For Johnson, the exhibition ‘Nudiustertian’ is an exploration of his own very recent past, with the works representing part of his practice that developed between 2018 and the present.

You can find his works on the back of mass-market cereal packets, in leading museums and on sneakers. Some change hands for millions, and others are made in their millions. More than any other living artist, Brian Donnelly, known as KAWS, carries the Andy Warhol mantle of blending high and low art. Darius Sanai meets him in his New York studio.

Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai is pleased to announce Joel Mesler: Spiritual Journey, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Asia—from February 19 to April 18, 2023. Encompassing around 50 paintings, the presentation will illuminate Mesler’s signature artistic style—characterized by bold colors, stylized patterns, bright figuration, and unique calligraphic scripts.

The large-scale series conveys an optimistic message focusing on the goodness and altruistic aspect of people, with the artist giving light to those whom we can rely on to lift us both emotionally and spiritually.

In a wide-ranging conversation held in October 2022, Smith and Gluibizzi discussed labor and class and their avoidance by the art world, the importance of getting the angle of a fishhook just right, and the impact that can be felt when we open art up to a painterly new broom.

Don Lemon interviews Rashid Johnson who is advocating for artists of color at the highest levels- artists who have traditionally faced barriers of access to cultural institutions

“How can a simple moment of leisure be a powerful statement? The New York artist talks about bringing her sitting art to Britain – and explains how the exploitation of ‘video vixens’ inspired her”

Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner revisits an image from Kass’s well-known series of paintings, feel good paintings for feel bad times. Using nostalgia and devices of appropriation, Kass drew upon aesthetic themes explored in the optimism of the mid-20th century artistic conventions and combined them with phrases lifted from pop culture.

LUX’s Chief Contributing Editor, Maryam Eisler, visits the gallerist-turned-artist in the Hamptons to speak with him about the under-layers of his eye candy paintings deeply rooted in childhood trauma, his switch from dealer to artist and his Jewish heritage