Art + Culture New Design Fair ‘Matter and Shape’ Opens At Paris Fashion Week Mar. 8, 2024 The trade fair brought together furniture and homeware propositions from fashion figures like Rick Owens, Sacai and Charlotte Chesnais. »
Art + Culture Black cars surround furniture by Willo Perron and USM in Sized Selects exhibition Feb. 28, 2024 American design studio Sized has arranged black cars around furniture for an exhibition in Los Angeles that aims to embody the city's "intrinsic" relationship with automobiles. »
Art + Culture How Tavares Strachan Reimagined Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’ Feb. 7, 2024 The mammoth public sculpture envisions a meeting between notable Black activists, artists, and scientists from the past. »
Art + Culture Going big: digital artists who show on a grand scale at immersive institutions Jan. 29, 2024 The rise of huge immersive venues, with giant, wraparound programmable LED screens, has provided a new canvas, and potential new audience, for digital artists. We look at four of the main players, from widely varied backgrounds »
Art + Culture Middle Plane Magazine: The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas Jan. 10, 2024 Dan Thawley interviews Marina Abramovic and Willem Dafoe on the 7 Deaths of Maria Callas for Issue #8 of Middle Plane Magazine. Photographed by Juergen Teller. »
Art + Culture Drift Museum, a blockbusting experiential space, is set to open in Amsterdam in 2025 Nov. 2, 2023 Drift Museum is a collaboration between art duo Drift – aka Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta – and entrepreneur Eduard Zanen »
Art + Culture How to conquer the Atomic City: the story behind U2 at the new Las Vegas Sphere Sep. 28, 2023 U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere redefines the 21st-century rock concert. We spoke to the band and its team about the genesis of this expansive art and music experience that marks the opening of the high-tech venue »
Art + Culture See Kehinde Wiley’s New Suite of Presidential Portraits That Depict African Heads of State With an Ornate ‘Vocabulary of Power’ Sep. 26, 2023 The artist’s newest body of work, which he has quietly been working on since 2012, debuted today in Paris. »
Art + Culture Elvis returns to Las Vegas in Marco Brambilla’s new video for the Sphere, created with AI Sep. 26, 2023 The King reclaims his throne in an immersive video that will play during U2’s concerts at the city’s new $2.3bn entertainment complex »
Art + Culture San Francisco’s blockbuster Kehinde Wiley show to tour US museums for two years Jul. 12, 2023 The exhibition, which has been seen by more than 300,000 visitors to date at the de Young Museum, will travel to Houston, Miami and Minneapolis »
Art + Culture Black Rock Senegal, Kehinde Wiley’s Closely Watched Artist Residency, Has Welcomed a New Class of 16 Artists—Meet Them Here Jul. 5, 2023 The program received a record number of applicants for its fourth year. »
Art + Culture David LaChapelle: pop but not only pop on display in Trieste Jun. 27, 2023 A COMPLETE PARABLE OF THE AMERICAN ARTIST, BETWEEN POP STIMULI, BRIGHT COLORS BUT ALSO POLITICAL COMMITMENT, ENVIRONMENTALISM, LOTS OF POETRY. WITH THE ACUTE IRONY THAT CHARACTERIZES LACHAPELLE'S AESTHETICS. »
Art + Culture Art Industry News: A Fleet of Illuminated Drones Paid Tribute to Van Gogh’s Starry Night + Other Stories Jun. 6, 2023 Drift x Van Gogh Museum Live Artwork »
Art + Culture ‘It’s Heartbreaking Work’: How Kehinde Wiley Recreated the Light of Renaissance Art to Reflect on America’s Dark Legacy of Racism Apr. 11, 2023 "Kehinde Wiley: Archaeology of Silence" is on view now at the de Young Museum in San Francisco »
Art + Culture Artist and Theater Director Robert Wilson on Why He Considers All of His Works ‘Operas’ Apr. 7, 2023 Wilson reflects on his career in a text that doubles as an artwork itself. »