Art

As the art world descends on Asia this week for the return of Frieze Seoul, mega gallery Pace has announced that it will be expanding its presence within the region by adding a new permanent location in Tokyo. Opening in spring 2024, the latest gallery will be situated in the heart of the city at the burgeoning Azabudai Hills — dubbed a "Modern Urban Village", which will feature a state-of-the-art complex of skyscrapers, intermixed with lush greenery, restaurants, and shops. The upcoming gallery will occupy 3,000 square feet of space across three floors designed by Japanese architect, Sou Fujimoto, who is hailed in Japan and Europe for previously working on the Musashino Art University Museum and Library in Tokyo, and the 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. Japan has long served as...

The Cleveland Museum of Art will unveil a new exhibition that shines a light on China's Jiangnan region, which has served as a cultural powerhouse for the nation, producing many commodities closely associated to China, including jade and silk. Entitled China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta, the show will include over 200 artworks loaned from seven institutions across mainland China, as well as works from a number of public and private collections from around the world. Some of the objects on view date back to the Neolithic period (4300 BC down to 2000 BC), such as carbonized grains of rice from China's Tianluoshan site, believed to be the area where the first rice was cultivated anywhere on Earth. The exhibition continues up until the 18th century, tracking how J...

Takashi Murakami has announced his first-ever solo exhibition in San Francisco, titled Unfamiliar People -- Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego or for short, Monsterized, to be hosted at the Asian Art Museum from mid-September to mid-February.Murakami, largely known for his influence on pop culture and wildly imaginative bold works that are often accompanied by vibrant colors and joyous scenes, will take visitors on a different journey during this upcoming exhibition.Instead, the artist will explore the nuances of human behavior, through large-scale paintings, sculptures, digital works and more that "Use monsters as a central motif to address the complicated nature of the world around us," according to the Museum. The monsters depicted are also said to represent the forces and behaviors that...

Renowned Spanish artist Joan Cornellà will be presenting his latest solo showcase in Seoul tomorrow. Entitled “VIP,” the exhibition also marks the fourth time for AllRightsReserved to host a large-scale exhibition for the artist, who will be debuting a body of new artwork, spanning paintings on canvases, papers, as well as sculptures. The exhibition is also part of AllRightsReserved’s ongoing initiative, “MEET_PROJECT,” with each installment featuring a different contemporary artist.A continuation of Cornellà’s artistic and creative discoveries on human nature, “VIP” is curated to align with his signature dark humor that is both thought-provoking and brutally honest. Comprising 10 paintings, 50 illustrations on paper, and three sculptural pieces all tied to the theme of “VIP.” In tandem wi...

Later this month, Tomoo Gokita will present his debut solo exhibition with Petzel Gallery at its Chelsea location in New York.Known for his boundary-pushing and highly-characterized grayscale paintings, the show will mark a new era for the Japanese artist, who will be presenting a collection of new paintings that serve as an expanded study of new and innovative artistic techniques, as well as bolder color palettes.The inspiration for this new body of artwork derived from a rather mundane encounter, where the artist picked up a booklet with simple illustrations of everyday objects near his studio. Turns out, the booklet was created for dementia patients as mnemonic exercises.From there, Gokita experimented with the physicality of layered paper on canvases, which became the basis of the pain...

While Art Basel has long been the poster child for the Miami art fair circuit, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has equally shown to be a haven for artists, galleries and nonprofit organizations over the past 20 years. The 21st edition of the fair will be held downtown at the Ice Palace Studios and will showcase 139 galleries, art spaces, and nonprofit organizations, including 34 first time exhibitors from over 50 cities across the globe. Fans can also enjoy the return of the Curated Spotlight, a special section highlighting select galleries.“The 21st edition of NADA Miami comes on the heels of a very exciting year: we rang in the 20th anniversary of New Art Dealers Alliance, celebrated the fifth edition of NADA House, opened a new exhibition space, organized programs and exhibitions in...

THE SHOPHOUSE recently launched "Trioque," a group exhibition featuring three Korean female artists: Claire Chey, Yoonjoong Cho, and Debbie Kim. This exhibition brings together their diverse artistic journeys exploring urban life, spirituality, and societal metaphors.Claire Chey's artwork critiques cultural metaphors, especially regarding gender, using metaphorical paintings that reveal socio-economic patterns imprinted on our civilization. On the other hand, Yoonjoong Cho captures the essence of cities through her paintings, highlighting the struggle of city dwellers to adapt to urbanization. Lastly, Debbie Kim merges Eastern and Western philosophies in her art, revealing hidden depths in ordinary objects and transcending cultural and temporal boundaries."I hope this exhibition allows vie...

Refik Anadol's algorithmic installations are a fitting encapsulation of the craze around artificial intelligence. Made using millions of publicly sourced images, each artwork undulates at such breakneck speed, that in many ways, the work reflects the unnerving pace of social media, along with both the creativity and uncertainty ushered in by AI technology. Following his ongoing residency at Scorpios Mykonos, the Turkish new media artist will soon present work at the premier of the Sphere in Las Vegas.The orbital structure features a 580,000-square-foot programmable LED screen that will serve as a giant billboard for touring artists and musicians, including U2 and Darren Aronofsky. As the inaugural artist enlisted, Anadol will debut a hallucinatory algorithmic installation specially made fo...

Drawing inspiration from the forbidden baseball technique of moistening the ball with saliva as well as the concept of raw, unfiltered exchanges of ideas, artists Richie Culver and Tyrrell Winston present their first duo exhibition, "Spitball," at Stems Gallery Paris.Fittingly, saliva takes center stage in both artists' respective works. Culver's artwork features watermarks suggestive of saliva behind his expressive graffiti-style sayings -- with his pieces stretching beyond the canvas boundaries, often spilling onto walls, doors and street corners. A notable work reads, "I wanna do as little as possible but still get that mad money," while another challenges the old adage "Less is more" with the phrase "Less is less."On the other hand, Winston's works display saliva traces more prominentl...

The sun and the moon serve as the conceptual framework for Rachel Rose's latest solo exhibition, Good Morning Midnight. Housed at GL Strand in Copenhagen, the American visual artist, known for her kaleidoscopic films, paintings, and sculptures that contemplate themes of mortality and the way in which changing landscapes shape belief systems, will showcase two films that revolve around the passage of time and humanity's relationship with nature.In the first film, Enclosure (2019), Rose sets the scene to 17th century England, in which a group of mischievous travelers scourge farmland from villagers, slaughtering their livestock in the process, while a black orb replaces the sun as "a symbol of the future," according to the artist. The film alludes to the Enclosure Act, ratified around the 17...