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SummaryThe Venice Biennale has unveiled the full roster of featured names for its 61st edition in MayThe highly anticipated In Minor Keys exhibition arrives a year after the death of its curator, Koyo KouohParticipants include solo artists, collectives, collaborative duos and artist-run organizationsThe Venice Biennale returns this May, and in the lead-up to its 61st edition, the international art expo has announced the full list of artists participating in its main exhibition.Titled In Minor Keys, the 2026 showcase realizes the vision of the late curator Koyo Kouoh, and will be carried out by a group of advisors she appointed prior to her passing last May. The team includes advisors Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Marie Helen Pereira, Rasha Salti, her assistant Rory Tsapayi and critic Siddhartha M...

SummaryTomokazu Matsuyama debuts “Morning Again” at Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment, running nightly from April 1 – 30, 2026Over 90 LED screens synchronize for three minutes, replacing ads with abstract imagery of hope, rhythm, self‑expression, and transformationFor one month starting April 1, 2026, Brooklyn-based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama will take over New York’s Times Square with his latest digital public art project, "Morning Again." As part of the prestigious Midnight Moment program, the city’s largest and longest-running digital art series, Matsuyama’s work will synchronize across more than 96 massive LED screens from 41st to 49th Streets. Every night for three minutes - from 11:57 p.m. to midnight - the usual commercial advertisements will vanish, replaced by a 180-second cinemat...

Words by Will Allstetter for HypeartAt the end of January, Transmediale returned to Berlin for its 39th edition. The art and digital culture festival wove through the city and took root in an eclectic mix of venues, ranging from Berghain to the Canadian Embassy. Navigating the programming required transferring between trams, subways, buses and cars, as well as shuffling on frozen-over sidewalks.Though partly a logistical byproduct, the geographical network the festival embedded into the city was cannily on target for its theme: “By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road.” In their thematic compass, curators Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa write, “the festival is reimagined as a living recursive carrier net — a hammock of relational technologies in practice that stretch across latitud...

SummaryTony’s Chocolonely partnered with artist Cj Hendry to create an immersive red pop-up in New York for Valentine’s DayThe $1 mystery box concept highlights inequality in the cocoa industry through playful designIn a bold intersection of activism and art, Tony’s Chocolonely has partnered with contemporary artist Cj Hendry for an immersive "Only Red World" pop-up in New York.Just in time for Valentine's Day, The "Valentony" pop-up took place over the weekend and transforms the brand’s signature red into a fully saturated environment designed to blend sensory overload with a heavy social message. While the space is unapologetically playful and rich, it serves as a creative vehicle to communicate the "bitterly unfair" reality of the cocoa industry, where farmers earn less than a dollar a ...

SummaryArt Basel has launched Zero 10, its new digital art and new media section, at its ongoing edition in Miami BeachCurated by Eli Scheinman, the section features 12 international exhibitors with showcases ranging from generative art, robotics, 3D printing, light art and moreThe debut section will also make appearances at the upcoming Hong Kong and Basel fairs in 2026Art Basel Miami has never been short on spectacle, and this year, Zero 10, the new digital and new media art initiative, has already solidified its position as one of the fair's foremost must-sees. Curated by Eli Scheinman, the section launched with 12 international exhibitors and an ambitious reframing of the category's expected potential.The initiative's debut shortly followed the 2025 Art Basel & UBS Survey, which sa...

Art is in the air in Paris as artists, collectors, dealers and collectors descend on the Grand Palais for art week. With energy spilling out of the fairgrounds and into the streets, a number of museums and galleries across the French capital are ushering in visitors to experience some of the year’s most talked about exhibitions.From Gerhard Richter’s monumental retrospective, an ode to sci-fi luminary H.R. Giger and the centennial celebration of Robert Rauschenberg, to Tyler Mitchell’s breakout Paris solo and Helen Marten’s Miu Miu-backed Palais d’Iéna takeover, this season’s calendar offers a captivating mix of contemporary icons and disruptors on the rise. Here’s the Hypeart roundup of shows to check out during Art Basel Paris 2025.Gerhard Richter’s Louis Vuitton RetrospectiveGerhard Ric...

SummaryThe Upstairs Art Fair debuts in Paris at Hotel Grand Amour, coinciding with Art Basel ParisHighlights include India Sachi’s first European solo show and half gallery's suitcase show featuring narrative painters and abstract worksThe Upstairs Art Fair made its European debut in Paris this week, transforming the Hotel Grand Amour into an intimate showcase of contemporary art. Originally launched in Amagansett in 2017, the fair quickly gained a reputation for spotlighting emerging talent, with early participants including now-celebrated names such as Ewa Juszkiewicz, Louise Bonnet and Anna Weyant. After a six-year hiatus, the fair returns with room takeovers by Half Gallery, Megan Mulrooney and Bureau Art, coinciding with Art Basel Paris.Among the highlights is New York-based artist In...

SummaryLouis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami celebrate 20 years of collaboration with a new Artycapucines collectionThe collection reimagines 11 handbags with a psychedelic Murakami twist, featuring some of his most beloved characters and motifsIn addition to the bags, presentation premieres new sculptures at the Grand Palais as a part of Art Basel ParisLouis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami arrive at Art Basel Paris in style to unveil their new, 11-piece Artycapucines collection.Fresh off the reedition of their iconic first collab, the pair plant a garden of kaleidoscopic delights at the Grand Palais, suspended above the bustling fairgoers. Perched on the Balcon d'Honneur lays Murakami's newly-conceived, 24-foot-tall octopus, inspired by Chinese lanterns, its luminous, outstretched tentacles, sp...

SummaryPerrotin returns to ART TAIPEI with a showcase featuring artists from its international programThe lineup includes established artists and postwar masters such as Hans Hartung and Jean‑Michel Othoniel, alongside contemporary visionaries like Mr., Takashi Murakami and Aya TakanoPerrotin returns to ART TAIPEI 2025 with a tightly curated presentation that spans postwar masters, established visionaries and contemporary voices from its international program. The booth foregrounds 20th‑century abstraction and figuration alongside recent work by mid‑career and new‑generation artists, offering a cross‑generational survey that foregrounds material experimentation and narrative depth. Visitors can expect a conversation between historic and contemporary practices played out across painting, br...

SummaryThe 2025 edition of Frieze Seoul welcomes over 120 presenting galleries with a joint booth by P21 and Gallery Vacancy, as well as NANZUKA UNDERGROUND's star-studded presentation featured on the fairgroundsStandout satellite shows include Antony Gormley's Inextricable at White Cube, the Nude, Flesh and Love group show at Jason Haam, the inaugural exhibition at Frieze House Seoul and the debut installation for Maison Margiela's "Line 2" projectLee Bul's monumental retrospective at Leeum Museum of Art, Adrián Villar Rojas' The Language of the Enemy at Art Sonje Center and the 13th edition of Seoul Mediacity Biennale are among the museum highlightsFrieze Seoul is back in full swing, now in its fourth edition. Running through September 6 at COEX in Gangnam, the 2025 fair delivers a hefty...

SummaryThe 14th edition of the BlackStar Film Festival will run from July 31 through August 3The festival will showcase over 90 films by Black, brown and Indigenous directors hailing from 35 countriesThe selections will be viewable in-person in Philadelphia or online for international audiencesThe BlackStar Film Festival returns to Philadelphia for its 14th edition. Kicking off on July 31 and running through August 3, the 2025 iteration promises over 90 films from 35 country, spotlighting the work of Black, Brown and Indigenous artists from around the world.“In our fourteenth year we continue to view the festival as an urgent gathering for filmmakers and cinephiles of color,” said BlackStar founder Maori Karmael Holmes. “The need in this moment is not only visionary cinema, but to be in sp...