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Gary Card’s ‘People Mountain People Sea’ Is a Love Letter to Hong Kong
Ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong, Gary Card opened his first major solo exhibition at the city’s Oil Street Art Space – a community-oriented gallery space converted from a preserved heritage site. The London-based multi-disciplinary artist and set designer has produced work for fashion editorials and campaigns in the past, where he worked with notable names such as Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga, Comme Des Garçons, Gucci, JW Anderson, Vogue, and even Lady Gaga.The unique space is an amalgamation of contemporary and heritage that echoes its neighborhood, which is vastly populated both commercially and residentially. Inside this embodiment of contrasts, Gary Card’s People Mountain People Sea is perfectly situated as it explores the dichotomies between disposable and sacred objects via his arrestingly...
3 Body Problem Is About Saving Humanity. Does the Cast Think Humanity’s Worth Saving?
Benedict Wong, Liam Cunningham, Rosalind Chao, and more react to the show's biggest questiosn. 3 Body Problem Is About Saving Humanity. Does the Cast Think Humanity’s Worth Saving? Liz Shannon Miller
Here’s What We Liked About the 2024 Lotus Emira
It's coming. After its official launch in 2022 and subsequent difficulties getting it to pass the United States' strict EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and CARB (California Air Resources Board) emissions regulations, the Lotus Emira has finally been cleared to be sold on our shores. Naturally, we had to experience one for ourselves.There's already a lot to like about the Lotus Emira. A sports-car at heart, its petrol-powered, supercharged, mid-mounted engine is literally music to petrolheads' ears, and its design is a breath of fresh air across an automotive market too hellbent on selling SUVs, crossovers, and hulking, metallic EVs. But the successor to the Evora has a lot to live up to, particularly with its just-under-six-figures price tag of $99,990 USD. We had a weekend with Lotu...
Late Night With the Devil’s David Dastmalchian Was “Terrified” to Play a Talk Show Host
The actor/producer relished making the 1970s-set found footage horror film. Late Night With the Devil’s David Dastmalchian Was “Terrified” to Play a Talk Show Host Liz Shannon Miller
Best New Tracks: Future x Metro Boomin, Mac Miller and More
As the week in music comes to a close, Hypebeast has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks.This week’s lineup is led by Future x Metro Boomin and Mac Miller, who released the joint album WE DON'T TRUST YOU and the track "The Quest" on streaming services. Also joining this selection are offerings from Matt Champion, Yeat, Justice x Miguel, Alicia Keys, Weather Park, Big Sean, Seafood Sam and Cole Bennett with Denzel Curry, Juicy J, Cochise, Teezo Touchdown and Lil B.Future x Metro Boomin - WE DON'T TRUST YOUFuture and Metro Boomin deliver the first half of their highly-anticipated joint album series, WE DON'T TRUST YOU. The 17-track effort features guest appearances from the likes of Travis Scott and Playboi Carti, and serves as evidence of the pair's in...
CHANMINA on Channeling Everything She’s Got Into Songwriting
Now 25 years old, CHANMINA is confident and empowered. Sitting in her backstage dressing room with the Diesel hoodie and sweat shorts she wore during soundcheck hanging behind her, the South Korean-Japanese rapper has just changed into her stage outfit. Even with less than an hour till her AREA OF DIAMOND 2 show in Hong Kong, the atmosphere backstage is calm and orderly. For years, both her personal and professional lives have been in a constant battle as she grapples with her insecurities. Being human, these insecurities still affect her but are channeled into music. A prime specimen of this is Naked, her most recent album, which can be experienced as an aural tale of CHANMINA’s emotional journey.Born in 1998 to a Korean mother and Japanese father, CHANMINA briefly lived in South Korea an...
The Best Rising Artists of Spring 2024
As Spring breathes new life into us once again, we're introduced to a new selection of rising artists making their marks in music. This season, Hypebeast is focusing on nine artists who are creating and exploring their unique sounds in the realms of Afrobeats, indie rock, rap, bedroom pop, trap and more, further underscoring the notion that genres no longer serve as confines for the next generation of musical artists.ArtemasFor fans of: Montell Fish, Toby Mai, Isabel LaRosaIntertwining grunge with melodic pop, Artemas’ self-taught sound was born from the confines of quarantine. The 24-year-old began releasing music in late 2020, producing and honing his craft from his bedroom in Oxfordshire, New England. Currently based in London, the singer and producer has landed hits with introspective ...
2024 Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato: Where Does It Really Belong?
'Mad Max of Newport Beach.''Bruce Wayne on a Camping Holiday.'These were the comparisons that ran through our head the moment we saw the Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato pull up to our SoCal address for review. Its matte green exterior was quite striking even on a dreary Friday morning as we watched the car slowly roll off the delivery trailer. When we got closer to the car, the above analogies hit even harder as we started hearing the stronger exhaust tones up close, all the while noticing the details that make the Sterrato "off-road." We were getting excited.However – as we went over the loan agreement, we couldn't help but notice the bold, yellow highlighted text that was quite literally at the top of the document: "THIS VEHICLE MUST NOT BE DRIVEN OFF-ROAD." After a few seconds of head-scra...
Robert Smigel Explains Who Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Won’t Roast
The writer and comedian's future plans for Triumph include the 2024 political conventions. Robert Smigel Explains Who Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Won’t Roast Liz Shannon Miller
ericdoa Reflects on Femininity, Family and Fear of Being Perceived on ‘DOA’
A one-off encounter in Bushwick catalyzed the aesthetic of ericdoa’s DOA album. The 21-year-old Connecticut native stumbled across a woman named Jeni — standing outside with her hand-crafted clothing and household goods on a table before her — when he was walking in Brooklyn one winter day. “She just embodied the maternal spirit of Latin women,” Eric explained. “She reminded me of the strong Latin women who raised me.”The genre-melding artist released his first album COA in 2020 but really gained traction after his “sad4whattt” single was placed on Euphoria’s season 2 soundtrack. He followed that up with his sophomore project things with wings, as well as a tour with The Kid LAROI, a headlining tour of his own and a viral VALORANT track dubbed “greater than one.”On his third studio album, ...
Hypeart Visits: Mía Lee Transforms Her Dreams and Nightmares Into Frantic Cartoon Characters
Inspiration often strikes at the most impromptu moments. For Chicago-born artist, Mía Lee, it almost always occurs in the dead of night. “I’m very comfortable in my discomfort and nightmares,” she tells Hypeart. While most people either forget to transcribe or run away from understanding the strange subconscious nuances that arise in our sleep, Lee sees it as “the most vivid” opportunity to understand her life. In this way, dreams and nightmares have naturally become the foundation to her burgeoning art practice, which can be defined as large acrylic paintings of cartoon characters that loosely signify her family’s history, as well as the cultural communities she’s connected to — from television to fashion to sneaker culture.As an associate creative director for Robot, The Springhill Compa...
Waxing Poetic ‘Bout Being in the Lexus TX 500h F Sport AWD
How do you determine an automotive brand's cultural significance? That's a wide-reaching question, one without a cut-and-dried answer, but one way of replying is to list its hip-hop name-drops. And by that metric, Lexus is in the pop culture pantheon: it's been name-checked by everyone from The Notorious B.I.G. to Ye, Snoop Dogg and JAY-Z (whose 2017 cut "Smile" included a bar that was paraphrased for this article's title). There's a certain vibe, one of elevated-yet-streetwise taste and quality, associated with a new Lexus, and it's on full display through the TX 500h F Sport AWD, one-third of the brand's TX offering.A new range that began production in November 2023 and sits between the RX and LX lines, the TX line offers a standard model, a plug-in hybrid electric iteration, and a TX Sp...
