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To commemorate its second location in Los Angeles, Hauser & Wirth unveiled a new solo exhibition by acclaimed American artist George Condo. As a nod to the City of Angels, People Are Strange takes its title from The Doors' 1967 song of the same name, where Condo explores contrasting themes, such as beauty and ugliness, in his latest suite of paintings.Located in a reconverted automobile showroom, the work on view was all made within the last year and features bizarre characters, vigorous brushstrokes and a general sense of hysteria from canvas-to-canvas. This controlled chaos that runs concurrent in each work is a way in which the artist speaks to the contemporary moment and the socio-political tension across the world. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Hauser & Wirth - Art G...

Amidst its expansive galleries, the Turbine Hall remains one of the focal points to London's Tate Modern. In the past, Olafur Eliasson and Tania Bruguera are amongst the many artists who've utilized the space to comment on a range of topics pertaining climate change and institutional power. Following Cecilia Vicuña's Brain Forest Quipu installation currently on display, Ghanaian Artist El Anatsui has been selected to be the next in line.Anatsui started his career as a professor of sculpture at the University of Nigeria in 1975. His approach to teaching, emblematic of his own art today, was highly conceptual in the way he encouraged people to use materials available in the natural and built environment. Fast forward to the 2000's, Anatsui began creating his signature bottle-cap sculptures a...

Accidentally Wes Anderson, a community founded in 2017 dedicated to finding and sharing the most "beautiful, idiosyncratic, and interesting places on earth" is heading to Tokyo for its latest exhibition.As the name suggests, AWA was inspired by the distinct visual lens of beloved film director Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs), seeking out real-life counterparts of Anderson's imaginative scenes around the globe. Originally founded as a personal project by a couple on Instagram, the idea quickly grew into a movement involving more than a million individuals who are encouraged to submit photos and experiences of their personal travels. As it continues to grow, AWA now provides guides covering all corners of the world and produces its own products, books, and short stories...

A mishap occurred last week at the Art Wynwood, an art fair in Miami, regarding one of the iconic balloon dog sculptures by Jeff Koons. A visitor knocked over the $42,000 USD bright blue porcelain dog, shattering the sculpture into pieces. At 16 inches tall and 19 inches long, the dog was sat perched on a transparent pedestal on display at Art Wynwood. At the fair's VIP preview night, Stephen Gamson, an art collector and an artist told New York Times that "he saw an unidentified woman tap the sculpture with her finger, knocking it from its pedestal in a booth managed by Bel-Air Fine Art." At first, Gamson thought that it was part of a performance, however, he noticed the woman blushing and the art fair staff quickly rushing over. The shattered shards of porcelain turned into a spectacle. T...

The Monet - Mitchell exhibition is currently entering its final days on view at Fondation Louis Vuitton, but in an ironic set of circumstances, the Joan Mitchell Foundation is reportedly suing the luxury fashion house for using a work by the Abstract Expressionist in a Capucines handbag advertisement featuring French actress, Léa Seydoux.Louis Vuitton advertisement featuring Léa Seydoux promoting the Cupucine handbag in front of Joan Mitchell's 'La Grande Vallée XIV (For a Little While)',from the February 12, 2023 print edition of The New York Times. Courtesy of The New York Times. News broke yesterday, February 22, when the Joan Mitchell Foundation sent Louis Vuitton a cease and desist letter prompting the house to remove the campaign and issue an apology. “It’s important for folks to und...

NANZUKA is showcasing American artist Todd James' new solo exhibition, Soldier of Fortune, at their NANZUKA UNDERGROUND outpost in Tokyo, Japan. This marks James' fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, following his last show in Tokyo four years ago. The exhibition is centered around James' first large-scale sculptural work, a bronze sculpture called "Pentagon Pile Up," featuring fused jet fighters and tanks that have lost their combat function. This work is a cartoon critique of the military industrial complex, warning of the mental and physical toll of warmongering.In addition to the sculpture, the exhibition also features James' paintings depicting military themes that have appeared in his work for decades, as well as small works on paper. Even though he has transitioned from street art...

Shortly after bringing a reflective "Orb" to the Pyramids of Giza, SpY Studio launches another conceptual installation at the Llum BCN Festival of lights in Barcelona. Titled the "MONOLITH," the exhibition features a towering rectangular screen that explores humanity's relationship with screens and data."MONOLITH" takes inspiration from the extraterrestrial black cuboid in Stanley Kubrick’s classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey — an unknown object that came into contact with humans to provoke an evolutionary leap in cognitive capacity. The installation draws a link between the monolith in the movie to mobile phone screens and other screens that surround us on a daily basis."The screen’s potential for disruptive, emancipatory endeavours and for the circulation of genuine ideas is obscured by a...

With events taking place in every corner of the city — artists, galleries and collectors from around the globe descended in Los Angeles for the highly-anticipated return of Frieze and Felix Art Fair. Now going on its fourth edition in LA, many questions circulated around Frieze's new location at the Santa Monica Airport. 'Was it too far West and how would it affect attendance with the satellite events in Hollywood and further east?' As with most commutes in and around LA, traffic into Frieze was bumper-to-bumper and parking, as well as calling an Uber or Lyft after the event, was equally as troublesome. Despite the somewhat surprising dip in weather and the longer than usual traffic, the reception was nothing short of electric as dealers reported resounding success throughout the duration ...

At the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, Yayoi Kusama is preparing to restage her famous, polka-dot-filled exhibition, titled LOVE IS CALLING. From March 9, 2023, to February 11, 2024, the psychedelic showcase, which first premiered in Japan in 2013, will light up the Floridian gallery with all of Kusama's quintessential motifs.The dark, reflective space will continue the legendary Japanese artist's famous Infinity Mirror Rooms series in its largest form to date. Inflatable, tentacle-like structures, dotted with emblematic black spots, will light the exhibition in gradually changing kaleidoscopic hues, extending out from the floor and the ceiling to cultivate an immersive experience.As visitors walk through the installation, Kusama's voice will recite the poem that inspired the exhibition, also t...

It's been many years since Geoff McFetridge has showcased a solo show in Los Angeles, where he's lived since moving from his hometown of Calgary, Canada. His latest solo exhibition, Return to Stoner Forest, is a way in which the artist looks to reconnect to the early stages of his career, where he remembers making work to mainly share with friends. He's gone on to showcase around the world since that time, always paving his own artistic lane of distilling complex emotions into recognizable motifs, while collaborating with world-renowned brands, such as Nike and Stüssy, along the way. Housed at One Trick Pony, just a stones throw from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the exhibition presents a row of totemic figures alongside his signature paper-based illustrations. Emblematic o...

Esperanza Rosas, also known by her artist alias, Runsy, is a Chicago-based multimedia artist best known for creating detailed illustrations that recontexualizes pop cultural motifs with her Mexican heritage. Opening today at FRANCHISE gallery in Los Angeles is a new solo exhibition entitled Plata o Plomo.Named after the popular phrase used in the hit Netflix series, Narcos, the show is a form of self-exploration, where the artist is reverting back to introducing herself by her first name. "Runsy is Esperanza, in a dualistic existence, arriving at what it means to be a Mexican artist from South Side Chicago with a propensity for self exploration," wrote a release by the gallery. "This presentation of, 'all things that make up who I am,' is equally meditative and robust. Each intricate lead ...