Zéh Palito is making his Perrotin debut with a new solo exhibition entitled Cars, Pools & Melanin. Based between São Paulo and Maryland, the Brazilian artist creates fantastical portrait and landscape paintings that provide a glimpse into the Afro-diasporic experience, while also touching on universal...
Los Angeles-based artist duo FriendsWithYou is presenting a new set of works at Tokyo’s Parco Museum in an exhibition titled Ocean: Temple of the Sacred Heart. Taking inspiration from fictional mythology, the show tells the story of heroes and saints who wish to free humanity...
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum was temporarily closed on Saturday, May 7, due to climate protestors blocking the entrance with yellow smoke bombs. Members from the British activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) were clad in yellow jumpsuits and proceeded in chaining themselves to fences as they set off...
Home to the largest Japanese population outside of Tokyo, Brazil is a mosaic of cultural exchange. Staged at Nara Roesler in New York, a new group show constellates the work of Tomie Ohtake, Lydia Okumura, and Asuka Anastacia Ogawa. In this next chapter of the...
André Heller’s 36-year dream is set to come true as Luna Luna begins its multi-city tour. This November, New Yorkers will get the chance to witness a ferris wheel designed by Jean-Michel Basquiat, a carousel by Keith Haring and more. What could have easily been...
Last Thursday, Blade Study Gallery lifted the veil on a new solo exhibition by interdisciplinary sculptor Brian Oakes. SEED follows a commodity’s journey through the supply chain. Traveling through terrains of conception to display, the show envisions its viewers as agents of productions. In a...
Marcel Duchamp once likened chess players to artists. David Hockney famously echoed the French artist’s sentiment, equating drawing as running parallel to the act of playing chess, saying that “your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.” Today, the 1,500-year-old board game...
The creatures of L’or mord l’os (gold bites bone) stand on the border between beautiful and grotesque. Staged at cadet capela in Paris, the duet exhibition spotlights the works of Christian Rex van Minnen and Ken Sortais, bound by their interests in the unsightly. Through...
Who gets to write history? Adeshola Makinde often ponders on this question each time he enters his studio. Raised within the Chicagoland suburbs, the Nigerian-American artist recalls gaps within his education pertaining Black history, so he sought to retrace the dots in his multi-media practice,...
Los Angeles’s Good Mother Gallery has worked with rising artist Sean Hamilton on a new limited edition print entitled Tire with Chains. Born in Idaho and now based in Seattle, Hamilton’s practice revolves around the nuances of rural Midwestern life, drawing on his experience in...