Frieze London 2019: Whimsical Sculptures

Colorful, strange, charming and intriguing pieces from the fair

This year’s Frieze London was met with plenty of rain, but that did nothing to dissuade the crowds. The fair has long been held at Regent’s Park with an incredibly compelling exhibition of sculptures outside in the park, but the artworks inside the tents deserve recognition too. There were so many whimsical sculptures evoking wonder and fancy, and transporting viewers to other imagined worlds. We’ve …

Toshihiko Shibuya’s Tiny Art Resembles Blossoming Life

Displayed at a random location within the woods of Tomakomai in Japan, Toshihiko Shibuya’s most recent installation mirrors the emergence of biological life using 1,500 individual, pastel-colored pushpins meant to look like spores. These woods in particular serve as a surreal setting for the work as the trees here cannot root deep enough to sustain growing to great heights. Thus, they fall once they’ve grown …

Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

Published to accompany the hugely successful, first major exhibition of the Hilma af Klint’s work in the US, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future spans the artist’s career, parsing through decades of work dating back to 1906. This publication is incredibly comprehensive and includes various essays and notes to better explain one of the Western world’s first abstract artists. Beyond being a beautiful book, this …