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Meta Sonic Listening Party Embraces ‘It’s Your World’ during Art Basel Miami 2023
During Art Basel Miami 2023, Meta launched its Meta Sonic Listening Party as part of "It's Your World" campaign, epitomizing creative autonomy. This campaign, launched earlier in the year, empowered individuals to forge their paths. Meta's products fostered connections and allowed people to craft their worlds around their passions, from content creation to skill-building.The campaign focused on arming artists and emerging creatives with cutting-edge technology, fostering authentic expression and creativity. Collaborators like artist Cristina Martinez aka Sew Trill, KidSuper, Coi Leray, Jordan Clarkson, Nigel Sylvester, Leiomy Maldonado, and Emma Rogue embodied the campaign's ethos—embracing interests and using social tech to redefine possibilities. Sew Trill, equipped with her Meta Ray-Ban...
Here’s How PUMA and BMW’s Pop-Art Workshop Became a Forum for Creative Expression
Last week, PUMA unveiled its latest capsule collection with BMW. A playful line-up of jackets, jerseys, and classic suede sneakers, the range revisited Roy Lichtenstein’s renowned 320i Turbo Art Car with kinetic prints and vibrant color palettes reminiscent of his dynamic livery design. Ahead of the highly-anticipated launch, the brands connected with a cohort of creatives to celebrate the new capsule as well the artist’s legacy through a day of workshops.Headed by Simone Cihlar -- who is known for her multi-dimensional posters for Anderson Paak, Tom Misch, and other artists -- Berlin-based art collective Veryes teamed up with PUMA and BMW to organize a series of activities for the event. Playing on their signature layered style, they put together screen-printing workshops that incorporate...
MUBI Revisits Iconic Movie Posters From Legends of Martial Arts Cinema Exclusively For Hypeart
For nearly a century, production house Shaw Brothers Studio was considered a juggernaut in the East Asian film industry, releasing a catalog of kung-fu and wuxia films that have gone on to inspire modern-day cinema such as Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Now, its most recognizable titles – including The One-Armed Swordsman, King Boxer and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin – land in a new collection on MUBI, just in time for back-to-back holiday watching. As part of the long-awaited retrospective, MUBI and Hypeart look at a collection of the Shaw Brothers' striking vintage posters that were once plastered across billboards and picture houses around the world. These provide a look into the house’s intrinsic cinematic style, capturing action and drama through classic hand-drawn graphic design. With vibrant ...
Check Out Takashi Murakami’s Vibrant ‘Still Lifes with Flowers’ Exhibit
Takashi Murakami is bringing his infamous floral aesthetic and beloved characters including Mr. DOB, Kaikai and Kiki to Perrotin Shanghai for his second solo exhibition at the gallery. Named Still Lifes with Flowers, the extensive, immersive display is centered around a large-scale painting – with Mr. DOB as the focal point – titled 727 NYC and spans a wide range of Murakami's work from 2022 and 2023.Peep Mr. DOB's centerpiece above. Elsewhere, a series of acrylic paintings accentuate Murakami's iconic flower motifs in various colorways. Murakami also adds a set of new floral series to the exhibit – a range of paintings showcasing bouquets arranged in jars and vases, surrounded by subtle koi fish. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Perrotin Gallery (@perrotin)Murakami a...
Louis Vuitton Hits the Slopes for Winter Resorts City Guide Box Set
Since 1998, Louis Vuitton has provided its reliable and refined City Guides – which reflect trends for every traveler, ranging from upscale eateries and grandiose hotels to hidden gems and vintage markets. For its latest presentation of high-end travel tips, Louis Vuitton delivers the Winter Resorts City Guide Box Set, which immerses readers in seven magical winter resorts: Courchevel, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Aspen, Gstaad, St. Moritz and – for the first time – Kitzbühel and Crans-Montana, curated by illustrators Tom Haugomat, Sarah Mazzetti, Jochen Gerner, Simon Bailly, Lisa Mouchet, Giacomo Nanni and Fanny Blanc respectively.Each artist explicates their respective city through their own unique artistic and aesthetic lens. "Through their individual sensibilities, each artist reveals the charac...
Xavier Hufkens Presents Unique Exhibition on Ken Price and Lesley Vance
Xavier Hufkens is presenting a unique joint exhibition of work between the late American artist Ken Price and rising abstract painter Lesley Vance. On view at the gallery's Van Eyck location in Brussels, Fired and painted entwines distinct generations and practices that are united upon their artistic sensibilities.Globally recognized for his eccentric sculptures, Price is best known for creating bulbous objects that appear as if landing out of a sci-fi film. Instead of using glaze to finish his works, the Los Angeles-born artist would opt to use acrylic paint, applying up to 70 layers per piece, until he would sand the work down to create a blotched effect. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Xavier Hufkens (@xavierhufkens)“Color has been an integral part of most of the work I’ve ...
Louis De Guzman Brings DISRUPTIE to Life
Chicago-based visual artist Louis De Guzman has been fleshing out his Along The Way universe throughout the year, delivering paintings, sculptures and merchandise that exist within the expansive world. De Guzman has now created his first self-produced figure lifted straight from Along The Way. Meet DISRUPTIE, named after De Guzman's signature "disruptor" shapes present throughout his art, a fictional character who is meant to serve as your conscience.“DISRUPTIE is your visual conscience. Your imaginary guide within the Along The Way universe," De Guzman shared in a statement. "His intention is to form and mold himself towards your imagination and how you navigate yourself internally within your own personal journey. Throughout all obstacles in life, we sometimes need that little boost of i...
Steven Harrington Unveils First Jewelry Collection
Steven Harrington recently announced his first ever museum solo exhibition that will take place next year at Seoul's Amorepacific. In another first, the Los Angeles-based artist tapped into the world of jewelry to unveil a new capsule collection made in collaboration with GOOD ART HLYWD. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Steven Harrington (@s_harrington)The capsule brings together Harrington's familiar universe of characters, from Mello to palm trees galore, all cast in an opulent blend of sterling silver and gold. Harrington tells Hypeart that the moment he visited the LA-based store, "I instantly knew that we had to make something together." Standouts include a hybrid bracelet bound together by a dog head, palm tree, yin yang symbol, as well as a carving of the artist's signatu...
Jenya Datsko’s Paintings Are a Balancing Act Between Hope and Melancholy
Introspection is central to the soft-hued paintings of Jenya Datsko. Born in Russia and now based in Valencia, Spain, the emerging artist creates intimate portraits of women as an exploration into loneliness and melancholy, as well as intrigue and mystery. Opening today at Villazan's VLAB gallery in Madrid, Datsko is showcasing an exclusive presentation of work entitled UNA HISTORIA EN PALABRAS NUNCA DICHAS” (A STORY IN UNTOLD WORDS).Datsko's recurring female character appears self-referential in appearance, but explores emotion universal to the human condition. Lost in thought, each woman emits a search for identity amidst the busy street scenes and plazas to which they are usually placed within. Inspired by the history of Russian art and literature, she balances the fleeting semblances h...
After 36 Years, the Luna Luna Amusement Park Reopens
Everything surrounding Luna Luna sounds like the making of a gripping Netflix documentary. A legendary cast, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein and Salvador Dalí, all came together to create bespoke work for the world's first art amusement park. Instead of debuting in a big metropolis like New York or London, the park would opt for humble Hamburg, Germany. Then just after three short months, the event organizer, Austrian artist and entrepreneur André Heller, faced a series of legal challenges that ultimately closed its intended world-wide tour, and led to all of its many valuable artwork to fall in obscurity for nearly 36 years, until Drake came in to breathe new life. It's been quite the journey. But alongside the Canadian rapper, eager fans and art aficionados...
Notre Dame Cathedral Gets a New Golden Rooster Sculpture
Four years on, Paris' Notre Dame cathedral is finally close to being renovated after a fire scourged the roof of the 860-year-old monument in 2019. Onlookers got a teaser to what the restored spire will look like as organizers raised a new golden rooster atop the historic site.A national symbol of France, the Gallic rooster has historically signified hope and faith since the Middle Ages, having adorned a number of national emblems and monuments — from the crest of French National Football Team to the tip of Notre Dame de Paris's spire.The fact that the original rooster survived the disaster signaled that "there was hope, that not everything was lost," according to Philippe Villeneuve, the chief architect in the restoration process. "The beauty of the [old] battered rooster... expressed the...
Virginia Woman Finds Original Carlo Scarpa Vase at Goodwill
Christmas came early for a Virginia woman who turned $3.99 into over $100,000 USD when she took a Goodwill purchase to auction. Back in June, Jessica Vincent was on a usual thrift visit in Hanover county when a holiday-colored vase caught her attention. After purchasing the translucent glass vase with red and green swirls spiraling throughout, she thought to bring it to an antiques expert to get it appraised. Initially, Vincent thought the little "M" on the bottom of the vase denoted the Italian island of Murano, known globally as a hub for glassware. “I had a sense that it might be a $1,000 or $2,000 USD piece,” she told the New York Times, adding, “but I had no clue how good it actually was until I did a little bit more research.” Turns out, the vase was an original work by renowned Ital...
