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Want to win $1m USD? Australian artist CJ Hendry has a simple proposition for you: drain 34 consecutive shots in her new basketball HOOP sculpture and you can win one of her large-scale drawings and the big money prize. Made in conjunction with the City of Miami and the return of Art Basel Miami Beach, which officially opens to the public today, Hendry's latest project features a 20-foot-tall cobalt blue tree with 34 hoops that are made to mimic a chandelier. Located just by the water in the Wynwood District, the artwork was a refreshing change of pace to Hendry's drawing practice and temporary exhibitions. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Cj Hendry (@cj_hendry) View this post on InstagramA post shared by Cj Hendry (@cj_hendry)"This HOOPS concept is my first foray into a perman...

A year on from their collaborative chair sculpture, French artist Jean Jullien and Case Studyo are back with another (functional) edition called La Baleine (The Whale). Playing in line with his whimsical two-dimensional illustrations, the porcelain artwork features a cheerful blue whale with a scribbly hand-drawn vibe with an open blow-hole that can hold pens, colored pencils, flowers or whatever else that comes to mind. For Jullien, who frequently paints animals and scenes associated to the beach, the whale represents a symbol of grace, grandeur and unbounded creativity. The hybrid sculpture was made to play on the metaphor of a whale's blowhole, "an emblem of exhaling and releasing creative energy", according to Case Studyo, where he invites his collectors to fill the whale with their ow...