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Lifestyle an der Ostsee: Große Outdoor-Messe lockt wieder in den IGA-Park
Shoppen, flanieren und Leckeres von den Grill-Profis genießen: Was die große Outdoor-Messe „Flair am Meer“ in diesem Jahr zu bieten hat.
Sony Announces Winners for 2025 World Photography Awards
Sony, in partnership with the World Photography Organisation, has revealed the winners of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards. Selected from a pool of nearly half-a-million submissions across 56 countries, this year’s winners represent the best in global photography, ranging categories of portraiture, sport, nature, landscape, wildlife, street photography, still-life and more.London-based Zed Nelson claimed the coveted Photographer of the Year title for his four-continent series The Anthropocene Illusion, which examines humanity’s increasingly estranged relationship to nature, confronting artifice in our perceptions of wilderness. While in the Open category, French photographer Olivier Unia took the cake with Tbourida La Chute, which captures the intensity of a traditional Moroccan eque...
A Major Yoshitomo Nara Retrospective is Coming to London
This summer, London’s Hayward Gallery will play host to a major retrospective of the iconic Yoshitomo Nara. Featuring more than 150 works created over the last 40 years, the eponymous exhibition welcomes audiences into the world of one of Japan’s most celebrated artists.Known for his child-like characters, fashioned with wide gazes and a slight rebel touch, Nara often uses his cherubic figures to explore real world issues and calls to action: “I’m interested in both the individual human experience and the wider political landscape in which humanity exists.”Having grown up during the height of the Vietnam War, his brothers’ participation in the era’s student movements nurtured Nara’s ongoing interest in environmental issues and world peace. “Hippie culture’s emphasis on community also reson...
Hypeart Visits: Sydnie Jimenez Keeps Her Ceramics Grounded in the Personal
Before she ever touched clay, Sydnie Jimenez was drawing. As a kid growing up in North Georgia, she sketched characters inspired by the cartoons and comics that filled her world such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman Beyond and Naruto. That early love for animated forms never left her. Years later, after moving to Chicago to study at the School of the Art Institute, she discovered ceramics and realized she could bring those drawings into three-dimensional life. What started with hand-built busts soon evolved into full-bodied figures: raw, wide-eyed, Black and Brown, often nude and full of character. The sculptures mirror people she had known, imagined or maybe needed to see in the world.Chicago became her second home, a place where she found community in the art scene and room to exp...
Stanley Cup ist out! Jetzt ist die Bink Bottle angesagt
Dieses Glas im Silikonmantel erobert neuerdings die Welt der Trinkflaschen: Die Bink Bottle ist der neue Star auf TikTok & Co.
teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi Is a Living Universe Where Art Breathes and Light Floats
Stepping into teamLab’s Phenomena Abu Dhabi is like entering a living universe where art breathes, evolves, and reacts to your presence.Set to open to the public on April 18, 2025, this groundbreaking 17,000-square-meter space in the Saadiyat Cultural District invites visitors to let go of expectations and plunge headfirst into the unknown. It’s a place where digital meets natural, where spheres of light and voids of levitation rewrite our understanding of physical space.Crafted by the internationally acclaimed art collective teamLab, this immersive destination is built around the idea that art doesn't exist in isolation. Here, the environment itself produces the phenomena that become the artworks. It’s a radical break from traditional installations—what you see, hear, and feel is in const...
Fernando Alonso-Signed Aston Martin DBR22 Surfaces for Auction
A near-delivery-mile Aston Martin DBR22, signed by Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso, is headed to auction with RM Sotheby’s. This limited-edition speedster was crafted by Q by Aston Martin, with inspirations taken from 1950s racing legends like the DBR1 and DB3S, and features a 5.2L twin-turbo V12 producing 715 hp and a top speed of 195 mph.The DBR22 offered here carries just 177 kilometers on the odometer and is finished in Aston Martin Racing Green with AMR Lime accents. The exterior includes a matte black exhaust, satin center-lock 22-inch wheels and paint protection film. Inside, Forest Green leather is offset with AMR Lime contrast stitching for a modern motorsport-inspired look.This particular example was delivered through Aston Martin Hilversum and holds chassis number 14 — matchi...
Porsche 911 GT3 Sets Nürburgring Record for Manual Cars
The new Porsche 911 GT3 has claimed the title of fastest production car with a manual transmission on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, clocking in at 6:56.294. Behind the wheel was Porsche brand ambassador Jörg Bergmeister, who beat the previous record by more than 9.5 seconds, despite competing against a more powerful rival.Fitted with the Weissach Package and a six-speed manual gearbox, the 911 GT3 outpaced even its predecessor equipped with Porsche’s quicker PDK transmission by over 3.6 seconds. Improvements to the suspension and a shorter gear ratio helped deliver sharper cornering and stronger acceleration from the same 510 hp engine.The lap was run on a 20.832-kilometer course under ideal spring conditions and with Michelin Pilot Sport Cup2 R tires. Bergmeister credited the upgraded cha...
Ice Spice Turned the Mercedes-Benz CLA Into a Molten Chrome Princess-Mobile
Give Ice Spice a Mercedes-Benz CLA, and she'll ice it out princess style.The "Princess of Rap" (yes, that is the nickname she's chosen to rep on her very own diamond-encrusted chain) is among Mercedes-Benz's new "Class of Creators," a collective of five artists shaping music, fashion, and design who have been invited to collaborate with the automaker on art pieces inspired by the all-new CLA model throughout the next year. Spice is joined by Gustaf Westman, KidSuper, League of Legends, and Hot Wheels, each of whom will present their own interpretations of the vehicle in the coming months. On Thursday evening, the royal rapper was up first to present her vision for the car. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mercedes-Benz (@mercedesbenz)The "Munch" singer's take on the C...
Can Sound Save Electric Cars From Feeling Boring? BMW Thinks So
Electric cars might be fast, efficient and futuristic — but to many drivers, they still feel... empty. The silence that once symbolized progress now risks dulling the emotional experience behind the wheel. In response, a growing number of automakers are asking a new kind of question: What if sound could bring electric cars to life?BMW’s latest attempt to answer that is called HypersonX — a dynamic soundscape designed for its upcoming Neue Klasse models. And it might be one of the most ambitious EV sound design projects yet. The Sound of BMW’s Neue KlasseSet to debut in 2025, HypersonX features 43 custom-crafted audio signals that shift depending on how you drive. Developed by the BMW Group Sound Design Studio, it uses spatial modulation to make acceleration feel like you’re moving through...
Lauren Halsey Curates Art “Kiccbacc” at Chicago’s Anthony Gallery
The Chicago art scene is gearing up for this year’s edition of EXPO, and with it comes resonance, a powerful group exhibition curated by Lauren Halsey at West Loop’s Anthony Gallery. Bringing together an exciting lineup of 30 emerging and established artists, Halsey refuses white-cube sterility, and nurtures, as she puts it, “the spirit of a kiccbacc” – an opportunity for pleasure, rekindling old connections and cultivating new ones.Spanning installation, painting, photography, mixed-media and sculptures, resonance thrives in its multiplicity. Each work takes root in Halsey’s ethos of community-driven creativity, and threaded together by the figuration of people, plants and animals as metaphors for interconnectedness, care and lived experience.Best known for her large-scale foil collages, ...
Ralph Lauren’s Rare Yellow Ferrari F50 Heads to Auction
One of the rarest Ferrari F50s — once owned by fashion icon Ralph Lauren — is now set to go under the hammer. It’s notably one of only two U.S.-spec F50s painted in this striking Giallo Modena yellow, making it a uniquely special example of Ferrari’s 50th-anniversary hypercar.Lauren ordered the car new and kept it in his collection for eight years before it changed hands in 2003. Since then, it has remained with the same private owners for more than two decades. With fewer than 5,400 miles on the odometer, this F50 has lived a remarkably private life and hasn’t been seen in public since 2009.It rides on a Formula 1-inspired carbon fiber chassis and is powered by a naturally aspirated 4.7L V12 derived from Ferrari’s 1992 F1 engine. The F50 produces 513 hp and reaches a top speed of 202 mph....
