Category: Exhibits
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Interview: Artist Benjamin Styer on His Fantastical Worlds
[ad_1] A wondrous showcase of form and color at NADA Miami 2023 with LA’s Moskowitz Bayse gallery Image of Letters from the Black Hours, courtesy of Benjamin Styer and Moskowitz Bayse To gaze upon the painted works of Massachusetts-based fine artist Benjamin Styer is to leave the white walls of galleries or art fairs and […]
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White Cube New York Opens with “Chopped & Screwed”
[ad_1] US Senior Director, Courtney Willis Blair, curates a powerful inaugural exhibition Photo courtesy of Nicholas Venezia Certain art exhibitions impart inspiration, others initiate dialogue. Every so often, however, an exhibit opens and the cultural fabric of a city changes. This sentiment applies to Chopped & Screwed, the highly anticipated inaugural show within White Cube […]
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“Place for Continuous Eye Contact,” the Bobby Anspach Memorial Exhibition, Transports Visitors
[ad_1] Imaginative machines create powerfully intimate experiences with lights, colors and other people Inside the Brooklyn studio of the late artist Bobby Anspach, four multi-sensory, immersive art machines open pathways to wondrously psychedelic worlds—sometimes bringing the entire universe into your own eye, sometimes requesting that you sustain an intimate connection, amidst a blanket of rainbow […]
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Curator Lawrence Van Hagen’s “What’s Up / Seoul” Exhibit at Designer Teo Yang’s Private Residence
[ad_1] Powerful pieces by Lee Ufan, Yoshitomo Nara, Yayoi Kusama and more accent a meticulously preserved hanok home by David Graver In the historic Bukchon neighborhood of Seoul, South Korea, acclaimed Korean designer Teo Yang, founder of Teoyang Studio, restored two traditional wooden hanok houses and unified them into one transportive residence and home studio. For […]
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Upstate Art Weekend 2023: Margaret Innerhofer’s “Shadowland”
[ad_1] An enthralling exhibition curated by Ethan Cohen Gallery at The KuBe Art Center A former chemistry classroom in a defunct Beacon, New York high school is an appropriately poetic setting for the works within Margaret Innerhofer‘s latest solo exhibition, Shadowland. Innerhofer’s reality-inverting photographic pieces probe the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious—and even […]
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LA’s Control Gallery Presents “When The Ship Goes Down” by Irish Artist Conor Harrington – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] The first Los Angeles solo show of London-based, Irish artist Conor Harrington, “When The Ship Goes Down” (on now through 29 April at Control Gallery) pairs thought-provoking canvas paintings with equally compelling works on paper. All of Harrington’s pieces upend reality as each explores contemporary masculinity and power through depictions of 18th century European […]
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Good Black Art and TRNK Present The Group Exhibition “MOLDED” – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Running through 28 February at design studio TRNK’s Tribeca showroom (at 18 Jay Street), the thoughtfully curated group exhibition MOLDED celebrates the contributions of Black artists and designers, explores materiality and bridges the worlds of art and design. Curated by Phillip Collins, who founded the platform Good Black Art, in collaboration with Tariq Dixon, […]
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Artist Glen Baldridge on the Process Behind His Wondrous Paintings – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Inside painter Glen Baldridge‘s ninth show at NYC’s Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Wigwag (on now through 11 February), mesmerizing works—featuring psychedelic creatures with piercing eyes, abstract woodland branches and kaleidoscopic acorns—posses a magnetism that must be experienced firsthand. Baldridge developed a laborious technique to execute these vibrant gouache-on-paper paintings, where the artist soaks the paper […]
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Editors’ Favorites – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Reflecting on the year through the stories we loved most is not only a nostalgic pastime, but it also lets us highlight and appreciate some of the memorable artists, inventions and places that invigorated and sustained us along the way. This year, we spoke with inspiring cultural innovators, explored large-scale art and maximalist hotels, […]
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“Image Capital” at Fondazione MAST in Bologna, Italy – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] In Bologna, Italy’s Fondazione MAST, the Image Capital exhibition (on now through 8 January 2023) encourages viewers to discover photography as information technology. Curated by Francesco Zanot, the show—which is grouped into six sections: Memory, Access, Protection, Mining, Currency and Imaging—was conceived by photographer Armin Linke and photography historian Estelle Blaschke. Through prints, magazines, […]
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David Hockney Immersive Show Slated to Open in London – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Opening at London’s Lightroom in January 2023, the multi-sensory exhibition David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) will pair digital projection with immersive audio. This confluence of technology aims to bring several Hockney works to life, from iconic paintings to new pieces. Presented in six chapters, the show incorporates narration by […]
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National Gallery of the Faroe Islands Dedicates Exhibit to Midjourney AI Art – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] With the exhibit Imagine the Faroe Islands (on view 29 September to 30 October), the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands becomes the first international arts institution of this caliber to dedicate an entire exhibition to AI art. The 40 digital pieces on display were produced by feeding prompts into the artificial intelligence art generator Midjourney. These human-made prompts […]
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NADA and NowHere’s “Letters, Lights, Travels on the Street (Bokura ga tabi ni deru riyuu)” Highlights Contemporary Japanese Art
[ad_1] Beyond the glass-paneled garage door that acts as a fair-weather entrance to NowHere, a multipurpose cultural center for Japanese creators based in NYC, two lengthy white walls are dotted with diverse contemporary artworks for Letters, Lights, Travels on the Street (Bokura ga tabi ni deru riyuu), a group exhibit running through 11 September. Curated by […]
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Foreland’s Eccentric Inflatable Artwork Epitomizes the Exuberance of Upstate Art Weekend – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] During the 2021 installment of Upstate Art Weekend, contemporary art complex Foreland officially welcomed guests to Catskill, New York. An amalgamation of three historic buildings, comprising some 85,000 square feet, Foreland interlinks gallery spaces with artist studios, event venues and more. Transfixed by the spectacular destination and its thought-provoking programming, we returned to the riverfront complex for this year’s […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Converting salt water to drinking water, recycling face masks in concrete, an exhibition of abortion stories and more from around the web Researchers Uncover a Fragment of the Asteroid That May Have Killed Off Dinosaurs Paleontologists discovered a tiny fragment that may have been from the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago […]