#contemporary-art

#contemporary-art

This 15th-century inn is a balancing act of old bones and contemporary attitude. Sloping floors, exposed beams and stone fireplaces meet clean modern lines, warm lighting and an outrageous art collection. You turn a corner and find a Basquiat staring across at a Warhol; a quick detour and there's Dali, Bacon, Hirst and many, many more. It's curated yet still feels comfortable and homely.

The term reflects her unique method of applying spray paint, bringing depth, complexity, and a painterly sensibility to her work. This exhibition presents 21 new spray paintings based on the theme "See-Through," delicately depicting moments where humor and introspection intersect through the coalescence of everyday objects and surreal scenes. The word "See-Through" harbors a mysterious meaning that serves to stimulate Stickymonger's imagination.

Artists Combine Theatricality And Organic Food To Compose The Photographs This Artist Creates Beautifully Bizarre Backpacks That Look Like Octopus, Spiders, And Beetles Sweet Collaboration: Chinese Pastry Shop Teams Up with 'Rick and Morty' for Irresistible Desserts! This Incredible Japanese Aquarium Toilet Anonymous Hero Is Protecting' Graffiti Penises By Painting Condoms Over Them Trolling Items at the Popular Furniture Store Conrad Engelhardt's Stained Wine Cork Paintings

From the disruptive nonsense of Santacon to Kwame Brathwaite's "Black is Beautiful" movement, here's what to see or stream. I Wool Survive featured pieces made with wool from the world's "first flock of gay sheep." What began as a conversation among a handful of artists has grown into a decentralized creative action, spanning more than 600 events across the country.

Donald and Doris Fisher's collection of blue-chip contemporary art has been on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 2016, several years after the museum arranged a long-term loan-a 100-year-long one, to be exact-with the Fisher Art Foundation. Now, a decade after the initial installation, SFMOMA has announced an overhaul of the Fisher Collection galleries. The new presentation will open on April 18, 2026.

A dual exhibition of works by New York-based artist Jesse Zuo and Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Cotton. The title of the show is based on the term for the adjustable resistance of knobs on a microscope. In referencing the delicate balance between concentration and strain, both artists can be seen as similarly navigating viewers' focus as they control the the amount of detail revealed or emphasized when it comes to their subjects' physique and emotional life.

The art market's surprising recovery continued yesterday (19 November)at Rockefeller Centre, thanks to Christie's 21st century evening sale hauling in $99.5m, or $123.5m with fees. The result eclipsed last November's equivalent sale that realised $106.5m with fees. Last night's tally before fees fell midway between pre-sale expectations of $87m to $127m. Out of the 45 lots offered, just one-a Cecily Brown abstract-failed to sell, making for an almost-perfect buy-in rate of 98%.

Jeff Koons's "Banality" sculptures of the late 1980s are anything but ordinary: few can easily forget the sight of the Pink Panther embracing a partially naked woman, for one. But there's nothing quite so out of the ordinary about the artist's recent creations such as his 2016-21 sculpture Aphrodite, an eight-and-half-foot-tall nude that made its public debut at Gagosian gallery in New York last week.

Maurizio Cattelan's shimmering 223-pound (101.2 kg) solid gold toilet sold for $12.1 million with fees at Sotheby's contemporary auction in its new Breuer Building headquarters tonight, November 18. Sotheby's did not list an estimate for Cattelan's 18-karat metaphor, "America" (2016), but set bids to start at $10 million. Failing to receive more than one bid, the work sold after an awkward minute during which auctioneer Phyllis Kao attempted to draw out more offers using potty-related puns.

At December's event, you can expect talks from Charlotte Mei, a London-based contemporary artist, painter and illustrator who has worked with Sony Music, Hermés, Panasonic and the New York Times, as well as having her work exhibited in London, Hong Kong, Berlin and New York. She'll be talking about the evolution of her work which has gone through considerable changes. We'll also be joined by the creator of A View,

That cinephile who loves talking politics and film? They'll love comic artist and Hyperallergic contributor Nathan Gelgud's Reel Politik, recommended by Reviews Editor Natalie Haddad. Your favorite tarot reader? Snag them a copy of Symbolorum, a guide to the intricate emblem system of 16th-century Europe, per critic Lauren Moya Ford. And for the Y2K fanatic, Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian suggests a visual guide to the decade that doubles as a lookbook. Find more picks for painters, planners, and Prospect Park-goers below.

Tinworks Art, the fledgling non-profit contemporary art space in Bozeman, Montana, is expanding its footprint from a former industrial site in the city's northeast neighbourhood to the historic Rialto Theater downtown. Opening 21 November, Tinworks at Rialto will be showing Matthew Barney's 2018 Western film (until 1 February 2026), launching Tinworks' first space open year-round for installations, artists' talks, screenings and performances.

This new survey celebrates the lives and work of 44 Modern Japanese artists dating from the early 20th century to today, exploring printmaking in all its forms. Artists featured include Saitō Kiyoshi, who was influenced by European artists, especially Odilon Redon and Edvard Munch, along with Shinoda Tōkō who trained in traditional Japanese calligraphy but, in her own words, "decided to try my own style".

I have been a full-time, professional art critic for most of my adult life. I spend my days in galleries, surrounded by art, reading about it, absorbing it. I like art a lot, but I am also cynical about its supposed benefits beyond the merely aesthetic. But just as a new study by the Art Fund finds that art isn't just good for our mental wellbeing but our physical health,

Executed in black ink, Portrait of a Woman (2023) is based on one of the photographs of anonymous women taken in summer 1941 at Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto by the German soldier Willy Georg. With authorisation from his superiors in the Nazi occupation forces in Poland, Georg entered the Ghetto and shot five rolls of film with his Leica. One was confiscated, together with the camera, by a German patrol that stopped him,

A woman was arrested by CHP officers in Dublin after crashing her car, possibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and leaving a 1-year-old child behind in the car. The officers found the woman walking along the roadway of I-580, and when they located the car, they found the child inside; the child is reportedly okay. [CHP-Dublin/Facebook] The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is going "nomadic" when it leaves its home of one year, the Cube on Montgomery Street, early next year.

Visitors to a major JMW Turner exhibition may well be surprised to see the opening work is by Jeff Koons, and Damien Hirst sharks, a Bridget Riley stripe painting and some Doc Marten boots supplied by the curator herself are also on display. Surprised? That's what we're hoping, said Melissa Gustin, the curator of British art at National Museums Liverpool. But by the end it will all make perfect sense, she hopes. That is the vibe we are after.

Japan is an island nation rich in timber, from cypress (Hinoki) to cedar (Sugi) to larch (Karamatsu). Its renowned woodworking heritage dates back centuries, taking the form of immaculately carved wooden beams in houses, ornate storage boxes, and revered religious statuary. For some artists working today, this timeless tradition translates perfectly into contemporary expressions. Hand-hewn from timber, expressive faces and dynamic motifs emerge in the sculptures of Kigaku - Re(a)lize - at FUMA Contemporary Tokyo.

Downtown San Jose welcomed a new cultural gem with the opening of the Silicon Valley Asian Art Center at 150 East Santa Clara Street on October 17. The midday ribbon-cutting ceremony featured remarks from Mayor Matt Mahan, Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, representatives from the San Jose Downtown Association, and owner Jianhua Shu. This event marked the expansion of the center from its original Santa Clara location, established in 2004, which has long showcased modern and ancient artworks.

"You'll also find a primer for the exhibitions," Monetta White, the director and chief executive of MoAD, tells The Art Newspaper. "You'll find a framework, some vocabulary, some definitions of the themes." Meanwhile, she points out, much of the rest of the $500,000 renovation has gone into critical infrastructure improvements visitors will hardly notice, such as lighting upgrades and a new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system.

Once a London district made up of neon-lit sex shops and late-night clubs, King's Cross has been polished by regeneration, yet here, the curators draw on the history of the space to choreograph a dialogue between art, architecture, and the city, attempting to explore how contemporary artistic practices might inhabit, and even provoke, the residues of urban change and regeneration.

The gallery has been on a solid run in recent months, with a well-received edition of its annual from young British artist and video game designer Serpentine Pavilion designed by Bangladeshi artist and architect Marina Tabassum, and two buzzy autumn shows in the first major solo exhibition Danielle Brathwaite Shirley and the latest show from Peter Doig - famed for being the most expensive living artist in Europe - inspired by sound system culture.