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Because it’s outdoors and the elements eventually destroy the work, the Hyundai Card Music Library in Seoul, Korea commissions an artist to wrap the building with artwork every five years. Los Angeles’ Alex Prager is the latest artist whose photographs, Hitchhiker and Big Valley, are embellishing the walls and ceiling of the building’s plaza. Read more
The upcoming Transformation Special Edition Issue featuring Lady Gaga from Paper Magazine is a feast for the eyes. Turning the popular Pop Star into a half-human/half-android via photography, digital effects and motion design, the cover article focuses on the release of her upcoming album Chromatica and the accompanying visuals are nothing short of spectacular. Read more
Designed as a musical and visual installation, and curated by Milan Garcin, this exposition at Paris’ Musee de la Musique explores the universe of Pierre & Gilles through an assembly of more than a hundred of their photo-paintings of celebrities and icons, complete with a an online playlist, a host of objects and video documents. Read more
The world lost artist John Baldessari last week at his home in Venice, Los Angeles. Passing away at the age of 88, he left us with some of the most inventive, ironic and unusual art in multiple mediums, forever cementing his place in Art History as The Godfather of Conceptual Art. Read more
Meet artist Metis Atash and her fabulous sparkly Punk Buddhas. The German artist’s buddha sculptures are outfitted with spikey mohawks and painstakingly clad with Swarovski crystals to emulate fashions inspired by the work of well-known artists and fashion designers. Read more
We’ve brought you multiple stories about snow globes as art, products and installations before. But this is a slightly different interpretation on both scale and meaning. The Past Is A Foreign Country is a life size sculpture created by artist Friedrich Kunath. An installation in the 2011-12 group show, The World Belongs to You, at Palazzo Grassi, the artist’s autobiographical story is depicted by a man whose head is encapsulated in a giant snow globe. Read more
Ad agency Wieden + Kennedy New York reached out to artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, founders of the surreal art magazine Toiletpaper, to work with them to create an ad campaign for dating app OK Cupid. The brightly colored ads play off the DTF acronym (that’s ‘down to fuck’ for those of you living under a rock) by offering other F words as alternatives. Read more
