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Pro-Palestine activists took over London's British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Sunday accusing both institution's over alleged complicity regarding Israel's ongoing war in Gaza. At the latter museum, 350 activists unfurled a massive quilt at the entrance made up of individual works woven together from artists around the world, including traditional taṭrīz embroidery, native to Palestinian villages.According to an Artnet report, the protestors also demanded that The Met "cut ties with board members who profit from ongoing Israeli bombardment and settler-colonial occupation of Palestine”, as well as added concern regarding the "preservation of Palestinian cultural heritage sites being destroyed by Israel.”Across the pond, the British Museum stopped allowing visit...

Frédéric Platéus is a Belgian artist best known for creating large-scale wall artworks that conflate his interests across motorsports, supercars and industrial design. Based in Liège, Platéus typically mixes PVC with traditional painterly techniques, resulting in geometric artworks presented as a puzzle for the viewer to piece back together in their mind.On view at Ruttkowski;68 in Paris, Platéus is showcasing his fourth solo show with the gallery, entitled KraftPLus+. The exhibition is somewhat of a departure from his modular wall works, in place of a series of sculptures and paintings that incorporate iconography found across corporate logos, pop culture and the auto industry. During his youth, Platéus was heavily inspired by hip-hop, skateboarding and BMX culture, which in the show he t...

BAPE GALLERY has landed in Hong Kong for a special exhibition.The exhibit features 25 unique artworks and three giant sculptures that pay homage to A BATHING APE's legacy and influence on fashion, art and street culture. Both up-and-coming artists and established artists, including Stash, Tomotatsu Gima, Arkiv Vilmansa, Oso de Agua and Simone Legno, contributed to the exhibit for their own take on the experience of "fashion-meets-art." The pieces take inspiration from BAPE's most iconic motifs and releases such as the classic camouflage pattern, APE HEAD logo, the BAPESTA shoe and the BAPE SHARK STA, with prints available for sale on-site.Check out the works above.Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast

Ahead of this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong, art collective teamLab has partnered up with the city's  Leisure and Cultural Services Department to present teamLab: Continuous -- an outdoor exhibition that spans across Tamar Park and the Central and Western District Promenade. The exhibition is also made up of two main components, comprising hundreds of ovoids in “Resonating Life which Continues to Stand” and the lights-producing trees in “Resonating Trees.”“The biggest difference between an egg-shape and an ovoid is that the latter will always bounce back — it doesn’t fall.” In the vein of that explanation, Takashi Kudo, a member of teamLab and the Communications Director for this project explains that “the ovoids are a metaphor for human emotions.” Whenever the ovoids are pushed down, they li...