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A 2020 Rolls Royce Cullinan that was customized by Drake and Chrome Hearts with help from luxury car modification firm Mansory will be on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art’s sculpture garden in Miami. The car will be on display starting Saturday, May 1 through May 15. “Cullinan is incomparable and redefines the parameters of super-luxury travel, translating Rolls-Royce’s ethos […]
Takashi Murakami and PANGAIA link up for a limited-edition capsule collection in support of #BeeTheChange initiative. The famed Japanese artist connected with PANGAIA last year on a range of colorful graphic tees and hoodies that aimed to raise awareness on bee conservation. That collection sold out within minutes of its release on World Bee Day; however, customers are getting another chance […]
A man who is suspected of stealing paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals is now behind bars. According to New York Times, Dutch authorities arrested the 58-year-old unidentified man Tuesday morning at his home in Baarn, Netherlands. The suspect is accused of stealing Van Gogh’s “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” from the Singer Laren museum during an […]
A museum of memes—a memeseum, if you will—marks a unique collaboration featuring the creative input of Complex, Instagram, and Ka5sh. In a team-up with a variety of emerging artists, as well as with augmented reality designer Dude.sg, this assembly of creative voices will bring a reinterpretation of the memes that helped capture the ridiculousness of […]
In celebration of the Companionship in the Age of Loneliness exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, KAWS fans now have the chance to bag some new career-chronicling merch. The range of merch is available online now via the MoMA Design Store site and features books, tote bags, magnet sets, keyrings, postcard sets, […]
According to a report from The New York Times, the statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt standing at the entrance of Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History will be taken down. As you may have guessed if you’ve noticed the uptick in statues being removed by protestors across the U.S., this decision is related to the widespread […]
Employees at the Louvre Museum decided not to open the iconic museum on Sunday over growing concerns surrounding the coronavirus. A Louvre employee and union representative, Andre Sacristin, explained to the Associated Press that the museum receives visitors from across the world. Per the Daily News, more than nine million people visited the Louvre Museum in 2019. Almost 75 […]
The state of New York announced Thursday that Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed off on a $3.7 million grant to be put towards the construction of the Universal Hip-Hop Museum in the Bronx, CNN reports. The funds contributed to the museum are part of the state’s package of economic and community development funding. The Universal Hip Hop Museum is temporarily located at the Bronx […]
Donald Trump‘s visit to the African American History museum was apparently a little awkward. Shocking, right? According to the museum’s founding director Lonnie G. Bunch III., Trump had tried to schedule a private tour for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2017—a request that Bunch ultimately denied. “The notion that we could shut out visitors on the first […]
Popular astrophysicist, author, and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson has been cleared of sexual misconduct claims, according to the New York Times. A spokesperson for the American Museum of Natural History released a statement explaining that the museum has closed their investigation and Dr. Tyson will maintain his position as the head of the institution’s Hayden Planetarium. “The […]
