Paris-based multidisciplinary creative studio Services Généraux has launched OASIS, a digital group show featuring four international artists including fashion designer Daniëlle Cathari, upcycling expert Nicole McLaughlin, streetwear pioneer Heron Preston and founder of graphic design studio Bureau Borsche, Mirko Borsche.The exhibition, originally conceived as a physical show where an indoor space would be filled with sand, is presented as a virtual installation due to pandemic-related const...
Saint Heron, the creative company owned by Solange Knowles, is undergoing a major expansion to further highlight the works of Black and Brown artists. Initially launched back in 2013, the agency is now a larger multidisciplinary platform, studio and creative institution."Our vision is to build a space that engages radical conceptual imaginings across all facets and mediums of creation. We feel an urgency in building and preserving collections and archives of our own artists’ stories and works ...
The Louvre will be led by a female president for the first time in its 228-year-long history. On September 1, Laurence des Cars, an established figure in the art world, will take the helm of the Parisian institution.Des Cars is currently the president of the Musée de l'Orangerie and the Musée d'Orsay, both in Paris. She will succeed Jean-Luc Martinez, whose campaign to stay on as Louvre president for a third term faltered. "Four years at the Orsay gave me this confidence, this crazy idea that ...
New York City-based designer Kae Linh Ngo is set to launch an online fundraising project called Rise and Embrace. In celebration of the final week of AAPI Heritage Month, the aim of the project is to honor the work of Asian women-identifying creatives, including Lauren Kam, Wendi Ma, Sonia Yau and Amy Truong. Ngo shared the concept behind Rise and Embrace in a press release and said:"Recognizing that so many of our friends in our circle and beyond are incredibly creative and have such unique bac...