SummaryHuma Bhabha debuts new sculptures and drawings in her first Paris solo show since 2009The exhibition runs alongside her presentation with Giacometti at London’s Barbican CentreDavid Zwirner’s Paris gallery is presenting Distant Star, a new solo exhibition by Pakistani American artist Huma Bhabha. Known for her eerie, hybrid forms, Bhabha debuts six sculptures and a group of large-scale drawings that explore themes of time, decay and transformation.At the front of the gallery stands the centerpiece sculpture, “Distant Star” (2025). Cast in iron, the rust-toned figure resembles a watchful guardian. Its surface will continue to oxidize over time, reinforcing Bhabha’s idea of time as a sculptural force.Inside the gallery, five sculptures made from cork, clay, Styrofoam and found materia...
SummaryHilary Pecis’ Wandering is now on view at Timothy Taylor London through July 19.Featuring a suite of new paintings, the exhibition renders everyday snapshots through chromatic clarity, holding a light up to the surreal beauty in the overlooked moments.There’s a kind of looking that happens when you’re not really seeing, the kind of sight that happens when you’re merely passing through. In Hilary Pecis' new exhibition at Timothy Taylor, the artist closes that gap between the two. Now on view at the gallery’s London outpost, Wandering captures that flicker of perception, exposing the otherwordly through the lens of the overlooked.Known for her luminous still lifes and landscape paintings, Pecis continues her visual meditation on the everyday, rendering the ordinary through sharp chrom...
SummaryThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is set to unveil Barbara Kruger’s Another day. Another night on June 24, until November 9, 2025The exhibition will include her iconic text-based art, video installation as well as new, site-specific piecesThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present Another day. Another night, the first comprehensive survey in Spain of influential American artist Barbara Kruger’s work.Since the beginning of her career, Kruger has consistently challenged the function of language in media, politics and internal dialogues. Using bold, declarative phrases rendered in stark black-and-white text, often punctuated with red or green accents, she draws from the visual language of advertising to provoke reflection rather than sell products. Iconic phrases such as “Your body is a batt...
SummaryThe Mercedes-Benz Art Collection is presenting BE-LONGING, an expansive group exhibition, at Espacio CDMX in Mexico City through August 31.Bringing together works from their collection and artists living and working in Mexico, the show leans into the fluidity and identity through a constellation of offerings from its global roster.The Mercedes-Benz Art Collection is launching its international exhibition series with BE-LONGING, its first stop in Mexico City. Housed at Espacio CDMX in the heart of Chapultepec Park, the showcase pairs works from the brand's own collection alongside contemporary pieces by artists living and working in Mexico – a sweeping mosaic of affinity, belonging and identity in-flux.From questions of memory and geography to body politics and vocation, the artists ...
SummaryKAWS debuts THERAPY solo exhibition at Galerie Max HetzlerHighlights include "SPACE (2023)," which reimagines COMPANION as a melancholic astronaut, alongside new paintings featuring CHUM in existential momentsThe exhibition will be on view until August 9, 2025KAWS has unveiled THERAPY, a solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, marking his first collaboration with the Berlin-based gallery. Known for blending popular culture with fine art, KAWS brings his bold gestures, playful compositions and emotionally charged characters to the forefront. The exhibition features a series of paintings and a monumental sculpture, exploring themes of human vulnerability and connection through his iconic hybrid cartoon figures.In his new series of paintings, KAWS continues his exploration of seriality...
In an art world too often steered by polish and market predictability, the carnivalesque is the rupture we didn’t know we needed. Rejecting neutrality for spectacle and reveling in contradiction and catharsis, this is the spirit that animates Carnival, a new group show on view at Jeffrey Deitch, curated by performer and painter Joe Coleman.Drawing on his earliest memories of New York – when freak shows, flea circuses and Ripley’s ruled over Times Square – Coleman’s latest reconnects us with a lost childhood wonder. The exhibition conjures an over 40-piece roster of artists, many of which belong to the artist’s close community of burlesque dancers, sideshow performers and costume designers – key figures within modern-day senes. Together, with a handful of contemporary art darlings, they exp...
Summary'Who? Me?' showcases new self-portraits across media by global contemporary artistsCentered on Samuel Fosso’s work, the show explores identity and cultural resistanceHannah Traore Gallery stages Who? Me?, a group exhibition centered on diverse self-portraits and the various mediums used to create them. Curated by founder Hannah Traore with support from Gallery Manager Morgan Mitchell, the show spans painting, photography, sculpture and mixed media. The presentation expands traditional notions of self-portraiture, highlighting its conceptual, sculptural and performative dimensions.The exhibition features works by Kesewa Aboah, Turiya Adkins, Bre Andy, Yagazie Emezi, Arlina Cai, Renee Cox, Camila Falquez, Alanna Fields, Samuel Fosso, Luzene Hill, Misha Japanwala, OLUSEYE and Anya Pain...
SummaryThe Brooklyn Public Library is set to host Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door is Always Open, the first-ever U.S. exhibition celebrating the work of Tove Jansson and her inimitable Moomins.On view from June 28 through September, the show will feature a range of installations, archival materials and media artifacts from the beloved Finnish creatures.The Moomins are making their U.S. debut in a new exhibition in New York. Staged at the Brooklyn Public Library's Central branch from June 28 through September 30, Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door is Always Open brings the enchanting world of Moominvalley stateside, just in time for the characters’ 80th anniversary.Created by artist and author Tove Jansson, the Moomins have become cultural icons in Finland and beyond. The upcomin...
SummaryWolfgang Tillmans is set to open Nothing could have prepared us - Everything could have prepared us at the Centre Pompidou in Paris ahead of its five-year renovation period.The exhibition will showcase an array of photography, video, sound, text and performance, pairing some of Tillman's most famed works with new pieces created for the show's occasion.As the Centre Pompidou prepares to close for its five-year hibernation, the museum is handing over the reins to Wolfgang Tillmans for an exciting send-off. For his first major Parisian show in 23 years, the German photographer is opening the vault for an expansive curatorial project, unraveling across 6,000-square-meters of the Public Information Library.Titled Nothing could have prepared us - Everything could have prepared us, the exh...
Summary'Love, Queen' is Adam Pendleton’s first solo show in DC, featuring new paintings and a major video work.The exhibition blends abstraction, language and protest history.The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC is hosting Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the city. On view through January 3, 2027, the show features new and recent paintings, along with a large-scale video installation, in the museum’s second-floor galleries.Pendleton is known for blending painting, drawing, and photography. He starts his pieces with ink, shapes, and text on paper, then photographs and layers them using screen-printing. The result is a bold visual language that mixes abstraction, minimalism and conceptual art.The exhibition includes Pendleton’s signature "Black Dada," "Day...
SummaryGreg Ito transforms Rockefeller Center with vibrant works exploring renewal and memory'The Enlightenment' runs through August 29 and includes a free kids’ workshop on June 26Los Angeles-based artist Greg Ito has taken over Rockefeller Center with The Enlightenment, a vibrant public exhibition presented in partnership with Art Production Fund as part of the Art in Focus program.On view from June 2, the multi-site installation features paintings, sculptures, dioramas and photographic works that draw from personal memory and themes of transformation. Ito began many of the featured paintings during the California wildfires, layering symbols like flames, flowers, doorways and the setting sun to reflect cycles of destruction and renewal.At 45 Rockefeller Plaza, Ito transforms street-facin...
SummaryMicki Meng in San Francisco is currently presenting For Sport by Amanda Ba through June 27.In a showcase of seven figurative paintings, Ba examines the cultural mythos embedded in sports, spectacle and athleticism.As the NBA Finals heats up, a new exhibition in San Francisco invites us to consider the stories that empower our beloved games. At Micki Meng, Chinese American painter Amanda Ba presents For Sport, her debut solo exhibition in the NorCal hub, turning to the language of athleticism — bodies in motion, muscles under tension – as a means to explore deeper themes of identity, spectacle and power.The works on view build off the ideas in Ba's Developing Desire exhibition staged at Jeffrey Deitch last fall, this time zeroing in on the psychosexual drama of high-performance sport...