Art

After only one day of opening, Cj Hendry’s massive floral installation was quickly shut down due to overcrowding, finding home in an Industry City warehouse for its final viewing day.Two years in the making, Flower Market was originally installed at FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island, presented in collaboration with Clé de Peau Beauté and the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy. Slated to stay from September 13 through 15, the immersive exhibition was shut down by the New York Police Department in the first hour of opening on September 14 after the park reached capacity. The artist took to social media, apologizing to visitors that weren’t able to make it in, promising to “build a new exhibit overnight” via Instagram later that day.With quick feet, Hendry and her team found an ope...

Europa presents a solo exhibition by Thomas McDonell featuring a new suite of paintings and sculptures. For Figueroa St. Paintings, the actor-turned-artist widens a curious eye toward an ever-changing Los Angeles, finding creative life in utilitarian materials.For McDonell, the pleasure is in the pragmatic. Traces of scratching fingernails on the surface of the canvas suggest a clash between the artist and his work, as confident gestures and handprints are held together in thick layers of discarded industrial house paint.Painting and sculpture bleed into one another through the artist’s textural approach. In the center of the gallery lay ceramic pieces, adorned in calligraphic grooves and a rich inky glaze. The supporting pedestals are crafted out of newspaper rolls, sourced from the Los A...

Perrotin New York presents Between, an immersive dive into the world of Lee Bae, a South Korean artist known for pushing the boundaries of minimalism. Bae’s work has recently been seen on a colossal scale at Rockefeller Center and in the Venice Biennale. This time, at Perrotin, he showcases a site-specific installation featuring paper painted with charcoal ink and bronze sculptures. The pieces explore the intersection of cultural history and the present moment, with bold shapes capturing fragments of time.For over four decades, Bae has honed his craft around the color black, primarily using charcoal. To him, charcoal represents the cycle of life, renewal, and history. He’s evolved from raw charcoal sculptures to experimenting with charcoal ink and bronze in recent years. His "Brushstroke" ...

Ahead of their annual residency program, THE SHOPHOUSE has announced a duet exhibition by artists Jinbin Chen and Yu Shuk Pui Bobby. The two will come together to showcase a series of original on-site works following the open studio period.Since its inauguration in 2021, the DOOR TO DOOR program has exercised art as a point of entry. Through an exchange of creative environments between Hong Kong and the UK, the program brings the role of place and space into full focus as each artist creates work that responds to their new surroundings.This year's special DØR TO DOOR program visualizes the cultural and knowledge exchange between Hong Kong and Oslo. In search of an in-betweenness, Chen romanticizes the gap between the ideal and the past in soft and fragmented figures. His work examines enco...

At Nunu Fine Art New York, six Taiwanese artists look for stability in an endless sea of information in a new group show. In the Moment filters through an aperture of life online as each artist interrogates the cold clutch of digital ephemera.Born and raised in the 1990s, the artists are united by technological advancement and political activity during their coming of age. Bearing witness to the generation of artists that came before them, their work hones in on themes of introspection and individuality—capturing the moment as it comes.With respect to form and focus, the works of In the Moment don’t hold back. Chiao-Han Chueh conjures movement and fantasy in eccentric forms. Fu Ning brings life to doomscrolling through an iridescent imagination. Guan-Hong Lu advantages absurdity and humor ...

After teaming up with ACU for an immersive exhibition in Chengdu, Jahan Loh returns to Singapore to unveil his latest solo show, POSTCARDS FROM SPACE.Featuring a new body of large-scale paintings, the center of the piece on an “interplanetary diaspora” concept, Loh artistically envisions a distant future where humans become inhabitants of exoplanets or other celestial bodies. His signature blend of Eastern iconography, pop culture motifs and sci-fi tone is fully embraced in this exhibition, with every painting not only being visually striking but also exuding a sense of unsettling surrealism that feels almost digital-like.In-line with the predominant space theme, the artworks are all named after actual celestial bodies. In “天宮星:: GLIESE 667CC,” Loh depicts a youthful boy-girl duo clad in v...

With his Spirited Away solo exhibition just days away, Kai Clements of Kai and Sunny has revealed another aspect of the awaited showcase. Clements has teamed up with Element Skateboards to collaborate on two hypnotic skate decks.Dipped in a captivating all-blue colorway, the decks are accompanied by a limited-edition silkscreen print. Different hues of blue compile the body of the deck, with Clements' signature fine lining spiraling around the silhouette. The design Clements has been using for his Spirited Away work reappears throughout the decks, while the back side is all-white and comes complete with cobranded hits and signage from Clements. Take a closer look at the detailing in the gallery above.Per an Instagram post from Clements, Spirited Away has been in the works for years, and is...

TASCHEN has released ‘David LaChapelle: Lost and Found. Good News,’ a two-volume art edition with three signed prints. It’s David LaChapelle’s first major release in a decade, capturing the chaos and beauty of his career.‘Lost + Found’ kicks off in 1980s New York, where LaChapelle sharpened his teeth under Andy Warhol and ‘Interview’ magazine. He quickly became a force in fashion photography, blending sex, celebrity, and surrealism in a way only he could. ‘Good News’ covers his rebirth after stepping out of the spotlight in 2006, retreating to Hawaii to rediscover his creativity. What emerged was a mix of high-gloss, consumerist critique and spiritual exploration.“This is an intimate tour through LaChapelle’s thematic evolution, narrated by the world-class photographer himself. Throughout,...

John Baldessari, a leading figure in American Conceptualism, consistently challenged artistic conventions, recontextualizing art through painting, photography, and mixed media. Drawing from various sources like film culture and philosophy, his work is both absurd and accessible. As part of Berlin Art Week 2024, Sprüth and Magers presents Ahmedabad 1992, a solo exhibition showcasing Baldessari's mixed-media assemblages from his residency in India.In early 1992, Baldessari stayed at the Sarabhai family compound in Ahmedabad, India, where he was inspired by local culture and rapid societal changes. His collages, featuring his own photographs, found imagery, and materials like rubber mudflaps and printed handmade paper, document this dynamic environment. The works reflect motion, technological...

Bobbi Essers' paintings are akin to an optical illusion, it’s hard to tell where bodies end and begin. Unexpectedly cropped forms are puzzled together by auratic symmetry, only to be superimposed by a new image completely. Echoing the cohesive and fragmented nature of memories, her compositions are much more than the sum of their parts.Unit London presents The World at Our Command, a new solo show by the Dutch rising star. In a song of skin and cloth, the exhibition channels the ethos of contemporary youth. Bearing intensity and intimacy in equal breath, the artist captures tender friendship in a collage of candid moments.By keeping subjects anonymous, Essers' work welcomes compositional overlap, giving universal resonance to personal emotions and experiences. “The face doesn’t hold much p...

Fondation Cartier is gearing up to unveil its new Paris location near the Louvre in 2025, transforming a historic Haussmannian building with the help of architect Jean Nouvel, who also designed its current glass-and-steel headquarters on Boulevard Raspail. Originally a luxury hotel and later an antiques gallery, this 19th-century site will offer over 21,000 square feet of exhibition space, blending historic charm with modern design. The space features mobile platforms that allow for flexible layouts, giving artists more freedom to shape their exhibitions.As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, Fondation Cartier continues to push the boundaries of contemporary art. Known for showcasing talent like Sarah Sze, Ron Mueck, and Matthew Barney, the foundation has a reputation for embracing both es...

For able-bodied audiences, navigating through a museum or exhibition can be a straightforward experience. For those with disabilities, however, the barriers they face are often overlooked.The Zimmerli Art Museum has unveiled a new group exhibition featuring the work of artists with disabilities from around the world. Titled Smoke & Mirrors, the show conceptualizes access through ideas of transparency, antagonism, and humor as each artist brings institutional inequity to the surface.“The exhibition really comes from the perspective of a disabled person or a disabled artist specifically. It's trying to make transparent this idea of something that we ordinarily would not notice or take for granted,” says guest curator Dr. Amanda Cachia. “That's why I use that turn of phrase, ‘smoke and mi...