Art

October 28, 2026

Art Installation With Live Human as Sculptures Seems To Break the Laws of Physics

If you’ve ever been to a figure drawing class or sat for an artist, you’ll know how challenging it can be to hold a pose for several minutes. Now imagine holding that pose for several hours while seemingly floating in mid-air. In his exhibition called In Just a Blink of an Eye, artist Xu Zhen brought this surreal image to life, with a group of performers appearing to defy gravity, frozen in time and space.

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October 24, 2026

Mariko Mori Retrospective at a Tokyo Museum Presents 30 Years of the Artist’s Futuristic Vision

More than three decades after first emerging on the contemporary art scene, Japanese artist Mariko Mori will be the subject of a major retrospective at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Titled Mariko Mori: All That Shines, the exhibition opens on October 31, 2026, and runs through March 28, 2027, marking Mori’s first major institutional retrospective in Japan since Pure Land at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2002.

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October 23, 2026

Es Devlin’s London Retrospective Has a Rotating Rainbow Library of 2,000 Books

British artist and designer Es Devlin is known for creating imaginative worlds where sculpture, stage design, music, literature, and light come together. In celebration of her 30-year career, the Es Devlin: Other Worlds retrospective at The Design Museum in London features artworks, installations, and film, making it her largest solo exhibition to date. The immersive showcase includes Devlin’s mesmerizing Infinite Library, a rotating 26-foot-wide triangular shelf housing more than 2,000 books.

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