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Royal Enfield’s Flying Flea Debuts ‘Motototem’ Art Bike by Mattia Biagi
At Salone del Mobile 2025 in Milan, Royal Enfield’s new electric sub-brand, Flying Flea, unveiled a fusion of design and innovation — a one-off art bike named Motototem, created in collaboration with Italian artist Mattia Biagi.Built upon the FF-C6, Flying Flea’s flagship electric motorcycle, Motototem transforms the EV into a sculptural artwork. Biagi reimagined components like the forged aluminum frame and magnesium battery case using natural materials, including travertine, clay, bronze, stone, leather and blown glass. The result is a deeply symbolic, sensory-rich vehicle that explores themes of nature, history and human connection.The bronze handlebars and footpegs carry the artist’s fingerprint. The headlight and taillight have been replaced with hand-blown glass forms, while the tank...
Audi Offers “Sport Racing Legends” to Collectors
Audi is offering collectors a rare chance to own motorsport history. For the first time, factory prototypes from its legendary Le Mans and DTM racing programs are being sold to a select group of international clients. Under the new "Audi Sport racing legends" initiative, chassis from the brand’s victorious campaigns will be rebuilt to original specifications and delivered in drivable condition.The program launched in Neuburg an der Donau, where Audi unveiled the first two race cars available for purchase: chassis 107 of the RS 5 DTM and chassis 207 of the Audi R18 e-tron quattro. Both are winning race cars — Timo Scheider drove the RS 5 to victory at Hockenheim in 2015, while the R18, piloted by Romain Dumas, Loïc Duval and Marc Gené, secured a WEC win at Spa in 2012.Buyers aren’t just get...
GM Reveals Futuristic Corvette EV Concept Car
GM recently launched its new Advanced Design Studio in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England with an unveiling of a new EV concept car for the future. Dubbed just the Chevrolet Corvette concept car, the vehicle is one of three prototypes expected to be revealed this year. GM's new design teams are expected to drive ideation and innovation across the company. With the new UK-located studio, GM is demonstrating its commitment to Europe as the company scales its Cadillac EV business there. Slated to launch Corvette sales across the U.K. and mainland Europe, the opening of the UK design studio is strategic and an integral part of GM's global design footprint. Led by Julian Thomson, the studio takes over 24,584-square-foot at the Royal Leamington Spa studio and employes over 30 designers. Micha...
Wassily Kandinsky’s Sketchbooks Offer New Insights Into His Art
Wassily Kandinsky, best known as the pioneer of abstract painting, kept a trove of sketchbooks between 1889 and 1935. Twelve of these sketchbooks are now the focus of a new release from No More Rulers. Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks, edited by Larry Warsh and Dieter Buchhart, pulls together select pages that shed light on how the artist’s ideas and visual language took shape over the years.The book features studies on composition, space and color that echo throughout Kandinsky’s later works. Alongside drawings are handwritten notes, personal reflections and the occasional poem which point to artists and writers who influenced his thinking at the time.Also included are printed manifestos where Kandinsky outlines his growing views on abstraction, revealing the thought process behind his ...
Qualeasha Wood’s ‘Malware’ Exposes the Underbelly of Being Chronically Online
For Qualeasha Wood, a glitch can be good. In her latest solo show at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, the Philly-based artist delves into the glitch as aesthetic and a language for moving through a world where selfhood is constantly mediated and warped. Balancing digital disenchantment with an optimistic eye, Wood puts a spin on body horror conventions in her latest body of work, composed of tapestries, tuftings and video.In Malware, jacquard tapestries turn digital pixels into hand-stitched poetry. Lit by the white-blue glow of a computer screen, Wood emblazons her signature webcam self-portraits with confessions of burnout and online overexposure, taking the form of Python and Java script. Her videos give this code a second life, using it to pixelate and datamosh her body out of recognition.Mo...
Zu viel am Tippen und Scrollen? Das hilft gegen den “Handy-Daumen”
Daumen runter für zu viel Tippen: Ständige Smartphone-Nutzung oder Arbeit am Computer kann unsere Gelenke und Muskeln überstrapazieren. Was hilft gegen Phänomene wie den "Handy-Daumen" oder die "iPad- ...
Zu viel am Tippen und Scrollen? Das hilft gegen den “Handy-Daumen” – freenet.de
Daumen runter für zu viel Tippen: Ständige Smartphone-Nutzung oder Arbeit am Computer kann unsere Gelenke und Muskeln überstrapazieren. Was hilft gegen Phänomene wie den "Handy-Daumen" oder die "iPad- ...
Mark Leckey’s ‘As Above So Below’ Brings Visions of Ecstasy to Paris
Where one sees a typical highway bridge, a street lamp or a road sign, Mark Leckey sees something extraordinary – a gateway into the ecstatic, transcendence beyond the self. Working across video, sculpture, and performance, the British artist transforms the mundane into magic, linking music, dance and the pulse of a city to the sublime.In Paris, Lafayette Anticipations presents As Above So Below, Leckey’s latest solo exhibition. Spanning from the late 1990s to today, audiences will see from the cult-classic British youth film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) to more recent works like Mercy I Cry City (2024), and 20 some works in between. Centered on the theme of ecstasy and the ecstatic, the show makes sense of the artist's own disorienting experiences – moments of overwhelming emotion tha...
Meghan Markle: “As Ever”-Produkte binnen Minuten ausverkauft – hat die Herzogin gemogelt?
"As Ever"-Produkte von Meghan Markle nach Verkaufsstart sofort ausverkauft Herzogin Meghan setzt auf Marketingstrategie für künstliche Knappheit "As Ever" kämpft intern mit rechtlichen Problemen und P ...
Mediziner: „Cannabis ist kein harmloses Lifestyle-Produkt“
Ein Jahr ist die Teillegalisierung von Cannabis in Kraft. Dr. Peter Nyhuis, Direktor der Psychiatrie in Eickel, zieht ein kritisches Fazit.
Tilda Swinton Is Getting Her Own Museum Retrospective
An Oscar-winning star with the mystique of a cult icon, Tilda Swinton’s cross-creative career is one that defines convention. From her debut in Derek Jarman’s 1986 Caravaggio biopic to playing an eccentric art critic in Julio Torres’ Problemista, her ties to the art world run deep, blurring the lines between mainstream success and the avant-garde every step of the way.This September, the performer, fashion icon and art darling will head to the Eye Filmmuseum for the occassion of Tilda Swinton – Ongoing, a retrospective exhibition tracing through her career and collaborations, curated by Swinton herself.“With the honour of this extraordinary invitation, Eye has given me the opportunity to reflect on the mechanics of my working practice over the past forty years,” Swinton expressed in a rece...
Genesis Reveals X Gran Concepts at Seoul Mobility Show 2025
Genesis has pulled the wraps off two new concept cars — the X Gran Coupe Concept and the X Gran Convertible Concept — at the 2025 Seoul Mobility Show.Presented under the theme “Unfold a New Era of Genesis,” the two concepts are built on the architecture of the brand’s flagship G90 and represent the pinnacle of Genesis design. The X Gran Coupe Concept draws inspiration from Mediterranean olive trees, while the X Gran Convertible Concept is meant to channel the elegance of European wines, according to the automaker.“With over 1.3 million customers worldwide, we’re seizing this moment to showcase our next chapter in performance and design,” said Mike Song, Global Head of Genesis.Both models embody the brand’s signature “Two-Line” design language with sweeping silhouettes, widened fenders and ...
