A NEW THOUGHT-PROVOKING PROJECT from Yorkville Murals implores the community to choose joy and hope over violence and despair. “Generally Speaking” by Nina Chanel Abney is the artist’s first public ar
EA recently launched the latest iteration of its bestselling FIFA franchise. Amongst a host of new features, HYPEBEAST sat down with EA’s lead gameplay producer, Sam Rivera , to talk about the introdu
Elizabeth Fazzare: How did you begin to build your own collection? Steelo Brim: The same way a lot of first generation collectors do, through what they see at first. In the beginning it was mostly hyp
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 - 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Y
June 18 through September 26, 2021 Reserve Tickets Entry to the Museum is by advance timed ticket only and capacity is limited. Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is internationally celebrated
New York In 1989, Shahzia Sikander enrolled in the illuminated manuscript painting course at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, her native city. The discipline was considered hopelessly
The first thing you see when you walk into “Extraordinary Realities,” Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander’s major retrospective at the Morgan Library, is an Indian Devata dancer, gently resting
Share Comment On this week’s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with painter and multimedia artist Shahzia Sikander. They discussed her early life and education in Pakistan, the fraught relationshi
Rachel Jones, lick your teeth, they so clutch , 2021, oil pastel, oil stick on canvas, 260 × 160 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac, London Rachel Jones Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK Jones has
Street art and collectibles sensation – turned art market darling KAWS (born Brian Donnelly) unveiled his latest work at New York’s Rockefeller Center this week: an 18-foot-tall bronze sculpture perch
Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism. Become a Member Yoshitomo Nara, “I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT” (2017) LOS ANGELES — In his latest exhibition at the Los Angeles County M
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The racial reckoning that has swept the US for the last year has touched many institutions, high and low. But it’s only now, as the country reopens, that the results are becoming visible. Fine arts mu
Above a promontory locally known as Land’s End, sits the neoclassical Legion of Honor . On a gray, overcast day, it’s veiled in a foreboding foggy bottom fantasy. On a startlingly clear, sunny day, fr
On a cloudy day, the walkway that takes visitors into the Legion of Honor’s courtyard accentuates the dark bronze outline of The Thinker , Auguste Rodin’s hulking sculpture that has symbolized the mus
Half an hour after visiting Wangechi Mutu’s exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco recently, I found myself driving down Haight Street, the headquarters of West Coast hippiedom . The two e
Wangechi Mutu stands amid her sculptures and Rodin’s “Thinker” in the courtyard of the Legion of Honor. Photo: Randy Dodson / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco When curators talk about contemporary a
Over the last four years, The Legion of Honor has boldly shaken up its curatorial model, inviting contemporary artists like Urs Fischer, Sarah Lucas, and Lynn Hershman Leeson to interact with their Fr
Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? Legion of Honor Museum Through November 7, 2021 By EMILY WILSON , July 2021 The site-specific Wangechi Mutu show , I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at
Kenny Scharf’s unmistakable technicolor and moody street and cartoon surrealism were integral in the revolution in American Pop art circa 1980. On New York’s Lower East Side, along with Basquiat, Hari
A new documentary co-directed by the artist’s daughter shows how Scharf, a poster boy for downtown New York art in the ’80s, is hard at work decades later. Kenny Scharf, left, with Andy Warhol and Kei
The often bleak streets of Los Angeles’ Skid Row got a little brighter on Monday, July 19. A colorful 66-foot tall mural unveiled at the Los Angeles Mission was donated and painted by artist Kenny Sch
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Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism. Become a Member SAN FRANCISCO — I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? is a powerful new show by Wangechi Mutu at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor and ex
on view Brooklyn Musuem February 26 – September 5, 2021 KAWS: WHAT PARTY at the Brooklyn Museum is the artist’s first museum show in New York. It is a career spanning survey starting with sketchbooks
Photos by Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Daniel Arsham , the New York-based artist hailing from Cleveland, likes his toys. So much so that his studio in Queens is filled wi
When artist Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS chose his graffiti moniker—which has since graced walls from his hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey to museums and sites around the world—he selected his famous i
Mary Heilmann’s solo exhibition “Highway, Oceans, Daydreams” featured paintings the eighty-one-year-old artist executed last spring and summer in her studio on Long Island’s East End during the Covid-
Critic’s Pick An urgent show — both a monument to a resilient culture and a memorial to what’s lost through racism — will surely rank as one of the most important of 2021. Nari Ward’s installation “Pe
NEW YORK — The most ambitious exhibitions help to usher in new ways of seeing. The Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor, who died in March 2019 at just 55, specialized in these kinds of paradigm-shifting sh
Adam Pendleton. “Untitled (WE ARE NOT)” (Detail) (2020). Courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery [Editor’s note: this article was written in December 2020, post-Donald Trump election defeat an
“For me, art has always been about communication,” says Brian Donnelly , whom you’ll more likely know by his graffiti tag KAWS. His story as an artist begins not in the studio, but on the street where
Lucas Samaras studied acting and was a protege of a famed sculptor, but his biggest artistic impact was in photography. Samaras, now 88, has a new exhibit.
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The sweeping, 75-work survey, “Ed Ruscha: OKLA,” opening Feb. 18 at the new Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center brims with telltale paintings of oil derricks, gas stations and open roads threading throu
The Do List Kenneth Noland’s Lively ‘Flares’ Channel California Vibes into Abstract Shapes Feb 17 Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Installation view of 'Kenneth Noland: Flares' at
Brian Donnelly — better known as KAWS — with his BFF sculpture at 280 Park Avenue in Manhattan. Credit... Chris Buck for The New York Times Brian Donnelly — better known as KAWS — went from tagger to
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