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Rapper-turned-artist Jahlil Nzinga has released a new limited-edition screen print entitled gotta wear shades. Produced by acclaimed Parisian maison, Print Them All — who in the past had worked with the likes of Picasso and Matisse (amongst others) — the artwork depicts one of the Los Angeles-based artist's signature one-liner drawings wearing blue-tinted sunglasses. Having first come up as Stunnaman from the Bay Area rap group, The Pack, Nzinga has reinvented himself as a prolific artist over the past five years, creating largely gestural works that are inspired by his hip hop days, as well as his interest in fashion, early skateboarding graphics, and the canons of art history. Entirely self-taught, Nzinga found his painterly voice through the unapologetic process of one-liners, where thr...

Zhong Wei is a Chinese artist known for creating multi-layered acrylic compositions that comment on the internet vernacular native to his home country. Born and based in Beijing, Wei uses found imagery and memes as source material to imbue a snapshot of the rapidly growing matrix of our technologically-driven age. Wei's latest exhibition at DE SARTHE gallery in Hong Kong looks to spark a dialogue around the shifting power dynamics between man and machine. Entitled Weight Drifting, his visceral artworks reflect a world where humankind has lost control of the pace at which technology now dictates our lives. Like multiple processors layered within one another, Wei probes into the growing role of AI, speculating "a near future – or perhaps present – in which any trace of the human artist will ...

Louise Bonnet's latest exhibition, 30 Ghosts, is a reflection on the lives that have come before us. Opening at Gagosian this November, the works on view were notably inspired by the opening lines in Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): “Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”Based in Los Angeles, Bonnet is well-known for painting exaggerated bodily forms that explore themes related to melancholy, nostalgia, lust, and grief. In her forthcoming solo show, she confronts the specter of death through a new series that harks to 17th century Dutch still-life paintings, making use of the vanitas symbols of fruit, flowers and sumptuous drapery with her grotesque human contortions. Emblematic of her oeu...

Renowned artist Daniel Arsham has taken to Instagram to show his support to his favorite football club, Inter Milan, with a special gift. Noting in a joint post on social media, the artist shared his deep connection with the city of Milano, having coming to the city for over 15 years for "to work with friends in design, architecture, art and fashion." In his almost two decades traveling to and from and the city, he has grown a love for the football club in the city and with that, wanted to show his appreciate with a special sculpture to represent both the team, the sport and Milano. Presenting two sculptures that resemble that of deconstructed footballs, the artist wrote on Instagram, "As a gift to the Club, I have created a sculpture representing the team colors made in crystal and volcan...