Exhibitions
CART Department Brings Ai Weiwei’s Iconic BMW LEGO Art Car to NYC
Summary CART Department is bringing "Ai Weiwei LEGO Story" to Free Parking at 16 Morton Street from April 24 to May 3, featuring the artist's rare BMW LEGO art car alongside his famous 'Zodiac' and 'After' series The exhibition offers a unique look at how Weiwei turned a past censorship battle with LEGO into a global creative movementLarry Warsh's CART Department is bringing a significant cultural moment to downtown Manhattan this spring. From April 24 to May 3, 2026, the Free Parking gallery garage at 16 Morton Street will host the "Ai Weiwei LEGO Story" exhibition. It's a rare chance to see a concentrated collection of the artist's work, including his famous BMW LEGO art car.The centerpiece is that BMW art car, which has not been seen by the public in over a decade. It first gained notor...
Step Into ‘View Master,’ Derrick Adams’ Technicolor World of Black Joy
SummaryNew York-based artist Derrick Adams has unveiled View Master, his first mid-career survey, at ICA BostonRunning through November 13, the exhibition features over 100 works created over the last two decades, spanning sculpture, painting, installation, video and performanceBaltimore-born, Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams is getting his flowers at ICA Boston with his first full survey show. The exhibition, dubbed View Master, brings together over 100 works created during the last two decades, making for a tender, cross-genre ode to the richness of Black American life.Tapping into realms like pop culture, Black art history, domestic life and, notably, play, Adams turns everyday encounters into kaleidoscopic visual celebrations. He’s best known for his vibrant cubist portraits, though...
Martin Wong, the High Priest of Lowbrow, Lives On at P·P·O·W and Wrightwood 659
SummaryWrightwood 659 in Chicago is opening Chinatown USA by the late Chinese-American artist Martin WongNew York's P·P·O·W Gallery is concurrently presenting Popeye, focused on Wong's fascination for comic books and tattoo imageryThe late Martin Wong never got to visit China, he never spoke the language. Like many Asian Americans, his understanding of motherland was puzzled through fragments of stateside exports. Yet place, evidenced by his storied graffiti collection and street-forward oeuvre at large, remained central to him, and nowhere more so than Chinatowns.Wrightwood 659 and P·P·O·W Gallery are teaming up to present partner exhibitions dedicated to legendary Chinese-American artist. Between Chinatown USA in Chicago and New York’s Popeye, the shows brings more untrodden aspects of W...
Swordsman Suit Up in Josie Hall’s Sublime Kendo Series
SummaryPhotographer Josie Hall is set to present her debut show at Have A Butchers in London from April 17 through May 1The show explores the craft of kendo, a modern Japanese martial art, visualized through her haunting, stylized signatureDiscipline and ritual — in kendo, the Japanese martial art that translates to the “way of the sword,” technique is only half of the story. “What interested me was how the way of the sword correlates directly to how one operates in daily life,” photographer Josie Hall told Another about her new series, Red Patience. “It’s not just about combat, but how it acts as a framework for living: discipline, composure under pressure, responsibility and respect.”Red Patience takes the spotlight in the London-based artist’s debut show at Have A Butchers gallery in Ha...
Contemporary Artists Reclaim Colonial Photography in Museum Rietberg Exhibition
The Museum Rietberg in Zürich, Switzerland, has just opened its doors to a new exhibition that brings a contemporary lens to colonial-era photography. Titled A Kind of Paradise, the showcase unites 20 artists from the diaspora, each known for their thought-provoking works surrounding race, class and historical narratives. Using their practices to explore identity, the featured pieces exhibit how divisive photographs can be reclaimed to spotlight the untold stories behind the art.The expansive exhibition is split into four main sections: Shapeshifters; Confrontation; Care; and In the Photo Fantastic. The first category, Shapeshifters, takes viewers through a series of lost photographs that includes Brazilian crafter Rosana Paulino fusing personal images onto materials while other multimedia...
FKA Twigs, Dev Hynes, Brian Eno and More Tapped for Vatican City’s Venice Biennale Pavilion
SummaryThe Vatican City released featured artists for its upcoming Holy See pavilion showcase for this year’s Venice BiennaleThe lineup includes 25 musicians, poets, architects, filmmakers and artists exploring the contemplative power of soundVatican City’s Holy See Pavilion will host music’s top talents for its sound-based presentation at next month’s Venice Biennale, featuring works by FKA Twigs, Dev Hynes, Brian Eno and Patti Smith.Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers, the exhibition, titled The Ear is the Eye of the Soul is based on the life and legacy of Benedictine nun Saint Hildegarde of Bingen, a medieval abbess, poet, healer and composer, also known as the patron saint of writers and musicians. “The exhibition takes the form of a sonic prayer,” reads the project statement...
Harmony Korine’s First U.S. Museum Show Is ‘Perfect Nonsense’
SummaryICA Miami will present Perfect Nonsense by director and artist Harmony KorineOpening April 15, the exhibition marks Korine's U.S. museum debutThe show features over 50 works created throughout his life, including paintings, drawings, photographs, zines, collages, films and notesDirector, artist and EDGLRD ringleader, Harmony Korine, is set to open his first U.S. museum survey next week at ICA Miami. With over 50 works in tow, the exhibition will “trace the full arc of [his] career,” spanning pre-Gummo works to recent projects.The show’s title, Perfect Nonsense, reflects the irreverent, almost acidic air that’s surrounded Korine throughout all of his artistic chapters. Structured as a series of thematic encounters, the survey brings life to his enduring curiosity with outsider narrat...
The Age of ‘Inocentes’
It’s time for the underground to break the surface, says Jo “22” Frias, the artist and composer behind Red Expanse. It’s a statement, not suggestion, that animated the label’s recent group show in New York. How do means of survival become silenced? When does action need noise? According to Inocentes, that time is now.Frias founded the label and, now, publishing house in 2014 as a platform to release his own projects. Over the years he’s garnered a global network of like-minded artists, frustrated with the confines of commercial artmaking, and has kept busy making films, releasing books and putting on shows ever since.Inocentes ran from March 5 through 8 in Downtown Manhattan, marking a major meeting of minds for the indie publishing world and their artist communities. Curated by Frias alon...
Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Satellites II’ to Touch Down in New York
SummaryPrada Mode will arrive in New York for its 14th edition, presenting Satellites II by Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding RefnThe showcase features installations and performances within the hotel and across the city, exploring themes of connection, creativity and loveSatellites II, a new exhibition by gaming polymath Hideo Kojima and filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, will take over New York’s Hotel Chelsea for the 14th edition of Prada Mode. Coinciding with the Tribeca Film Festival, the show will be open to the public from June 5 to 7, with a private members club running from June 3 to 4.The forthcoming presentation follows Satellites, Kojima and Refn’s collaborative project shown at Prada Aoyama in Tokyo around the same time last year. Satellites II builds off the original show, diving ...
Artist Ariana Papademetropoulos Installs a 14-Foot Aquarium in Paris
Summary The exhibition features a 14-foot inhabitable aquarium where visitors can recline inside a glass enclosure accompanied by a custom soundtrack by Nicolas Godin of Air Marking her first solo show in France, the presentation at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris explores "Californian Occultism" through surrealist paintings and iridescent telephone boothsAriana Papademetropoulos has brought her West Coast brand of "Californian Occultism" to the heart of the Marais. Marking her first solo exhibition in France, Glass Slipper is now on view at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, transforming the gallery into a surrealist environment where hyperrealism and vaporwave aesthetics collide. Central to the exhibition is "Water Based Treatment," a massive, inhabitable aquarium that serves as a "heterotopia" within the gal...
Dozie Kanu Pays Homage to the Architecture of Memory in ‘The Second Shadow’
Dozie Kanu returns with a new immersive dialogue at Fondazione ICA Milano. Opening March 19, ‘The Second Shadow’ pairs the Houston-born, Portugal-based artist with the late Marc Camille Chaimowicz for an exhibition that blurs the lines between sculpture, domesticity, and memory. Curated by Rita Selvaggio, the project rejects traditional white-cube staging in favor of two autonomous "rooms" that function as psychological landscapes.In this parallel environment, Kanu’s contribution acts as a living archive, blending his own sculptural practice with selections from the Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection. Known for finding high-art tension in repurposed materials and found objects, Kanu uses this site-specific intervention to bridge the gap between functional design and autobiographical narrative. ...
Keith Haring’s Rare Art Cars to Land in NYC’s West Village
Summary Keith Haring’s painted 1963 Buick Special and 1983 Land Rover Defender will be exhibited together by CART Department The exhibition marks the official launch of Keith Haring in 3D, a new book from MonacelliKeith Haring’s career started on the subway, but some of his most legendary "canvases" actually had engines. In a major full-circle moment for New York, two of his rarest 3D works are landing in the West Village this month. Opening April 10, Keith Haring: On the Street marks the first time his painted 1963 Buick Special and 1983 Land Rover Defender will be shown together in Manhattan. The show is the first ever for Free Parking, a new 3,000-square-foot gallery by CART Department tucked inside a 19th-century carriage house.The exhibition also serves as the launch for Keith Haring ...
