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Hypebeast
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
At Sky High Farm's New Biennial Show, Artists Rally Around Food Justice
Summary Sky High Farm is entering a new era with the debut of its first-ever biennial exhibition. Curated by artist and founderDan Colen,TREES NEVER END AND HOUSES NEVER ENDmarks a creative milestone for the artist-founded food justice non-profit, ringing in the next chapter on a new, 560-acre home in Germantown, New York. Staged in an apple cold storage warehouse along the Hudson River, the exhibition draws an impressive roster of 50 artists from around the globe, includingAnne Imhof,Nan Goldin,Lauren Halsey, Rirkrit Tiravanija andAlvaro Barrington. Bound by explored themes of ecology, industry and memory, their works take cues from the region's layered histories and its links to New York City. Featured works can be seen mounted across the walls and hung from the ceiling, bringing attention to the space's raw, unaltered beauty, while other works serve as an experiential conduit: Imhof's labyrinth of industrial water containers create intimate corridors to showcase other artists' works, whileRudolf Stingelcontributes his largest-ever mirrored floor installation, acting as an immersive plinth for the artworks that lay above. The biennial pays tribute to the late Joey Piecuch, one of the farm's original team members, whose guerrilla-style artistry and commitment to land stewardship shaped the Sky High many know and love today. The title of the exhibition nods to one of Piecuch's discovered works — poetic phrase and symbol of hope and resistance. Alongside the exhibition, the farm is also piloting an artist-led fundraising model that replaces traditional auctions with flexible, values-aligned contributions. All proceeds go toward the farm's mission: producing nutrient-dense food, supporting climate education, and advancing food justice nationwide. 'The problems we work to address—food insecurity, unequal resource distribution, climate change — will require broad-based participation work to solve,' Co-Executive Directors Josh Bardfield and Sarah Workneh expressed in a recent statement. 'We are so moved that so many artists, curators, advisors, and so many others in the art world see the urgency in the work we do and have made these generous commitments as a way of joining us.' The exhibition is now on view through October 2025. Head to Sky High Farms'websitefor more information, and scroll to view the full list of featured artists: Autumn AhnAlvaro BarringtonLauren BonLizzi BougatsosPia CamilAnne CollierCAConradAnn CravenSean DesireeNatalie DiazNorman DouglasCarroll Dunhamrafa esparzaPeter FendYatika Starr FieldsAaron GilbertNan GoldinMark GrotjahnWade GuytonChase HallLyle Ashton HarrisHarrison StudioRoni HornAnne ImhofBrian JungenNance KlehmMaia Ruth LeeStephen LichtyNate LowmanRyan McGinleyMark Armijo McKnightBobbi Salvör MenuezAndrew MoorePaulo NazarethJade Kuriki Olivo (Puppies Puppies)Grace Rosario PerkinsUtē Josephine PetitJoey Piecuch (Family)Thiago Rocha PittaMyron PolenbergRichard PrinceSarah Rara/Lucky DragonsEm RooneyMarcos SaavedraMichael SailstorferSalemTschabalala SelfMarcus Leslie SingletonRudolf StingelElaine Stockiquori theodorRirkrit TiravanijaFelix Gonzalez-TorresBanks VioletteCharline von HeylMary WigfallBen Wigfall and Communications AVillage with Lauren Halsey
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Give up the bleach, embrace the Botox: How to age like 80-year-old Debbie Harry
Safe to say, Debbie Harry, who turns 80 today, is as unconventional as ever. At the Gucci show last autumn, she turned up in eight-inch red leather platform loafers, a pencil skirt and a red leather jacket, her upside-down W of a mouth painted to match (she wears lipstick most days). Don't look to her for tips on how to mouse your way apologetically into your later decades. Other clothes she finds herself drawn to include 'rubber hotpants and fishnet stuff' – and the unpredictability of Lady Gaga's style. She still tours (she played Glastonbury in 2023). Millennials and Gen Zs earnestly dissect every step of her make-up routine on YouTube (it involves copious amounts of black kohl and metallic shadow). Fashion designers frequently cite her as an influence and in 2020, Miley Cyrus released a cover of Heart of Glass and spoke of the debt her generation of female singers owes Harry. Last year Gucci anointed her the face of an advertising campaign, shot by Nan Goldin, for a hobo-styled shoulder bag called – what else? – the Blondie. She told me at the time she was flattered (who wouldn't be?), but seemed most excited about working with the experimental Goldin. As for the Blondie Bag, been there, done that. It reminded her of a saddle bag she'd been wearing decades ago when someone tried to mug her in New York, but failed because the straps were so strong. This anecdote is on the tamer side of the biblical horrors that befell her in her first half century – we're literally talking fires and plagues. Not that she's one to dwell. Back in the mid-1970s, when she formed Blondie with her then-partner Chris Stein (who named it after Harry's tousled mane – she put the bed into head) was ascendant, I would have devoured all those 'How To Harry' tutorials. The only style nugget I ever remember her dispensing back then was never to wear those broderie anglaise petticoats that were all the rage one summer. 'Droopy' was the word I recall her using. Not that there was any YouTube to corroborate this. Succinct is the word I'll use to describe her sartorial advice at that time. That's what the 1970s were like before celebrities learnt how to monetise their every nano-thought. She's become more loquacious on the subject in the past decade or so, probably because she's had to work harder to look after those blessed genes, so there's more to share. Back in the day, that famous blonde mane was inspired by the old school Hollywood sirens – particularly Marilyn Monroe, with whom she was obsessed – and it was often a DIY job. 'I'd colour it myself, so couldn't always reach the back,' she said of the dark patches which gave the otherwise pristine silver-screen image a far more rebellious inflection. Sometimes, on a whim, she'd shave the sides. Grace Kelly this was not. Nowadays she has to treat her locks more circumspectly. She no longer uses ammonia to dye them. 'It burns my hair terribly. But I've had to bleach my hair for, well… a very long time, so it's not done too badly considering. I swear by Viviscal hair vitamins and Wen's cream conditioner that doesn't contain soap.' Good tips. Amazingly, there are more where this came from. She avoids red meat, dairy and gluten, performs what she calls old lady exercises most mornings, walks her two dogs (Russian Chins since you ask) every day and gets a reasonable amount of sleep (although she does it in two shifts, which sounds far more sensible than lying awake fretting that she's not getting an eight hour block). Her style might be the definition of specific, but some of her dilemmas, in spirit if not in detail, are universal. Like many women in their seventh and eighth decades, she is challenged by having so few examples to follow. 'I'm sort of at a crossroads right now,' she said in 2013 when she was a mere 68. 'I don't know if I'm making myself look foolish if I wear some of the clothes I feel comfortable wearing. And so that's my predicament'. Often when she's thinking about rubber and fishnets, she'll find herself wondering whether she shouldn't be wearing a Chanel jacket. I for one would love to see how she'd style it. It's this internal tussle that makes her relatable to millions who are also navigating the ageing process. The fact that she seems to have fun – viz. that red outfit she wore to the Gucci show – while trying to work out some kind of route map is encouraging. She knows that punk and ageing are a delicate negotiation – or as she puts it, 'I don't want to look like an idiot, but I love costume. In fact I love clothes'. Her wardrobe sounds major – everything from Saint Laurent to Comme des Garçons to Marc Jacobs and Manolos – and those are just the items she wears on a daily basis. She mentioned to me last year she's archived all her clothes from the past five decades. 'It's surprisingly organised,' she added. She told Elle magazine she finds getting rid of old clothes impossible. 'Vintage pieces like my Stephen Sprouse collection from the Seventies and early Eighties are too special to part with… I still wear a lot of his pieces. The stuff that fits anyway'. If it irks her that her looks are still at least as pored over as her music, she's too pragmatic not to play the game. Hence the facelift she confessed to having in 2019, 'for business reasons'. She also remarked that Botox and filler are akin to having flu jabs, which in some circles they probably are. In Face It, her candid 2019 memoir, she writes, 'getting older is hard on your looks. Like everybody else, I have good days and bad days and those s--t, I-hope-nobody-sees-me days'. Mind you, that's true whatever your age, although possibly not if you were Debbie Harry in the days when she appeared to view her God-given beauty with spectacular throwaway detachment . She was – is – blessed with spectacular genes. What the rest of us can learn from her is a positive, embracing attitude. By Jessica Burrell
Telegraph
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Rock goddesses don't grow old, they just get more iconic. Happy 80th Debbie Harry
Safe to say, Debbie Harry, who turns 80 today, is as unconventional as ever. At the Gucci show last autumn, she turned up in eight-inch red leather platform loafers, a pencil skirt and a red leather jacket, her upside-down W of a mouth painted to match (she wears lipstick most days). Don't look to her for tips on how to mouse your way apologetically into your later decades. Other clothes she finds herself drawn to include 'rubber hotpants and fishnet stuff' – and the unpredictability of Lady Gaga's style. She still tours (she played Glastonbury in 2023). Millennials and Gen Zs earnestly dissect every step of her make-up routine on YouTube (it involves copious amounts of black kohl and metallic shadow). Fashion designers frequently cite her as an influence and in 2020, Miley Cyrus released a cover of Heart of Glass and spoke of the debt her generation of female singers owes Harry. Last year Gucci anointed her the face of an advertising campaign, shot by Nan Goldin, for a hobo-styled shoulder bag called – what else? – the Blondie. She told me at the time she was flattered (who wouldn't be?), but seemed most excited about working with the experimental Goldin. As for the Blondie Bag, been there, done that. It reminded her of a saddle bag she'd been wearing decades ago when someone tried to mug her in New York, but failed because the straps were so strong. This anecdote is on the tamer side of the biblical horrors that befell her in her first half century – we're literally talking fires and plagues. Not that she's one to dwell. Back in the mid-1970s, when she formed Blondie with her then-partner Chris Stein (who named it after Harry's tousled mane – she put the bed into head) was ascendant, I would have devoured all those 'How To Harry' tutorials. The only style nugget I ever remember her dispensing back then was never to wear those broderie anglaise petticoats that were all the rage one summer. 'Droopy' was the word I recall her using. Not that there was any YouTube to corroborate this. Succinct is the word I'll use to describe her sartorial advice at that time. That's what the 1970s were like before celebrities learnt how to monetise their every nano-thought. She's become more loquacious on the subject in the past decade or so, probably because she's had to work harder to look after those blessed genes, so there's more to share. Back in the day, that famous blonde mane was inspired by the old school Hollywood sirens – particularly Marilyn Monroe, with whom she was obsessed – and it was often a DIY job. 'I'd colour it myself, so couldn't always reach the back,' she said of the dark patches which gave the otherwise pristine silver-screen image a far more rebellious inflection. Sometimes, on a whim, she'd shave the sides. Grace Kelly this was not. Nowadays she has to treat her locks more circumspectly. She no longer uses ammonia to dye them. 'It burns my hair terribly. But I've had to bleach my hair for, well… a very long time, so it's not done too badly considering. I swear by Viviscal hair vitamins and Wen's cream conditioner that doesn't contain soap.' Good tips. Amazingly, there are more where this came from. She avoids red meat, dairy and gluten, performs what she calls old lady exercises most mornings, walks her two dogs (Russian Chins since you ask) every day and gets a reasonable amount of sleep (although she does it in two shifts, which sounds far more sensible than lying awake fretting that she's not getting an eight hour block). Her style might be the definition of specific, but some of her dilemmas, in spirit if not in detail, are universal. Like many women in their seventh and eighth decades, she is challenged by having so few examples to follow. 'I'm sort of at a crossroads right now,' she said in 2013 when she was a mere 68. 'I don't know if I'm making myself look foolish if I wear some of the clothes I feel comfortable wearing. And so that's my predicament'. Often when she's thinking about rubber and fishnets, she'll find herself wondering whether she shouldn't be wearing a Chanel jacket. I for one would love to see how she'd style it. It's this internal tussle that makes her relatable to millions who are also navigating the ageing process. The fact that she seems to have fun – viz. that red outfit she wore to the Gucci show – while trying to work out some kind of route map is encouraging. She knows that punk and ageing are a delicate negotiation – or as she puts it, 'I don't want to look like an idiot, but I love costume. In fact I love clothes'. Her wardrobe sounds major – everything from Saint Laurent to Comme des Garçons to Marc Jacobs and Manolos – and those are just the items she wears on a daily basis. She mentioned to me last year she's archived all her clothes from the past five decades. 'It's surprisingly organised,' she added. She told Elle magazine she finds getting rid of old clothes impossible. 'Vintage pieces like my Stephen Sprouse collection from the Seventies and early Eighties are too special to part with… I still wear a lot of his pieces. The stuff that fits anyway'. If it irks her that her looks are still at least as pored over as her music, she's too pragmatic not to play the game. Hence the facelift she confessed to having in 2019, 'for business reasons'. She also remarked that Botox and filler are akin to having flu jabs, which in some circles they probably are. In Face It, her candid 2019 memoir, she writes, 'getting older is hard on your looks. Like everybody else, I have good days and bad days and those s--t, I-hope-nobody-sees-me days'. Mind you, that's true whatever your age, although possibly not if you were Debbie Harry in the days when she appeared to view her God-given beauty with spectacular throwaway detachment . She was – is – blessed with spectacular genes. What the rest of us can learn from her is a positive, embracing attitude. Debbie Harry's most memorable style moments By Jessica Burrell
CNN
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
A South Korean artist is turning strangers' Instagram posts into portraits
For some people, Instagram's infinite scroll is an endless time waster. For celebrated young South Korean artist Moka Lee, it's the main source of inspiration for her portrait paintings, which have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. 'I can observe countless people with just my phone without meeting them,' Lee tells CNN. 'I wait to find something unique in the pictures that I come across by chance through the algorithm,' she adds. This week, her portrait 'Surface Tension 07,' of a young woman she encountered on the social media app and painted from the photo she had posted, will be exhibited by the London gallery Carlos/Ishikawa at the Art Basel art fair in Switzerland. It shows a young woman wearing a baggy white t-shirt smiling widely, her bangs falling into her eyes. Lee, 28, has used other sources to find images, including Google search and the work of American photographer Nan Goldin, but she says she finds it intriguing to watch how people present themselves in their highly curated Instagram posts. 'It may be a bit dark in some ways, but I think it is a very interesting method for me because I can observe so many people sharing themselves,' she says. 'People use the very few pictures that they have on Instagram to express themselves.' When she finds a photograph she likes, she sends the potential subject a direct message (DM) to ask if she can buy the rights to the image. Jason Haam, whose Seoul gallery represents Lee, says that Lee's relationship with her subjects reflects how human interaction has changed over time. 'Mona Lisa would have been painted with a person sitting in front of the artist all the time,' he says, referring to Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century masterpiece. Lee 'just DMs this person that she never met and says, 'Oh, I'd like to paint your portrait and I'll pay you a certain amount of money.' And they never see each other,' he says. The artist has already had enormous success with her work, appearing at major shows like Art Basel Hong Kong in 2023. 'It brought so much interest from around the globe,' says Haam. After that, 'it was really just immediate stardom,' he adds. In late 2024, her painting 'I'm Not Like Me' — which depicts a red-lipstick-wearing, camisole-clad woman sitting on a bed — sold for more than $200,000 at a Hong Kong auction. That's a 'record price for an artist in their 20s in this country,' says Haam. Lee was also recognized in Artsy's Vanguard list for 2025, which highlights 10 promising contemporary artists. She tells CNN that her requests to Instagram users used to get rejected a lot, but now that she's better known, it's easier to get people to agree to become the subjects of her work. A recently completed painting, measuring 190 centimeters (about six feet) tall by 160 centimeters (about five feet) wide took her one month to complete, working for 10 hours a day, she says. She uses oil paints, a traditionally Western medium — which she says was necessary to participate in overseas art markets — but with what she calls 'Asian techniques.' She points to watercolor painting, in which layers of paint are stacked to create depth and texture, as a source of inspiration. Her process gives her paintings a distinct aesthetic quality, says Haam, explaining that Lee dilutes her paint. 'She paints very, very thinly, but it's layered up so that you can actually see all these mysterious colors coming up,' he says. 'I've never seen anything like that.' It's an aesthetic that's quickly gaining traction among buyers. 'My career is now expanding from South Korea to overseas markets,' says Lee, 'But I'm someone who just looks at my phone in a small room in my studio in South Korea, so it doesn't feel real at all.' With reporting by Erica Hwang.
CNN
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
A South Korean artist is turning strangers' Instagram posts into portraits
For some people, Instagram's infinite scroll is an endless time waster. For celebrated young South Korean artist Moka Lee, it's the main source of inspiration for her portrait paintings, which have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. 'I can observe countless people with just my phone without meeting them,' Lee tells CNN. 'I wait to find something unique in the pictures that I come across by chance through the algorithm,' she adds. This week, her portrait 'Surface Tension 07,' of a young woman she encountered on the social media app and painted from the photo she had posted, will be exhibited by the London gallery Carlos/Ishikawa at the Art Basel art fair in Switzerland. It shows a young woman wearing a baggy white t-shirt smiling widely, her bangs falling into her eyes. Lee, 28, has used other sources to find images, including Google search and the work of American photographer Nan Goldin, but she says she finds it intriguing to watch how people present themselves in their highly curated Instagram posts. 'It may be a bit dark in some ways, but I think it is a very interesting method for me because I can observe so many people sharing themselves,' she says. 'People use the very few pictures that they have on Instagram to express themselves.' When she finds a photograph she likes, she sends the potential subject a direct message (DM) to ask if she can buy the rights to the image. Jason Haam, whose Seoul gallery represents Lee, says that Lee's relationship with her subjects reflects how human interaction has changed over time. 'Mona Lisa would have been painted with a person sitting in front of the artist all the time,' he says, referring to Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century masterpiece. Lee 'just DMs this person that she never met and says, 'Oh, I'd like to paint your portrait and I'll pay you a certain amount of money.' And they never see each other,' he says. The artist has already had enormous success with her work, appearing at major shows like Art Basel Hong Kong in 2023. 'It brought so much interest from around the globe,' says Haam. After that, 'it was really just immediate stardom,' he adds. In late 2024, her painting 'I'm Not Like Me' — which depicts a red-lipstick-wearing, camisole-clad woman sitting on a bed — sold for more than $200,000 at a Hong Kong auction. That's a 'record price for an artist in their 20s in this country,' says Haam. Lee was also recognized in Artsy's Vanguard list for 2025, which highlights 10 promising contemporary artists. She tells CNN that her requests to Instagram users used to get rejected a lot, but now that she's better known, it's easier to get people to agree to become the subjects of her work. A recently completed painting, measuring 190 centimeters (about six feet) tall by 160 centimeters (about five feet) wide took her one month to complete, working for 10 hours a day, she says. She uses oil paints, a traditionally Western medium — which she says was necessary to participate in overseas art markets — but with what she calls 'Asian techniques.' She points to watercolor painting, in which layers of paint are stacked to create depth and texture, as a source of inspiration. Her process gives her paintings a distinct aesthetic quality, says Haam, explaining that Lee dilutes her paint. 'She paints very, very thinly, but it's layered up so that you can actually see all these mysterious colors coming up,' he says. 'I've never seen anything like that.' It's an aesthetic that's quickly gaining traction among buyers. 'My career is now expanding from South Korea to overseas markets,' says Lee, 'But I'm someone who just looks at my phone in a small room in my studio in South Korea, so it doesn't feel real at all.' With reporting by Erica Hwang.
