HALIMA – ELEVEN ELEVEN

Posted on 2025-10-06

Halima’s debut album SWEET TOOTH is a bold declaration of power from an undeniable talent. Seductive, restless, and deeply assured, the record unspools like a night in motion. In the afterglow of her 2024 EP on drink sum wtr, praised by Clash Magazine, The Fader, BBC Radio, and others, the Brooklyn-based, UK/Nigerian musician solidifies her sound and expands it tenfold. If EXU was a spark, SWEET TOOTH is the full burn. Not so much genre-less as “genre-full”; the album spans a bright, lush world where club bangers meet deep ballads in a striking, fully-formed hybrid of honeyed Afro-pop and scorched R&B.

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BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE X UNIVERSAL PICTURES

Posted on 2025-10-06

Japanese apparel brand beautiful people is launching its third collaboration with Universal Pictures, a collection inspired by the iconic science fiction horror films in history, Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein.

The collection draws on the films’ central themes of opposing binary forces, such as “reason and instinct,” “destruction and creation,” “fear and beauty,” and “light and darkness.” These themes are interpreted by beautiful people into the designs of this collection.

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SASHA GORDON – HAZE

Posted on 2025-10-06

In her hyperrealistic paintings, New York–based artist Sasha Gordon often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Executed with technical precision, the artist’s visceral compositions treat her own corporeal form as an unorthodox avatar that communicates subjective, psychological experience.

In her debut exhibition with the gallery, Gordon lets her surreal narratives unfold intuitively on the canvas, depicting bodies in sometimes absurd scenarios or disorienting spatial compositions and portraying faces that translate a range of feelings. In illuminating detail, she reimagines fragments extracted from her inner life while boldly envisioning worlds within worlds that bear uncanny resemblance to our own.

Opposite – It Was Still Far Away, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2025

David Zwirner
533 West 19th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.davidzwirner.com

  

CLAIRE LINDNER – FLAMING WINGS

Posted on 2025-10-06

Claire Lindner’s evocative ceramic creations take the viewer by surprise, blurring the lines between the organic and synthetic, animal and plant life, science and fiction. The sculptures’ sinuous movements and colours seem to transform before our eyes, generating a sense of mystery combined with the awe of discovery. The exhibition Flaming Wings, which follows the solo show hosted in the gallery in 2022, refers to the various dynamic metamorphoses in the French artist’s recent works. The flaming form suggests a shift in typology, where the organic embraces both the plant and animal kingdoms. The colours shift in tone from orange to rust, from purple to green, from yellow to blue. The manipulation of the material and forms, and the porous nature of the surface that softly absorbs light, suggest fluctuations between different periods of growth, decay and stasis: a blazing symbiosis that alludes to transition, the unpredictability of nature and the visionary nature of human creativity.

Opposite – Heat wave, 2025

Exhibition runs through to November 14th, 2025

MAAB Gallery
Via Nerino 3
20123 Milan
Italy

www.maabgallery.com

  

CASSI NAMODA – NIGHT ALWAYS RETURNS

Posted on 2025-10-06

Painter and visual artist Cassi Namoda crafts images that bridge the personal, the spiritual, and the continental. Drawing from a bricolage of literatures and art histories, her work interweaves memory, dream, cinema, and ecology to transfigure the mythologies as well as the contemporary and historical narratives of post-colonial Mozambique. Vital to her practice is a signature filmic storytelling voice, where recurring characters, locations, and motifs inhabit her canvases like vignettes that merge the documentarian with the magic realist.

Namoda’s newest exhibition, Night Always Returns, unfolds across four nocturnes, each exploring ideas of animality and the sensual aliveness that emerges after dark. Throughout the exhibition, human, animal, and elemental figures are shown in paired relationships that reveal symbolic mirrors and the porous boundary between human and natural worlds.

Opposite – Moon path and three Maria’s capricious spiral, 2025

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2025

303 Gallery
555 W 21st Street
NY 10011
New York

www.303gallery.com

  

M. SAGE – TENDER / WADING

Posted on 2025-10-06

Tender / Wading finds Matthew Sage, aka M. Sage, in the foothills and pastures of Colorado, writing, recording, and returning to a patch of his homeland and identity, one act of sympathetic care informing the next. Constructed primarily on piano and clarinet, and then embellished with guitar, modular synthesizer, percussion, and field recordings captured around the perimeter of his home, the album is a sweeping, serene vision of vitality, radical softness, and the reassuring sense of coming home, even if home has changed.

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