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GMA Network
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Southlinks Estate exhibit showcases works of BenCab, KAWS
Businessman Kevin Wong's premier residential community, Southlinks Estate, is showcasing works of global artist KAWS and Filipino art legend BenCab in a four-day art exhibit. The life-size works of KAWS, masterpieces of Philippine national artist Benedicto Cabrera (BenCab), and other notable artists are part of an exhibit that will run from June 5 to 8 at the Southlinks Estate sales pavilion along Southvale Drive, Las Piñas City. The artists in the exhibit include Christian Tamondong, JJ Zamoranos, Escano, Kapitan, John Marin, Bryan Yabut, Kidlat, JP Pining, Dan Macapugay, Chill, Ra Tijing, Egg Fiasco, and Quiccs. This event is a celebration of creativity, community, and conscious living as Southlinks Estate invites art enthusiasts, collectors, and families to explore a vibrant collection that reflects the energy and evolution of modern art in the Philippines, according to the real estate firm. Further, this is aligned with the community's vision of achieving a sustainable livelihood, it said. Southlinks Estate is a 33.6-hectare master-planned community developed by Height Realty Inc. that offers premium residential lots within a gated enclave in South Metro. — Ted Cordero/BM, GMA Integrated News
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Clipse Announces ‘Let God Sort Em Out' Release Date With Cinematic Trailer, Reveals Album Cover Art
The Clipse is back. Pusha T and No Malice officially announced the first Clipse album in more than 15 years on Thursday (May 29) with Let God Sort Em Out. The project is set to make it snow in the summertime with a July 11 release date. Fellow Virginia native and close collaborator Pharrell will be handling production on the entire album, which was recorded at the Louis Vuitton headquarters in Paris. Let God Sort Em Out will be marketed and distributed in partnership with Roc Nation. More from Billboard Kelly Clarkson Totally Nails the Ultimate Karaoke Ballad 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' for Kellyoke Maria Becerra, Paulo Londra & XRoss' 'Ramen Para Dos' Adds Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard Argentina Hot 100 How Curaçao Became the Heart & Soul of Ryan Castro's New Album 'Sendé' A new single will set the tone for the project with 'Ace Trumpets' slated to hit streaming services on Friday (May 30). The album is currently available for pre-sale with bundles of vinyl and merch collections on sale on the Clipse's website. American artist-designer KAWS helms the cover art, which includes his signature white cartoon hands as well as the bones of a skeleton topped with a Mickey Mouse skull. KAWS handled the artwork duties for Clipse's last album, Til the Casket Drops, and famously did the cover for Ye's 808s & Heartbreak album a year earlier in 2008. Pharrell, John Legend, A$AP Ferg and plenty of fans have flooded the Clipse's IG comments expressing their excitement about LGSEO. A cinematic trailer also for the album arrived on Thursday (May 29). 'This is culturally inappropriate,' a woman's voice repeats to start the clip. There's plenty of religious artwork and cameos from Slick Rick, DJ Clue, Mike Tyson and more. No Malice and King Push are seen at the LV HQ working on the project. 'Shoot em all and let God sort em out,' Marge Simpson says to close out the trailer. Watch the trailer below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Daily Maverick
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Maverick
A new mural in Bo-Kaap celebrates the history of Afrikaans, and more from around the world
Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days. An inflatable art entitled 'Companion', created by US artist KAWS displayed near the Grand Palace during the KAWS: Holiday Thailand exhibition at Sanam Luang in Bangkok, Thailand, 13 May 2025. The iconic 18-metre-tall monumental art sculpture Companion is a signature artwork created by the world's renowned American artist KAWS or Brian Donnelly featuring an art sculpture character. Companion sits on the earth and holds a moon while another smaller figure, Companion, rests in its lap. The artwork symbolises the passing of knowledge, values, and care across generations, representing the past, present, and future enduring connection. The KAWS: Holiday Thailand art exhibition will run from 13 to 25 May 2025, which is part of the Amazing Thailand Grand Tourism and Sports Year 2025 campaign. EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRIT
Forbes
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Phaidon ‘Defining Style' Book Offers Singular Look Into An Array Of Interior Possibilities
Pop art, street art, recurring curious characters and motifs, and a blend of traditional Japanese art and contemporary pop culture and anime, co-exist in a colorful array of hundreds of collectible figures. The playful cast — created by artists such as Kenny Scharf, Ron English, Matt Gondek, KAWS, and Takashi Murakami — is carefully curated and displayed on shelves or mischievously placed on an eclectic selection of sofas, chairs, and rugs, that delight our inner art-loving child. Mixed-media artist Móyòsóré 'Moyo' Martins invites us into his 3,00-plus-square-foot studio in Mott Haven, Queens, replete with framed prints and his own inimitable large-scale paintings that convey complex narratives that look to his family's legacy in his native Lagos, Nigeria, his ongoing artistic journey which has taken him to world-leading auction houses and European galleries, and the future of art and humanity. 'The figures are representations of childhood and evoke nostalgic memories,' says Martins. Martins' inimitable inside peek is among 150 residential interiors from leading designers and artists around the world featured in Defining Style: The Book of Interior Design, a tour through 25 design styles. The 296-page hardback book with 260 illustrations published by Phaidon is available for $69.95. For design geeks and folks who enjoy creative interiors and seek to learn more, this book chronicles a wide range of styles from modernist and minimalist to biophilic (which strives to bring the outdoors into homes, creating a sense of harmony between the built environment and the natural world) and textured (utilizing various textures to evoke different moods). Organized alphabetically by style, Defining Style showcases rooms from designers such as Pamela Shamshiri, Lorenzo Castillo, Laura Gonzalez, and Vincenzo De Cotiis, and welcomes us into the homes of musicians Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats, artist Mariko Mori, and writer Umberto Pasti, revealing how personality and tastes can influence personal space. Author Joan Barzilay Freund opens each chapter with introductory text describing characteristics of each style, empowering readers to identify and implement featured design elements in their homes. 'Wow, it's just so amazing to be in a room with all of you. I've been writing about you, and you've sprung to life right here. So it's really exciting. I want to start by thanking Alex and Michael Schuman. I can't think of a more beautiful place to celebrate design and style and art and beauty and these lovely rooms. So we are here to talk about defining style. The room above us is featured in the book. … and it really does encapsulate the kind of magic that happens when a designer, in this case, Jeffrey Bilhuber, meets the public clients, Alex and Michael, who are the most discerning people, and just something beautiful happens,' Freund said at a March 5 launch event at the Moroccan-flared New York townhouse of Alexandra and Michael Shuman, co-sponsored by Phaidon, online luxury marketplace 1stDibs, and fine art management services company UOVO. 'So thank you to all the designers and photographers and artists who are here tonight. Thank you for contributing your work. This is about you. This is your book. This is very much your moment.' 'This book offers an antidote to that more passive way of looking and offers an opportunity for context,' Asad Skyrett, former editor-in-chief of Elle Decor writes in the introduction. 'Under the direction of a gifted designer, a room's decor speaks its intention clearly.' The book's textural paper cover, replete with a debossed foil type and a color wheel referencing a particular color assigned to each style within the book, underscores the goal of informing and engaging and informing readers. Take a dose of maximalism on 1980s steroids with architect and designer Sig Bergamin, whose brazen Brazilian style that's true to his mantra, 'mix, mix, mix,' color, pattern, and provenance. Or indulge in the dreamy elegance of London-based multidisciplinary artist Faye Toogood's collector's flat, engaging with her with exploration of materiality and experimentation. Whether it's inspired by one design spread, or an amalgam of many, you'll find your style with Phaidon. Rising Master-Painter Móyòsóré Martins Takes Europe By Storm With Concurrent Exhibitions In Geneva And ParisMóyòsóré Martins Solo Show Celebrates A 'Better Painter Than Basquiat', Renowned Art Expert Declares
Forbes
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Artist KAWS Opens At Arkansas's Crystal Bridges Museum Of American Art
The KAWS figures in FAMILY (2021) are the anchor to the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art exhibit of his work. It's a wonderful thing these days that we can find fine art in the most unexpected of places. Head down a trail along a wooded ravine at the edge of Bentonville, Arkansas and suddenly up pops the celebrated Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (CB). Then take the artist KAWS whom you couldn't miss if you tried for his larger-than-life pop characters that are beloved by worldwide audiences and serious collectors alike. Put them together and you now have the captivating exhibit KAWS: FAMILY that just opened at Crystal Bridges. Even if you don't know the names of KAWS's signature characters—COMPANION being the most ubiquitous one cast into huge statues down to small figurines—they will ring a bell for their prominent X'd-out eyes. The show's titular piece FAMILY (2021) depicts four bronze figures with a black patina who are standing in the classic family vacation photo pose; two COMPANION figures on left are presumably mother and daughter holding a doll, and to the right, the KAWS character BFF is dad with a hand on a kid's shoulder, the latter appearing in the guise of his Michelin Man-esque CHUM character. KAWS has produced his MTV MOONMAN figure in various media and sizes, as here in the stainless steel SPACE (2021). While X'd-out eyes in classic cartoons typically denoted a concussed, drunk or dead character, KAWS manages with just an elegant tapering of the lines that form his Xs to keep his faces from tipping into anything ghoulish. BFF in particular has a cuddly Sesame Street-ish persona. And that, even if in the painted bronze piece GONE (2021), COMPANION is carrying a pink, passed out BFF. Or, so too in the glossy painted vinyl figure TIME OFF (2023) that depicts BFF lying down vaguely louche. Furry as ever, BFF is always still cuddly. Even in the KAWS series that plays on the Simpsons, the family we know so well in the acrylic on canvas UNTITLED (KIMPSONS #2) (2024) appears innocuous while holding their X'd eye decapitated heads. Ditto, Snoopy is still Snoopy with Xs in the acrylic on paper series MAN'S BEST FRIEND (2014) that takes up an entire wall. Anyone who knows KAWS's oversized figures well, may be new to his equally vital drawing and painting skills. You see it not only in that Snoopy series, but in such works as in a small ink on paper work for the Italian bicycle company Cinelli in which KAWS turns a mere letter C into a whimsical human-ish figure with his signature X for eyes. And then all the granular touch to all the puffs in bowls of Reese's Puffs cereal boxes turns out on close inspection to be hand painted. An entire wall is also lined with his General Mills Monster cereals mounted behind clear plastic box holders. The towering wooden sculpture AT THIS TIME (2013) in the COMPANION character series stands outside the main KAWS exhibit. If the Brooklyn-based artist has been known for some three decades for huge figures in solid bronze, aluminum, fiberglass or fine-grained dark wooden sculpture, he's worked within a continuum that also goes from small vinyl and plush toys up to huge, light inflatable pieces. Then there are the sneakers, skateboards and street culture that keep him busy, and high-end advertising, fashion, and product design work. KAWS has worked with Uniqlo, Nike, Comme des Garcons, and he's made plush toy-adorned furniture with the Brazilian Campana design brothers, a sofa of which appears in the KAWS: FAMILY show. For the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), KAWS refashioned the MTV Moonman in the form of his COMPANION character. Talk about bling: the necklace version he made for Kid Cudi, Space (2021), is drenched in diamonds and it sparkles when you wave your phone flashlight over it into the glass case that holds it here. SEPARATED (2021) is a painted bronze version of the COMPANION character. The KAWS: FAMILY curator at Crystal Bridges, Alejo Benedetti, made the wise decision to create a series of smaller rooms rather than large gallery spaces, which allows for a free flow through disparate KAWS themes and media. It's like a visual palate cleanser going room to room. The CB show is an expanded version of the original mounted at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) whose Deputy Director & Chief Curator Julian Cox worked closely with KAWS himself for that show. In his lead essay 'KAWS: Shapeshifter' in the show's handsome catalog (DelMonico Books), Cox calls KAWS a 'highly adept crossover artist.' For the New Jersey-native whose formal training was at New York's School of Visual Arts, the KAWS nom d'artist was highly taggable right from his early graffiti artist days. Often KAWS figures look kind of, sort of, familiar, and indeed he's long been melding icons that have swirled in the Zeitgeist for the last century. You can't always place the influence—and no matter. With his pop art sensibility, it's no surprise that KAWS sites Keith Haring, Jeff Koons and Claes Odenburg, among others, as inspiration. His work might even remind anyone of a certain age of having grown up reading MAD Magazine. And then you come to the painted bronze SEPARATED (2021) that was inspired by a photo KAWS saw of a girl sitting with her head in her hands after having been separated at the border from her family. It's his character COMPANION represented in a new light, a political one perhaps or most deeply human for certain. It's poignant pop art, if you will. Crystal Bridges general museum admission is free, while the KAWS: FAMILY exhibit is $15 (through July 28, 2025). In other Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art news, renowned architect Moshe Safdie has returned for an expansion of his original museum that will add 50% more gallery space. Set to be completed next year, the new wing will help fulfill founder Alice Walton's vision of giving the community and visitors 'radical accessibility' to art. More on that later to come.
