South Korean artist Jade Kim‘s solo show Moments opened on May 16 at Allouche Gallery in NYC, in collaboration with League OTO. Inspired by his wife, Jade’s work featured Min, a character representing her hopes and dreams. Painted in various landscapes, Min’s bright, innocent eyes invited viewers to escape into a dreamy world, highlighting the fleeting nature of memory. Jade’s portraits focused on capturing an emotional essence rather than a realistic image. Min’s loving and protective presence, paired with a neutral expression, allowed viewers to imagine their own stories. Read the full article: https://hypeart.com/2024/5/jade-kim-moments-allouche-gallery-nyc-exhibition

Street artist b. works on a wide range of works from painting to urban installations and sculpture, while traveling and painting walls in cities all over the world. The colourful images he creates stand out for their unique style. Read the full article at https://www.ellines.com/en/achievements/45926-the-colourful-voice-of-the-streets/

At Gaetano Pesce‘s solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1979, his cartoonish, riotously colored lamps, vases, chairs and drawings dealt a body blow to the sleek Modernist Bauhaus objects enshrined in the museum’s vitrines. To judge by the generous showof 90 objects and drawings at the Allouche Gallery in SoHo, this Italian iconoclast has expanded his irreverent critique, humanizing the domestic landscape with even more sass, color and social comment. The many octopus vases, centipede tables, rag chairs and lamps with ears — all cast in resins that bounce when dropped — amount to a mini career retrospective of

This year’s installation in the promenade features a surreal group of rectangular glass blocks with what appear to be colorful, life-size dancers trapped inside — part of a series that the featured artist, Dustin Yellin, calls “Psychogeographies.” Closer inspection reveals that each block is made up of more than two dozen thin panels of glass, with the layers decorated with paint or drawings or collages and then glued together. Viewed from the front or back, they form striking three-dimensional figures; from the side, the images seem to disappear. Read the full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-applies-a-surreal-touch-to-build-audiences.html?searchResultPosition=2

The fashion house is getting into the world of NFTs. Givenchy’s creative director, Matthew M. Williams was determined to bring to his designs his flair for artistic innovation. Partnering with graphic artist Chito, with whom he already worked on the spring 2022 pre-collection, Williams has co-created a series of 15 unique graphic designs.”I’ve been wanting to explore this new and exciting space of NFTs,” says Williams. “The fact that Chito is already active in the ecosystem made it feel even more natural for us to collaborate on this limited series and bring our collective vision for Givenchy even further.” The auction