefik Anadol is opening the doors to Dataland, a new cultural institution in downtown Los Angeles dedicated to exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, data and contemporary art.Opening June 20 inside the Frank Gehry-designed Grand LA complex, the permanent museum is being positioned as the world's first museum dedicated to AI arts. Located across from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dataland marks a major milestone for the Turkish-American media artist, whose large-scale data-driven installations have appeared at institutions and public landmarks around the world.The museum's inaugural exhibition, Machine...

SummaryThe New Museum in New York will open I Am Tony, a two-floor survey dedicated to artist Arthur Jafa come SeptemberThe exhibition will feature early, recent, and new artworks, including large-scale videos, paintings, film installations, photographs, and sculpturesWith his MoMA mixtape coming to a close, New York hasn’t had enough of Arthur Jafa. But lucky for us, the New Museum is stepping in. Following the building-wide New Humans takeover for its hotly anticipated reopening, next on deck for the Bowery museum will be I Am Tony, Jafa’s largest survey yet.The exhibition, opening September 24, will unravel over two floors in a mix of works, new and beloved, with a particular focus on his filmic evolution, pairing some of his earliest films beside and more recent pieces — paintings, vid...

SummarySprüth Magers in London is presenting a new exhibition by Anne ImhofOn through August 1, Citizen features new works — wave paintings, drawings, installation, and a film — that build on her 2025 shows, DOOM and Fun ist ein StahlbadAnne Imhof’s new solo exhibition, Citizen, has touched down at Sprüth Magers in London. Featuring film, sculpture, pastel works, and new paintings, the show builds on the German artist’s recent heavy hitters — DOOM in New York and Fun ist ein Stahlbad at Museu de Serralves in Porto — exploring themes of mortality, pleasure, restraint, and movement.A look at the German artist’s oeuvre reveals a jack of many trades, working across mediums, like performance, sculpture, painting, dance, installation, and film. From her Golden Lion-winning Faust to her immersive...

SummaryKearsey & Gold is showcasing Burn Down the House by American artist Lucien Smith until July 17The exhibition includes a series of small airbrushed works that explore fulfillment, ambition, and collapse through the image of Dorothy’s airborne house in The Wizard of OzThe show marks Smith’s debut U.K. presentation, as well as his first solo show since opening his restaurant, FOODAfter nearly a year as FOOD head chef, Lucien Smith returns to the canvas for Burn Down the House, his first U.K. solo at Kearsey & Gold. Running through July 17, the show features a new suite of airbrush paintings, centered on a single subject: Dorothy’s house falling through the sky from The Wizard of Oz.Grainy, miniature canvases thread through the London gallery, each a varied shot of the airborne ...

SummaryJenny Holzer heads to Porto, Portugal for Wrong Answers at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary ArtOn from June 18 through November 1, the exhibition gathers works from across mediums and decades, exploring the artist's interrogations and fascination with language, power, and politicsThe show includes two new works created in collaboration with graffiti artist KilosThe Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto is readying a new exhibition by American artist Jenny Holzer. For Holzer’s first solo outing in Portugal, Wrong Answers interrogates the power of text — a medium that’s defined her career — and language’s hand in shaping freedom, democracy, and power.Since day one, Holzer’s always been an of-the-moment artist, responding to the world as news unfolds. In a contemporary cond...

SummaryTetsuya Ishida's first-ever French exhibition opens at Gagosian Paris on June 10The Japanese painter's nightmarish work captures the psychological toll of Japan's 1990s economic collapseGagosian Paris opens its first exhibition dedicated to Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida on June 10. Although Ishida died in 2005 at the age of 32, his work has gained growing international recognition in recent years, resonating with audiences far beyond Japan.Ishida came of age during Japan's "lost decade," the economic downturn that followed the collapse of the country's asset bubble in the 1990s. But his paintings aren't really about economics. They're about the anxiety, isolation, and uncertainty that defined life for a generation entering adulthood as the promises of stability and upward mobility...

SummaryArtist Christopher Barraja opens Daydreaming of Him at Saint Laurent BabyloneThe collection of photographs explores desire, memory and identity in dreamy images of Mediterranean landscapes and queer subculturesThe exhibition is on view until September 13Saint Laurent Babylone is giving the stage to French-Australian artist Christopher Barraja in Daydreaming of Him, his latest solo exhibition. Curated by Anthony Vaccarello, the show gathers an atmospheric suite of photographs capturing queer scenes and cultural snapshots across the Mediterranean landscape in a poetic study on identity, memory, and desire.Barraja’s rise in fashion photography is fueled by an ability to immortalize the heat of the moment. Based between Paris and Nice, he was technically trained at Paris’ École national...

SummaryCrystal Bridges is opening a massive 114,000-square-foot expansion this weekend in Bentonville, Arkansas, designed by Safdie ArchitectsThe new galleries debut with a Keith Haring 3D retrospective and Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room14Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas is unveiling its Safdie Architects expansion this weekend, finally opening the doors to its long-awaited expansion on June 6 and 7. Designed by Safdie Architects, the 114,000-square-foot addition completes the building's original circulation into a figure-eight across two stream-fed ponds, introduces a north entrance and wraps the whole establishment in exposed southern yellow pine, copper cladding and floor-to-ceiling glass that looks out over 134 acres of Ozark woodland.The first big swing in the ne...

SummaryPrada is bringing the 14th iteration of its Prada Mode cultural series to New York City's historic Hotel ChelseaTitled "Satellites II," the immersive event is a collaborative exhibition curated by director Nicolas Winding Refn and game creator Hideo KojimaThe multi-day activation features private performances and public art installations that explore human connection through a sci-fi lensPrada has officially brought its traveling cultural series to New York City with the launch of Prada Mode New York "Satellites II." Hosted at the historic Hotel Chelsea, the 14th iteration of the luxury house's immersive event reunites Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima for a multi-day exhibition that runs concurrently with the Tribeca Festival.Serving a...

From Debut to Nature Manifesto, Björk never misses and she’s only getting better with time. After a surprise appearance at the Venice Biennale in a head-to-toe fiberglass fit, the avant-garde artist-songstress returns to her homeland a massive museum takeover (and solar eclipse rave) at the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik.Presented by Bottega Veneta, the show, titled Echolalia, brings together three monumental installations: two immersive reworks of songs from her Fossera era, alongside an exclusive preview of “Nerve Bloom,” a new track from her upcoming album.“Ancestress” and “Sorrowful Soil,” both drawn from her 2022 album, take shape as deeply personal audiovisual works created in memory of her mother, environmental activist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir. In the first piece, the arti...

SummaryDavid Zwirner in Paris presents French Paintings, a new solo exhibition by Belgian artist and filmmaker Michaël BorremansThe show gathers new oil paintings in the artist’s signature surreal style, each inspired Frances lineage of classical image-makers and pictorial traditionsBelgian artist Michaël Borremans arrives at David Zwirner for French Paintings, his first solo outing in the country 20 years. Running from June 5 to July 22 at the gallery’s 19th-century Marais outpost, the exhibition brings a fresh suite of oil-on-canvas works into the spotlight in an “ironic homage” to France’s art historical traditions.Borremans’ art unsettles the mind, but it’s hard to turn away. He’s best known for surreal subject matter rendered in luminous, subdued palettes, all tender and existential i...