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Whether at the height of their success or the decades that followed, there was always a camera on the Beatles. Later this year at the newly refurbished National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, the roles will reverse as a new show presents a suite of previously unseen photographs taken by Paul McCartney during the apex of his career. Always equipped with a camera himself, the show will present over 200 photographs from McCartney's archives taken between December 1963 and February 1964 — snapshots of the band while performing and staying at hotels, to impromptu mirror shots, that in a way, distill their celebrity and are shown like any other self-portrait taken by the average joe.“The photographs taken in this period captured the very moment that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harriso...

Six years ago, Korean tattoo artist Woojin Choi also known as Oozy, entered the cultural conversation. His incredibly detailed pieces featuring gothic and gory takes on East Asian themes spanning ramen to anime, made their rounds on social platforms, and quickly earned him a following that now tops 1 million.From a bird’s eye view, Oozy is representative of a generational shift in attitudes towards tattooing happening across Asia, further propelled by ever-increasing access to international artists via platforms like Instagram and TikTok. In Korea, art school graduates like himself have brought technical skills to the field, forming an incredibly talented class of contemporary tattooists who have been able to develop their own meticulous takes on the ancient art. Despite the beautiful outp...

Basketball is often equated as an art form. The way 10 players run up-and-down the court — each with their own individual style of play — working in tandem, as they channel their creativity to reach success. As the ultimate symbol of the game, Kehinde Wiley has released a special limited-edition basketball artwork that takes that metaphor one step further. Drawing on an earlier painting entitled Morpheus, which was inspired by Jean-Antonie Houdon's 1777 marble sculpture of the same name, Wiley's iteration featured a model from Brooklyn lain across a white sheet with floral motifs around his body. The work featured in Wiley's 2008 exhibition "Down" at Jeffrey Deitch, and unlike the Houdon sculpture, whose melancholic figure looks away, Wiley's figure invites onlookers through direct eye con...