Art

Sow & Tailor gallery in Los Angeles is playing host to a new solo exhibition by Canadian artist Kayla Witt. Born in Calgary and now based in LA, Witt moved with a number of existential questions in mind: "When will I find love? Will I be successful? Will I be well? Will I be happy? When will I know I am where I should be?" I Can and Will Make Life Better for You is a meditative reflection on what she has experienced since.From a distance, you would be forgiven to think Witt specialized in photography. While up close, her hyperrealistic scenes give way to meticulous oil on canvas paintings that were developed under the intense parameters ushered in by the COVID pandemic. Witt regularly drove across LA's sprawling streets to document the many psychic shops riddled across the city, which she ...

The Netherlands is currently hosting the largest retrospective exhibition on Johannes Vermeer to date. Housed at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, the Dutch master's Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of the many paintings on view, as institution's around the globe have loaned out works for the show. To fill the gap, The Hague's Mauritshuis museum has, rather controversially, briefly replaced Girl with a Pearl Earring with a series of AI counterparts. Created by Berlin-based digital artist, Julian van Dieken, the portraits were made using the Midjourney AI tool, which translates text prompts into artwork through a machine-learning algorithm. From a child to a senior to several unusual interpretations, the Mauritshuis selected five artworks out of a pool of 3,482. Dieken was naturally elated to be cho...

The Magic Show is an eclectic art exhibition that brings together the work of 18 talented New York City-based artists, including FANTACIA (comprised of Isaiah Barr and Gogy Esparza), Luke Barber-Smith, Joseph Cochran II, Armando Nin, Camille Rouzaud, Radimir, Melanie Luna, Eva Nelson, Maxwell Deter, Stephanie Perez (Vvutura), Ronald Baker, Phillip Leeds, Shawn Powers, Chris Lloyd, and Weirdo Dave. Each artist has contributed their unique perspectives and styles to the show, resulting in a diverse range of works that include paintings, sculptures, photographs, and mixed media installations.The exhibition's curator, Gogy Esparza, has brought together these works in a way that creates an immersive and sensory experience for the viewer. The exhibition space is designed to transport visitors in...

The reconstruction of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral is ahead of schedule, with organizers estimating that visitors will once again be able to traverse its halls in December 2024. The 860-year-old monument caught fire nearly three years ago, shocking onlookers and global broadcasts, as the building's spire and wooden roof were largely destroyed. After several years of funding efforts and careful planning, the actual rebuilding phase began in 2022 and will be made to mimic the exact look and specifications of the cathedral prior to the fire. “The return of the spire in Paris’ sky will in my opinion be the symbol that we are winning the battle of Notre Dame,” said General Jean-Louis Georgelin, who leads the project, in an interview with the Associated Press.While the interior has been closed of...

Donna Huanca, an artist of Bolivian-American descent, creates art that challenges the male gaze while exploring narratives that center on feminine and indigenous perspectives, as well as mark-making. Her installations, which often incorporate painting, sculpture, and live performance, are intricately woven into the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented. Huanca's art is deeply rooted in ritual practice and serves as a conduit for transcendence, meditation, and transformation.In 2022, Huanca created a captivating and immersive architectural environment for her commissioned exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. The space featured a vast stage of interlocking ovoid/cellular forms, landscaped with white sand and six mirrored "screen" sculptures, along w...

Gian Maria Tosatti is an artist for the people. Born in Rome and now based in Naples, he understands that the pretentiousness and spectacle that often orbits around some artists and works will not be tolerated by many pockets of society. Under this framework, Tosatti creates large-scale installations that are accessible to the public and confront real issues, be it the climate or refugee emergency, all the whilst maintaining a sense of beauty, mystery and intrigue. Having represented Italy at the 59th Venice Biennale last year, Tosatti unveiled a new exhibition at Milan's Pirelli HangarBicocca. Entitled NOw/here, which can be read as “now” and “here,” or sequentially, as in “nowhere", the Italian artist worked with curator Vicente Todolí and light designer Pasquale Mari to showcase two bod...

For those of you looking forward to the upcoming Yayoi Kusama exhibition at David Zwirner, there will likely be a line. The New York solo show will play host to a new "Infinity Room", which in past iterations such as at The Broad, has accrued lines as long as four hours from fans and social media users waiting to get a pic.Entitled I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, the show marks the tenth anniversary since Kusama first exhibited with David Zwirner and is being hailed as her "largest gallery exhibition to date." Apart from the "Infinity Room", the acclaimed Japanese artist will also present a series of new paintings and sculptures that ruminate on her career-long exploration into pumpkins and floral motifs. At 93, Kusama has been busy, as she currently has an ongoing exhibition at the Pé...

Felipe Pantone is best known for his chromatic sculptures and installations that demystify the eye. Having exhibited from one corner of the world to the next, the Spanish-Argentine artist is currently showcasing a solo exhibition at CONTROL Gallery in Los Angeles that cements his meteoric rise. Pantone, like many street artists, however, first came to art through graffiti.A new collaboration with KRINK honors Pantone's roots through a set of K-60 markers. Comprising of six 15mm round tip paint markers (black, light blue, yellow, light green, red and purple), the set embodies the spirit of Pantone's practice — which teeters between art's analog past and digital future, where humans and machines will work in tandem to usher in the next frontier of creative expression. View this post on Insta...

While artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for quite some time now, the term has become far more ubiquitous at this point, appearing in nearly every corner of culture. The art world has been one of the many industries both intrigued and perplexed by this burgeoning technology and AI serves as the underlying theme of a new solo exhibition by filmmaker Bennett Miller at Gagosian's 976 Madison Avenue location in New York. As his first show with the gallery, the eponymously titled exhibition features a suite of prints made within the last five years that stem from Miller's thorough investigation of the technological crossroads we now find ourselves in. OpenAi CEO Sam Altman, the San Francisco–based developer of DALL•E, is one of the many influential figures that Miller interviewed with...

If shock factor was an art form, surely, Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova has achieved the rank of master. Formed in Moscow over a decade ago, the Feminist punk rock band has regularly staged anti-government protests, including a crypto organization to raise funds for Ukraine, along with a recent performance where the group burned a portrait of Russian president Vladimir Putin, which went on view at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles last month. To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, Tolokonnikova will screen a new digital billboard entitled Nadya Means Hope. Broadcasting on London's Piccadilly Lights, the short video showcases the Pussy Riot co-founder in her signature white balaclava as she lights an eggplant emoji candle-sculpture ablaze. The work was influenced by the U.S. Supre...

A savant at crafting art sculptures of coveted cars, Pokémon characters and human statues that are reimagined with eroded elements, Daniel Arsham has a plethora of projects lined up for 2023. One of the artist's collaborative efforts involves a partnership with Hublot, and one of their first initiatives is based across the pond in Zermatt, Switzerland where has has crafted a sundial installation that's made from snow and ice.Titled "Light & Time," the horological piece is designed to converge the concepts of timekeeping and land art. It sits at the base of the Matterhorn and measures out to 20 meters wide. The flat plate is sculpted out of snow and features a set of six arches around the edges while a pure white obelisk stands tall in the center. Inside the aforementioned arches, you'l...

TARWUK is a Croatian artist duo comprising of members, Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić. Raised during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and now based in New York, the two revisit their traumatic upbringing through avant-garde painterly styles and anthropomorphic sculptures, such as their latest body of work on view at White Cube in London.Entitled Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu, which in Croatian loosely translates to I planted a bone in the winter garden, the exhibition is a poetic reflection on the unpredictability of nature and human's innate struggle in bringing order. A selection of new sculptures and large-scale paintings create a carnivalesque scene within the gallery, considered by TARWUK as "architectural models of organic growth," where life is merely a performative act pla...