Art

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 ...

It's been nearly 111 years since the RMS Titanic sank on that fateful night in the North Atlantic Ocean. Caught between horror and intrigue, opulence and anguish, the story of the ship has fascinated scholars, moviegoers and history buffs since. To coincide with the 25th Anniversary of the Academy Award-winning film Titanic in 1997, never-before-seen footage has been released documenting one of the first dives to the ship wreckage in 1986.Conducted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in partnership with France’s Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, the grainy 81-minute video peruses two miles below sea level documenting where the ruins of the Titanic will hauntingly rest until it slowly deteriorates with time.The video was shot just nine months after the ocean liner's...

"What is it like to experience a new place, somewhat nostalgic or maybe unfamiliar?" Art collector and curator Jack Siebert asks that of the viewer upon entering his second exhibition in Los Angeles. Immersed brings together 21 artists who meditate on the notion that much of what we internally experience is just as vital to the external forces that shape it. Greg ito, Alfie Caine, Madeleine Bialke and Nadia Ayari are some of the many figures who "take physical presence and recapture its structure with their own internal experience, through abstraction or depictions of landscape and personal settings," as Siebert explained in a statement. There is an iceberg effect to daily experience, where one truly cannot see what lies under the surface of another's thoughts and experiences. As such, thi...

While much of the art world descends upon Los Angeles this week for Frieze, local artist Cleon Peterson heads to Tokyo to present a new solo exhibition entitled Under the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. On view at the Takashi Murakami-run Kaikai Kiki Gallery, the show is Peterson's first Japanese solo show in seven years. The exhibition will showcase 27 new paintings that are created in a monochromatic palette featuring Peterson's humanoid figures. Emblematic of his past work, the LA-based artist comments on the violence, greed and corruption that has plagued society since the days of antiquity. "We've entered a new age of global crisis," wrote the artist. "Modern dread, hopelessness, and existential anxiety have become common and relegated to the subconscious. The individual walks the stree...

After delivering Martí Guerrero's Tim Comix Figure, eclectic Hong Kong select shop and vintage purveyor ASTERISK has reconnected with Yu Nagaba for a playful release. The collaboration is built on a friendship with the Japanese modern and contemporary artist which began in 2016 when Nagaba illustrated ASTERISK's logo that is still used today.Back in 2019, ASTERISK and Yu Nagaba came together to discuss the idea of materializing the 2D logo into a 3D object. Resulting in the birth of 星仔/Sing Jai, through rigorous collaboration and countless sketches the figure was brought to life by lauded art name HOW2WORK.The ASTERISK x Yu Nagaba 星仔/Sing Jai Figure 1st Edition crafted by HOW2WORK is constructed of vinyl and faithfully represents Nagaba's minimal yet emotive drawing style. 星仔/Sing Jai, Can...

Shortly after working alongside the London-based art and design store House of Voltaire to create a limited-edition range of cashmere blankets, KAWS is now preparing for a brand new Valentine's Day launch. The acclaimed Brooklyn artist has just announced a brand new batch of BFF "Time Off" figures that have been prepared in a trio of colorways.Viewed as one of the more popular silhouettes from KAWS, the BFF figure was first introduced in 2016. Its body type is inspired by the artist's ACCOMPLICE AND COMPANION figures as it bears the body type of the former and the gloves and shoes of the latter. And for this newest launch, it has been shaped to be lying down on its right hip, posted up without a worry in the world. It's designed in a relaxed position which directly correlates with its "TIM...