Art

Gagosian is set to unveil a new solo exhibition entitled At One by legendary Light and Space artist James Turrell at its Le Bourget location in France. The show is being hailed as the largest survey on Turrell's work in Europe over the past 25 years, and will present an array of early projection works, woodblock etchings, as well as several new installations, Ganzfeld, All Clear (2024) and Either Or (2024), the latter from his Wedgework series. Since the 1960s, Turrell, alongside fellow luminaries in Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin, shifted the paradigm on art by pivoting from traditional painterly modes of expression, in favor of utilizing light itself as both the conceptual and material basis to explore perceptions of space. Turrell was notably inspired by the Ganzfeld effect, the phenomena ...

AI art pioneer Refik Anadol has just announced plans for the opening the world’s first artificial intelligence museum of the arts, DATALAND. Set to open in 2025 and dedicated to data visualization and algorithmic innovation, DATALAND will be housed at the Gehry-designed Grand LA — joining a band of landmark arts and culture institutions in Downtown Los Angeles, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Broad, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.“DATALAND welcomes people of all backgrounds with unparalleled experiences utilizing machine learning and the latest sensory and visualization technologies at a scale and quality never before realized,” the Refik Anadol Studio said in a recent statement. “In pursuit of its mission, DATALAND combines online access and learning platforms, a...

Everyone's heard the idiom: "One man's trash is another man's treasure." But for Matt Winter, a 24-year-old from the small English town of Cranbrook, an unassuming etching destined for the waste bin just landed him $44,000 USD at auction. The artwork, Knight, Death and the Devil (1513–14), was recently deemed by experts as a museum-worthy original by the acclaimed German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer. Winter had originally obtained the engraving when he was 11 from a woman who was going to throw it in the trash. The exceptional level of detail caught his eye and after 13 years of holding on to it, he sought professional help for an appraisal. "It’s got so much detail to it, and something told me that’s worth something but I never really knew what," Winter said in a past interview. On ...

Brightly-colored circles have consumed the eastern and southern facade of London’s Hayward Gallery, softening the building’s brutalist exterior. For her newest outdoor installation, British-Indian artist Bharti Kher examines the intersection of South Asian femininity, spirituality, and nature in a striking display of hue and form.Target Queen presents an array of vibrant concentric circles, measuring over three meters in diameter, that represent bindis, a powerful symbol used by South Asian women to denote a third eye. With a chimeric curiosity, Kher explores the spiritual and aesthetic meaning of bindis, a staple motif in her work since 1995. “Target Queen is a bold, vibrant, and powerful artwork that calls for greater representation of femininity and divinity, also as an exciting explora...

Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III's FriendsWithYou has just released their whimsical take on a kitchen classic. For BUDDY CHUB, a new limited edition cookie jar, the duo came together with Belgium-based brand Case Studyo to add a sense of fun into the everyday.At around 10 inches tall, the ceramic sculpture finds charm in its cute and bold design, as the two vessels are stacked on top of one another, two heads freckled in an array of bright-colored dots. The jar mirrors the playfulness of a matryoshka doll as its wide eyes and soft smiles conjure a feeling of childlike fun. This new release plays into the group’s larger mission of spreading positivity and magic through multi-scalar projects, blurring the lines between art and utility, as the sculpture seeks to spread love and friendsh...

After a decade-long career as a fashion photographer, Juan Brenner left New York City to return to Guatemala City. In his homecoming, he was moved by the new era of Guatemalans who brought aesthetic traditions and ways of being into a new dawn. For his upcoming book, published by Guest Editions, Brenner presents the vibrant renaissance of youth culture in the Western Highlands in a series of rich and tender scenes.Across 360 pages, Genesis chronicles everyday life in a culmination of over five years’ work. “The more I worked on Genesis, the less it became about me and the more it evolved into an archive of a moment in time,” Brenner notes. “The Highlands are so dense and rich with stimulus that it’s hard to digest everything at once when you’re there.” In the face of great change, the arti...

It's no surprise that Ai Weiwei likes to stir the pot. The Chinese dissident artist is well known for giving the bird to authority figures around the world, as well as questioning artificial intelligence through a monumental public installation he recently showcased with CIRCA at London's Piccadilly Circus. But over the weekend at Weiwei's new exhibition at Palazzo Fava in Bologna, a 57-year-old Czech man flipped the script and caused a stir himself by deliberately smashing one of the artist's sculptures. Per reports, Vaclav Pisvejc was well-known to art insiders for wreaking havoc during exhibitions, smashing a Marina Abramović painting in 2018, amongst other offenses. During the opening night of Weiwei's Who am I? solo show, CCTV captures Pisvejc knocking Porcelain Cube off a plinth and ...

Japanese artist and breakdancer Taku Obata has worked with London creative studio Avant Arte on a new sculptural edition entitled B BOY SEIDOU.Obata's latest release distills his two passions in life into a weighty bronze artwork depicting a breaker in mid dance, as he wears an oversized hat and eyes beaming toward the viewer with his limbs outstretched. The sculpture, much like Obata's two practices, centers around the human body as an instrument for movement. The artist first started to conflate these two worlds several decades ago, stating that he was "convinced that there wasn’t anyone else in the world who was inspired to carve a B-Boy wood sculpture," prompting him to "push the boundaries by doing carving instead of the modeling I am used to."In B BOY SEIDOU, Obata cast his usual chi...

Video games have evolved far beyond mere entertainment—they’re immersive worlds where players lose themselves in sight, sound, and story. The ability to step into another universe, interact with it, and shape its narrative has turned gaming into a powerful art form.Onassis ONX is preparing to unveil Group Hug, an unconventional exhibition of immersive video game installations by Theo Triantafyllidis, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and the duo Tale of Tales (Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn). In partnership with Water Street Projects and curated by Julia Kaganskiy, the show brings a unique, multi-sensory experience to New York from September 26 to October 20.Each of the three site-specific works invites players to step into unfamiliar worlds where teamwork is key. Triantafyllidis’ “Feral Metav...

teamLab is set to unveil a new permanent exhibition in Izura, a picturesque coastal spot in Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture. Entitled teamLab: Hidden Traces of Rice Terraces, the immersive exhibition will take place in the unique landscape, transforming the rice terraces tucked away deep in the forest into a beguiling spectacle of light, colors and flora.Visitors will be able to explore the forest area that surrounds the rice terrace, where they’ll also be able to check out another of teamlab’s projects, “Digitized Nature.” As explained by the art collective on their website, the concept examines how “non-material digital technology can turn nature into art without harming it.”In tandem,  teamlab has partnered up with Izura Hot Springs to tailor a unique and glamping experience that blends well...

Mercer Labs is set to unveil a new immersive exhibition just in time for Halloween. Conceptualized by co-founder and multidisciplinary artist Roy Nachum, Dark Matter invites audiences into nightmarish dreamscapes, fusing together elements of psychic darkness with paranormal expression.Housed at Mercer Labs’ 36,000 square foot base in downtown Manhattan, the exhibition will feature a series of 15 unique rooms. In a maelstrom of robots, 4D soundscapes, dynamic projections and infinity rooms, Dark Matter creates an experience that is just as entrancing as it is eerie.“Dark Matter examines the role of darkness in art history,” says Nachum in an exhibition statement. “Revealing how the subconscious uncertainty and the unknown has shaped artistic movements across time. The exhibition is a mirror...