Pop-surrealist visions, feminine energy and glitter come together in this upcoming exhibition. The Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) in downtown Los Angeles presents Japanese artist Junna Maruyama's debut solo show in the US, titled Who Am I?.Dreamy visions of melancholic female figures appear through a combination of pop art and surrealism, culminating in a fantasy world that will draw you right in. Maruyama works across painting, printmaking and sculpture, adding details that allude to girlhood, suc...
Melded flesh, restrained bodies and contortionist furniture came together in Bianca Censori's performance art debut.The Australian architect has become a sensation for her risqué looks, her body and her husband, Kanye West. The enigmatic muse has barely spoken out over the years despite the countless tabloid appearances, with rumors circling her and her well-being. This week, Censori caused the usual stir as she touched down in Seoul, South Korea, to debut BIO POP.The 14-minute stunt staged wit...
Sweaty nightclubs, unfamiliar bedrooms and strangers' sofas, this is downtown New York in a time long gone but still culturally resonant. Captured 40 years ago by photographer Nan Goldin in her photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, the images will now be presented together by Gagosian at the Davies Street gallery in London, marking the first time the entire body of work is shown in the UK.The genre-defining release celebrates its fourtieth anniversary with the showcase, shot between 1973 an...
Surrealism is so much more than just an art movement. It's on runways, album covers, embedded in architecture, interior design and even hiding in the everyday. Salvador Dalí's melting clocks and René Magritte's faceless apple man ("The Son of Man") have fully crossed over from museum walls to pop culture, reappearing as clothing graphics, novelty accessories and, in Dalí's case, into real clocks that look straight out of a dream sequence.But a century ago, it was just a niche group of artists...