Art

In 2025, the Centre Pompidou will temporarily open a new satellite branch in Seoul. Perhaps that's due to a larger plan in which its Paris flagship will close for five years to undergo major renovations until 2030, according to a new announcement by the museum's president, Laurent Le Bon.As Europe's biggest museum for modern and contemporary art, Centre Pompidou looks to expand its once detested, but now globally cherished building with over 21,000 square feet of space that will house two cinemas and room for multidisciplinary exhibitions. Additional changes include a new restaurant on the museum's south side, renovations to the Musée national d'art moderne on levels four and five and a new terrace on level seven that will offer “one of the most beautiful views of western Paris”, per Le Bo...

Everything has a beginning, so how about painting? According to legend, the origins of painting date back to a mythic tale once recounted by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, in which Dibutade's daughter, Kora of Sicyon, drew the outline of her lover's shadow in charcoal against the wall of her home before he left on a long journey. Simply done as an act of remembrance, Kora is considered the first ever painter and her own remembrance served as the inspiration for a new group exhibition entitled Feeling of Light at Almine Rech.Housed at the gallery's Brussels location, the all woman-led show spans a number of aesthetic sensibilities, from figuration to abstraction, from the likes of Inès Longevial, Emma Stern, Claire Tabouret, Alicja Kwade and countless others. "It is to this woman t...

AI-generated images have come a long way in the past five years. Despite fetching an exorbitant amount at auction, early works, such as Portrait of Edmond de Belamy (2018) were clearly 'off' in ways that separated it from other works typically revered in a gallery or museum setting. Much has changed since that time. So much so, that Sony recently awarded an AI-generated image (unknowingly) as part of its annual World Photography Awards. While AI images are still somewhat discernible by way of how hands or faces are depicted, the lines between what is human-made and artificially produced are blurring by the day. Thankfully, Google has rolled out a new game called Odd One Out, which will help train viewers in spotting, well, the odd one out.The game was developed by Caroline Buttet and Emman...

Anthony Vaccarello is a Madonna stan. Having previously used the House of Saint Laurent to honor the 30th anniversary of the boundary-pushing 1992 photography book SEX -- which saw Madonna captured by Steven Meisel's lens for a series of controversial images -- the designer now sees continued support from the auction house Christie's in "Madonna x Meisel - The SEX Photographs."The auction presents more than 40 one-off editions of the Meisel photographs, notably one titled Madonna, New York, 1992, archival pigment print, depicting the musician with her head in her hands while sitting in front of a bending male model. It is estimated to sell for $150,000-$250,000 USD, however, it wouldn't be too forward to expect the editions to fetch even more.Speaking on the project, Darius Himes, Christie...

After former employees accused him of running a toxic, "cult-like" studio in March, Tom Sachs has broken his silence on the matter to issue an apology. In a handwritten note posted to his Instagram Stories, Sachs says he "deeply regrets" that "anyone, ever, felt less than supported safe and fulfilled within my studio," as well as stating that he didn't take the "necessary time to professionalize [his] operations" as his business grew and wished that he "prioritized this a decade ago." View this post on InstagramA post shared by HYPEBEAST (@hypebeast)Curbed broke the allegations of Sachs' misbehavior in March, and since then the artist remained silent as allegations of misbehavior, sexisim, bullying and fostering a toxic workplace in his culture began to snowball. Shortly after Curbed's re...

Vincent Di Nguyen is an artist and curator best known for his visual development on films such as Epic, Rio and Ice Age: Collision Course. Originally from Houston, Nguyen has spent the past two decades living between New York City and London, working with a number of creatives across the industry. Despite the buzz of a big metropolises, the Houston-native always felt a longing to showcase the artists he's met along his travels to his home city. Nguyen will bring this aspiration to life through a new group exhibition at Reeves Art & Design in Houston. Aptly titled Friend of a Friend, the show will present a range of disciplines, including painting, sculpture, digital and mixed media works from local and established artists, such as Mark Flood, Taylor Lee, James Jean, Natalia Arbelaez, M...

Qi Zhuo is a Chinese-born, Paris-based artist who uses sculpture as a way to comment and repair cultural misunderstandings. On the surface, his sculptures, made using glass, ceramics and various other materials, may seem humorous on first sight. But upon closer inspection, these spiritual works begin to reveal complex undertones that hark to notions of the "other", both in the sense of Qi reflecting on his life away from home and reinterpreting his own heritage through a foreign lens. On view at Perrotin in Shanghai is a new solo exhibition in which Qi explores the frailty of the human body. Emblematic of past works, he often sources various Buddhist sculptures from the Northern and Southern Dynasties (386–581) of China and reinvigorates them through blown glass bubbles that act as an auxi...

Two major exhibitions on Vincent Van Gogh will soon be hitting Amsterdam and Paris. The shows will examine the final months of the Dutch artist's life while living and painting in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, from May to July, 1890.Entitled Van Gogh in Auvers: His Final Months, the show marks the first major study on Van Gogh's final period, in which he tirelessly drew and painted each day before taking his own life on the morning of July 29, 1890. Both the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, which the exhibitions will take place respectively, acquired 48 of 74 works created during this period. Amongst the works on view, the exhibitions will display Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet, as well as 13 large-scale “double-square” paintings that the artist only made dur...

Sasha Ferré has spent much of her career visualizing what is often unseen to the naked eye. Think microorganisms and processes that occur in the tiny crevices of our homes and the natural world. Born in Paris and now based in London, the French artist often works on the floor of her studio, spreading the canvas out like a flower bed as she applies oil sticks directly to the surface. Like a jazz musician riding out a solo, her work is improvisational — allowing intuition to dictate the course of each piece.Unit London is playing host to a new solo exhibition by Ferré entitled Morphogenesis. As her first show with the gallery, the space has been transformed into an imaginary landscape where Ferré paints a poignant meditation on humans' relationship with the natural world. “In the context of ...

KAWS just won a major court case against several Singapore-based companies who have been counterfeiting his work for the past few years. First reported by Artnet News, the U.S. District Court has awarded the American artist $900,000 USD on May 2 after finding Dylan Joy An Leong Yi Zhi and several companies he's been working with called The Penthouse Theory and The Penthouse Collective, guilty of reproducing KAWS' COMPANION figure and numerous other works, that together, would have a collective retail value of $63m USD. Hailed by KAWS' attorney Aaron Richard Golub as “a very important international case,” court documents revealed that the artist sent a cease-and-desist letter to Leong back in 2020 for creating hundreds of products that “chill the market for his original work because purchas...