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Cai Guo-Qiang – Falling Back To Earth
Chinese contemporary artist Cai Quo-Qiang has taken over Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art in Australia with ‘Falling Back To Earth’, a monumental, immersive exhibition that sees, for the first time ever, all 3,000 square metres of GOMA’s ground floor dedicated to the work of a single living artist. Encompassing both new and recent works reconfigured … Read more
Candice Swanepoel x KAWS for i-D Magazine
Brooklyn-based street artist and fooking cool toy manufacturer KAWS, a.k.a Brian Donnelly, is enjoying a mass-market appeal resurgence at the moment. Donnelly’s work can currently be seen at a museum show in Philadelphia, two major exhibitions in New York City and now, he has lent his artwork to the cover of i-D Magazine and their … Read more
Yayoi Kusama – I Who Have Arrived In Heaven
In an impressive display of new work, enigmatic artist Yayoi Kusama’s recently opened solo show, ‘I Who Have Arrived In Heaven‘, at David Zwirner Gallery in New York. Although now in her 80s, the prolific artist is showing an impressive mass of work that plays to her distinguishing themes of universal infinity, endlessness, and the … Read more
Emmanuelle Moureaux – Sparkling Bubbles
Emmanuelle Moureaux has created a visual ode to drinking Coca-Cola in ‘Sparkling Bubbles’, which sees 800 acrylic transparent spheres suspended from the ceiling in an undulating wave of varying heights. The project, a collaboration with designer Thomas Meyerhoffer that will be shown at Any Tokyo. The sculptural installation seeks to evoke the sensations from drinking … Read more
Damien Hirst & Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Candy
London gallery Blain|Southern has brought the talents of celebrated artists Damien Hirst and Felix Gonzalez-Torres together for ‘Candy‘, an exhibition that showcases their work together for the first time ever. The gallery presents paintings from Hirst’s ‘Visual Candy’ series together exclusively, alongside a candy spill work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres that serves as a counterpoint to the … Read more
Emily Ratajkowski by Tony Duran
Polish-American beauty Emily Ratajkowski is captured with little more than no clothing in Tony Duran’s modern re-imagining of Marilyn Monroe’s “The Last Sitting”. Ratajkowski, who first shot to prominence in Treats! Magazine’s launch issue shoot with Steve Shaw, before then going on to be ‘that girl’ in the Robin Thicke Blurred Lines video was shot … Read more
Kanye West features a topless Kim Kardashian in Bound 2 video
Kanye West has unveiled his new video for Bound 2 with a mixture of horses, a motorbike, a tie-die t-shirt, the Grand Canyon and a naked, writhing Kim Kardashian. The cringeworthy video shot by Nick Knight, first shown on The Ellen Show, is full of sexual surrealism, with West seen riding a motorbike against a … Read more
Emily Ratajkowski for GQ
If ‘selfie’ is the word of the year, Emily Ratajkowski is this year’s Woman of the Year, with a meteoric rise to stardom that has put her name on the lips of most men across the globe. The Polish-American beauty saw her role in Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines video go viral and create as much … Read more
Amnesty International – Not Here But Now
Another day and another powerful and compelling campaign from Amnesty International to bring to life the extent to which human rights are being violated across the globe on a daily basis. Not Here But Now launched by Amnesty International Switzerland has seen over 200 posters placed across the nation’s major cities to shock and create … Read more
Andreas Englund – Ageing Superhero
Ageing Superhero is a series of hyper-realistic oil paintings by Swedish artist Andreas Englund that takes a candid, tongue-in-cheek look at the imaginary life of a superhero who is in his twilight years. In his series of canvases, Englund captures his subject dealing with the old age, but still, fighting a good fight for justice. … Read more
Starbucks Train Concept Store
Coffee company Starbucks has begun to dominate high streets, popping up across the globe in order to drive and fuel the public’s growing caffeine addiction. Now, the company has unveiled a unique concept store that, working in collaboration with Swiss railway company SSB, sees the organisation’s first commercial shop on a train. The carriage is … Read more
Alain Delorme – Murmurations
Upon first inspection, French photographer Alain Delorme has created stunning imagery of a natural wildlife phenomenon. His series, ’Murmurations‘ - exhibited at Taubert Contemporary Gallery, Berlin earlier this month – seemingly captures flocks of birds in all their balletic and graceful beauty. However, the shapes are in fact a series of shapes created with thousands of plastic bags, … Read more
Benjamin Millepied choreographs Baileys’ Christmas Ad
Baileys has unveiled its first Christmas TV advert for five years with a contemporary twist on Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet by critically acclaimed Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied. The two-minute full-length version of the advert, which taps into the nation’s love affair with dance, will air exclusively this Saturday night (16th November) during the network … Read more
Review: Punchdrunk – The Drowned Man
★★★★ Pioneering immersive theatre company, Punchdrunk, have taken over an expansive former Royal Mail sorting office in Paddington, London and transformed it into mystical and dreamy Hollywood studio – Temple Pictures – in the dark, and at times, twisted fantasy tale – The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable. Following in the footsteps of immersive protagonists … Read more
Kara Walker
Sometimes you begin to malign black artists for creating work – no matter how well executed – that focuses solely on the race debate. Acclaimed American artist Kara Walker brought all these feelings front of mind in her current exhibition at Camden Arts Centre. Despite brilliantly comic and tragic standout silhouettes that depict the struggles … Read more
Pumpkin Carvings at The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze
America truly loves Halloween – why? No one knows… but one thing is for sure, they beat Brits hand down for pumpkin creativity. While adults and children are preparing their costumes and trick or treat goodies, the annual Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York on now until November 11 sees 5,000 individually hand-carved, illuminated … Read more
Carli Davidson – Shake
One of life’s simple, but unashamedly amusing moments is seeing dogs furiously attempting to shake water off themselves. An Oregon-based animal photographer Carli Davidson has documented this playful moment by capturing a series of entertaining facial expressions of canines in a book entitled, SHAKE. The simple act of the dogs struggling to dry themselves is transformed … Read more
David Shrigley – Life Model
David Shrigley is at his provocative best for his entry in this year’s Turner Prize. Shrigley’s ‘Life Model‘ installation sees a nude man urinating into a bucket. The piece is a humourous depiction of a life model posing for an art class, with Shrigley asking viewers to take a seat and draw at one of the … Read more
Baileys open Bar Chocolat
Baileys has celebrated the release of its brand new real Belgian chocolate liqueur with a week-long immersive experience in London, dedicated to the multi-sensory pleasure of chocolate. Bar Chocolat, which was open to the public this September in London, saw handpicked visionaries Bompas & Parr, Tabitha Denholm, Petra Storrs, Amelia Rope, Lou Hayter and Blanch … Read more
Justin Timberlake Immortalised In Glassware
Ahead of Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z performing at this weekend’s Wireless Festival in London, global travel retailer World Duty Free has immortlised the stars as a range of cocktail glassware. Designed by artist Melissa Bailey in collaboration with renowned mixologist Charlie McCarthy, the series celebrates World Duty Free’s Summer Drinks Festival which sees customers receive … Read more
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