Art

In a week's time, Steven Harrington is set to release his largest sculptural edition to date. Normally reserved to smaller pieces and vinyl figures that measure roughly a foot in height, the acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist will cast his signature Mello dog in five feet of fiberglass reinforced polymer.While larger sculptures have been a constant throughout the last ten years of his career, museums and solo exhibitions have been the only way for visitors to experience them. "I've always wanted the public to experience and have access to the life sized version my altar ego, Mello. I feel very fortunate to finally be able to offer this to my audience for the first time," the artist told Hypeart. The latest entry in the Mello line measures 5 feet tall x 2 feet wide x 1 feet 10 inches deep. ...

Dozie Kanu has teamed up with Byredo to create an installation that brings the brand's Bal d’Afrique fragrance to life. On show during Milan Design Week at Spazio Maiocchi, the installation pairs a gallery of archival photography alongside a large-scale architectural structure. Visitors enter the space via a corridor. Here, a glass vitrine displays photographs from the Saman Archive - a project initiated by Adjoa Armah, which collects images taken in Ghana across different decades. For Kanu, representing the past through his work is crucial, in terms of creating a connection. As such, by showing the audience these images before inviting them into the installation itself, he looks to convey a sense of shared perspective. "It feels more authentic for me to try and see the continent through t...

Like the roar of a tenor saxophone gliding over the rhythm, improvisation was a key technique for Jean-Michel Basquiat. Understandably so, as his affinity for jazz is well documented. Even before amassing an impressive record collection himself, the young artist would draw on the floor as his father would play the trumpet. Bebop, in particular, would become a lifelong interest for Basquiat, especially the virtuosic music of Charlie Parker.Basquiat's homage to Jazz, Now’s the Time (1985), will be the centerpiece of Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Auction next month. Named after Parker's 1945 record of the same name, the painting has been in the collection of publisher and film producer, Peter Brant, and is expected to fetch roughly $30m USD.“In [Now’s the Time], we witness Basquiat radically...

For Inès Longevial, the body is a canvas for her to paint what she feels. Sometimes these self-depictions takes on a languid palette, such as a slate blue mixed with chartreuse and deep purple; whereas, as it often does in the sunnier months, Longevial opts for sun-kissed colors to hint at a sense of play and excitement. The French artist landed somewhere in between these two polarities in her latest print entitled Elphaba. Perhaps named after the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, Longevial's self-portrait exudes a calm, yet mysterious figure, whose colors reflect the changing of the seasons. Originally made in colored pencil, the sketch is dominated by pastel colors, from pink and magenta to lilac and robins egg blue. Made in collaboration with the centuries old wine producer,...

The Sony World Photography Awards launched 16 years ago as a way to champion work from all ages and backgrounds. Fast forward to the present, little did the organization know that it would (mistakingly) crown an image created by artificial intelligence. That's what happened at this year's coronation, as German photographer Boris Eldagsen refused to accept the award for the Creative category.His photograph, entitled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, was created using OpenAI's DALL-E 2 image generator and alludes to a 1940s family photo, where two women from different generations lie front and center. Call it photography or 'promptograhpy' as Eldagsen dubbed it, the work was purposefully submitted to "drive debate" about how this technology is currently redefining our understanding of photograp...

It's been quite the year for Yayoi Kusama. Having kickstarted 2023 with a major collaboration with Louis Vuitton and a retrospective exhibition at Hong Kong's M+ Museum, the acclaimed Japanese artist is set to debut a three-story infinity room at WNDR Museum in Chicago.Dots Obsession has previously toured around the world and most recently went on view in 2018. The latest iteration sees the walk-in installation dripped in an all-yellow aesthetic, where Kusama's siganture dots orbit around the space and across the museum walls. “Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions,” the artist previously said in a statement. Kusama's 2017 masterpiece, Let’s Survive Forever, which is currently on ...

San Francisco’s Fraenkel Gallery first platformed the work of Nan Goldin in 1994. Nearly three decades later, the influential photographer is showing her fifth exhibition at the gallery, a collection of photographs and videos exploring the darkness of drug addiction.Entitled Memory Lost, the show draws on Goldin’s extensive archive of work. Photos span the dreamlike images of earlier periods in her career, along with a series of portraits captured throughout the course of the pandemic, both of Goldin herself and of writer Thora Siemsen.The show is projected in a dark room and spans 24 minutes in length. As viewers move through the room, they’ll listen to a score from Mica Levi, with other music created by CJ Calderwood and the Soundwalk Collective. Goldin’s own voice is layered over the so...

Legendary techno DJ Carl Craig returns to the gallery walls with the second chapter to his Party/After-Party exhibition. Having originally gone on view at Dia:Beacon in New York, the Detroit icon brings his audio-visual experience to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles. Conceived prior to the COVID pandemic, Craig draws on his 30-year career to guide visitors through a club night from the perspective of a DJ. From the quiet moments before the crowd packs in to the set's pulsating apex, then eventually the melancholic transition into the afterparty — the installation seeks to evoke the collective ecstasy and desolation that intertwines on the dance floor. “I want people to have the possibility to connect with their spirit,” Craig previously said in an interview. “To have that spi...

Legendary techno DJ Carl Craig returns to the gallery walls with the second chapter to his Party/After-Party exhibition. Having originally gone on view at Dia:Beacon in New York, the Detroit icon brings his audio-visual experience to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles. Conceived prior to the COVID pandemic, Craig draws on his 30-year career to guide visitors through a club night from the perspective of a DJ. From the quiet moments before the crowd packs in to the set's pulsating apex, then eventually the melancholic transition into the afterparty — the installation seeks to evoke the collective ecstasy and desolation that intertwines on the dance floor. “I want people to have the possibility to connect with their spirit,” Craig previously said in an interview. “To have that spi...

Tyrrell Winston's recent installation was a little too controversial for local authorities in Hong Kong, but fans can enjoy a new solo presentation that will surely stay the course while it is on view at the miart modern and contemporary art fair in Milan. Produced in conjunction with Stems Gallery, the American artist is featuring a selection of work from his recent Punishment Paintings series, loads of deflated basketballs and more. Born in Southern California and now based in Detroit, Winston first rose to prominence by scouring the streets of New York City for discarded basketballs that he would recreate into sculptural assemblages — fusing his love of the sport with art. Since that time, he has made commissioned work for the likes of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and Philadelp...

Tyrrell Winston's recent installation was a little too controversial for local authorities in Hong Kong, but fans can enjoy a new solo presentation that will surely stay the course while it is on view at the miart modern and contemporary art fair in Milan. Produced in conjunction with Stems Gallery, the American artist is featuring a selection of work from his recent Punishment Paintings series, loads of deflated basketballs and more. Born in Southern California and now based in Detroit, Winston first rose to prominence by scouring the streets of New York City for discarded basketballs that he would recreate into sculptural assemblages — fusing his love of the sport with art. Since that time, he has made commissioned work for the likes of Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and Philadelp...