Art

The intersection of where basketball meets culture has stood as a core pillar to Victor Solomon's work over the past decade. Amongst his many hoop-inspired interventions, the Boston-born, Los Angeles-based artist repaired an entire court inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which emphasizes seeing beauty in the broken. On a bigger scale, Solomon was tapped by the NBA to redesign all of its trophies, from the G League to the Larry O'Brien, as well as newer honors, such as the NBA All Star Trophies. Solomon's returns to the court once more through a new sculptural backboard made entirely of a mirror polished stainless steel. Dubbed The Portal, the artwork features a minimally coarse rim against a curvilinear surface that distorts a person's image as they move in-and-around the backboard...

For Playmobil’s 50th Anniversary Artist Project, ten artists will come together in support of Save the Children, the world’s largest independent children’s rights organization. Leading up to the event, participants transformed white 1.5-meter Playmobil figures into unique artifacts of creative expression. The ten artworks are to be unveiled at Berlin’s Beinghunted. Gallery on August 30, and auctioned online shortly after.All proceeds will go towards Save the Children Germany e.V., an international aid organization that advocates for the rights and protections of children around the world. On the heels of their half-century celebration, Playmobil brings attention to how toys are more than relics of cultural nostalgia, but also powerful art objects that can transform the livelihood of childr...

Few cities experience the seasons like New York. Whether frigid, temperate or ferociously hot, dealing with that interplay between quaint and downright apocalyptic is one of the hallmarks of being a New Yorker. Just ask Alex Katz, the beloved SoHo-based artist whose painted the faces and landscapes he's observed in-and-around his community since the 1950s. Just uptown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Katz is showcasing four new monumental paintings that chronicle the changing of the seasons. Joining a series of over 100 works he's created in his studio since 2022, Katz often begins through images he takes on his iPhone — later sketching out the observations that piqued his interests, which eventually develop into the massive wall-to-wall paintings on view at MoMA. The resulting composit...

‘Public Life’ is a dance between the personal and the public. Presented by Toxic Arts Gallery in London’s East End, the group exhibition brings together a dozen international artists whose works encourage its viewers to reimagine the contemporary art experience.“By using spaces with energy – places that are a little rough around the edges – we want to break down those boundaries and make the everyday viewer feel more welcome,” Toxic Arts’ Harry Barrat tells Dazed. The show’s name pays homage to the venue, Public Life nightclub, an ex-public toilet turned capsule club that rose to prominence during the mid-2000s party scene. An old home to micro-raves and untamed afters, ‘Public Life’ finds charm in the grit and grime.Against the bright white walls of a traditional gallery space, the works ...

The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and Korea Arts Management Service present the fifth edition of the Special Exhibition of Outstanding Artists, ‘DIALOGUE: I Am Because We Are’, curated by Hzone founder, Daehyung Lee. Located at Hwigyumjae in Seoul, the show brings together seven artists whose work channel play and poeticism to challenge anthropocentric norms. In conversation with the visual themes of the exhibition, further publication will include interviews between seven contemporary curators and featured artists.The title draws from Ubuntu philosophy, bringing light to themes of mutual dependence and symbiosis. In a rejection of individualism, à la Descartes, the selection of works seek to expand our approach to “the other” to encompass humans, living forms, and immaterial en...

American patriotism will be on full display from now until November as the 2024 U.S. Presidential race is underway. For a melting pot of traditions and cultural ethnicities, the concept of American identity continues to perplex many, such as French artist Robin Kid. The Kid, as he likes to go by, is showcasing a new solo exhibition that probes into the many faces of America at Galerie Templon's New York location. Filtered through a European sensibility, Searching for America presents a series of new mixed-media paintings that conflate various iconographic symbols found in pop culture, from Venom's slithering face, half-eaten donuts, steel and raw beef, resulting in collage-style paintings, where depictions of faith are intertwined with a delirious roger rabbit next to a shiny bat with nail...

One of the most valuable collections of Scandinavian coins is set to hit auction next month, estimated to fetch around $70m USD. The treasure trove belonged to the Danish butter mogul Lars Emil Bruun, who purposefully kept its existence secret, apart from a few stewards, to use the coins as a financial reserve for Denmark to tap into during the beginning of the 20th century, fearing the destruction of his country's national heritage following the Prusso-Danish War and World War I. Bruun penned in his will that the collection was to be locked away in custom cabinets and untouched for 100 years. The Danish butter mogul died in 1923 and fast forward to 2024, Stack’s Bowers, the company with the rights to the auction, is calling the sale a “once in multiple lifetimes opportunity.” The auction ...

Heritage auction house Christie's will be listing Claude Monet's Nymphéas for auction. This will be the first time the painting has been presented at auction since its inception 125 years ago. Painted circa 1897-1899, the painting is renowned because it was one of the first paintings Monet created based off his water-lily pond at his Giverny home, inspiring numerous legendary works. This work is one of seven from his first Nymphéas series which feature different sizes, colors and details but still keep the desired effect on the viewer.A notable innovation of this painting is that it is the first of Monet's works to exclude the horizon line. It is closely cropped to ensure the viewer focuses on all the details on the pond's surface. Cristian Albu, the deputy chairman and head of 20th/21st c...

Robin F. Williams’ fifth solo exhibition, Good Mourning, will be on view at P.P.O.W. Gallery from September 6 through October 26, 2024. The show builds on the artist’s previous examinations of gender in advertising, pop culture, and film with radiant imagination and a masterful hand. This lean into cinema motions toward its power in defining collective memories and social norms in the off-screen world.Through creating these horror-inspired gouaches, Williams brings attention to figurative tropes of women in these films as they look for the ‘paintings’ in popular B-slashers and psychological thrillers, such as Carrie, Suspiria, Ganja & Hess, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. From gaping screams to peeking heads behind door frames, these recurrences lend themselves to the ‘fan fiction’ ap...

In an orchestra, the cadenza is that moment when the soloist steps into the spotlight, often improvising as the main melody fades into the background. This extended, spontaneous passage has inspired The SHOPHOUSE Hong Kong’s latest group exhibition, featuring original works by Han-Chiao, Alexander Skate, Astrid Styma, Wang Wenting, Alice Xinyan Wang, Wang Zibo, Suyi Xu, and Zheng Lanxiong.Titled Daylight Cadenza, the exhibition delves into the artists’ personal memories of summertime, capturing elusive scenes from the everyday mundane to portraits of strangers. The works evoke a spectrum of emotions, from curiosity to playfulness, offering viewers a journey through intimate, sometimes intense, diaristic episodes from the diverse lives of the artists."The exhibition moves through crescendos...

How do you evolve toward your future? This question encapsulates the essence of ‘GRIT & MAGIC’ by Los Angeles-based creative collective and non-profit, DREAMHAUS. Staged at SUPERVSN, the group showcased the final projects of their internship program this past weekend. The show was presented in hand with “The Road To Lost Emotions," DREAMHAUS’ 360° mobile excursion.Founded by Nikkolas Mohhamed and Mike Reesé in South Central, DREAMHAUS looks to fine art to inspire and support local young creatives. ‘GRIT & MAGIC’ welcomed the city to the minds of four burgeoning artists—Kaya Balugo, Tina Rudasingwa, Youree Choi, and Dylan Uema—following the completion of their summer internship season. The program served as a compass for participants to navigate their place in the creative economy, ...

Back in May, Lauren Halsey relayed a major announcement that she will open a sculpture park in her hometown of South Central Los Angeles in California. It will be a temporary installation that mimics the aesthetics of her monumental rooftop presentation which she unveiled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City last year. Halsey continues to maneuver the contemporary art sector with a new multifaceted presentation entitled emajendat to be held Serpentine in London -- signaling the artist's first institutional exhibition in the United Kingdom. Transforming the gallery’s space into an “immersive funk garden,” Halsey’s site-specific installation will reflect the institution’s surrounding Kensington Gardens with the artist injecting her distinctive visual vocabulary across works th...