Art

Following her inclusion in Hypeart's Noisy Reality exhibition in New York, Heather Benjamin has unveiled a new solo show across the pond at Bim Bam Gallery in Paris. The works in Mother All I Did Was Want To Kill But Just Look At What I Broke were all made during Benjamin's residency at Le Biscuit atelier, just outside of the French capital. Comprised of paintings on paper, as well as three ceramic sculptures, Benjamin's work always contain a balancing act of sorts — from her choice of colors and the negative space she purposefully leaves in to the themes she grapples with, such as the tension between strength and fragility, assurance and doubt. Born and raised in Queens, much of Benjamin's art is self-referential. Her forms are often exaggerated and draw on both her lived experiences, as ...

Hannah Traore Gallery has unveiled a new solo exhibition by rising Pakistani artist and fashion designer, Misha Japanwala. Born in London and now based in New York, Japanwala captures the nuances of the human figure — a process she started by painting silicone and plastic on her own body. The resulting works are elegant sculptural casts that chronicles and celebrates stories of femme, queer, and trans lives in her native Pakistan. For her latest show, entitled Beghairati Ki Nishaani, which translates to Traces of Shamelessness in Urdu, Japanwala presents new work that uses the body as a vehicle of resistance and resilience. In one series, Japanwala invited friends and strangers in her native Karachi to have their breasts molded. Some participants were recently divorced, another had breast ...

A new large-scale installation by New York-based artists Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy has been set up above a set of escalators in the Multi-Modal Facility (MMF) of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Titled REACH, the art piece features two hand sculptures spanning 27 ft and 31 ft. Hanging in mid-air, the hands portray a reaching motion just fractions away from contact.“As longtime collaborators we have had an incredible opportunity to create an artwork together and reframe a piece of public space, where most are in transit and passing through, for interconnectivity and togetherness,” Thomas and Kennedy said in a joint statement. “REACH is a connection point and large-scale gesture that inspires us to come together.”The sculptural hands are part of a larger expansion and modern...

Ai Weiwei has collaborated with Avant Arte on three new print editions. Each artwork is made using innovative printing techniques and features the Chinese dissident artist's stance on freedom of speech and migration. In the first, Middle Finger in Black revisits Weiwei's seminal Study of Perspective series from 1995, in which the artist stresses the importance of our collective freedom to express our individual beliefs. Laid against a black backdrop, the silkscreen print features a medley of middle fingers that are hand finished in white gold leaf. Conceptually similar, Free Speech overlays the Twitter bird on a colorful grid of barbed wire. The eleven color screen print contains phosphorescent details and is an ode to the papercut artworks made by Weiwei's father, who was a renowned poet ...

A South Korean student has eaten Maurizio Cattelan's controversial banana installation, Comedian (2019). The reason? He skipped breakfast and was hungry.The incident occurred on Sunday when Noh Huyn-soo from Seoul National University was visiting the Leeum Museum of Art and found the artwork more than just visually appealing. After devouring the fruit, he taped up the peel back into its place and told the museum that his act was an art performance in itself.Credit: shwan.han/Instagram “Damaging a work of modern art could also be (interpreted as a kind of) artwork,” Noh told the Korea Herald. Leeum replaced the banana with a fresh one, as they do every three to four days and notified Cattelan of the incident, but the artist made no comment. Comedian first made headlines when the sculpture ...

THE SKATEROOM closed out 2022 with a vinyl-inspired set of decks by German artist, Gregor Hildebrandt. While it's almost halfway into the new year, the art collective has followed from one legend to another through a new limited edition collaboration with skater and photographer, Ed Templeton.The capsule is based off of Templeton's Wires Crossed series. Created between 1995 and 2012, Templeton describes the collection as his life's work, as he chronicled the often misunderstood life of skaters — from their triumphs, injuries, relationships and emotions. "I was a drifting kid who had no aim, but then I found this thing that put me around these great people," Templeton said when first recalling his introduction to skateboarding. "The act of skateboarding is secondary to the community," he ad...

teamLab, the interdisciplinary art collective responsible for immersive multi-sensory experiences around the world, is presenting its works in a new group exhibition at the Nordic Watercolor Museum in Sweden titled "Animal Kingdom."Participating artists include German illustrator and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717, American artist James John Audubon (1785-1851), Finnish brothers Wilhelm von Wright (1810-1887) and Magnus von Wright (1805-1868), and German artist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). During their lifetimes, the artists used their expertise in plants and wildlife to present paintings from a scientific point of view with the aim of documenting the diversity of nature in the age of discovery. Based on teamLab's concept of Ultrasubjective Space, their works will be presented ...

On the centennial of his birth, the U.S. Postal Service recognized the life and contributions of American artist Roy Lichtenstein with the dedication of new stamps in his honor at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The Forever Stamps come in panes of 20, featuring five of the artist's most iconic works.“The Postal Service uses its stamp program to raise awareness and celebrate the people who represent the very best of our nation,” said Thomas Marshall, general counsel and executive vice president of the Postal Service, who served as the stamps’ dedicating official. “Roy Lichtenstein certainly deserves this recognition because of the remarkable creativity and innovation he demonstrated throughout his career.”Known for his parody pop art, Lichtenstein left behind more than 5,000...

Javier Calleja and Case Studyo are back again with a new big-headed sculpture that will transform your plant game. As a follow-up to their popular POT POP TOP edition from the past few years, the Spanish artist has gone bigger and bolder than ever in a new edition dubbed THE BIG TOP POT.Unlike the past iteration, which favored an all-white surface, the latest work returns to color as Calleja's characters feature large green and blue eyes, with red and orange hair to match. "Seeing nature sprout from the characters’ heads is a deceivingly simple metaphor for the beauty and unbridled creativity of a child’s mind," wrote a release by Case Studyo. "Calleja’s figures represent a disarming innocence and overwhelming purity that is a welcome sight for sore eyes in today’s complex society."THE BIG...

Husband and wife duo, Darren and Trisha Inouye, better known by their artist alias, Giorgiko, have unveiled a new solo exhibition at WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong. Based in Los Angeles, the Inouye's practice can be defined by cartoonish figures that operate in a rugged and mysterious world. As Giorgiko, Trisha fuses her tenderness with Darren's street influence to create compositions that explore the complexity of the human experience. Presented in collaboration with Thinkspace Projects, The Seed of Peace showcases 25 new oil paintings centered around the theme of resurrection. At the core of the show is a seed that blossoms into a white olive tree that provides peace and shelter for the depicted children in Giorgiko's paintings. According to a press release by the gallery, the seed is used as...

2022 was filled with incidents in which activists began targeting high-profile artworks to raise awareness to climate change. Largely confined to Europe, the protests have come to the U.S., where yesterday at 11am ET, two Americans dressed in black suits smeared red and black paint across the case protecting Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1879–1881) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.The two protestors, Tim Martin from Raleigh, North Carolina, and Joanna Smith from Brooklyn, represent the climate group, Declare Emergency. In footage first shared by The Washington Post, Smith voiced his concern to U.S. president Joe Biden, stating, “We need our leaders to take serious action, to tell us the truth about what’s happening with the climate."Protesters smeared paint on ...