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Hypebeast
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
New York Botanical Garden Announces Major KAWS Takeover
Summary The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has announced its exhibition lineup for the next few years, and leading the charge is none other thanKAWS, who will stage a garden-wide takeover at the Bronx Park to open in spring 2027, the showcase will transform the 250-acre landscape, into a living canvas of KAWS' most notable characters, scattering large-scale sculptures and site-specific installations across its lush terrain. While the featured artworks have yet to be revealed, visitors will be immersed in the artist's X-eyed universe, ripe with playful charm and pop cultural whimsy. Following in the footsteps of Yayoi Kusama's colossalCosmic Natureexhibition in 2021 and Ebony G. Patterson's immersive…things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting…in 2023, the upcoming show builds on NYBG's tradition of pairing contemporary art and design with nature's grandeur. Also on deck for 2026 isThe Orchid Show: Mr Flower Fantastic's Concrete Jungle, which promise to turn the storied Enid A. Haupt Conservatory into a floral homage to the 'spirit, style and skyline' of New York City. For art lovers and garden enthusiasts alike, KAWS' exhibition will be on view at the NYBG from May 22 through October 24, 2027. For more information about the garden's art roster, head to the officialwebsite.

AU Financial Review
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- AU Financial Review
From pumpkins to punk: NGV reveals its next blockbuster
The National Gallery of Victoria will follow up last summer's record-breaking Yayoi Kusama ticketed exhibition with one on fashion icon Vivienne Westwood, teamed with another reclusive Japanese genius. Pieces from the late British designer who defined the punk aesthetic will be exhibited alongside the boundary-pushing oeuvre of Rei Kawakubo, the Tokyo-born founder of the Comme des Garcons ('like the boys') label.


New York Times
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Artist Who Bends Photography Into Many Shapes
When Kunié Sugiura set out to make life-size photograms of human subjects, she put a new spin on what it means to be 'an artist's artist.' A photogram is a direct image that is made on photosensitive paper without the use of a camera. Typically, small objects are displayed. Sugiura went larger and bolder. She asked other artists to pose, including Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Takashi Murakami, Yayoi Kusama and Jasper Johns. Beginning in 1999, working in enclosures that she sheathed in black plastic to reduce reflections, she made some photograms into full-length portraits, in four-panel composites that measured over six feet high. 'I happened to know Jasper, so I called and asked him, and he said, 'Next spring,'' Sugiura recalled in March, when I visited her apartment and studio in New York's Chinatown. She was preparing to ship a few laggard works to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for her first American retrospective exhibition, 'Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting,' on view through Sept. 14. An elegant white-haired woman with gracefully erect posture and a dry wit, Sugiura, 82, cloaks an indomitable drive beneath a soft-spoken manner. 'At the end of spring, I called Jasper again and said, 'Can you do it?'' she continued. 'He said, 'Yes, if you come to Connecticut.'' She traveled to his home in Sharon, where he supplied her with a small shed and two assistants. He asked how many photogram papers she intended to expose. 'I had eight, but I didn't want to seem greedy,' she recalled with a laugh. She used four, and he approved two. In a collaborative effort, for a portrait included in the SFMOMA show, he sat in profile and plunked his hand and arm on the same paper. To anyone familiar with Johns's work, the silhouette of his face and the trademark hand motif are instantly recognizable. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.

Sydney Morning Herald
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Yayoi Kusama's Obliteration Room is back. This time, it's a house
Japan's Yayoi Kusama, also known as the Dot Lady, is one of the world's most famous living artists, and one of her most popular works originated in Brisbane. The Obliteration Room was developed at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2002 for the Asia Pacific Triennial: an all-white space that changes over time as visitors add thousands of colourful dot stickers to walls, floor and furniture. Seen and loved by more than 5 million gallery visitors around the world in the intervening years, the piece is making a triumphant return to Brisbane in the Gallery of Modern Art's Wonderstruck exhibition. QAGOMA senior program officer at the Children's Art Centre, Laura Mudge, said the Obliteration Room this time is taking over a larger space that replicates the rooms of a Queenslander cottage. 'This is a work a lot of people have strong memories about,' she said. 'We can't think of a better example of the delight we see audiences experience than when they become collaborators and stick the dots on the walls.' Wonderstruck is a free exhibition for all ages that draws upon works already in the QAGOMA collection. Unusually, it has been curated not by curatorial staff but by Mudge and the gallery's head of public engagement, Tamsin Cull. The emphasis is on work that is both crowd-pleasing and interactive.

The Age
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Yayoi Kusama's Obliteration Room is back. This time, it's a house
Japan's Yayoi Kusama, also known as the Dot Lady, is one of the world's most famous living artists, and one of her most popular works originated in Brisbane. The Obliteration Room was developed at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2002 for the Asia Pacific Triennial: an all-white space that changes over time as visitors add thousands of colourful dot stickers to walls, floor and furniture. Seen and loved by more than 5 million gallery visitors around the world in the intervening years, the piece is making a triumphant return to Brisbane in the Gallery of Modern Art's Wonderstruck exhibition. QAGOMA senior program officer at the Children's Art Centre, Laura Mudge, said the Obliteration Room this time is taking over a larger space that replicates the rooms of a Queenslander cottage. 'This is a work a lot of people have strong memories about,' she said. 'We can't think of a better example of the delight we see audiences experience than when they become collaborators and stick the dots on the walls.' Wonderstruck is a free exhibition for all ages that draws upon works already in the QAGOMA collection. Unusually, it has been curated not by curatorial staff but by Mudge and the gallery's head of public engagement, Tamsin Cull. The emphasis is on work that is both crowd-pleasing and interactive.