Earlier this month, a monumental, metallic spiral appeared on Manhattan's High Line to coincide with New York Fashion Week.
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The Brooklyn-based artist's solo show 'Micro MUniverse' runs through October 10 at Hashimoto Contemporary.
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Harriet Mena Hill is devoted to documenting a community amid demolition.
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Have you found yourself stunned by the Surrealist works of Remedios Varo? Same.
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Supple mountains cradled by lakes and forests are tinged with magical realism.
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Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales.
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Brown's work is currently on view in 'The Peace of Wild Things' at Joy Machine.
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Through vivid collages layering fragments of paper and fiber, Clotilde Jiménez echoes his own mélange of experiences and histories.
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Featuring Nick Cave, Nina Chanel Abney, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Kerry James Marshall, and many more.
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An exploration of the human figure, architectural materials, and the perception of space.
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"Do objects transmit spirituality? No, they remind us of our spirituality." —Daniel Minter
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The "Great Mosaic" may be the largest in the Roman world.
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How people, capital, cargo, and ideas traverse the globe has long been central to Hew Locke's work.
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Inside Webster's interdisciplinary practice that advocates for nature.
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Baxter uses materials derived from the earth that are explicitly solid, evoking an intimate tension between vulnerability and strength.
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The artist describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.”
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Roberta Gentry is interested in the relationship between the constructed and the natural, cultivating abstract, biomorphic forms.
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Anstis' solo show 'Pastels' just opened at Olney Gleason in New York City.
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For Anna Ortiz, the jaguar is a fitting metaphor for entering into a mythic borderland.
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Th artist taps the small, colorful rubber bands as an accessible material for an inventive application.
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In Chicago, Karla Wong presents a suite of vivid paintings that double as mysterious portals.
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In his series 'A Kid Could Do It,' The Wa transforms otherwise nondescript structures into jubilant, youthful drawings.
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This October, Phaidon will release an expansive tome gathering more than 200 photographs, artworks, historical objects, and more all devoted to the vast diversity and creative potential of mycology.
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Tarot, ancient mythologies, pop culture, and personal narrative converge in the NYC-based artist's maximal works.
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Ronald Jackson creates a sort of casting list for an imagined screenplay that titles the exhibition: 'An American Fiction.'
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Nearly 100 artists, scientists, astronauts, futurists, and others explore how the cosmos teach us about ourselves.
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Milez's new body of work goes on view this month in 'Everything the Light Touches' at Monya Rowe Gallery.
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Hashimoto’s elaborate 'Giant Arc' installation is a vibrant "cloud canopy" at SFMOMA.
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The artist's solo exhibition 'Vanishing Point' opens soon at Almine Rech in Brussels.
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Clio Sze To paints impressionistic pieces that capture the feeling of a contemplative hour spent on foot.
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For Hieu Thien Nguyen, who works as kelogsloops, death is a constant reminder, but not something to fear.
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Marka27 taps into his own experiences of living between cultures and the arbitrary nature of national borders.
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For Chicago artist Isaiah Lee, a dollhouse becomes the site of uncanny imaginations.
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While bold in color, Ben Sledsens' oil-and-acrylic paintings are quiet and intimate.
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For Xanthe Burdett, the boundary between humans and nature is thin, malleable, and always in flux.
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When it comes to felines, the artist revels in "the contrast between how ordinary and how weird they are."
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The show is part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel's 2026 River to River Festival.
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'The Peace of Wild Things' is a harmonic dialogue about the ways experiences linger long after a moment has passed.
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The Dallas-based artist draws on her background in product design and illustration.
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Through vivid sculptural paintings, Estefania Ajcip peers in on the fractures families face when split apart.
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Craig & Karl's expressive inflatables infuse oft-overlooked architecture with play and whimsy.
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Lou Benesch translates the Magician's inclination for action and mysticism into a collection of works on found and antique materials.
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"I typically create giant nostalgic but functional pieces, mostly through woodworking," Baldwin says.
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From reclaimed wood, Damien Hoar de Galvan pieces together dynamic sculptures for a daily project.
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Titled "Neo Hokusai," the monumental arrangement last weekend in Brussels covered nearly 14,000 square feet.
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"For me, paintings represent an attempt to grasp a 'something' that for some reason deeply moves me, agitates me."
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Over a 22-year period, Green illustrated final requests ranging from pizzas and lobster to pies and KFC cartons.
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Mabona's sculptures highlight how the personal and cultural intersect alongside the distinctly South African sense of resilience.
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Wallace's glowing acrylic paintings feature crystals, enigmatic energy forces, starlight, and specters.
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"Clay, as a medium, has a way of connecting us to the past," Yousif says.
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The street artist is known for her vivid geometric animal murals evocative of origami.
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The exhibition opens at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on August 27.
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"The wind is my nemesis!" says Jennifer Latour.
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Jongmans' works look to the past but are exquisitely contemporary, prompting us to consider the meaning of value.
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Sungho Bae's uncanny sculptures aremade of a vibrant, fleshy patchwork that resembles organs, tissue, muscle, and more.
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"We currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world," the creators say.
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'Queen of the Neighborhood!' will include a suite of new paintings that correspond to the nine circles of Hell in Dante's 'Inferno.'
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"What started spontaneously became a way of exploring grief, memory, and the journeys that never happened," the artist says.
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Working from family photos, Melissa Joseph captures the warmth and tenderness of Midwestern life.
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Known for her lush assemblages of flameworked glass, Amber Cowan reimagines a ubiquitous medium.
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Powerhouse Arts asks, will we care for the future of our planet the way we care for the animals we love?
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Whitestone Gallery in Seoul presents the artist's solo exhibition, 'Spiral of Energy.'
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Wiesenfeld delves into the power of visibility and imagination.
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En Iwamura is interested in the ways we measure and understand the spaces between ourselves and others.
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Ella & Pitr bring eccentric joy to urban spaces.
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"I like my work to be open to interpretation," Iwaszkiewicz says. "There's a lot of humor in it, a sense of playfulness, and I never take the world too seriously."
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For Koh, an under-appreciated element of a book's construction becomes the highlight.
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Set against uninterrupted backgrounds, metallic portraits float almost deity-like amid vibrant color.
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The duo aims to raise awareness of biodiversity and conservation by evoking a sense of wonder similar to what we feel in nature.
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Years of labor and adaptation as a first-generation immigrant shaped the artist's approach to painting.
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'New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations' celebrates contemporary creations by artists in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon.
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The artist's new exhibition is fully stocked with more than 20,000 handmade felt objects.
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'Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect' delves into the ways that color and social, political, and cultural forces intersect in Black American art.
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Dressers, chests, and cabinets stack into towering assemblages in Fumiaki Aono's imaginative sculptures.
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Felicia Chiao's warm illustrations capture emotion and the variances of mental health through surreal compositions.
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For more than four decades, the artist has reimagined the technical and sculptural capabilities of one simple material: twigs.
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The Seattle-based artist's quirky sculptures are made from from found figurines.
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The brothers puncture everyday objects with irregular yet cohesive holes, rendering their former functions impractical.
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“I’m interested in creating work that reflects the contradictions we navigate every day, where life can be both exhilarating and devastating."
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'Geometry of Play' comprises murals across three pickleball courts, marking the first artist-designed versions in the country.
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The group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris plumbs the dialogue between absence and presence.
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If you were to rip open a tattered matchbox, what might you find hidden in its confines?
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Humans' futile control of time forms the basis of a new suite of works in Padeu's solo show at Larkin Durey.
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A large-scale, immersive exhibition of her work opens today at Tate Modern.
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The Cardiff-based artist taps into storytelling, masking traditions, and public ceremony and celebration.
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"I rarely paint a folktale exactly as it's written," Lee says. "I'm more interested in its symbols, emotions, and the questions it leaves behind."
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"Civilizations are remembered through their monuments, but understood through the things they throw away," the artist says.
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The Bozeman-based artist is known for his eccentric wooden works that draw on folklore, personal memory, and daily observations.
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Color ripples across each canvas, presenting the stylized florals in various states of blossom and decay.
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The lively flora and fauna of a tiny Filipino island commingle with harrowing memories of California prisons in the surreal works of Gil Batle.
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"Improbable but not impossible" is how Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja describes the unexpected companions in her work.
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The Dutch artist reflects on loss, grief, and the therapeutic powers of nature in his first presentation at Joy Machine.
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The London-based artist's monochrome compositions evoke wonder, mischief, and riddles.
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"You can almost build up a whole character for someone based on what’s inside their pocket or what socks they are wearing to work!"
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Art history and ecology merge in Van Hillik's bold, vaguely unsettling murals.
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Maddux often stacks the bunches of folds several feet high, mirroring human proportions.
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"Creating isn't something we do (in Spain), it's something we are," the artist says. "And I come from that; I carry it in my body."
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The artist wanders along deer paths on Block Island, which sits a few miles off the coast of Rhode Island.
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The Seoul-based artist's lush paintings have an aura of wistfulness and quietude.
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Visualize your local weather with art history.
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