Art
Anne Imhof Opens First Solo Exhibition at Portugal’s Serralves Museum
SummaryAnne Imhof’s first solo exhibition in Portugal unfolds across the Serralves Museum and park with new, site-specific works including a 60-foot steel pool‘Fun ist ein Stahlbad’ uses architecture and restraint to examine power, control, and contemporary anxietyThe Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art has announced ‘Fun ist ein Stahlbad,’ Anne Imhof’s first solo exhibition in Portugal, opening December 12, 2025 and on view through April 19, 2026. The exhibition brings together a major body of newly produced works across sculpture, painting, film, and installation, created specifically for Serralves’ Álvaro Siza–designed museum and its 45-acre park.Curated by Inês Grosso, the show is deeply tied to the site, using the museum’s architecture and surrounding landscape as active elements rat...
The Monsters 10th Anniversary Tour Lands in Hong Kong Celebrating the World of Labubus
SummaryThe MONSTERS BY MONSTERS: NOW AND THEN exhibition, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kasing Lung's creatures, is running in Hong Kong from December 15, 2025, to January 4, 2026Housed at the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, the tour features an immersive "enchanted forest" experience, showcasing the evolution of LABUBU and THE MONSTERSThe exhibition includes original artworks, precious sketches, designer toy displays, and interactive zones, exploring the origins of the series and marking a poignant homecoming for artist Kasing LungTo mark ten years of the beloved forest spirits known as THE MONSTERS, the 10th Anniversary Global Tour – MONSTERS BY MONSTERS: NOW AND THEN – is opening at the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre. Running from December 15, 2025 to January 4, 2026, the Hong Kong ...
21 Savage and Slawn Took Over Atlanta’s High Museum of Art
Summary21 Savage and British-Nigerian artist Olaolu Slawn, better known as Slawn, celebrate the release of What Happened to the Streets? with an exhibition at Atlanta's High Museum of ArtFeaturing original artworks by the rapper and visual artist, the show debuts artworks from the album, alongside 8 portraits of the project's collaborators21 Savage and Slawn are closing out the year on a high. To celebrate the release of Savage's new album, What Happened to the Streets?, last night the rap star and artist took over Atlanta's High Museum of Art for a special exhibition inspired by project.The show featured 15 original artworks created by Slawn and Savage, anchored by the album's cover art. Inspired by Kerry James Marshall’s 1980 work, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self...
What Can You Draw With a Fountain Pen?
Taking a different approach to the Hypebeast Street Interview series, in this installment, we teamed up with Montblanc to ask two artists to put its Meisterstück fountain pen to the test with a 60-second sketch.Since its launch in 1924, the Meisterstück has spearheaded Montblanc's innovation in writing instruments for over a century. Translated to “masterpiece” in German, it’s become a symbol of writing excellence and meticulous craftsmanship with a stand-out black precious resin cap and barrel, and a handcrafted solid gold nib.What started as a response to consumers asking for a “Sunday-use” pen – one that offers a finer experience not meant for everyday use — has since turned into Montblanc’s most iconic design. With its codes inspiring a range of products from leather goods to new tech ...
For Just $117 USD, This Picasso Could Be Yours
SummaryThe "1 Picasso for 100 Euros" charity raffle returns, offering up the painter's 1941 portrait "Tête de femme"With a €100 EUR (about $117 USD) buy-in, the winner will be selected on April 14 at Christie's ParisFunds from ticket sales will benefit Fondation Recherche Alzheimer, a French organization supporting Alzheimer’s researchThe international charity raffle "1 Picasso for 100 Euros" is back, offering art lovers a chance to bring home a masterpiece for an easy, €100 EUR (about $117). Now in its third edition, the upcoming initiative centers around a 1941 work by the great Spanish painter, with proceeds pledged to Fondation Recherche Alzheimer, a French organization supporting Alzheimer’s research. The winner, who will walk away with the €1 million (roughly $1.1 million) work, will...
SHOWstudio Turns 25 with ‘NATURALLY’ Short Film
SummaryNick Knight's SHOWstudio celebrates its 25th anniversary with an upcoming fashion short film, titled NATURALLYReleasing on December 17, the film reflects the studio's enduring curiosity for technology's role in shaping fashion image cultureSHOWstudio, the fashion film lab led by Nick Knight, rings in 25 years, and is releasing a 3D film to celebrate. The new short film, titled NATURALLY, keeps with the studio's 'first-to-do-it' reputation, shot on high-tech Ray-Ban Meta glasses.Dropping December 17, the project is fronted by Anok Yai, Naomi Campbell, Mona Tougaard, Susie Cave and Xiao Wen Ju, and will circle three narrative arcs, mind, body and soul. Featured within the film will be designs by Iris Van Herpen, alongside pieces by SHOWstudio collaborators from the last quarter centur...
AUPEN Founder Nicholas Tan Set for Art Debut at Le Bon Marché With ‘PARIS@STCLEMENTI.COM’
SummaryAUPEN founder, Nicholas Tan, is set to debut his art exhibition, PARIS@STCLEMENTI.COM at Le Bon MarchéThe exhibition serves as a love letter to France and will run from December 13 - 14, 2025Nicholas Tan, the founder of the globally acclaimed, LVMH Métiers D’Art-partnered brand AUPEN, is scheduled to make his first-ever public art debut with the exhibition PARIS@STCLEMENTI.COM at Le Bon Marché, France’s oldest department store, on the ground floor for two days, running from December 13 – 14.The exhibition is conceived as Tan’s love letter to France, a country where he lived and worked while building AUPEN and where he rediscovered himself. For Tan, France represents a unique space where history, style, and rebellion coexist. The emotional core of the exhibition stems from his person...
A Look Behind the Inaugural Art Basel Awards Miami Beach with BOSS
Earlier this month, Hypebeast joined the art world as they flocked to Art Basel Miami Beach. Checking out its prestigious showcases, events and exhibitions, this year’s edition also introduced the inaugural Art Basel Awards in partnership with BOSS. With over 20 years of Miami Beach fairs, the awards brought a new tradition to the weekend-long schedule, recognizing artists, creators and other industry professionals in nine wide-ranging categories. Before the ceremony, 11 winners were handpicked from a shortlist of 36 medalists, each determined by the way they harness their craft to challenge the norms of the modern art scene, closely aligning to the Be Your Own BOSS platform celebrating trailblazers in sports, fashion, culture, and art.As well as linking to its overarching ethos, BOSS’ spo...
Nan Goldin’s Magnum Opus Gets a Gagosian Show
SummaryGagosian's Davies Street gallery is set to host The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Nan Goldin's influential photo series, from January 13 through March 21, 2026The exhibition delivers a radically incisive reflection on downtown New York, and marks the first UK presentation of the series in fullNan Goldin once described her seminal series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, as “the diary I let people read.” Lauded as one of the century's most influential bodies of work, the series embarks on a cultural voyage into East Village's punk bohemia — the backrooms of bars, empty beds, dim bathrooms and smoke-laden clubs. In her own words, it captured “exactly what my world looks like, without glamorization, without glorification.”In London, Gagosian is turning back the clock to take us back to ...
Philadelphia Art Museum Celebrates 100 Years of Surrealism
SummaryPhiladelphia Art Museum presents Dreamworld:Surrealism at 100, a sprawling survey tracing surrealism from its origins to contemporary iterationsOn view through February 2026, the Philadelphia show features an exclusive section dedicated to European surrealists that sought refuge in North America after World War IIIn 1924, poet and artist André Breton issued his Manifesto of Surrealism, which outlined a “crisis of consciousness” — the abandonment of imagination in favor of the kind of decorum and judgement that came with adulthood. To aid this condition, he proposed surrealism as an artistic rebellion that reclaimed wonder, embraced intuition and pushed the limits of creative possibility.At Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM), the movement comes into focus with Dreamworld: Surrealism at 1...
Hauser & Wirth Announces Plans for Its First Italian Gallery
SummarySwiss mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth will open its 18th outpost in Palermo, SicilyThe upcoming gallery will be staged within the historic Palazzo Forcella De Seta, a prominent arts venue for the cityHauser & Wirth has announced plans for its Mediterranean expansion with a new gallery in Palermo, Sicily. The 18th location by the art powerhouse, the upcoming gallery also marks its first permanent foray into Italy.The new gallery will take shape inside the storied Palazzo Forcella De Seta, the neo-Gothic landmark perched on Palermo's waterfront. Built in the mid-19th century for the Marquis Forcella, the palace has played home Galleria Mediterranea, the city's first private art gallery, from 1937 to 1940, a 1950s “gambling den” and the Administrative Justice Council. More recently...
Davide Sorrenti’s Journals Reveal the Mind Behind the ’90s Countercultural Moment
SummaryIDEA has published Davide Sorrenti Journals: Volume 1 1994–1995, a collection of notebooks by the legendary, late fashion photographerCurated and edited by Francesca Sorrenti, the artist's mother, the book collects ideas, scribbles, images, test prints and flyers that shaped his enduring creative visionThe emerging creative vanguard of the early '90s tilted toward the raw. The polished, prim ideals of the previous decade had lost their shine, and in their place came a hunger for something more lived-in and real. Out of this moment, now known as “heroin chic”, came a cohort of names including Corinne Day, David Sims, Juergen Teller and, prominently, Davide Sorrenti, who together defined the look of counterculture. While Sorrenti's career was short-lived, having tragically passed away...
