Art

The Sigg Art Foundation has just announced the winner of its inaugural Art Prize. Founded in 2020 by collector Pierre Sigg, the foundation aims to redefine the boundaries of contemporary art through the integration of AI and technology. However, the competition's embrace of technology goes beyond the artwork itself, placing an AI judge amidst its jury of curators, writers and collectors.Selected from over 300 applicants hailing from 70 countries, the 2024 Art Prize goes to Paris-based German artist Dana-Fiona Armour for her interactive video installation, Alvinella Ophis. In light of this year’s Future Desert theme, the work bears life to a hybrid snake creature in a dry, dystopian landscape, incorporating infrared sensors to mirror the animal's heat-sensitive capabilities. Armour’s work a...

Jake Vanden Berge is an emerging Los Angeles-based artist who paints striking juxtapositions exploring the hazy threshold between memory and nostalgia. Born in Whittier and entirely self-trained, Vanden Berge's oil compositions are diluted to appear like snapshots racing through the mind, spanning the real to the imagined, from burning suburban houses to images of a doberman pinscher contrasted with a field of chromatic tulips. There is a cinematic quality to the images that Vanden Berge culls. He purposefully stacks opposing themes as a way to spark dialogues with disparate subject matter and spotlight the beauty in the everyday. His latest Untitled print features a field of pink tulips split between a cropped image of a women's lips. The impermanence of beauty, emblematic of the use of...

In the hum of Frieze London, Almine Rech presents a new exhibition curated by 16Arlington's creative director Marco Capaldo. For Capaldo’s first curatorial foray, Memories of the Future summons a tender suite of artworks at No.9 Cork Street, each echoing the surreal nature of time.The exhibition is an ode to memory, anchored by an anachronistic sensibility. Bringing a fresh perspective to what is both old and new, the show shines a light on how memory doesn't just belong to the past, but acts as an ever-evolving agent in our future.A rising star himself, Capaldo spotlights a new era of British artists, drawing together a cast of fresh faces and seminal figures in contemporary art. Spanning across various mediums, the exhibition features an installation of John Giorno’s “Dial-A-Poem,” paint...

The Studio Museum in Harlem has just announced plans for the grand opening of its new 125th Street home. After closing in 2018 to embark on the multimillion-dollar expansion project, the building will welcome visitors next fall. The first exhibition will feature the work of late artist and activist Tom Lloyd, whose sculptures appeared in the museum’s inaugural show in 1968, staged at a rented Fifth Avenue loft.Designed by British architect David Adjaye, the 82,000-square-foot building will more than double the institution’s previous exhibition and public space across five stories. The structure features a theater, an education center, a studio for its artists in residence and a café, while the offices will make their way to the National Urban League’s new headquarters just across the stree...

Cadogan Gallery has a new home and to celebrate, the London-based gallery has unveiled one of its largest group exhibitions to date. Eponymously titled Cadogan Gallery: A Group Exhibition, the show presents 21 artists spanning sculpture, painting and textiles, each telling a story of the gallery, from past, present to future.Christopher Burness started Cadogan Gallery in 1980 in a small building he lived in on Pont Street, which doubled as the office for his book publishing business. After convincing his friend Rafael Valls to lend him some paintings, he began exhibiting work on the ground floor, opening the door to leagues of artists to do the same since.Christopher's kids, Freddie and Katie Burness, have upheld this legacy over 40 years later, with a continued focus on contemporary abstr...

Steven Harrington is taking his love for Halloween and casting it in Sterling silver through a new collaboration with Good Art HLYWD. As the second release between the two, the Los Angeles-based artist is dropping a series of intricate jewelry pieces featuring bats, pumpkins and skeleton characters, all hand-crafted with Harrington's psychedelic sensibilities in mind. Founded by Josh Warner in 1990, Good Art HLYWD specializes in creating luxurious bracelets, chains, clips and bespoke items made in Sterling silver, gold and other precious metals and gemstones. The boutique label facilitates all aspects of jewelry production within its LA-based building, from casting and melting alloys to fine-tuning every detail to the marketing, resulting in unique statement pieces featuring bespoke lockin...

Piet Parra is reuniting with London-based studio Avant Arte to release three new limited edition prints. The loose figurations in each composition is inspired by the drawings of Willem Janssen, a lesser known Dutch artist who had a big impact on Parra during his formative years, evident in the playful curvature employed in both Parra and Janssen's respective work. LOST KEYS depicts a trio of female subjects that harks to a beach scene that Parra's father once painted. The artwork's title is inspired by a song of the same name from MICH, a band that Parra plays in, as well as the sandy dunes that the artist would cycle through in Amsterdam. FOUR WALLS is devoid of a setting, depicting three women who blend into together, referencing an after-hours party, where time and place become blurred....

Art has always played several functions in society: a form of personal expression, a chronicling of the present moment and a barometer to predict the course of future events, whether real or imagined. As arbiters in their own right, artists have rallied in recent years to galvanize awareness to the growing threats of climate change, as well as the fight for social justice. UCLA's Hammer Museum is showcasing a new group exhibition that probes into this intersection entitled Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice.Curated by Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake, the show is part of the Getty's regional PST ART: Art and Science Collide initiative and presents 100 works by 20 intergenerational artists, scientists and activists, including Mel Chin, Ron Finley, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Garnett Puett...

Alvin Ailey’s Revelations first premiered back in 1958, only a few years after his arrival in New York. The piece was the first of many prominent works by the artist and choreographer, leaving its mark on the dance world forever. He cut the original 16 sections down to three in order to take it across the country, and it's been kept short ever since. While it’s been six decades since the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater last performed the original piece, the spirit of Revelations is set to return to the stage.Next month, choreographer Matthew Rushing will resurrect a full-length version of Ailey’s signature work at the Whitney Museum's third-floor theater in a performance entitled Sacred Songs. Tracing through the soul of Black spirituality and gospel, Rushing captures the essence of Ail...

The 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Mil Graus is presented by the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, curated by Germano Dushá and Thiago de Paula Souza, with co-curation by Ariana Nuala. The exhibition's title, Mil Graus (A thousand degrees), reflects the concept of a "heat-limit," symbolizing transformation under intense conditions, both physical and metaphysical. This edition features 34 artists from 16 Brazilian states, with over 130 works, 79 of which are new creations for the event.Due to renovations at Ibirapuera Park, where the event is traditionally situated, the exhibition is currently hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art at São Paulo University (MAC USP). The show spans the ground and third floors, exploring contemporary Brazilian art through five thematic axes: General Ecolo...

Blue Velvet Projects lifted the veil on a new solo exhibition by American artist Adam Cruces, now on view until October 26, 2024. Using rich pastels and sculptures, Necessary Evil explores the intricate relationship between humans and nature, marked by feelings of tranquility and danger. As inner and outer worlds close in on one another, Cruces sends a flare from the American plains.The artist brings a touch of Texan flair to Zürich, channeling rural scenery, agriculture and Western films. The white walls of the gallery are lined with pastels of deserts and mountains, acting as windows into surreal landscapes. Familiar emblems of American culture, such as cowboy hats, anvils and apples dramatically fall through their dreamlike environments, caught in a slow-motion series of stills.In song ...