Art

Hikari Shimoda is a Japanese artist who creates childlike figures that represents the innocence and chaos entangled across the world. Anime and manga have shown to be major influences for the Nagano-based artist throughout her career, such as her Whereabouts of God series and her most recent exploration, Children of this Planet — the latter of which featured children as a blank canvas of infinite possibilities. In collaboration with Avant Arte, Shimoda is set to release a new sculpture entitled Children of this Planet #38. Similar to the portrait series, Shimoda's sculpture beckons with color and is crafted in dichroic resin to reflect a multiplicity of hues with the varying changes in light. "Emotion is held within the subject's sparkling eyes, while a pair of horns represent the fury and...

Olafur Eliasson, the Icelandic–Danish artist known for his thought-provoking, large-scale art installations, has launched his first exhibition in the gulf titled The curious desert. The extensive body of work spans a site in the Qatari desert near the Al Thakhira Mangrove Reserve and galleries of the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, showcasing light installations, photo series from Iceland, optical devices, and more.“It is an extraordinary opportunity to create artworks for the sabkha near Al Thakhira Mangrove Reserve. The sun, the wind, the nearby lagoon saltwater – they all help co-produce the artworks that visitors will encounter here," commented Eliasson. "I hope the artworks in turn may sensitize people to the singular landscape and to the more-than-human agencies at work. The other ...

In celebration of the NCAA Men's Final Four arriving in the city, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and adidas Basketball present CAMH COURT, the first-ever playable basketball court in an art museum. Commissioned to design the basketball court, backboards, and basketballs is locally-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.The main court is designed to conform to CAMH"s Brown Foundation Gallery's parallelogram shape while matching the dimensions of a regulation court. Displaying Hancock's vivid imagination are striped Bringback characters and bright illustrations which are spread all along the floors, walls, and entrance.Throughout the exhibition, various programs and events will be hosted at the venue with support from adidas Basketball. All activations will culminate in the CAMH Ball on Apri 2...

From his The Bird's Nest to Sunflower Seeds and many more, Ai Weiwei has solidified himself as one of the most renowned visual artists in contemporary culture. Now his catalog is growing even larger with the debut of his largest LEGO artwork at London's the Design Museum.Titled Water Lilies #1, the eye-catching piece is modeled after Claude Monet's Water Lilies (1914 — 26), which currently resides at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. What makes Weiwei's piece especially unique is its usage of 650,000 LEGO bricks in 22 different hues – spanning 15 meters in length. The new piece by Weiwei is a part of his first design-focused exhibition, which is set to open next month and also marks the artist's largest UK show in eight years."Our world is complex and collapsing towards an ...

There has been just as much excitement as there is disdain for the growing use of AI in art. While the former camp lauds the potential to create seemingly infinite amounts of visuals and moodboards simply from a text prompt, many within the art community are concerned regarding the infringement these developmental tools will impose in the years to come. The U.S. Copyright Office has weighed in on the debate and have ultimately assessed that only human-made works are eligible for protection. In a report published last week, the Office cites a 2018 submission in which the applicant described their work as "autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine.” After a series of appeals, the artwork was ultimately denied a copyright because it was made “without any creative contr...

To celebrate the Iranian New Year, also known as Nowruz, San Francisco-based creative studio Even/Odd has worked with the Kiarostami Foundation on a special range of products celebrating the late filmmaker's impact on the world cinema. For those unfamiliar, Abbas Kiarostami created films that straddled the line between fiction and reality. Having passed away in Paris at age 76, Kiarostami had an uncanny ability to illuminate the hopes and fears of humanity, such as in his seminal film, Where is the Friend’s House? and his Palm D’Or winning Taste of Cherry. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Even/Odd (@evenodd.studio)The project was helmed by Even/Odd founder Mohammad Gorjestani alongside creative director Omid Fatemi, both of whom looked to capture the artistic complexity of Kiaro...

Pipilotti Rist has unveiled a new site-specific video on the facade of the M+ Museum in Hong Kong. Globally recognized for her sensorial videos and installations, the Swiss artist typically creates immersive environments where the audience is invited to sit and observe colorful depictions of the human body, and our changing relationship with technology. In her latest work, Hand Me Your Trust, Rist bypasses the space of a gallery and museum altogether to present a towering meditation on the bustling lights and skyscrapers that constitute the Hong Kong skyline and the hands that made them. Emblematic of her cinematic style, each scene showcases various hands — some abstract, others literal depictions — as they float in and out of space. View this post on InstagramA post shared by M+, Museum ...

Artist Ai Weiwei is famous for flipping off global landmarks in one of his most notable series, Study of Perspective. Now, in a new online art project from Avant Arte, you can put the visionary's famous middle finger in the foreground of various searchable locations yourself.Titled "Middle Finger," the platform allows users to superimpose Weiwei's extended, angry arm over a selection of notable landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House and Trump Tower, among others. Additionally, the initiative features a slew of renowned artworks by Vincent Van Gogh, Hans Holbein The Younger and Banksy; and for those with more personal agendas, it lets users download a high-resolution cut-out of the artist's middle finger, which can be edited onto any picture.“We...

It's been over a decade since KAWS has exhibited in Paris. Much has changed in the art world in that time, and especially so for the street artist-turned-global-icon — from his partnerships with Fortnite, AllRightsReserved and General Mills to his rotator belt of vinyl figures and a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. For his latest solo exhibition, KAWS reflects on the concept of time itself at Skarstedt Gallery's Paris location.The works in TIME OFF stem back to NO EXIT, an earlier painting the artist created in 2020, during the height of confinement. Unlike the narrative depictions of the latter, KAWS' latest paintings are more introspective — serving as a reflection on the fleeting nature of time. CHUM, the artist's Michelin Man-inspired character, is seen throughout each painting,...