Celebrity Life
This Robotic Table Clock Costs as Much as a Real Robot
We’ve seen our fair share of luxury watches and confusing timepieces, but few are as striking as the MB&F x L’Epée 1839 Balthazar Table Clock. Built to technical perfection in the shape of a robot, this decorative feat in horology is sure to spark some conversations, and it’ll only set you back a cool $57,750. […]
Artist Tacita Dean on Her ‘Exhibition in a Box’ and Why Cinema Must Be Saved
The British-born multihyphenate's discusses her show 'Monet Hates Me' and the "poetry" behind filmmaking.
Banksy Is Covering England’s East Coast With Street Art as Part of His ‘Great British Spraycation’
The reclusive artist has recently tagged works in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and beyond.
A California Man Has Pleaded Guilty to Selling $1 Million Worth of Forged Art
The culprit sold fakes of works by Richard Hambleton and Barkley Hendricks.
MGM Resorts Is Auctioning Off $100 Million in Picasso Paintings This Fall
The sale, which takes place at the Bellagio hotel on October 23, will feature 11 of the towering artist's works.
Yayoi Kusama’s Outdoor Pumpkin Sculpture in Japan Just Got Hammered by a Typhoon
Typhoon Lupit dislodged the work from its base on the edge of Japan’s Naoshima Island, tossing it out to sea.
There’s Only ‘One’ CHITO
CHITO mostly keeps to himself but recently his work has been everywhere. Indeed, CHITO’s smirking, airbrushed figures have graced NFT-ized collaborations with Supreme (and Yohji Yamamoto) and Veilance and just this past month took over a fully-fledged Givenchy line. The artist doesn’t often sell his works or the wearables that he tags but, finally, CHITO’s […]
Cop a Virgil-Designed Cardboard Chair Here But Don’t Sit on It
Whether you’re a keen follower of Virgil Abloh or a relative newcomer to the jack-of-all-trades designer, you’ve likely not heard of Alaska Alaska yet. Now you have. Abloh’s London-based studio is the place where the designer and his team experiment, and right now they’re experimenting on cardboard chairs. Each Alaska Alaska chair is made up […]
A German Socialite Is Headed to Jail for the Fraudulent Sale of a $1.3 Million Yayoi Kusama Sculpture
Angela Gulbenkian accepted payment for the work, though she had already sold it to another buyer for $1.3 million.
Banksy’s ‘Spike’ Is Heading to Auction as an NFT
A new NFT platform launched with the piece on July 22. Bidding will continue until July 30.
These Long-Lost Fragonard Paintings Were Missing for Centuries. France Just Bought Them Back.
The paintings were discovered four years ago by a family inventorying a castle in Normandy.
Saint Laurent Debuted Its Men’s Spring Summer 2022 Collection Inside an Eco-Concious Installation
After the work is uinstalled at the end of the month, the vegetation will be re-planted around the island.