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𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝗞𝗶𝗺 & 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 ❤️

At @torontotechweek, Marla Wasser proudly welcomed @krista.kim to the stage to introduce Heart Space.

Krista shares Heart Space in all its glory: the immersive visuals, the technology powered by @tenbeo.ai , and the human heartbeat that powers the experience. Through live ECG data, each participant's unique heartbeat is transformed into a visual waveform and brought together with the heart signatures of others in the space. As colors respond to emotion, Heart Space makes visible something we often overlook: the unseen connections that exist between us.

This is only the beginning. From Toronto to communities and institutions across the country, we look forward to continuing this journey together. Thank you to our amazing partners at @schulichstartups (@carder_chris, Lee Williams Boudakian, and the Schulich team) and @demoroom (Arthur Khoyetsian, @alienyeux , Johnathon Whyte, and the Demo Room team) and everyone that was involved in making this happen for this monumental event at @torontotechweek.

Image credit: Photography by @ed_para.

Video showing Marla Wasser and Krista Kim speaking on stage at When Worlds Converge: Art, AI, and the Future of Human Innovation at Toronto Tech Week 2026.

#KristaKim #HeartSpace #TorontoTechWeek by @pursuitsinc

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4 months ago

Great to see our picks featured in @the_apaa “Top Picks From Independent 20th Century”

Sharing a closer look at a few of Marla’s favorites from @mariangoodmangallery presentation of Banners.

All three of Marla’s selections come from the same remarkable moment in postwar art: a mid-to-late-1960s wave of artist-designed felt banners and editioned “multiples” that treated the artwork itself as a democratized, mass-producible object - the same conviction that led Marian Goodman to co-found Multiples, Inc. in 1965. Seeing Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Arman’s editions together is a reminder that this was never a side note to Pop and Nouveau Réalisme - it was central to how these artists thought about accessibility, industry, and the very definition of the unique object.

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Arman, Pouring Vinyl, 1969
79.5 × 48 in · Edition of 30 plus 3 artist’s proofs
#Arman, a founding figure of Nouveau Réalisme, built his career on the “accumulation” - everyday objects gathered, embedded, or encased en masse until the object itself becomes the subject. 1969 was a pivotal year for this idea in particular: it’s the same year he made I Still Use Brushes, now in MoMA’s collection, embedding paintbrushes directly into the picture plane. Pouring Vinyl continues that same interrogation of the artist’s own tools, issued as a larger, more widely distributed edition - a reminder that Arman’s accumulations weren’t only unique studio statements, but were also, quite deliberately, produced as multiples for a broader audience, in step with exactly what Warhol and Lichtenstein were doing with their banners just a few years earlier.

#Independent20thCentury September 24–27, 2026 Sotheby’s at the Breuer Building 945 Madison Avenue, New York
On view through September 27.

Detail of:
Arman, Pouring Vinyl, 1969
79.5 × 48 in · Edition of 30 plus 3 artist’s proofs
Arman, a founding figure of Nouveau Réalisme, built his career on the “accumulation” - everyday objects gathered, embedded, or encased en masse until the object itself becomes the subject. 1969 was a pivotal year for this idea in particular: it’s the same year he made I Still Use Brushes, now in MoMA’s collection, embedding paintbrushes taken in Sotheby's by @pursuitsinc

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4 days ago

Great to see one of our picks featured in @the_apaa “Top Picks From The Armory Show.”

🌼Sharing a closer look at @clarewoodsstudio “Aged Varnish” (2026), presented by @victoriamirogallery as part of a focused presentation inspired by Manet’s dictum that a painter “can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers.”

Artist #ClareWoods paints in oil on aluminium panels laid flat, pushing paint through paint and mixing colour directly on the surface - wet into wet, with no way back. In Aged Varnish, the bouquet behaves less like a still life than a body: petals slump and pool, stems hold their line, and colour arrives bruised and beautiful at once.

Rather than capturing flowers at their peak, Woods is interested in the full life cycle of the flowers. As the artist explains: “For me, the idea of a vase of flowers represents a life span, in a tiny little environment. You’ve got the youth of the buds and the flowers in full bloom, before they droop and discolour, and then the petals fall off and they die. It’s the whole life cycle that I am interested in.”

Aged Varnish (2026) holds that whole cycle at once - beauty, abundance, decay and disappearance.

#VictoriaMiroGallery, Booth 108
@thearmoryshow
September 24–27, 2026
Javits Center · 429 11th Avenue, New York by @pursuitsinc

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5 days ago

@independent_hq’s 20th Century fair returns to New York this week for its 2026 edition, taking up residence at the Breuer Building—Sotheby’s new global headquarters.

To celebrate the VIP Preview today, APAA advisors share a few of their top picks from the fair:

➡️ Reginald Madison, “Ohmm” (2024–2026) at @uffnerliu — selected by @angelicasem

➡️ Mary Grigoriadis, “Giotto’s Oranges” (1974) at @ortuzargallery — selected by @mccallartadvisory

➡️ Elaine de Kooning, “Bacchus #80” (1983) at @olneygleason — selected by @victoriaburnsart

➡️ Arman, “Pouring Vinyl” (1969) at @mariangoodmangallery — selected by @pursuitsinc

See the full picks, in the advisors’ own words, at the link in bio.

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@reginald_madison_artist @mary.grigoriadis @elainedekooninghouse

#AssociationofProfessionalArtAdvisors #ArtAdvisor #ArtAdvisory #Independent20thCentury taken in New York, New York by @pursuitsinc

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5 days ago

🌿 “We aim to suspend the viewer in a moment… neither past nor present, where nature is reclaiming the architecture.” — Ryan Koopmans

In their first solo exhibition in New York, artists @ryan.koopmans and @alicewexell bring together large-scale photographic works, immersive moving images, and hand-cut glass mosaics in #TheWildWithin at @leilahellergallery Over the past several years, Koopmans and Wexell have travelled the world documenting abandoned palaces, villas, sites of worship, theatres, and civic buildings. Using photography and photogrammetric reconstruction as a point of departure, the artists digitally reimagine these spaces through foliage, light, and atmosphere—suspended between documentation and imagination.

The exhibition explores memory, impermanence, preservation, and the evolving relationship between the built and natural worlds.

The Wild Within
#RyanKoopmans & #AliceWexell
#leilahellergallery Gallery, New York
#pursuitspicks by @pursuitsinc

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8 days ago

LOOK UP SF! Oakland elementary students are now the youngest artists ever to have their work shine from the top of Salesforce Tower 🌃

Their canvas: Jim Campbell’s Day for Night, the permanent LED work wrapping the tower’s top nine floors. The project is the pilot of Sky’s the Limit, a new curriculum from @yeahart_ designed by @wubywambie and @maddylamborghini. Over seven weeks, students at Redwood Heights Elementary learned digital illustration fundamentals - pixels, masking, layering - the same low-resolution logic Campbell has spent three decades exploring, scaled up to 61 storeys of light.

A pioneer of low-resolution light art, Campbell has spent his career on the threshold where pixels resolve into recognition. Pursuits first presented Campbell’s work in RAM: Rethinking Art and Machine, curated by Marla Wasser.

🤝 @salesforce_towertop_art · @jimcampbell_studio · @yeahart_ · @bay_area_community_resources · @bxpsf · Redwood Heights Elementary

#PursuitsInc #JimCampbell #SalesforceTower #PublicArt #ArtsEducation taken in Salesforce Tower by @pursuitsinc

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25 days ago

Pop never stopped. 🍌

In 1963, the #Guggenheim gave Pop its first real museum show in New York, “Six Painters and the Object.” Sixty years on, the exhibition Guggenheim Pop picks the thread back up, showing how Pop continues to render the familiar strange, elevate the commercial to the sacred, and turn the banal into the spectacular.

In “Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now”, major works from the collection by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Richard Hamilton, Jim Dine and Yayoi Kusama, alongside contemporary works by Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Farah Al Qasimi, Maurizio Cattelan, Alex Da Corte, Daniel Gordon, Douglas Gordon, Martine Gutierrez, Lauren Halsey, Lucía Hierro, Yee I-Lann, Annette Kelm, Tommy Kha, Baseera Khan, Shinro Ohtake, Wendy Red Star, Cara Romero, Liu Shiyuan and Sheida Soleimani.

Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now — on through January 10, 2027.
🎥Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
#GuggenheimPop #PopArt #ArtNYC #PursuitsPicks taken in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum by @pursuitsinc

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a month ago

🍬 What if you could reach into an artwork and take a piece of it home? At @salon94design , you can. 🩷

Now on view, #Pastel is a new series and interactive installation by @cj_hendry (b. 1988, Australia) - part exhibition, part concept shop, and entirely built around participation.

🫧 At its heart is a massive pit filled with pastel-coloured beads drawn from Hendry’s signature visual world, where beloved characters like Juju and Balloon Dog play among her flowers and smiley faces. Visitors are invited to reach in, choose their own, and string them onto a bracelet, necklace, or charm. Drawings and editions of Hendry’s iconic imagery are on view alongside her trademark swag—caps, t-shirts, jewellery trunks, leather trays, and acrylic keyrings.

💭 For over a decade, Hendry has built an independent global campaign through large-scale installations, experiential activations, and direct-to-public releases. Working outside the traditional art establishment, she has reached audiences in the millions—many of whom find meaningful encounters with art far from museum walls. Pastel bridges that grassroots practice with Salon 94 Design, turning the gallery into a place to play.

Cj Hendry: Pastel ✨

🗓️ August 6–16, 2026 | Open daily, 10am–7pm

📍 Salon 94 Design, 3 East 89th Street, New York, NY 10128

📸 Image credits: Cj Hendry, Pastel, installation view, Salon 94 Design, New York, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and @salon94design.

#ArtInNewYork #PursuitsInc #PursuitsPick taken in Salon 94 by @pursuitsinc

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2 months ago

🎨 A few weeks left: Rothko in Florence closes August 23.

For the first time, #PalazzoStrozzi brings together more than 70 works by #MarkRothko on loan from some of the world’s leading institutions—MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, and the Centre Pompidou among them. The exhibition traces Rothko’s evolution from early figuration through the luminous, scaled-up fields of colour that would come to define postwar American painting—canvases built less to be looked at than to be stood inside.

If you’ve been meaning to make the trip, this is your reminder!

📍 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
🗓 Closes August 23

#rothkoinflorence #pursuitspicks #pursuitsinc taken in Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze by @pursuitsinc

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2 months ago

🤖 The world’s first museum built entirely around AI art has opened its doors.

Dataland, housed within The Grand LA—Frank Gehry’s newest addition to downtown Los Angeles’ Grand Avenue Cultural District—opened this summer, billed as the world’s first museum of AI arts. Co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol (known for data-driven installations at The Sphere, MoMA, and the Serpentine) and Efsun Erkılıç, the museum’s inaugural exhibition, Machine Dreams: Rainforest, is an immersive audiovisual environment built from millions of images and sounds of the natural world.

📍 Dataland, The Grand LA, Los Angeles
🗓 Ongoing

#Dataland #RefikAnadol #AIArt #DigitalArt #PursuitsPick PursuitsInc by @pursuitsinc

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2 months ago

☀️ Feeling the summer heat? Step into a sculpture made entirely of fog. 🌫️

As part of the exhibition 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧-𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙧, Fujiko Nakaya (b. 1933, Japan) transforms the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce (@boursedecommerce) into an ever-changing landscape with 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙 #07156 - an immersive sculpture composed of artificially generated fog.

A pioneering figure at the intersection of art, science, and technology, Nakaya was closely associated with the groundbreaking 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 (𝗘.𝗔.𝗧.) movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She first unveiled her iconic fog sculptures at the Pepsi Pavilion during Expo '70 in Osaka, collaborating with engineer Thomas Mee. Since then, her works have appeared around the world, including the 2nd Biennale of Sydney (1976) and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2026), while examples of her work have entered the permanent collections of institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

💧 Using a sophisticated system of high-pressure pumps and precision nozzles, Nakaya creates clouds from microscopic water droplets that respond to the unique architecture and atmosphere of each site. The sculptures are never the same twice. Visitors are invited to walk through the fog, becoming active participants as their movements subtly shift its density, shape, and direction, transforming the installation into a living, ever-evolving experience.

💬 As Nakaya reflects:
"I want to change the image of fog. Instead of people saying, 'I can't see this beautiful landscape because of the fog,' perhaps someone will think, 'The fog is so beautiful on the mountain.'"

𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙧-𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙧 ✨
📍 Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, 2 Rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris, France 🇫🇷
🗓️ On view through 24 August 2026

Image Credits:
Fujiko Nakaya, #Cloud07156, 2026 | image © Florent Michel / 11h45 / Pinault Collection

#ClairObscur #PinaultCollection #BoursedeCommerce #FujikoNakaya #FogSculpture #ImmersiveArt #ExperimentsInArtAndTechnology #ContemporaryArt #ParisExhibitions #PursuitsInc #PursuitsPick taken in Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection by @pursuitsinc

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2 months ago

☀️ Feeling the summer heat? Head to Toronto’s waterfront to stock up on supplies at a floating convenience store... except you can't actually shop in it. 🌊

Now on view until October at Harbour Square Basin as part of Waterfront Toronto's annual Floating Public Art program, 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 by artists Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean, in collaboration with Puncture Design, transforms one of the world's most familiar spaces into something unexpectedly inaccessible.

🌍 Convenience stores are universal. Found on street corners around the world, they are places we often pass through without a second thought. Yet behind every cold drink, late-night snack, or lottery ticket lies a rich social fabric: conversations between neighbours, relationships between shopkeepers and regular customers, and the everyday connections that bind communities together. They also reveal the larger systems of globalization, where local lives intersect with global supply chains.

💭 By placing this familiar community hub just out of reach, 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 asks us to reconsider the spaces that quietly shape our daily routines. What would happen if these everyday gathering places disappeared? The work reminds us that the places we often overlook are not just part of the urban landscape- they are built through the relationships, rituals, and communities that animate them.

📍 Experience the installation from the waterfront promenade along Queens Quay West, Harbour Square Park, or near the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal.

🗓️ On view until October.

📸 Image credits to @waterfront.to @treverferever , @cchdean , and @puncturedesign

#GlobalConvenience #FloatingPublicArt #PublicArt #TorontoArt #WaterfrontToronto #SiteSpecificArt #ContemporaryArt #Toronto #PursuitsInc taken in Waterfront Toronto by @pursuitsinc

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2 months ago