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Originally published on Hypeart.comAbove corner shops, overlaid against chimneys and nestled under bridges, small (and sometimes massive) mosaic figures of various pop cultural icons are reimagined as retro-inspired artworks reminiscent of Tomohiro Nishikado's Space Invaders (1978) arcade game. This is of course the work of elusive French artist Invader, and over the past 20 years, his imprint has touched down on more than just his home country. There is an estimated 4,000 such invasions all across the world. Over time, Invader's signature mosaics have become almost as synonymous with the city of Paris, as the French capital's Haussmann-style architecture. Per an AP report, there are rumors that Invader is gearing up to add a new series of invasions to coincide with the 2024 Summer Olympic...

Originally published on Hypeart.comPro-Palestine activists have destroyed a century-old painting of former British Prime Minister, Lord Balfour. Housed at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College, a member part of the group Palestine Action was recorded slashing and spray painting the artwork earlier today in a plea to call out “the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since the Balfour Declaration was issued,” according to the group in a statement. Arthur James Balfour was a former politician, who served a brief stint as prime minister of the UK from 1902 to 1905. He is arguably most remembered for expressing British approval of Zionism, particularly of a Jewish homeland within Palestine, which would come to fruition decades later in 1948 through the United Nations Partition Plan for ...

Originally published on Hypeart.comThe Kunstmuseum Basel is being shown in a new light, the light installations of Dan Flavin to be exact. Dedications in Lights presents over 58 unique artworks spanning over three decades of the American artist's career, including 35 light works, 21 works on paper, two paintings and a selection of art that Flavin first presented at the museum in 1975. Flavin is globally recognized for his fluorescent light tube installations he first began in the 1960s. Alongside his contemporaries in Ellsworth Kelly and Donald Judd, Flavin was a pioneer in the Minimalist movement for the ways in which he explored the intersection between light, space and color. The resulting artworks are simple in concept, but hypnotic in effect, entrancing audiences from Los Angeles to T...