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A waterfall of recycled bottle caps flows down Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (@tate ) – the final act in El Anatsui’s (@elanatsui.art ) Hyundai Commission: Behind the Red Moon (@hyundai.artlab ). Filling the space from entrance to back wall, this is his most epic work and installation to date. It’s an exhibition in three acts, suggesting a sailing ship with elements of wind, water, and the cosmos. While the exhibition text provides an anchor for interpretation, he ultimately takes you on a journey across a vast ocean of history and ideas. Down the ramp and up the bridge, multiple vantage points provide so many ways of seeing and experiencing. And just as you turn the corner in this final section, this final act (shown here), you turn back around and wonder whether the journey has ended or whether it has really just begun. Tate Modern Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui Oct 10, 2023 – Apr 14, 2024 #ElAnatsui #TateModern #HyundaiArtlab #BehindTheRedMoon

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With the passing of Park Seo-bo (@parkseobo ), I find new meaning and poetry from this studio visit from several years ago. He spoke at length about this idea of emptying oneself through the labor of creating work, the repetition you see here. His energy being released into the paint, or literally scraped into it. Maybe he is still going at it, somewhere in the sky above us. Or maybe he left us at the moment he achieved the pure emptiness he sought. Like that final scene in Inception, we are left to wonder. RIP #ParkSeoBo

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Part 3 of 3 of our studio visit with Emma Webster (@emma_webstah )! Some advice for artists. If you’re seeing this and you’re in New York today (May 16), pop by Petzel (@petzelgallery ) at 1pm for a talk between Emma and artist Josephine Halvorson. Otherwise check out Emma’s show while it’s on view. Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone Apr 30–Jun 6, 2026 Petzel New York 🇺🇸

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Now open at White Cube Seoul, Takis (@takisfoundation ) and Nam June Paik are brought together in a presentation that reflects their collaboration and shared interest in music, John Cage and Zen. Across the exhibition, sculpture, sound and moving image intersect: works vibrate through magnetism, signals distort, and systems of transmission are set into motion. For both artists, technology operates not as a tool of control, but as a means of generating unpredictable outcomes. Referencing their 1979 performance ‘Duett,’ in which sound and movement converged, this exhibition revisits this dialogue in a new context. Ikenna Malbert (@ikenna_malbert ), Associate Director, leads us through a walkthrough of the exhibition. Duett: Takis and Nam June Paik May 2–Jun 5, 2026 White Cube Seoul 🇰🇷

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This is Stephen Lichty’s (@stephenlichty ) studio in San Francisco. At the entrance, quartz boulders sit on tables after being excavated, splashed by the sunlight and massaged by water. In one corner, window panes lean against the wall, getting readied for pine rosin to be melted over them, filling the room with the subtlest fresh scent. And in other corners of the room, the tools of the artist’s trade, neatly organized, paralleling the scientific foundation of his work. It started with a single boulder — one Lichty came across while doing stone masonry work in the Bay Area. He followed it to its origin: an old mine in the Sierra Nevada foothills, on land that was gutted by Gold Rush-era hydraulic mining before becoming protected National Forest. The same destructive forces that tore through that hillside are what pushed these stones to the surface in the first place. That tension between damage and discovery sits at the heart of his first show with YveYANG (@yveyanggallery ). Stephen Lichty: Ghost Stone May 8–Jul 3, 2026 YveYANG New York 🇺🇸

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Our first stop at the 2026 Venice Biennale (@labiennale ): Nigel Cooke’s (@nigelcookestudio ) “Bad Habits” at Fondazione Querini Stampalia (@fondazionequerinistampalia ). Once a 16th-century residence, now a museum and library, the space mirrors the exhibition—layered with different times and histories. For Nigel, painting is a process of decision-making: what to keep, what to erase. It begins with the personal, but points to something larger—the repetition of history, and the return of choices we thought were behind us. Forms cluster across the canvas, yet feel pushed to the edges. He describes them as small societies, shaped as much by exclusion as by connection. Nigel calls Venice a “floating museum.” His paintings work in a similar way: layered, unstable, and never fully resolved. Nigel Cooke: Bad Habits May 5–Nov 22, 2026 Fondazione Querini Stampalia Venice 🇮🇹

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Do you read the wall text? We asked artist Louise Giovanelli (@louise___giovanelli ) that very question. Sometimes, before we’ve even seen the exhibition, a heavy block of text has already worn us out. For Louise, paintings are meant to be seen. To be looked at. To be visual. When the text sits right beside the work, it can become a distraction, pulling you away from your own reading of the image and toward someone else’s explanation or interpretation. Look first. Read later. This is an excerpt from our “How We Art” series that takes you inside the art world and demystifies how to see, experience, and appreciate all that art has to offer. Head to YouTube for the full episode. Let us know what you think in the comments! Special thanks to White Cube (@whitecube ) for letting us film in their storage spaces in Bermondsey! Hosted by Gary Yeh (@gary_artdrunk ).

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In part two of our walkthrough of “Basquiat - Headstrong”, Curator Anders Kold takes a deeper dive into two salon hangs in the show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (@louisianamuseum ). Works clustered together, floor to ceiling, each one pulling your eye in a different direction. It’s a deliberate choice — and one that changes how you read the heads. Suddenly they’re in conversation with each other. A face on the left answers something in a face on the right. Basquiat - Headstrong Jan 30–May 17, 2026 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk 🇩🇰 Artwork: © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

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We often talk about Jean-Michel Basquiat as a myth. “Basquiat - Headstrong” focuses on his work and one central motif: the head! Last week, we toured the exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (@louisianamuseum ) with Curator and Head of Acquisitions Anders Kold. The exhibition zeroes in on a rarely seen body of work: drawings in oilstick on paper, mostly from 1981–1983. Basquiat kept these works to himself during his lifetime. They weren’t studies or sketches — they were something more private. Gone are many of the words and symbols that shaped his public image. In their place are faces caught between structure and collapse, with gritted teeth, frantic energy, and eyes that feel turned inward. They reveal not only Basquiat’s command of drawing, but a more private emotional register beneath the public image. Basquiat - Headstrong Jan 30–May 17, 2026 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk 🇩🇰 Artwork: © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

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This is how a deer Emma Webster’s (@emma_webstah ) work goes from sculpture to scan to living in a digital environment to painting. This is a look into her process, with each stage reshaping the next as the image moves between different states. In Emma’s work, landscape starts to read more like a still life. Built piece by piece, it is constructed rather than simply observed. What feels natural at first is, in fact, carefully crafted. Every element shaped, adjusted, and brought together into a single scene. See the final results of her process in New York at her show with Petzel (@petzelgallery ). Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone Apr 30–Jun 6, 2026 Petzel New York 🇺🇸

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From Seoul to Hong Kong, Lee Bul’s major survey continues at M+ (@mplusmuseum ). Here, M+ Artistic Director and Chief Curator Doryun Chong (@doryunchong ) guides us through the show. Rather than focusing on individual works, the exhibition reads as something that unfolds across space, where different forms and ideas begin to connect. You stop moving from one piece to another, and start seeing how everything relates. Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now Mar 14–Aug 9, 2026 M+ Hong Kong 🇭🇰

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Inside Emma Webster’s (@emma_webstah ) studio, worlds are built, landscapes are pruned, and paintings are painted. Her process is not as straightforward as you might think. Sometimes they begin as sketches or watercolors, made en plein air. Othertimes they start as clay sculptures, 3D-scanned and molded digitally. Dioramas are made on her computer. Images collected from a vast number of resources. Artwork is made virtually, then physically, then back and forth again. Her landscapes don’t simply depict nature. She moves beyond the eye-level view of traditional landscape painting. Aerial perspectives, warped distances, impossible light, and invented creatures build an entire world. Familiar forests and fields begin to feel like dreams or spaces from a video game. Seen together, the works feel less like separate paintings and more like fragments of one unfolding world. That world soon opens at Petzel in New York (@petzelgallery ). Emma Webster: Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone Apr 30–Jun 6, 2026 Petzel New York 🇺🇸

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