KEN OHARA – CONTACTS

Posted on 2025-12-29

In 1974, photographer Ken Ohara embarked on an experiment that transformed the act of image-making into a collective gesture of trust and chance. Living in New York City but born in Tokyo in 1942, Ohara began what he called a photographic chain letter—an invitation sent to strangers chosen randomly from the phone book. Each received a preloaded camera with simple instructions: take photographs of yourself, your family, and your surroundings, then return the camera along with the name of the next participant. Over two years, this modest device passed through a hundred hands across thirty-six states, traveling from Hawai’i to the Bronx, carrying with it fragments of countless unseen lives.

Exhibition runs through to February 8th, 2026

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
New York
NY 10014

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DAVID STOCK – HEART OF THE CITY

Posted on 2025-12-29

Stock has long drawn inspiration from the rich social landscape in and around Jackson Heights, Queens. In this show, he turns his lens on “the intense rhythms of local streets, crowded with hardworking New Yorkers of every nationality, animated by irrepressible hope and energy.” Within the seemingly random flow of the street, Stock discovers coherent scenarios and everyday dramas, offering a colorful portrait of grass roots New York that is both descriptive and evocative.

Exhibition runs through to February 8th, 2026

440 Gallery
440 6th Avenue
Brooklyn
NY 11215

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XIYAO WANG – THE DRIFTING ISLAND

Posted on 2025-12-29

In this new body of work, painting unfolds through notions of movement, tempo, and lived experience. Rather than representing gesture directly, Xiyao Wang explores the sensation of movement itself, its flow, rhythm, and impermanence. Time is not suspended; it drifts, like a river, like wind or clouds moving through a landscape, like the body in motion within the studio.

Opposite – Echoes of Lugano No. 4, 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2026

Perrotin
Gate Village Building 5, Podium Level, 05 Sheikh Zayed Rd
Trade Centre
DIFC Dubaï
United Arab Emirates

www.perrotin.com

  

FUJIFILM INSTAX MINI EVO CINEMA CAMERA

Posted on 2025-12-29

The mini Evo Cinema’s standout feature is the “Eras Dial,” a creative control hub that lets users cycle through 10 era-specific filters. From the grainy 8mm aesthetic of the 1960s to the saturated CRT textures of the 1970s, each effect is paired with processed audio — including the nostalgic whir of film reels — to create a multi-sensory “time travel” experience. With 10 adjustable levels for each effect, the camera offers 100 possible creative expressions, all controllable via tactile dials that deliver a satisfying analog click.

Structurally, the camera is a love letter to Fujifilm’s heritage. The black-and-gray body adopts a vertical grip design inspired by the 1965 FUJICA Single-8, complete with a “Print Lever” that mimics the sensation of winding manual film. Beyond its standalone capabilities, the device functions as a smartphone printer and 3-in-1 creative tool. A dedicated app allows for cinematic editing, including the addition of movie-style opening and ending templates, ensuring that every “drop” is as polished as a theatrical release.

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TOM BURR – JOURNAL WORKS

Posted on 2025-12-29

Burr’s new Journal works elaborate his practice of making wood-mounted collages, also called “bulletin boards” which the artist has produced in various formats since the late 1990s. Culling materials from art history, queer cultures, and his personal life as an artist, Burr places images, texts, items of clothing, and cultural refuse in productive relation to each other. He furthers his material exploration and accumulation using colorful powder-coated aluminum panels, affixing them atop each composition. These shapes are loosely derived from Ellsworth Kelly’s 1957 Sculpture For a Large Wall.

Opposite – Nineteen (Faded Orange Cover), 2024

Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2026

Bortolami Gallery
39 Walker Street
NY 10013
New York

www.bortolamigallery.com

  

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL

Posted on 2025-12-29

In a time loop during an alien invasion, a resourceful but isolated young woman must navigate the repetition of death until she crosses paths with a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop.

In theatres January 16th, 2026

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