For this year’s Taoyuan Land Art Festival, Manfred Eccli and Pedro Cavaco Leitão’s Moradavaga teamed up with Blue Dragon Art Company to present “Squid Squad: Family Day.” Following their previous squid installations, the Italian and Portuguese architecture duo take to Taiwan to reflect on the...
Sitting in his Paris garden, Jean-Michel Othoniel observes nature’s course. “There is always a moment of contemplation at the beginning,” he tells Hypeart, describing a flower’s bloom and the ways in which a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis. Othoniel, who was born in Saint-Étienne and is now...
To mark the 50th anniversary of its annual residency program, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center spotlights the synergy between contemporary artists and industrial artisans. In partnership with global manufacturing company Kohler, this presentation of group exhibitions, solo shows, and community programming foregrounds collective learning...
Museum staff sometimes struggle to distinguish art from everyday objects, as seen in a recent incident at the LAM Museum in the Netherlands. An elevator technician, filling in for a regular worker, mistakenly threw away Alexandre Lavet’s All the Good Times We Spent Together (2016),...
Hypebeast Magazine Issue #34: The Uniform Issue explores the concept of a uniform, whether ascribed or chosen, as an expression of who we are to the rest of the world. More than just a representation of style, uniforms can transcend clothing to represent greater ideas about...
Mercer Labs is days away from opening the doors to their new haunting exhibition. The brainchild of co-founder and multidisciplinary artist Roy Nachum, Dark Matter: Nightmare Before Midnight faces fantasy and fear in an embark into the unknown. Staged at their 36,000 square foot space...
Trauma is sometimes the best teacher. For Frida Kahlo, her near-death bus accident and lifelong quarrels with partner Diego Rivera consistently informed themes of physical suffering and psychological pain she’d imbue within her self-portraits, such as in The Broken Column (1944). For Ghanaian sculptor El...
Recognized for his visceral portrayals of Black Identity, Arthur Jafa’s first major Los Angeles exhibition entitled nativemanson is currently being shown at Sprüth Magers. The exhibition includes sculptures, installations and work in films including his latest visual BG (2024) where he introduces visual interjections in...
Originally detested (at least visually) by the Parisians, the Centre Pompidou has become the premier destination for contemporary art in the French capital over the past 40 years. The institution is undergoing major expansion, both at home and abroad, as Pompidou looks to open a...
Ahead of October, Unit London presents a new group exhibition inspired by Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic Dante’s Inferno. The poem takes readers on a gripping journey through the nine circles of Hell, led by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. After 700 years, the story continues...