Welcome to HUMPDAY ART HOP, a weekly post of art, tech, architecture and design things I’ve found around the web. I hope this gives you a little serotonin boost to get you through the week.
HERE’S THIS WEEK’S ART HOP:
The weird and wonderful world of Shary Boyle is on show at the Gardener Museum in Toronto. ‘Outside the Palace of Me’ is a multiple-sensory installation that uses drawings, ceramic sculpture, life sized automatons, two-way mirrors, and coin operated sculpture. You can read Sue Carters’ Toronto Star review or attend one of the many events planned including free public virtual and in-person tours with the curator and the artist planned later this month.
SIMPLY VICTORIOUS! Designer Micheal Smith has done up Shonda Rhimes’ New York apartment with some Brighton-inspired flare. The writer and television producer recently did a video tour of the newly finished space with Architectural Digest. Spoiler alert: It’s Gorgeous!
FEELING ALONE, TOGETHER. A retrospective of the work of Mathew Wong is opening at the Dallas Museum of Art. If you have a chance to see this exhibition, please go. I saw ‘Blue View’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario and it was incredibly moving. Blue View is on until May 15th in Toronto and the retrospective opens in Dallas later this year. Read more from ArtNews. If you can’t get to the show, the newly published book of his work is well worth it.
WHAT’S GOOD, CHICAGO?! Expo Chicago is coming up on April 7th-10th. This year marks its in-person return since 2019. An event addition to the Expo is the inaugural Directors Summit which brings together a diverse group of emerging art museum leaders from across the United States for a three-day program addressing the shifting dynamics of museum leadership today. Joining this years Expo are 140 participating galleries from 25 countries. You can see a full list of exhibitors here.
THE FLYING GAME. Are flying cars and van life the wave of the future? Two recent DEZEEN interviews with staff at Hyundai would lead us to think so. Chief Executive of European Operations, Micheal Cole, talks about Hyundai’s partnership with Uber for flying taxis set to launch in the second part of this decade; and head of global design, SangYup Lee, predicts our vehicles could become our living spaces in the near future. They are in early stages of development, but this is something to keep your eye on. Read more…
That’s all for this week.
Stay arty, I love you and you’re gorgeous! Mwah.