Art

Marianne Boesky Gallery presents a new solo exhibition by Jammie Holmes. For his second show with the gallery, the Dallas-born artist summons a new body of large-scale paintings that captures narratives of Black families and Southern tradition, exploring the potency of love and loss in a series of lush floral scenes.Morning Thoughts marks a departure from the artist’s signature style of portraiture; rather, he turns an inquisitive eye towards the symbolic power of flowers. Flecks of his more familiar motifs are peppered throughout the works, though the few human subjects of the exhibition appear as opaque silhouettes or faces engulfed in a massive bloom.The exhibition calls on still life traditions in a bouquet of fiery daylilies and rich, regal morning glories. Holmes was drawn to these f...

"What if we were all actors in a film in perpetual production?" asks American artist Martine Syms. "What if “reality” was written by images?" Total is a new solo show that embarks to answer these existential questions through a series of objects-turned-editions that replicate the artist's Los Angeles-based studio.On view at Paris' Lafayette Anticipations, the show marks Syms' first retrospective exhibition in France, and will present a meditation on consumption as a form of performance and performance as a means of consumption. By transforming her own studio objects as editions available for purchase, Syms probes into the ways in which material objects act as extensions of identity, as well as the mechanisms that drive these desires. The show is mapped out across shopping bags, t-shirts, f...

A new book from Japanese publisher Iwanami Shoten is set to feature the image boards of Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki.The upcoming title will highlight both publicized and never-before-seen image boards of several Ghibli films, and will include an interview with Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki. Each volume will focus on a single Studio Ghibli film and will showcase the early pre-production illustrations that serve as the basis of the films' strong visual components. In order to retain the magic of these image boards, the pages will be measured at a whopping 12.8 by 10.1 inches.As per SoraNews24, the volumes will seemingly be published in the order of movies' release dates, kicking off with Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Laputa: Castle in the Sky followed by My Neighbor Totoro.The Ha...

The Drawing Center in New York City recently opened a monumental exhibition entitled The Way I See It that features over 350 artworks curated by KAWS. Culled from his immense, personal collection of over 3,000 works on paper, KAWS selected a diverse coterie of pieces by an estimated 500 artists. The presentation continues The Drawing Center’s programming that solely focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary, while offering viewers a glimpse into the personal tastes of diverse collectors from across the globe.Covering the 20th-21st centuries, The Way I See it encompasses works on paper that touch on distinct genres including comics, commercial illustrations as well as pages torn from graffiti black books. It includes pieces by Abstract Expressionist Willem de K...

Jun Takahashi is set to present his first-ever solo art exhibition, Peaceable Kingdom in Hong Kong this month.Takahishi is a highly acclaimed figure in the fashion sector, whom most know of as the founder of UNDERCOVER. While this is his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, the designer has been creating paintings outside of his fashion work for decades. In 2023,  Takahashi finally presented his artwork to the public and was even featured on the cover of Hypebeast Magazine last fall.Going deeper into Takahashi’s dark and surreal universe, Peaceable Kingdom will showcase the three canvases that inspired the motifs in the designers’ SS25 Men’s collection. A new body or paintings will also be unveiled at the exhibition, all tied in with a running concept of portraying “the conflict between the...

Buying property in any metropolitan city comes with a steep price tag, but how about one with an original Banksy mural? A Bristol building is about to hit the auction block bearing one of the elusive street artist's early imprints of a bear throwing a molotov cocktail at the police. Entitled Mild Mild West, Banksy was inspired to paint the mural back in 1999, after a warehouse party was raided by the cops. The building was vacant when first bought in 2000 for a modest $71,000 USD. Today, it houses four bedrooms and a barber shop on the ground floor, which is expected to garner roughly a million dollars when it hits the market with the following blurb: “Bristol’s home-grown and anonymous graffiti artist Banksy is known all across the world for his satirical, anti-establishment, and thought-...

In Austria, the Vienna Secession and Seoul’s Art Sonje Center are presenting an interplay of light and darkness. Curated by Sunjung Kim, Forms of the Shadow is a group exhibition that brings forth a constellation of sculptures, paintings, embroideries and performances that explores humanity’s enduring journey through adversity and hope.The show features the work of 17 artists, each inviting viewers to reflect upon interconnectedness amidst turbulent times. Ramiro Wong’s melty suitcases and Jin-me Yoon’s multi-channel video work echo the outsider experience, probing historical tension between the East and West. Elsewhere, Janie Jin Kaison’s lush scenes and Kyungah Ham’s embroidered chandelier disrupt funerary scenes with moments of unexpected beauty. With an air of melancholic hope, the wor...

At the dawn of the 20th century, a new cultural scene emerged in East Sussex. Composed of a circle of writers, artists and philosophers, the Bloomsbury Group marked a new sense of modern thinking in England. While they first came together in the then burgeoning art hub of Bloomsbury, the bunch carved out a home at Charleston, artist Vanessa Bell’s countryside farmhouse.Nearly one century later, Sotheby’s has just announced a new private selling and loan exhibition in collaboration with Charleston, spotlighting the works of the influential intellectual club at the estate-turned-museum. Curated by the ex-Fendi, Dior menswear director Kim Jones, Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston honors the experimental and progressive spirit of the Bloomsbury Group.The exhibition features a stu...

As the curtain falls on Frieze London, Ojiri Gallery lifts the veil on an exciting new group exhibition. Titled Not Invited!, the show journeys through a surreal and vibrant pursuit of authenticity, featuring the work of Baldur Helgason, Izumi Kato, Nigel Howlett, Dustin Emory, Max Rumbol and Kila Cheung.The faces of Not Invited! bear the likes of nostalgic cartoon and video game characters, evoking a sense of childlike wonder and playful rebellion. In a cast of hybrid figures and distorted forms, the exhibition teeters between comfort and confinement with an uncanny ambiguity that only draws you in closer.The exhibition becomes a space for exploring the raw and often contradictory nature of being human. Ranging from the sleek, poreless robot in Howlett’s “Neither Revealed Nor Hidden” to H...

Hauser & Wirth is showcasing a love letter to the City of Angels in a new group exhibition at its newly minted West Hollywood location. Named after Steve Martin's 1991 romantic comedy, L.A. Story presents sculptures, paintings and installations from an expansive list of contemporary artists who comment on the surreal idiosyncrasies that LA is known for through their respective practices. Perhaps more than any major city, including New York, London and Paris, most understand LA primarily through entertainment. Sun-kissed palm trees, celebrity sightings, drives along PCH, the perfectly trimmed hedges of Beverly Hills — there is a romanticism that tourists come to the city expecting, which is inevitably countered by the reality of navigating LA's sprawling streets without a well-designed...