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Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst & Invader Unite in London for ‘Triple Trouble’

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, ...

‘Stillness in Blue – Captured Moments’ Is Jaejun Lee’s Poignant Farewell To Korean Clay

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...

Ricky Powell’s Early New York Photographs Resurface at Whaam!

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...

Leon Xu Paints the Instability of Memory in “Afterglow”

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...

Marina Abramović Honored with Landmark Accademia Show

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...

Pablo Benzo Brings ‘Time Traveler’ to The Hole in Tribeca

SummaryPablo Benzo debuts in New York at The Hole Tribeca with 'Time Traveler and Other Fragile Detours'His cubist-inspired works merge figures, plants and objects in layered, surreal interiorsThe Hole launches Time Traveler and Other Fragile Detours, the first New York solo exhibition of Berlin-based Chilean painter Pablo Benzo, opening next Friday at the gallery’s Tribeca location. The show features five new paintings and six works on paper that draw inspiration from Peggy Guggenheim’s legendary 1940s gallery Art of This Century, which introduced Surrealism and Cubism to New York.Benzo’s work channels that avant-garde lineage through a muted palette of greens, yellows, magentas and blues. His brushy, stippled oils form volumetric shapes that blur the line between abstraction and figurati...

KAWS Joins Forces With AllRightsReserved for World’s First and Largest Water Parade

SummaryThe “Water Parade” is a world-first event in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, featuring beloved IPsThe two-part event includes a market from October 25 to November 1, and a parade of giant floating inflatables on November 1Characters like Doraemon, KAWS, Grimace, and LABUBU will be featured, with the largest inflatable exceeding 20 metersHong Kong’s Victoria Harbour is set to host a groundbreaking spectacle his fall. AllRightsReserved is proudly presenting the Water Parade, a world-first gathering of iconic characters and artists in a dazzling event designed to light up the city. The parade, a major celebration of art, culture, and entertainment, will feature an unparalleled lineup of beloved IPs, from Doraemon and KAWS to Snoopy and POP MART’s LABUBU.The main event, Water Parade Day, ...

Danh Võ’s Solo Exhibition “Let’s Start Over” Arrives in Hong Kong

SummaryDuddell’s in Hong Kong reopens with a solo exhibition by artist Danh Võ, titled “Let’s Start Over"The exhibition explores themes of identity and memory through the artist’s subtle use of everyday objectsRunning from September 17, 2025, to April 6, 2026, the show is a perfect blend of culinary and creative cultureHong Kong’s renowned cultural and culinary hub, Duddell’s, is marking a new beginning. To celebrate its reopening after a major redesign by Andre Fu Studio, the restaurant is presenting "Let's Start Over,” a new solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Võ. Curated by William Zhao, the exhibition's title is taken from a classic line in the film Happy Together, perfectly mirroring Duddell’s own fresh start. The presentation will be on view fro...

Paige Silveria’s ‘Daisies’ Lands at Dover Street Market Paris

SummaryDaisies, the traveling exhibition series curated by Paige Silveria, is now on view at Dover Street Market in Paris through September 21The showcase brings together an international roster of over a dozen names, spanning painting, sculpture, design, sound and performanceIn its latest move, Daisies, the traveling exhibition series, returns to France – this time, landing at Dover Street Market Paris.Launched in 2018 by Paige Silveria, a mainstay in New York's downtown scene, the project has kept busy cultivating a devoted following, planting exhibitions, book fairs, clothing collaborations and print publications around the globe.For its ongoing Paris presentation, Daisies transforms the building's lower level into a celestial art cave. The showcase carves out a home in the off-kilter a...

SOLO CSV Is a New Madrid Art Venue That Should Be On Your Radar

SummarySOLO CSV is the latest can't-miss art venue in Madrid, Spain, hailing from the international SOLO arts project and collection led by Ana Gervás and David CantollaCurrently on view is WE ALL SHINE ON, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Johnson, at its recently-opened Bowman Hal art galleryMadrid may be well known as an Old Masters capital - Picasso, Bosch, Goya among the sort - but in recent years, the city has been steadily rewriting its reputation in the contemporary art conversation, and redefining its place on the global stage. Adding to your roster of must-see art venues in Spain is SOLO CSV, a new arts and culture space from the Madrileño international arts project SOLO.Situated just a stone's throw from the lush Parque del Oeste, the space signals...

Antony Gormley on Sculpture and the Distracted World

In an exclusive interview, British artist Antony Gormley described his major retrospective at the Nasher Sculpture Center as a deliberate dialogue with a city built for speed. His work is a philosophical counterpoint to a world defined by a relentless drive to do, rather than simply be.Gormley, widely regarded as one of the most important sculptors of his generation, is best known for large-scale public works such as "Angel of the North" in England and Event Horizon, which placed life-size casts of his body across city skylines from London to Hong Kong. Since the early 1980s, his practice has revolved around the human form as both material and metaphor, situating the body as a vessel for consciousness and a marker of shared existence.He opened his conversation by framing Dallas in stark te...

Nathaniel Mary Quinn Walks the Line Between Hope and Fear in New Gagosian Show

SummaryNathaniel Mary Quinn has opened his fifth solo exhibition, ECHOES FORM COPELAND at GagosianNow on view through October 25 and the gallery's West 24th Street outpost, Quinn's latest body for work explores ideas of self-realization, hope and transformation through the lens of Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)In ECHOES FROM COPELAND, his fifth Gagosian solo, acclaimed American artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn alchemizes fear and loss into a new, biting body of work. Culling creative influence from the literary force of Alice Walker and figurative abstraction à la Francis Bacon, Quinn delivers ardent introspection through his portraits — sublimely fragmented and fractured, but nevertheless, whole.Drawing on Walker's seminal debut, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970...