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
Visitors in Los Angeles for Frieze Week will have a busy agenda with the many art fairs and gallery and museum exhibitions. To help you keep it all straight, here’s a guide to some of the highlights that are on view at institutions across the city, from Paul McCarthy’s first US museum survey to the […] More
Since its founding in Hong Kong in 2009, the POW! WOW! mural festival has grown into a global leader in the street art movement. Thousands of internationally renowned contemporary, street and graffiti artists have contributed to the project, creating large scale works of public art throughout the United States, Japan, Korea, Rotterdam, Israel, Guam and […] More
The Brooklyn Museum unveiled the renowned French artist JR’s new massive outdoor mural in Domino Park in Williamsburg. This the latest mural in a series of murals he has made cross Brooklyn in connection with his Brooklyn Museum exhibition, JR: Chronicles currently on view. For this mural, titled “The Chronicles of New York”, he photographed […] More
If you missed your chance to snap up one of the coveted tickets to the Louvre’s Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, now is the time to start caffeinating. The Paris museum will be open all night long for the final three days of the exhibition. Bookings open tomorrow, February 11 to secure a slot during the […] More
