Art

Update (August 29): KAWS:HOLIDAY Shanghai made its grand reveal last night at the renowned North Bund dock along the Huangpu River, featuring a brand-new design: a large inflatable art installation of COMPANION sitting leisurely, holding the moon, and gazing at the sky. This marks the first light sculpture in the KAWS:HOLIDAY series.Update (August 16): Shanghai's rapidly developing North Bund area has been revealed as the next stop in the KAWS:HOLIDAY tour. After teasing the massive installation vis Instagram this week, the Brooklyn-based artist says that the work was made in collaboration with organizer JFJ Productions to honor the upcoming "Moon Festival’s tradition of displaying lanterns for good fortune." Accompanying the installation, which will be on view from August 29 to September ...

K11 Art Foundation is kicking off a series of events for Frieze Seoul, starting with its Moon Party to mark the occasion. In celebration of Korea's Moon Festival, K11 is embodying the Chuseok spirit, while celebrating creativity and synergy with its first generative art exhibition titled, Lunar Water.With the support of lead sponsor Flipster and digital screen partner LG OLED, the exhibition features immersive experiences that feature generative artworks by a'strict and Tyler Hobbs alongside a new large-scale generative artwork by Cheng Ran. Exclusive to this exhibition, Cheng Ran collaborated with Genify and Bohan Sun to reimagine his work "In Course of the Miraculous" -- a nine-hour film that first premiered at the Istanbul Biennale, to create his first generative artwork. The exhibit al...

Craft Contemporary presents 3B Collective: Highway Hypnosis, now on view in Los Angeles. The exhibition maps the cultural history of 3B Collective, a group of multi-disciplinary Angelenos, as they re-envision forces of migration and adaptation through cultural iconography. In a constellation of murals, ceramics, masks, and textiles, a look back on the group’s work brings hidden stories of indigeneity, labor, and commodity to center stage.In collaboration with skilled artisans in Oaxaca, Jalisco, El Salvador, and Baja California, the works of Highway Hypnosis embody expressions of cultural resilience that flex across borders and time. For “Freeway Weaving”, 3B comes together with Tallerocoho8, a textile space in Oaxaca founded by Beto Ruiz. With dyes made from native plants, the tapestry sh...

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) announces the debut of their invitational art fair, The Salon. Organized in collaboration with Paris-based art space, The Community, the fair is set to gather 46 exhibitors from galleries in association with NADA and The Community’s directory of non-profit arts organizations for four days of programming at 76 Boulevard de Magenta in Paris’s 10th arrondissement. A forerunner to Paris Art Week, The Salon will take place from October 17–20, alongside a book fair on October 19.Held at the former training center for the SNCF, the country’s state-owned rail system, the five-floor venue will build on the city’s burgeoning art scene. Participating galleries include 2 Walker, Harper’s, Nil, and No Agency x Cafe Forgot, alongside big-league enterprises, and NADA m...

The neon-lit tenderness of the motorcycle in Wong Kar-wai’s film Fallen Angels has grown to be one of the most iconic shots in modern cinema. The scene captures a melancholic romanticism as Michelle Reis and Takeshi Kaneshiro’s characters become one with the bike that carries them forward, bodies folded atop one another.In Fallen Angels, Tra My Nguyen tells a story of memory and movement. Taking title cues from the cult-classic neo-noir film, Nguyen draws urban poetry from diasporic perspectives for her new solo exhibition at GROTTO. The Berlin-based artist reimagines her childhood spent in Vietnam in a series of distorted vignettes, where mobility, body politics, and gender collide in the streets of Hanoi. With a practice encompassing textile, video, and sculpture, Nguyen rethinks materia...

This week, contemporary Chinese painter, Kang Haoxian will unveil his solo exhibition, In Motion at WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong.Drawing inspiration from mythology and his personal travels, Kang is known for his large canvas paintings that blend pop culture elements with magical realism. Through In Motion, the artist reflects on human emotions and desires as well as capturing intimate moments in the form of car tires.From Kang’s standpoint, car tires have always been an integral part of modern society that served as a physical driving force for humans every day. While several pieces boast a two-dimensional interpretation of tires of luxury cars, the artist also explores urban scenarios that emerge from vehicles in artworks such as “Brave Action,” “Live Free or Die,” and “I enjoy my own tranqu...

Lee ShinJa’s tapestries begin and end at the crest of the Uljin mountains. Her work braids together autobiography and fractal abstractions into the shape of something beautiful. Weaving the Dawn will showcase Lee’s fiber forms across the last seven decades. The solo exhibition focuses on Lee’s aesthetic expansion of thread as a medium for her New York debut at Tina Kim Gallery.Lee is widely recognized for her technical innovations and dedication to pushing the boundaries of fiber art. This pioneering approach is showcased in her early work, where appliqué, dyeing techniques, and punctuations relieve tension across tapestries. Her later ‘Spirit of Mountains’ series eases fixtures of nature into abstraction. While the series has come to embody her practice, Weaving the Dawn is set to include...

Few rappers have had the impact on the hip hop world as MF DOOM. Revered for his lyrical complexity, lo-fi beats and enigmatic persona, the late Daniel Dumile tragically passed away in 2020, but left a legacy that will continue to inspire leagues of fans for generations to come, including the independent Colorado-based toy manufacturer, Christian's Custom Figures, who created a number of DOOM-inspired art collectibles, such as a new 1/12th scale action figure.The legendary rapper is dressed down in his usual garbs, from a knitted green hoodie, indigo blue denim to DOOM's trademark mask. Sparing no detail, each accessory and article of clothing is hand-made by Christian, such as a pink bottle, varying brown and metal hands, as well as brown and tan Clarks. Fans can also go for the preferred...

Atelier4 is charting its own course in the fine art storage and shipping sector. This week, the industry veteran announced the launch of their new exclusive service, dubbed Art Aboard, which will specialize in “curating and managing fine art installations aboard luxury yachts”, according to a company statement.The New York-based company will continue to expand operations in the greater Miami area, as clients’ beloved artworks are sent out to Atelier4’s climate-controlled stage in their Florida warehouse. From there, the pieces will be transported to luxury boats after docking and Art Aboard will look for custom installation solutions to fit each boat’s unique features.Despite ongoing excitement, the launch of the service is met with some hesitation. “You don’t want to stick your works on p...

Patrick Martinez has a different message to stake in anticipation of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Produced in collaboration with Mixed Media, the Los Angeles-based artist has released five new lawn signs that offer a more candid response to the socio-political cycle, from cries of a ceasefire regarding the war between Israel and Hamas to abortion rights back home. The latest works are a follow-up to the first series of protest signs Martinez released with Charlie James Gallery during the last election. As politicians can often say one thing and do the exact opposite, Martinez wanted a "more nuanced as well as straightforward political expression outside of the typical political speech that is often brutal and cruel for many," said Martinez in a statement. Measuring 18 x 24 inches o...

A sculpture of Elon Musk was recently seen being towed behind a Tesla Cybertruck in Brownsville, Texas. The nine-foot-tall figure was created as a humorous tribute to a viral meme based on a poorly drawn portrait of Musk that surfaced on Reddit six years ago. The initiative was led by Louis XXII, a French tech entrepreneur and cofounder of ElonRWA, a “real world asset meme” token on Ethereum's second layer, organized by the decentralized autonomous organization FeistyDAO as reported by ARTnews.Louis XXII emphasized that the statue isn’t tied to the value of the ElonRWA token but is simply a playful way to bring the meme to life. Earlier this year, the same collective commissioned a large mural of the drawing with the phrase “Occupy Mars,” which was painted by local Brownsville artist Carlo...

Earlier this year, the Brooklyn Museum presented a major showcase of artworks from the personal collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys. Now, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta will be the next institution to host the collection of monumental works from the couple’s blue-chip holdings. Entitled ‘Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys,’ the presentation will run from September 13, 2024 through January 19, 2025. ‘Giants’ highlights a curated selection of works from Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys’ Dean Collection, focusing on Black diasporic artists across generations. Featured artists include 20th-century icons like Nick Cave, Lorna Simpson, and Barkley L. Hendricks, as well as contemporary voices such as Deana Lawson, Amy Sherald, and Ebony G. Patterson. The exhib...