Exhibitions

SummaryThe experience marks 25 years 'One Piece' first aired in JapanThe exhibition encompasses 11 rooms and runs until November 30 in Mercer Labs' NYC locationToei Animation and Mercer Labs have joined forces for "ONE PIECE x MERCER LABS", an immersive exhibition celebrating Eiichiro Oda’s legendary anime series. Open now at Mercer Labs, the experience marks over 25 years since One Piece first aired in Japan. Today, the franchise spans 15 feature films, countless games and one of the most devoted fanbases in anime history.The exhibition encompasses 11 rooms, reimagining the "Land of Wano" arc through large-scale installations of sound, light and motion. Visitors enter through the "Window Room," where a circular ceiling screen revisits the Straw Hat Crew’s voyage to the samurai-filled nati...

SummaryAcclaimed photographer Juergen Teller is set to open his expansive you are invited mid-career survey at Onassis Ready in Athens GreeceOpening on October 19, the exhibition will feature some of Teller's most iconic images and videos, alongside never-before-seen works, personal portraits and still-lifes, spanning his early days in London todaySat at the vanguard of fashion photography, Juergen Teller has built a career off a defiant eye. Internationally renowned for his celebrity portraits, provocative editorials and striking luxury campaigns, his work dismantles the fantasy of perfection, opting for an unguarded immediacy that's blunt, beautiful and above all, alive.Now, Teller is ushering in a new chapter. For his latest move, the German photographer is gearing up to open you are in...

Summary'Outside of America' highlights Lee Quiñones' longstanding practice of using art as a form of social commentaryThe landmark exhibition will feature his iconic subway murals to his more recent work that has never been shown to the publicLondon’s Woodbury House will host a monumental exhibition centering on he influential New York City-based, Puerto Rican artist Lee Quiñones. Entitled Outside is America, the presentation will highlight Quiñones’ longstanding practice of using art as a form of social commentary to highlight socio-political issues including nuclear war, poverty, racism and classism. The exhibition will also shed light on his impactful contributions to the New York City street art movement such as his iconic subway car murals in 1974 to his developing artist years in the...

SummaryEsmaa Mohamoud explores the fragility of innocence and the soul in What Does Webster's Say About Soul?, now on view at Roberts Projects in Los AngelesFeaturing five new shea butter and black granite sculptures, the show hones in on themes of mortality, sacredness and the precarity of existence through the lens of Black youthAt Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, Esmaa Mohamoud probes into the injured soul. What Does Webster's Say About Soul?, titled after a line in Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 spoken word track "Comment #1", moves through questions of harm, injustice and endurance through the interiority of Black youth as they confront the theft of innocence and the precarity of their own existence.Building on a body conceptual interventions into Black visual culture — be it Cadillac low rid...

SummaryOpake and Slawn fuse anime-inspired works with chaotic overpainting in 'TABOO'The project spans a 'Big Issue' cover, limited drops and a surprise London pop-upTwo of the UK’s most unfiltered names, Opake and Slawn, are linking up for TABOO, a project that blurs the line between what’s explicit, what’s acceptable and what gets shut down. It started on September 15 with Opake stepping in as guest editor for The Big Issue. He designed the cover and sat down with Slawn for an unfiltered conversation on labels, censorship, faith, addiction and how breaking rules can sometimes be the best way forward.The collaboration takes shape on September 25 with a release of hand-painted skate decks, original canvases and editioned prints on Slawn’s site. The centerpiece of the collaboration is a ful...

SummaryMarina Abramović deconstructs her famous "Blue Period" and "Red Period" video-based works as 1,200 individual photographic stillsEach still is unique and one of one, offering collectors a chance to acquire a tangible piece of her performancesIn a new exhibition at Saatchi Yates in London, renowned conceptual artist Marina Abramović is giving her work a radical new form. The landmark show reimagines two of her famous performance videos, "Blue Period" and "Red Period," by transforming them into a series of 1,200 individual photographic stills.Akin to the artist periods of Picasso and Matisse, Abramović’s pieces explore the extremes of human emotion and physical endurance in her own chapter. In "Red Period," she is seen in a close up, bathed in red light with her expression shifting be...

SummaryAlfonso Gonzalez Jr.’s NO PARKING at Matthew Brown Gallery uses cars and urban structures to reflect the hidden lives of LA residentsThe exhibition features sculptures, multi-panel paintings and textured worksMatthew Brown Gallery opens NO PARKING, the second solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., on view through October 29.The show presents vehicles as markers of city life. Burned vans, tagged trucks, crowded RVs and idle food trucks stand in for the people who inhabit them. Although no figures appear, the presence of workers, commuters and residents is strongly felt. Gonzalez Jr. treats each vehicle as a portrait of survival, time and memory.The exhibition begins with two large-scale sculptures that resemble makeshift "No Parking" barriers and signage. T...

SummaryOpening October 10 and running through March 29, 2026, the show is presented in partnership with HENI and curated by Connor HirstEach artist’s signature style is reimagined in new forms across individual and collaborative worksNewport Street Gallery will host Triple Trouble, a major exhibition bringing together Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader. Opening October 10 and running through March 29, 2026, the show is presented in partnership with HENI and curated by Connor Hirst.The exhibition spans all six gallery spaces and presents both individual works and first-time collaborations. Visitors can expect a mix of painting, sculpture, installations and mosaics that blend fine art with street culture. Each artist’s signature style is reimagined in new forms: Fairey’s OBEY imagery, ...

SummaryJaejun Lee's solo exhibition Stillness in Blue - Captured Moments is on view at otherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE until October 12, 2025It features his signature lake-blue glazed porcelain, including modern interpretations of Korean moon jarsotherthings by THE SHOPHOUSE is currently presenting Stillness in Blue - Captured Moments, the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by UK-based Korean ceramist Jaejun Lee. Building on his success at Art Collaboration Kyoto last year, Lee unveils a series of his signature lake-blue glazed porcelain pieces made from the same Korean clay he’s carried over 5,000 miles.Lee’s practice is defined by a delicate balance between dynamism and calm. Each work undergoes dozens of unseen stages from preparation, forming, glazing to finishing — where meticulous focus...

SummaryWhaam! shows Ricky Powell’s early 1980s New York photosFeatures everyday street life and peers like Basquiat, FuturaRicky Powell’s path as a photographer began in the mid-1980s after a breakup left him restless in downtown New York. Borrowing a camera once belonging to his ex-girlfriend, Powell started taking photos to pass the time. What began as a way to process heartbreak quickly grew into a lifelong practice of documenting the city around him.On view at Whaam!, RICKY POWELL: NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHS 1980–1990 presents an intimate archive of Powell’s earliest work. Long before his well-known portraits of the Beastie Boys or hip-hop legends, Powell was a local kid wandering Washington Square Park, SoHo and the Lower East Side, capturing friends, storefronts, graffiti and everyday scen...

SummaryMarking the second solo exhibition of Chinese-born, New York-based painterThe show takes inspiration from Martin Scorsese’s 'After Hours' filmMai 36 Galerie in Zurich presents Afterglow, the second solo exhibition of Chinese-born, New York-based painter Leon Xu, on view through November 1, 2025. The show takes inspiration from Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, drawing on its atmosphere of chaos, shifting control and the uneasy pull of the night.Xu interprets the film’s mood rather than its storyline, using airbrush and acrylic to create paintings that blur edges and dissolve into dreamlike impressions. Works such as “Skyline,” “Neon Letters” and “Veils of Light” appear like half-remembered moments, suspended between clarity and disappearance. The canvases capture the glow of fleeting e...

SummaryMarina Abramović celebrates her 80th birthday in 2026 with 'Transforming Energy,' a landmark exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in VenicepMarking the first time a woman has been honored with a major solo presentation at the museumInternationally renowned artist Marina Abramović will celebrate her 80th birthday in 2026 with Transforming Energy, a landmark exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia. The show, opening May 6 and running through October 19 during the 61st Biennale Arte, marks the first time a woman has been honored with a major solo presentation at the museum.Curated by Shai Baitel of MAM Shanghai, the exhibition unfolds across both permanent galleries and temporary spaces, setting Abramović’s pioneering practice against Renaissance masterworks. Her iconic performa...