Art

Walid Shaharul, a self-taught painter residing in Queens, NY is preparing to showcase his latest exhibit called "Through the Looking Glass" at Nepenthes New York, curated by the South East Asian art collective roosi, from March 24 to May 23, 2023. The exhibit will feature six new paintings that explore the idea of duality and reflections in distinct ways. Shaharul is known for his figurative paintings, which often depict his acquaintances, relatives, and imaginary subjects, and he employs geometric and surreal components in his compositions to evoke various emotions. His artwork also includes a range of reflections, utilizing mirrors, windows, bodies of water, and conceptual contrasts to create a sense of likeness or similarity."Through the Looking Glass" will display Shaharul's trademark ...

The fabled characters of Pokémon like Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charizard and their various forms have been celebrated and recontextualized countless times in their roughly 25 year history. During that time, the series has become a medium through which Japanese pop culture is disseminated across the globe. However, at a new Pokémon Crafts exhibition in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 20 Japanese artists both established and up-and-coming are reimagining the characters through traditional craftsmanship, or kogei.On display at the National Crafts Museum and open now until June 11, the exhibition sees 70 Pokémon characters transformed into ceramics, figurines, ornaments and other artisanal creations. With the five elements of Pokémon being fire, air, water, earth and void, viewers are invited to consider how t...

From entertainment to music, fashion to art, Seoul has shown to be a cultural hotspot over the past few years. Amongst the many galleries that have nestled in the South Korean capital, Centre Pompidou has announced that they too will open a Seoul location in 2025. The French museum is essentially lending its brand name in a four-year deal to the Hanwha Culture Foundation's Tower 63, a glass skyscraper which serves as the headquarters for the Hanwha Group. “Throughout the four-year collaboration, the Centre Pompidou will offer eight monographic exhibitions—two per year—based on a selection of works from the Center Pompidou collection,” said the business conglomerate in a statement.Tentatively named Pompidou Center Hanwha Seoul, the forthcoming museum will be designed by French architect Jea...

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...