Exhibitions

Shu Lea Cheang’s daring futuristic vision is taking over Munich’s Haus der Kunst in KI$$ KI$$, her first institutional survey. Described as a “machine of experience,” the exhibition takes audiences on a sensorial journey through the avant-anarch oeuvre that cemented her status as a pioneering voice in new media art.Beginning with her 1994 feature film Fresh Kill , the show delves into three decades of works spanning video, installation, performance and cinema. Circling software installations, internet interactions and multiplayer performances, Cheang transforms each gallery into a world of its own, inviting a playful reconsideration of the physical and the digital.“She thinks of her art as a sketch or a rehearsal leading towards film,” the museum wrote. The show “focuses on the mise-en-scè...

Hypeart celebrated its THRESHOLD exhibition at Bonhams Los Angeles with a special reception on Thursday, February 20. The event drew a packed crowd, with guests gathering for a panel discussion led by Isabel Norsten, Bonhams' Specialist in Post-War & Contemporary Art. Norsten steered a compelling conversation around the show’s theme of breaking boundaries, featuring renowned artist Shepard Fairey, Hypeart’s Keith Estiler, Juxtapoz’s Evan Pricco, gallerist Richard Scarry of Subliminal Projects and Ralph Taylor, Bonhams’ Global Head of 20th/21st Century Art. The discussion culminated in the unveiling of Fairey-isms, a book published by No More Rulers in collaboration with Princeton University Press, compiling notable quotes from Fairey, the artist and activist behind the iconic Obama "Ho...

They say that rock and roll never dies, and there’s one ducktail-haired group in Tokyo that’s making sure of it. A mash-up of rock and roll and country, rockabilly stands as one of the lesser known fashion tribes of Japan, yet, visually, it’s hard to miss. Characterized by heavy leather, unabashed twisting and slicked back hair, thick with gel, the 1950s subculture, while niche, continues to romance the bygone era.Photographer Alvin Kean Wong is bringing the rebellious, rockabilly spirit to New York’s Lower East Side for a special weekend-long exhibition. Staged at Café Studio,  Roller Zoku: Journey into Tokyo’s Rock and Roll Tribe follows Wong’s intimate immersion into the subculture, offering an up-close account of a community frozen in the fantasies of mid-century Americana.Born in Sing...

A trove of Paul McCartney’s recently rediscovered photographs is set to hit Gagosian's Beverly Hills outpost. Showcasing 36 works taken between December 1963 and February 1964, some previously unseen, the exhibition offers an intimate slice of life during the height of Beatlemania. The exhibition runs parallel to the ongoing Eyes of the Storm tour, which has made stops at the Brooklyn Museum and London's National Portrait Gallery, though for this show, the Beatle has teamed up with the gallery to produce and sell signed print editions with a portion of proceeds going toward ongoing recovery and rebuilding efforts in Southern California.Just as their music captured the hearts of generations, so too did McCartney on his 35mm Pentax camera. Fresh off the number one album With the Beatles and ...

Art’s love for cars is certainly no secret. From Daniel Arsham’s latest Arsham Motorsport to the late Pippa Garner’s seminal Karmann sculpture, both art and the automotive serve as prime vehicles for ideas of progress, technology and desire. Now, at Anat Ebgi gallery in Los Angeles, American artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy presents her own take on the connection in Temperature Check, a new solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures.Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bellamy surveys driving and car culture as a symbol of her city, putting her own fantastical spin to the conventional "body shop": at the heart of the gallery, a striking Mantis “insecto-cycle” emerges from the ground; while in Objects in Mirror figures two screens fixed inside passenger side-mirror sculptures play a sequence of dr...

After nearly a decade, Pharrell Williams is putting curator hat back on for a new show at Perrotin Paris. In FEMMES, a powerful group exhibition, the creative polymath celebrates the enduring impact of Black women – “the artists who transform the world through the power of their hands” – through a kaleidoscopic exploration of femininity, calling on the wife, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and muses who have shaped him.FEMMES showcases work by 39 international artists from pioneers like Esther Mahlangu and Carrie Mae Weems to rising stars Emma Prempeh and Naomi Lulendo, and art icons such as Mickalene Thomas, Nina Chanel Abney and Prince Gyasi.The show comes as a long-awaited follow-up to the Williams-curated exhibition G I R L, inspired by his sophomore album, at the Parisian gallery...

Dan Friedman's Why Shouldn't I Have Fun All Day? marks the first gallery presentation of the late artist's work since 1994. Staged in Lower Manhattan's Superhouse, the exhibition arrives in honor of the 30th anniversary of Friedman's passing in 1995 and is an immersive imagining of the artist's Washington Square Park residence.In the late 1970s, Friedman transformed his one-bedroom apartment into what he called "a living sketchbook" for his art, using every surface as a canvas. "I created an extreme caricature of the beautiful modern American home to bring into question our notion of what is a beautiful modern American home," he stated at the time. The installation emulates the same energy of the pivotal Lower East Side artist's apartment as documented in his influential 1994 work Radical ...

Hannah Traore Gallery is lifting the veil on a new solo showcase by Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj. Through a collection of portraits taken over the course of two decades, Hajjaj presents a visual dialogue between North African heritage and Western iconography, breathing vibrant life into every aspect of his work – from the subjects' sartorial style down to the colorful, multi-patterned frames.People of My Time reflects the ethos of the artist’s practice. Hajjaj weaves traditional Moroccan traditions with British pop iconography, where the faces of Imaan Hammam, Che Lovelace, Honey Dijon, Sarah Perles and Afrikan Boy serve as his creative muses.Surrounding each portrait, frames created from repurposed floor mates, conjures the bustle of Medina, adorning the figures with a tactile real...

The Arts Club of Chicago presents The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone, a solo exhibition by Jamaica-born, Los Angeles-based artist Cosmo Whyte, now on view through April 2. In a showcase of works across several mediums, Whyte finds clarity in the haze of memory, exploring the inescapable connection between the personal and collective through the idea of spectacle.Using his later father’s architectural archives as a point of departure, Whyte interrogates the act of seeing: “What makes a witness? And what does it mean to have become one?” Uncovering new layers of meaning along the way, the artist employs a postmodernist approach to imagery, reworking photographs to reveal to alternative contexts.Standouts include "4x4 Timing/Hush Now, Don’t Explain" (2023), a multi-fold steel ...

Back in June 2023, Pope Francis welcomed some 200 artists, writers and creatives to celebrate the Vatican’s contemporary art collection. Among the artists representing the United States were Barry X Ball and Andres Serrano whose 1987 work Immersion (Piss Christ) – a photograph of a plastic crucifix steeped in urine – scandalized the art world and U.S. senators alike. Despite the many works ripe for backlash from Christian protestors, the Pope applauded the arts for its ability to bring hope to the world, without shying away from the depths and darkness of humanity.At Patricia Low Contemporary in Gstaad, Switzerland, Serrano and Ball reflect on their Vatican visit in a new duet show. Titled Pious & Profane, the exhibition draws a connection between these two seemingly disparate concepts...

Maureen Paley presents a photographic showcase featuring Pati Hill and Wolfgang Tillmans as part of Air de Paris at Studio M for Condo 2025. The exhibition highlights both artists’ use of photocopiers as a creative tool, manipulating images to produce abstract compositions and portraits of inanimate objects—where the machine itself becomes both the subject and the means of production.“The principles on which the copier works—yes/no, multiplicity, instantaneousness—are those that govern much of modern life. Letting the copier impose rather than imposing on it may reveal something about our times and what lies ahead,” wrote Pati Hill in Letters to Jill, A Catalogue and Some Notes on Copying (1979), reprinted by Mousse in 2020.The exhibition features Hill’s distinctive xerographs from 1977 to...

Designer, entrepreneur and art collector Victoria Beckham is teaming up with Sotheby’s to showcase a selection of contemporary artworks at her boutique in Mayfair, London before they go under the hammer in London and New York.The exhibition follows Beckham’s 2018 project with the auction house, which centered around old masters’ portraits. This time, the collaboration shifts focus to some of her favorite names in contemporary art – including Yoshitomo Nara, George Condo, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Gerhard Richter, Yves Klein and Richard Prince – displayed across the three-story Georgian townhouse.The curation revolves around works with commanding uses of color, texture and scale. Standouts include Nara’s cute and cunning “Cosmic Eyes (in the Milky Lake)”; “Red Joy,”...