Exhibitions

SummaryFlesh artist doooo and Junji Ito are set to open a new exhibition of sculptures at Cafe & Bar Mother Factory in Kawasaki, JapanOn view from November 3 through December 28, the show features skin-clad works inspired by Ito's characters, Tomie and FuchiIn the lead-up to Halloween, Japanese artist and DJ, doooo, has announced a new exhibition of flesh-covered sculptures in collaboration with horror maestro, Junji Ito. The show marks a reunion between the Mother Factory-founder and manga legend, featuring works from their 2022 Tomie-inspired line beside a new piece that draws on the ghastly, model-turned-cannibal, Fuchi, a recurring character in Ito’s short stories.Titled Human Flesh, the showcase will present a surreal lineup of art objects that resemble slabs of human skin, includ...

SummaryEspace Louis Vuitton New York is unveiling a rare pairing of two major paintings by French Impressionist Gustave CaillebotteThe exhibition also celebrates the 2022 acquisition of "Boating Party," designated a French National TreasureEspace Louis Vuitton in New York City unveils a rare pairing of two major paintings by the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte: "Young Man at His Window" (1876) from the J. Paul Getty Museum and "Boating Party" (circa 1877-78) from the Musée d’Orsay. Presented in partnership with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Musée d’Orsay and the Getty, the show highlights a striking dialogue between Caillebotte's quiet interiors and his pictorial scenes of leisure, offering two sides of a modern life in motion at the time. Caillebotte was often seen as the intr...

SummaryWhite Cube Mason's Yard in London is currently presenting an eponymous Andreas Gursky exhibition, now on view through November 8The show spans his earliest works to his most recent, including photographs from his new chromo capsule seriesFor Andreas Gurksy, the German photographer known for his larger-than-life, digitally altered images, “impossible” is just a word. Each of his massive photographs begins as a series of images, often shot across multiple locations, and is later meticulously stitched together to form a single, seamless composition. In a recent interview with The Guardian, he shared that, on average, he can only complete three a year. “You can’t get bigger technically.”Now on view at White Cube Mason’s Yard in London, Gursky’s latest exhibition brings forth what he cal...

SummaryAlmine Rech has opened SHADOWING, a new painting showcase by George RouyThe exhibition is now on view at Château de Boisgeloup in Gisors, France through November 23This past weekend, British artist George Rouy opened a solo exhibition with Almine Rech at the storied Château de Boisgeloup in France. Staged inside Pablo Picasso's sculpture studio, SHADOWING introduces a new suite of paintings conceived specifically for the space, building on his visceral inquiry into flesh and bone, in direct dialogue with one of art history's most radical corporeal thinkers.Rouy's figures, alone or entangled, emerge and dissolve in eternal flux, suspended somewhere between states of tension and release. Bruise-colored palettes and expressive brushwork give rise to bodies both spectral and human — “rh...

SummaryA new exhibition of works by Mickalene Thomas and Tom Wesselmann is set to open at Palm Springs Art Museum on November 22Drawn from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, The Female Form explores each artist's indelible mark on female nudity within art historyMickalene Thomas and Tom Wesselmann come into conversation in an upcoming exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Hailing from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, The Female Form bridges the worlds of two artists, though decades apart, left an indelible mark on representations of women's bodies. Colliding in color, form and attitude, the showcase turns back the gaze back onto art history itself, asking: how are these stories told, and who gets to tell them?Wesselmann, ...

SummaryTemplon presents Chiharu Shiota's solo exhibition, Echoes BetweenOn view from November 6, 2025, to January 22, 2026, the exhibition reflects themes of absence, transformation and dialogue with women surrealistsHighlights include luminous chair-centered webs, thread-filled reliquaries and moreChiharu Shiota’s exhibition Echoes Between will soon be unveiled at Templon Gallery, inviting visitors into an immersive world of thread-based installations that explore memory, existence and transcendence. Known for her monumental environments woven from knotted yarn, Shiota transforms the gallery into a space where the boundaries between the real and the imaginary blur, creating a dialogue between material presence and intangible emotion.At the heart of the exhibition is a luminous installatio...

SummaryThe show examined how frequency can connect the physical and emotionalThe opening night on October 14 featured performances by Damsel Elysium, Xiaoqiao Wang, and ZamZam WarsameHeld from October 14 to 19 at OR SPACE in London, Resonance (I–V–vi–IV) brought together artists Chew Yunqing, Erika Kamano Niko Raič, and Robin Sparkes for a six-day exploration of how energy moved through sound and light. Curated by Jane Lee and Chris Scott, the exhibition drew inspiration from Timothy Hecker’s ideas on sound as a productive force that shapes space rather than just noise.The show examined how frequency can connect the physical and emotional. Chew Yunqing’s solar sculptures shifted with the changing daylight, while Erika Kamano and Niko Raič expanded on those movements through material and te...

SummaryThe Louvre Museum in Paris was hit by a brazen daylight jewelry heist that lasted approximately seven minutesThieves used a mechanized lift and angle grinders to access the Galerie d’Apollon and steal eight pieces of "priceless" Napoleonic-era jewelsThe museum was immediately closed for investigation, and the stolen items, including emerald and sapphire sets, are considered to be of inestimable historical valueThe world's most visited museum was the scene of a brazen jewelry heist this Sunday, as professional thieves executed a minutes-long operation at the Louvre Museum in Paris. As if straight out of a scene from a film, the robbery, which may have been more of a recession indicator than anything else, points towards the daylight strike, which occurred shortly after the museum ope...

SummarySculptor Hugh Hayden's new solo show, Hughmanity, is now on view at Lisson Gallery in London through November 1The show features a new body of wooden works that explore themes of assimilation, identity and belonging through reconfigured cultural symbolsAt Lisson in London, sculptor Hugh Hayden unveils Hughmanity, his fourth solo outing at the gallery's English outpost. Building on his investigation into communion, identity and belonging, the Dallas native presents a new series of wooden works that probe into the tension between assimilation and its often unsavory cost.Each work begins as a tree — felled, milled, carved and laminated — before being reconstituted into charged cultural relics that embody both the wood's raw character with a deft sculptural touch. Here, the Hayden intro...

SummaryAcclaimed American photographer Nan Goldin opens This Will Not End Well, her first major European retrospective, at Pirelli HangarBicocca in MilanThe exhibition features the largest corpus of slideshows presented together, alongside two recent works and the artist's first sound installation“I have always wanted to be a filmmaker,” says photographer Nan Goldin. “My slideshows are films made up of stills.” It's this cinematic sensibility that underpins This Will Not End Well, the first major European retrospective dedicated to Goldin, the filmmaker, now on view at Milan's Pirelli HangarBicocca. Originally presented at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, the exhibition traces the evolution of one of contemporary photography's most influential voices, in an intimate, immersive journey throug...

Frieze week has taken over London, pulling artists, collectors and casual art wanderers into a citywide orbit of openings, parties and late-night conversations. Beyond the fair tents in Regent’s Park, the programming spills across town as Rick Owens and Michele Lamy explore the poetry of decay in Rust Never Sleeps at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, while São Paulo’s Sonia Gomes brings warmth and memory to Pace with É preciso não ter medo de criar.At White Cube, Cai Guo-Qiang ignites Gunpowder and Abstraction and Peter Doig transforms the Serpentine into a space of sound and stillness complete with custom towering speakers in House of Music. These are some of our favorite shows to check out in London this Frieze week.Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s ‘Rust Never Sleeps’Carpenters Workshop Gallery ...

SummaryConceptual curatorial project ProblemChild Advisory opens Q3, a new group exhibition, at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New YorkFeaturing work by 10 underground names, the show captures the cost of life under perpetual accelerationAs the third fiscal quarter comes to a close, ProblemChild Advisory wants us to stop and take stock of the emotional fallout left by endless cycles of production and consumption.Staged at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York, the Q3 group show captures the unease of this transitional moment — how it ripples and refracts into other facets of everylife life. Described by the gallery as a “surreal cocktail of brawls, shots, shadows, pixies, pixels, girls, gremlins, yogis, business deals, actors, horses, hooligans and a puppy,” the showcase brings forth a compelling body...