Exhibitions

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...

SummaryDevin B. Johnson has opened Crossing, his new solo exhibition, at Nicodim Gallery in New YorkThe showcase features a new suite of figurative and abastract paintings that elevates recurring themes, like memory, momentum and community identity into new formsNicodim in New York has lifted the veil on Crossing, Devin B. Johnson's second solo outing with the gallery. Described as "his most focused body of work to-date," Johnson's latest suite of paintings traces the fault lines between recurrent themes — entropy, legacy, memory, the collapse of form — into new expressions, drawing a map of where he's been and all that's yet to come.When approaching a canvas, Johnson first lays down figurative anchors drawn from found photographs, keepsakes and other discarded objects of affection, then c...

SummaryJon Rafman's “Nine Eyes of Google Street View” takes center stage in Report a concern - The Nine Eyes Archives, now on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtThe exhibition features original images from the ongoing “Nine Eyes” project, alongside a film and a new AI piece based off the seriesWhen Google unleashed its fleet of camera-mounted Street View cars in 2007, it accidentally gave rise to a new way of seeing — an endless, automated stare that captured life's strange, funny, poetic and sometimes brutal moments as they unravelled. It's a gaze, indifferent to beauty and morality, that caught the attention of Canadian artist Jon Rafman.In 2008, Rafman began his own archive of unusual captures, blossoming into “Nine Eyes of Google Street View,” a move that would later become one of t...

SummaryThe seventh edition of the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. artist biennial is currently on view through March 1, 2026Curated by Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha, this edition features 28 artists across generations and mediums from the greater L.A. areaUnconfined to a single theme, the works on view span painting, installation, sculpture, film, photography, sound, video and theater, reflecting the city's mosaic of culture“Neither myth nor monolith, Los Angeles is many things to many people, and its dissonance is perhaps its most distinguishing feature,” wrote the Hammer Museum, in the lead-up to its acclaimed Made in L.A. biennial. Now in its seventh edition, the showcase returns, this time with the spotlight on 28 artists whose practices span generations, lineages and mediums. As the...

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...