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Adriana Oliver Returns to Tokyo With ‘BECOMING’ at GALLERY TARGET

SummaryGALLERY TARGET will host Adriana Oliver’s solo exhibition, BECOMING, from March 5 – 28, 2026The exhibition explores transformation and identity through bold, pop‑art‑rooted works inspired by 1960s sports advertising aestheticsIt also features a Coffee Supreme collaboration with limited-edition merchandiseGALLERY TARGET in Tokyo is set to present BECOMING, a solo exhibition by Barcelona-based painter Adriana Oliver. Marking her first show in Japan in four years, the exhibition explores the concept of transformation as a continuous state of "becoming" rather than a singular event.For BECOMING, Oliver uses the visual language of 1960s sports advertisements - characterized by vibrant colors and graphical compositions - to reconstruct modern narratives around identity and selfhood. In th...

LA Art Week’s Hottest (Anti)Fair is an Abandoned Discount Store

SummaryArtist Barry McGee, Jeffrey Deitch and The Hole present 99CENT, a massive installation at a shuttered discount store, for Los Angeles Art WeekRunning through March 1, the show brings together an eclectic showcase from over 100 artists, spanning painting, sculpture, illustration and performanceArt Week is gaining momentum in Los Angeles as visitors from the around the globe descend on the City of Angels for a packed itinerary, hitting marquee events like Frieze, Felix Art Fair, Post-Fair and the inaugural edition of Enzo. Just a block down from LACMA at 6121 Wilshire Boulevard, however, an alternative “anti-fair” crowd brews. To set the scene, just imagine: 100 artists walk into a 99 cent store.In the two days since opening, the aptly titled 99CENT has quickly made its way to the top...

Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Orchid Show at the NYBG Celebrates City Grit With Blooming Beauty

SummaryThe New York Botanical Garden presents Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Concrete Jungle, transforming the conservatory with over 7,000 orchidsRunning until April 26, 2026, the immersive displays include a floral brownstone, laundromat and a subway station reimagining NYC urban lifeThe New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has unveiled its 23rd annual orchid exhibition, The Orchid Show: Mr. Flower Fantastic’s Concrete Jungle, running through April 26, 2026. Transforming the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory into a botanical love letter to New York City, the installation reimagines the city's urban grit through thousands of vibrant orchids. Visitors are guided through a series of life-sized floral vignettes that elevate everyday city scenes, including a two-story black-painted brownstone adorned with casca...

An In-Depth Look at Hypeart and Bonhams’ ‘Under the Same Sky’ Exhibition

Across the vast landscape of artmaking since the late 20th century, artists on the West Coast have explored many thresholds and states of being — decay and seduction, struggle and release, birth and aftermath. Embracing new materials and social realities, artists turned inward, while engaging with the energies unraveling around them. The lines between interior and exterior give way. Embodiment, emotion and environment fold into one another under the same sky. This is a careful dance best exemplified in Ernie Barnes’ Sketch for Boxing No. 2 (circa 1984). The intense and energetic composition suspends conflict at a midpoint when force gives way to a moment of mutual recognition. Rather than a rigorous struggle for power or display of brute force, the strength of each boxer emanates through ...

Anish Kapoor Presents New ‘Mirror Works’ in NYC

Summary ‘Mirror Works’ spotlights Anish Kapoor’s reflective stainless-steel sculptures that distort space and perception The New York show arrives amid a major run of international museum exhibitionsA focused presentation of mirror sculptures by Anish Kapoor has opened in New York's Lisson Gallery under the title 'Mirror Works', bringing together pieces created between 2010 and the present. The exhibition continues the artist’s decades-long exploration of scale, color, volume and material, foregrounding stainless-steel forms that shift and destabilize the viewer’s sense of space.Known for transforming perception into a physical experience, Kapoor approaches sculpture not as a static object but as a spatial event. His reflective surfaces bend architecture, swallow light and return distorted...

Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka Spotlights Jeff Koons in ‘Paintings and Banality’

SummaryThe show brings together key works from the 1980s to the artist’s more recent large-scale paintingsThe exhibition shows how Koons transforms the familiar into something largerTo mark the 20th anniversary of the Espaces Louis Vuitton and the 10th anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program, Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka is presenting a focused exhibition of Jeff Koons. The show brings together key works from the 1980s to the artist’s more recent large-scale paintings, offering a concise look at how his practice has evolved over four decades.Titled Paintings and Banality, the exhibition highlights Koons’s long-standing interest in everyday objects and popular culture. Since the 1980s, he has blurred the line between high art and mass culture, using images drawn fro...

New Museum’s ‘New Humans’ Comeback Show Looks to the Future

SummaryThe New Museum in New York is set to open New Humans: Memories of the FutureOpening on March 21, the expansion's inaugural showcase features over 700 that reimagine the relationship between humanity and technologyIn an era drunk on algorithmic prophecy, the presence (and fear) of the mechanized nonhuman is ever-present. Yet with every new technology that comes our way, we’re forced to face the same question that artists and scientists have been wrestling with for centuries: what does it mean to be human?With excitement high for the long-anticipated reveal of the New Museum’s OMA-designed expansion, the institution has announced the full artist list for its expansive comeback show, New Humans: Memories of the Future. A fitting theme for the newly revamped building, the exhibition exp...

Jahan Loh Reimagines Chinese Deities as Interstellar Travelers in ‘The Fortune Trilogy’ Exhibit

SummaryJahan Loh has unveiled The Fortune Trilogy, a new solo exhibition curated by artceo at Singapore’s Tanjong Pagar DistriparkThe show reinterprets the traditional Chinese trinity of Fu Lu Shou (Blessing, Prosperity, and Longevity) through monumental astronaut sculpturesExclusive merchandise accompanies the exhibition, including a bespoke Incense Chamber by Kuumba and gold jewelry by Point JoaillerieSingaporean artist Jahan Loh has officially opened The Fortune Trilogy, a genre-bending exhibition that transports ancient Chinese iconography into a chrome-laden future. Launching today, February 13, at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, the show serves as a cosmic invocation of renewal just in time for the Lunar New Year, reimagining the enduring symbols of Fu Lu Shou—the deities of blessing, pros...

Ruth Asawa’s Massive Retrospective Heads to Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

SummaryThe Guggeneheim Museum Bilbao is set to host Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, after stops at MoMA and SFMOMAOpening in March, the exhibition covers six-decades of live and practice, from her upbringing in a Japanese internment camp to works completed in her home-studio in her final yearsWorks on view include nature-inspired tied-wire pieces, clay and bronze casts, paperfolds, paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, lithographs and an abundance of her famed looped-wire sculptures“An artist is not special,” the legendary Ruth Asawa once said. “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” Asawa, a West Coast favorite turned canon name, made work that changes the way we look at the elemental world and what it can teach us.Following stops at the Museum of Mode...

The Art of the Outsider: GR Gallery’s ‘Purgatory’ Explores Modern Renegades

SummaryPurgatory opens at GR Gallery from February 20 to March 21, featuring 16 paintings by Jordan Sullivan, Robert Martin, Jacob Rochester and RUMINZThe exhibition explores suburban life and Americana through themes of nostalgia, alienation and redemptionGoing on view at GR Gallery next week is Purgatory, a group exhibition featuring 16 paintings by artists Jordan Sullivan, Robert Martin, Jacob Rochester and RUMINZ. The exhibition creates a cross-cultural dialogue by blending diverse styles influenced by outsider art, rural aesthetics and Americana. Collectively, the works form a contemporary grand tour centered on themes of self‑discovery and revelation, while confronting social realities through raw depictions of suburban and everyday life. The exhibition’s visual language is deliberat...

Grotesque Meets Sublime in Christian Van Minnen’s ‘Metanoia’

Summary Christian Rex van Minnen’s Metanoia exhibition explores themes of transformation and the grotesqueNotable works include "Still Life with Octopus in Vase and Upside Down Figure," blending classical still‑life with surreal distortionsOn view at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND until February 21, 2026Christian Rex van Minnen’s solo exhibition Metanoia at NANZUKA UNDERGROUND marks his second major presentation with the gallery following his 2021 debut. Known for his surreal and unsettling imagery, van Minnen introduces new works that continue his exploration of psychological transformation, corporeality and the grotesque.This exhibition represents a significant point in the artist’s career, as indicated by the title Metanoia, which refers to a fundamental change in mind or a spiritual conversion. B...

‘What a Wonderful World’ Reawakens Los Angeles’ Cinematic Gem

SummaryThe Julia Stoscheck Foundation reopens Los Angeles' storied Variety Arts Theater for What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem, its first major U.S. presentationThe exhibition features 35 artists, ranging from cinema pioneers to today's contemporary artists, including Jon Rafman, Precious Okoyomon, Doug Aitken, Arthur Jafa, Walt Disney and moreVariety Arts Theater, the five-story ex-cinema palace in downtown Los Angeles, has kept its doors shut for decades. Now, the landmark is making a major public comeback, courtesy of the Julia Stoschek Foundation, to stage one of the most ambitious presentations of its kind.Titled What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem, the exhibition unfolds as a cross-century encounter of video storytelling. It takes on the form of an art house cinemath...