Art

For those who live in cities like Los Angeles, a car is an indispensable part of daily life. It's the primary means to get from point A to B, and has in effect played a decisive role in paving both the physical landscape of many world metropolis', along with the unspoken class codes tied to consumer culture. Hauser & Wirth LA is showcasing a new exhibition at its Downtown space that aptly examines the semiotics of car culture by conceptual artist Jason Rhoades. Born in Northern California, Rhoades, whose short career spanned the 1990s till his death in 2006, created highly ornate installations — often conflating neon signage, found objects and materials inspired by LA's car culture to comment on themes pertaining sexuality, consumer culture and more. In DRIVE, the show comprises of scu...

Slovenian artist Evgen Čopi Gorišek returns to world of editions with a new collaborative sculpture made by AllRightsReserved. The Boom has been in the works for a year and features a boxer cast in bronze and hand-painted with oil stick. According to a statement via Instagram, the sculpture is inspired by his childhood wanting to be a boxer and watching Rocky films.Entirely self-taught, Gorišek's humorous aesthetic draws on various iconography across pop culture — whether Bruce Lee, a reclining nude or a skater — which he strips the subject of its facial features, in place of uniform smiley expressions. In many ways, Gorišek's figurative artworks are both a satire on the picture-perfect veneer of social media images, as well as the lack of communication that transpires with fleeting en...

Oliver Beer is a British artist who creates installations, sculptures, videos, and live performances that evoke the musicality of objects. In the past, he's surveyed the Met's vast collection of historical artifacts, attaching microphones to 32 separate works, that together, reverberated the hidden acoustics of each antique's interior. For his latest show, Beer has taken over Almine Rech's Tribeca space to showcase an entire "band" made of various cat sculptures — from classical works of tigers and cheetahs to kitschy vessels depicting pop cultural figures, such as Tom from Tom & Jerry. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Oliver Beer Artist (@oliverbeerartist)Ceremonially laid in the center of the gallery, Beer attached a microphone inside each object, which feeds into a custom...

Damien Hirst is currently exhibiting one of his largest shows to date at a centuries old vineyard-exhibition space in the South of France. On view are a number of new and celebrated works, such as his series of encased animals in formaldehyde. The first work in the latter series was dubbed "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", and made in the 1990s, during the British artist's ascent as he'd win the Turner Prize in 1995. A new investigation by the Guardian, however, reports that several formaldehyde sculptures dated to that period were allegedly created in 2017. Three works in particular, which depict two calves, a dove and a shark, show no trace of having existed prior to its creation by Hirst's employees in his Gloucestershire studio in the past seven years...

Peter Yee, the creative mind behind the iconic Oakley logo and brand's designs of the 90s and 2000s is set to launch his debut solo exhibition during Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, in collaboration with SPIN.FASHION. The exhibition, titled "RENAISSANCE 2.0 x Peter Yee," explores his iconic Oakley archive and legacy through both physical and digital expressions.This exhibition, following a successful run in Paris, promises a never-before-seen look into Yee’s 25 years at Oakley, featuring sketches, prototypes, rare eyewear and watches. Utilizing augmented reality (AR) and extended reality (XR) via the Apple Vision Pro, visitors will have the chance to dive deep into the Oakley design history, exploring the intersection of fashion, technology and culture.One of the highlights is the "Over The Top"...

In collaboration with artist Grant Riven Yun and in the exploration of cultural identity, Avant Arte is launching Gowing Up, the artist's first solo exhibition, set to take place in Seoul, South Korea.For Gowing Up, Yun, known primarily for his digital works is bringing his creativity into the physical world, marking his third collaboration with Avant Arte and a continuance of his efforts to blend the two realms. The upcoming exhibition follows Yun's exploration of deeply personal narratives, offering visitors an intimate look into Yun's exploration of his Korean heritage and American-Korean identity, articulated through nine compelling new artworks. Each piece, accompanied by a unique digital asset, delves into the nuanced experiences of Yun's daily life, encapsulating moments that define...

Steven Harrington is currently showcasing his first solo museum exhibition to date at Seoul's Amorepacific Museum. On view is a comprehensive look at the Los Angeles-based artist's 20 year career across painting, drawing, murals and sculpture, with a number of new works and site specific installations specially made for the event. To complement the show, Harrington is set to release a new limited edition screen print entitled Stop To Smell The Flowers No.1.The artwork depicts Mello, Harrington's alter ego, amidst a bed of sunflowers and critters, as the artist invites onlookers to appreciate the present moment. Based on a new painting of the same, the forthcoming work is the first screen print Harrington has released in nearly a year. Limited to an edition of 120, Stop To Smell The Flowers...

In a city with an abundance of museums and galleries, Paris' Bourse de Commerce stands out above the crowd. Originally built as a corn exchange in the mid-18th century, the building has lived multiple lives in the nearly 300 years since — from serving as a stock exchange a century later, to being reconverted into an art museum in 2021 with the help of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, who reconverted the space. Central to the institution's programming is the massive rotunda in the middle of the museum, built with perforated concrete walls to adorn the building's classical interior, elegant fresco and towering circular glass ceiling. The Bourse de Commerce has recently played host to a number of compelling exhibitions, from Urs Fischer and Danh Vo to Wolfgang Tillmans and the latest with South...

Lauren Tsai is set t orelease her new giclée print for “Ending Song.” Presented in Tsai’s signature style, the artwork depicts an eery and unsettling scene where a cran-shaped figure composed of mechanical parts appears to be cradling an unconscious girl with its claw-like, distorted wing.“I began “Ending Song” in 2021 while living in a friend’s guest room and feeling the desire to create another large painting before Tokyo. At the time, I'd felt distant from my dreams and self in a way which terrified me. But, an old idea resurfaced, leading me to combine various images - industrial towers from the beach I drove to most nights, crows from my hometown, and Astrid who is always there. This painting was both a start and promise to myself,” Tsai wrote on her both website and Instagram.Measuri...

Ghanaian artist Paa Joe has brought some of New York City's most iconic motifs to life. As part of Superhouse NYC's inaugural "Celestial City" exhibition, the multidisciplinary artist served up a handful of lifesize sculptures of the city's signature signage, including pizza boxes, taxi cabs, bagels and, of course, rats."Celestial City" not only marks Paa's solo NYC debut, but it also comes as the first exhibition in Superhouse's new space in downtown Manhattan, just off Canal Street.Paa's structures include those large and small, with the standout pieces being two human-scale coffins in the shapes of a Heinz ketchup bottle and a taxi. In Paa's Ga community, there's a huge emphasis on funerary rights and traditions when paying respects to the dead; Paa also spearheads Paa Joe Coffin Works ...