New York City-based designer Kae Linh Ngo is set to launch an online fundraising project called Rise and Embrace. In celebration of the final week of AAPI Heritage Month, the aim of the project is to honor the work of Asian women-identifying creatives, including Lauren Kam, Wendi Ma, Sonia Yau and Amy Truong. Ngo shared the concept behind Rise and Embrace in a press release and said:"Recognizing that so many of our friends in our circle and beyond are incredibly creative and have such unique bac...
Back in January, London's Tate Modern announced that it would host Yayoi Kusama' biggest Infinity Mirror Rooms installation. Now, the gallery is set to open its latest exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist.The show features two of Kusama's signature mirror room installations. The Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life piece, originally created in 2012 for the creative's retrospective at Tate, is comprised of endless walls with a shallow pool of water that create an ...
Jumping on the ongoing craze around non-fungible tokens (NFT), Sotheby's is now set to launch its second curated NFT auction. Titled "Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale," the online crypto sale will feature works across six categories: Early NFTs, Digital Pop/Futurists, Generative, Conceptual, Emerging NFT Artists and Community-elected.Standouts from the selected digital art pieces include Kevin McCoy’s Quantum, which was the first NFT to ever have been minted. Elsewhere, Alien Cryptopunk ...
Last year, KAWS' HOLIDAY exhibition took a special trip to outer space. Now, for its sixth location, Brian Donnelly and longtime collaborator AllRightsReserved have taken the signature COMPANION figure to the UK, reimagining it in the form of a hot-air balloon."I'm happy to be able to continue working on exciting projects like KAWS:HOLIDAY and hope it can bring some inspiration during our ongoing global situation," the artist shared in a statement. Measuring 42 meters tall, the sculptural ballo...