Art
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...
‘Zero 10’ Opens a New Digital Chapter for Art Basel
SummaryArt Basel has launched Zero 10, its new digital art and new media section, at its ongoing edition in Miami BeachCurated by Eli Scheinman, the section features 12 international exhibitors with showcases ranging from generative art, robotics, 3D printing, light art and moreThe debut section will also make appearances at the upcoming Hong Kong and Basel fairs in 2026Art Basel Miami has never been short on spectacle, and this year, Zero 10, the new digital and new media art initiative, has already solidified its position as one of the fair's foremost must-sees. Curated by Eli Scheinman, the section launched with 12 international exhibitors and an ambitious reframing of the category's expected potential.The initiative's debut shortly followed the 2025 Art Basel & UBS Survey, which sa...
British Photographer Martin Parr Dies at 73
Martin Parr, one of the sharpest and most influential photographers of British life, has died at 73 at his home in Bristol. The Martin Parr Foundation confirmed his passing to the BBC.Parr spent over 50 years turning everyday Britain into a stage, shooting seaside arcades, cafeteria trays, cheap souvenirs and the awkward encounters of public life. Born in Surrey in 1952, he discovered photography through his grandfather, an amateur photographer who sparked his early obsession. He later joined Magnum Photos in 1994, where his bold color palette and social commentary challenged the collective’s more traditional approach. His saturated tones, inspired by 1950s postcards and early Kodachrome, became a hallmark in his practice that blurred humor, critique and intimacy. "I make serious photograp...
Inside It’s Good and Rivian’s Multisensory Feast of Color
Rivian and It’s Good walk into a bar. Art Basel Miami Beach has always been a magnet for unexpected pairings. Yet such isn’t quite the case for the luxury car company and John Legend’s restaurant review app, both founded on adventure. On Wednesday, the duo kicked off their partnership with an intimate, multisensory meal at Miami’s Las’ Lap, the newly opened, art-soaked eatery by acclaimed chef Kwami Onwuachi, and Hypeart was invited for a first taste.Staged as a multi-course culinary journey, the dinner plated the design-forward, earthy palette of the cars into a range of Caribbean fares to answer what was on the guests' minds: “what does Rivian taste like?” as per host Anthony Ramos. Tongue-in-cheek, sure, though the question circled the connective splendor of the food and travel that bro...
Gary Card’s ‘Homunculand’ Takes Over Oxford Street for the Holidays
SummaryGary Card has unveiled Homunculand, his latest digital animation exhibition at W1 CuratesAnimated video artworks expand his “Homunculus” sculpture series into surreal, sci‑fi dreamscapesThe show runs from December 4, 2025 to January 7, 2026Gary Card’s Homunculand exhibition at W1 Curates transforms Oxford Street into a fantastical digital playground. Presented across W1 Curates’ large-format outdoor screens and immersive basement gallery, the show builds on Card’s acclaimed Homunculus sculpture series, first unveiled at Dover Street Market in 2022.In this new iteration, the artist animates his surreal figurative creations, inviting viewers into a dreamlike universe where ragtag characters traverse alien landscapes dotted with colossal relics. Imagined as part sci-fi adventure and pa...
