Archive for Art
Chanel’s Mobile Art Pavillon in Hong Kong
Last week in Hong Kong, French fashion house Chanel officially launched its latest global power project, the ambitious Mobile Art Pavillon. Commissioned by Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld, the futuristic mobile art gallery was designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid.
James Jean and Prada Trembled Blossom
This Spring, phenomenal artist James Jean‘s latest collaboration with couture giant Prada has just been unveiled in the company’s flagship stores in NYC and Beverly Hills.
Experience the Rainbow at the MoMA
Head over to New York’s Museum of Modern Art and experience the rainbow. The “Color Chart” exhibition draws together 90 of the museum’s most vibrant work by such artists as Ellsworth Kelly, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, and Jim Lambie, whose floor installation brightens the MoMA’s normally stark-white lobby.
The Lever House $10M School: Archeology of Lost Desires
Never mind that the world financial markets are in turmoil, or that Sotheby’s had a very rocky auction night last Wednesday. A rich artist and his developer patron proved this weekend that excess endures.
Deconstructing Asian-ness in New York
New york Pier 92 was living last weekend a debut of a full explosion of works by a front line of contemporary masters and a fascinating selection of work in varied media by emerging artists certainly setting tomorrow’s trends.
Jeff Koons’s Blue Diamond to Fetch $12M at Christie’s
A dazzling, magnificent, gigantically grotesque and staggeringly beautiful, 8ft sculpture of a blue diamond by US artist Jeff Koons is anticipated to fetch around $12m and promises to be the spectacular centerpiece at Christie’s sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on November 13 in New York.
NY Carlton Arms Hotel: Funkiest Dream-Space in Town
I met with a few hotel guests who were extremely happy and proud to show me their rooms and share their unforgettable experiences in the hotel. Photographers from South Africa picked the Wild Animals 12-B by Irene Dogmatic in 1989, because ” Its quiet” a neighbor refurbishing his apartment is living in bright 6-D red blue and yellow painted in 1995 by Artist Andy Luzi.
Damien Hirst’s Diamond Skull goes on Show at Russia’s Hermitage
The piece is not exactly the stuff of public art, but Hirst says he hopes that an institution like the British Museum might put it on display for a while before it disappears into a vault, never to be seen again.




















