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Hauser & Wirth As a leading international gallery of modern and contemporary work, Hauser & Wirth does not disappoint, hosting American abstractionist Jack Whitten’s first solo exhibition in Asia. Until July 31, this collection of rarely seen paintings, sculptures and works on paper includes significant works that track Whitten’s evolution as an artist. Included in the exhibition is his ‘Black Monolith’ painting series, which honours African American visionaries and uses an eclectic mix of materials to capture the essence of his admired subjects. Left: David Adjaye, “Khufu”, 2021 ...

Most of all, though, Dzama says he was inspired by the time he spent in Hong Kong. He first visited the city in 2018, when Zwirner opened his gallery in the H Queen’s tower in Central, his first space outside the US and Europe. To mark the occasion, Zwirner invited all of the artists on his roster to the city. More than 20 came, including painters Chris Ofili and Lisa Yuskavage, multidisciplinary artist Francis Alÿs and sculptor Carol Bove. Dzama and his father, Maurice, at Happy Valley Racecourse, which has inspired many of Dzama’s paintings. (Photo: Courtesy of Marcel Dzama)

Photo: Tête-à-Tête Productions, courtesy of Pace It’s probably this approach that makes Adjaye both refreshingly and frustratingly hard to categorise. His many buildings around the world are without an obvious signature, as are his smaller-scale products and furniture. Some call him a radical, an abstractionist; some even compare his buildings and furniture design to conceptual art. “I’m not really interested in synthesising form through a language of architecture, so my buildings never look the same,” he says. One common thread is his need to investigate history and ecology to inf...

Pace Gallery announces exclusive worldwide representation of Jeff Koons Jeff Koons, Venus, 2016-2020. © Jeff Koons, Photo Sean Fennessy, Courtesy National Gallery of Victoria and Pace Gallery. NEW YORK, NY .- Marc Glimcher, CEO and President of Pace Gallery, today announced that the gallery will begin representing Jeff Koons exclusively worldwide. Jeff Koons is among the world’s most influential and iconoclastic living artists. Koons has become internationally renowned for his sculptures and paintings that explore meaning in our media-saturated age. Marrying rigorous conceptualism with comm...

Phaidon announces an in-depth survey of the life and work of Jim Hodges Jim Hodges by Jane M. Saks, Robert Hobbs, Julie Ault, Tim Hailand. June 30, 2021 | $49.95 | Paperback | 160 pages | 200 col illus. | 9.9 in x 11.4 in. NEW YORK, NY .- Contemporary American artist Jim Hodges (b.1957) addresses issues such as memory, love, and the human condition in a multifaceted practice that includes photography, painting, and sculpture. His use of everyday objects like boulders and denim, coupled with the adoption of transitory shapes like spiderwebs, speaks to the ways in which nature refracts personal...