Art

The Guggenheim Museum's latest exhibition, By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection, is on display until January 12, 2025. The show moves beyond traditional studio art, showcasing artists who experiment outside the usual boundaries. Inspired by the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift, the exhibit spans from the 1960s to today.Historically, studios were sacred spaces for creation. But from the 20th century onward, artists broke free, finding inspiration in the streets, nature, and everyday life -- as the museum noted in its press release. This exhibit captures that shift with works combining various media—video in sculpture, tapestry as painting, and sound art in found objects.The exhibition features post-war artists like Pier Paolo Calzolari and Jannis Kounellis, part of the...

Charlie James Gallery is set to unveil a new group exhibition that acts as a love letter to each artist's idealized home. Curated by Los Angeles-based artist Ever Velasquez, Provócame invites creatives of various backgrounds from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Albania and Mexico to probe into the notion of what constitutes a home, from the physical to the imagined, the archival to the ancestral. Patrick Martinez, the LA-based artist whose mixed media works comment on the slow erasure of his home city's latin and chicano communities, presents a slice of a wall painted in seafoam green with verdant and floral embellishments. "It’s about the in-between," Martinez previously told Hypeart. "I want my work to look like it’s either being discovered or erased," adding that he finds inspiration in the work...

The Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai has announced Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy, the first museum exhibition in China by the internationally acclaimed artist Marina Abramović. Running from October 10, 2024, to February 28, 2025, the exhibition is inspired by Abramović's iconic 1988 performance of walking the Great Wall of China with German artist Ulay, marking them as the first international artists to traverse the Wall.Curated by MAM Shanghai’s Artistic Director Shai Baitel, in collaboration with Abramović, the exhibition will feature over 1,000 images from her Great Wall walk and a series of new artworks. Spanning three floors, the exhibition invites audience participation with artworks and objects, particularly those infused with crystals, believed to offer transformative energ...

Pharrell Williams has a vision: bringing arts competitions back to the Olympics, a tradition lost for nearly 80 years. According to a report by the Associated Press, Williams is picturing a world where the biggest sports stage also celebrates the finest in sculpture, architecture, and visual arts. Pharrell argued for the arts to be reintroduced in the Olympics by 2028 during his star-studded Louis Vuitton event in Paris last week. Speaking passionately before the event, he said, “The Olympics once had arts competitions. Sculpture, architecture, visual arts. Let’s remind everyone of that legacy and seize this moment to bring awareness.” The arts were first part of the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, where medals were awarded for architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture. This conti...

Throughout history, red has been a marker of many things: it's the color of blood and the hue our ancient ancestors chose to typically scribble against cave walls. Millennia later, the Romans are noted to have favored red as the color to decorate military attire and in modern times, red is one of the most popular primary hues for sports teams, as is for many country flags. On view at the North Carolina Museum of Art is a new exhibition that explores the history of the color red.Seeing Red is mapped out across generations, linking disparate periods, such as the Ancient Incas and the Renaissance, bridging the gap in how civilization as a whole has collectively viewed various shades of the rosy hue. The institution has described it as "arguably the most important color to human beings," becau...

A massive pigeon has perched onto the High Line in Downtown Manhattan. Well, a sculptural pigeon that is. The 16-foot-tall artwork is the brainchild of Columbian artist and filmmaker Iván Argote, whose dubbed the pudgy feathered bird Dinosaur. Pigeons aren't the most glorified bird in the animal kingdom, not like its distant cousins in the eagle and hawk. However, Argote's totemic iteration will be hard to take your eyes off of as it makes its presence felt at one of New York City's most frequented intersections. He just hopes it doesn't cause any accidents as busy New Yorkers rush past Tenth Avenue at 30th Street. As the unofficial mascot of New York, Argote sought to recontextualize the image of the pigeon, reflecting in an interview that he saw the bird as "something that people would r...

The Museum of London has unveiled a new logo as part of its rebranding effort, but it hasn’t been met with universal approval. The institution, soon to be renamed London Museum, will relocate to Smithfield Market in 2026 after significant delays and budget overruns.The new logo features a white clay pigeon with a glittery golden excrement, a design intended to symbolize the city’s mix of "grit and glitter," according to museum director Sharon Ament as per Artnet. Senior curator Francis Marshall emphasized that pigeons have been a part of London’s landscape for over a millennium, thus becoming a symbol of the city.However, the logo has not won over all Londoners. Maxwell Blowfield, who writes for the museum industry newsletter maxwell museums, criticized the choice. “In 15 years of living h...

Objects speak, according to Danish visual artist Nina Beier. Regardless of its social or intended status, to Beier, a fake designer bag is both real in the physical sense and a representation of another, similar to a readymade sculpture. Trained initially in photography, it's through this lens that Beier observes the various objects, whether extravagant or mundane, that inundate the world. On view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Beier presents Parts, a new solo exhibition exploring the stories embedded in (literally) every thing — be it a ceramic work of art, a Land Rover or a plastic container. Showcasing new and existing works, Beier explores the hidden biographies of everyday items, such as in China (2015): a series of purposefully broken fine china ceramic vessel...

The Hole’s summer show, 'Tone Poem,' in Los Angeles, features works within a tight tonal range. This exhibition explores the evocative potential of limited palettes, showcasing monochromes and reduced palette paintings across a greyscale gallery.'Tone Poem' serves as a crash course in color theory. Aiste Stancikaite’s pieces glow with added white tints, Paul Riedmüeller’s works mix hues with pure gray, and Charline Tyberghein’s paintings darken hues with black shades. For many artists, tone, tint, and shade are second nature, shaping their expressive, minimalist styles.Abstract artists like Daniel Byrd weave three colors together, while Matt Phillips and Russell Tyler make bold statements with restrained palettes. Playful tones emerge in Peter Mohall’s color theory mockery and Felipe Pant...

As the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics kick off, there's more than athletic prowess on display in Paris. At the Palais de Tokyo, athletes reveal another side of their talents in the Olympian Artists Programme exhibition, running through August 11. Among them is French fencing champion Enzo Lefort, showcasing his stylized portraits of fellow Olympians and Paralympians.Lefort, a three-time Olympic fencer from French Guiana with gold and silver medals from Tokyo and Rio, turned to photography in 2017. His series, Olympic Faces: One French Team, captures the diverse athletes united in their pursuit of gold for France. This latest series builds on his 2020 photo book, "Behind the Mask," created during the pandemic's Olympic postponement. Lefort’s lens focuses on the rich cultural and geographic dive...

For nearly 20 years, NANZUKA has served as a premier destination for contemporary art in Tokyo. Founded by Shinji Nanzuka, the gallery has nestled several locations across the Japanese capital, showcasing prominent and emerging artists, including Hajime Sorayama and Keiichi Tanaami, as well as joining forces with Aisho Miura Arts in 2013 to form AISHONANZUKA gallery in Hong Kong.NANZUKA has now added a new curatorial platform to its programming aptly titled PUBLC. The initiative will feature two-to-three artworks per year, enlisting the gallery's growing list of international artists to form new dialogues in the buzzy city streets. For the inaugural entry, French artist Jean Jullien has unveiled a new installation entitled The Tank. On view in front of the new Shibuya AXSH building, the ar...