Jaimie Warren is the first to admit that she’s weird; it stems from a desire to do just about anything to keep herself entertained. For the Wisconsin-born artist, this means dressing up as bizarro versions of her favorite pop-culture characters and celebrities—from Freddie Mercury to Freddy Krueger, she’s done it all. Warren’s first solo institutional show […] More
Female artists’ contributions to the Surrealist movement may be well known, but only a handful have received the recognition they deserve. A scholarly new exhibition in Frankfurt has brought together works by 34 important artists, several of whom have been long overlooked and excluded from the male-dominated art historical canon. The quantity and diversity of […] More
Strolling through the streets of Paris, you might stumble upon these new pieces from Ludo. His unmistakable imagery tells you right away when you spot one of his artworks in the city of lights. With “Parisian Ketchup” and “Nature(Netflix)Morte”, the French street artist created satiric artworks based on two mega commercial brands. While most of […] More
“Derrick Adams: Transformers” at Luxembourg & Dayan, LondonThrough April 4, 2020 What the Gallery Says: “The exhibition presents striking new large-scale examples from the ‘Beauty World’ series that Adams began in 2019. ‘Beauty World’includes works titled , which depict a single figure, and , which depict 16 figures. To create these ambitious works, Adams reproduces a digital photograph […] More
The millennial art star Jordan Casteel is having her first New York solo museum show at the tender age of 31. Opening this week at the New Museum, the show will include some 40 paintings, many from her series “Harlem Nights,” which depict African American men in the same Harlem community where Casteel lives. “There are […] More
K-Pop is on a mission to take over the world. And on this mission, the latest ally is contemporary art, with South Korean boyband BTS sprearheading a wildly ambitious global public art initiative that aims to excite its millions of fans and bring in new ones. In January, the band initiated the project, known as CONNECT, BTS. The […] More
This March, thousands of tourists milling through the neon-lit chaos that is Times Square will encounter something a little in between the frenetic advertisements and fast-fashion stores. At first glance, what they find might look like a full-size, fully-stocked grocery store. In and of itself, this isn’t unusual for a city of around 8.6 million […] More
