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article culture schedule May 19, 2025 visibility 17 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

tommy cash

Estonian rapper and provocateur Tommy Cash sparked controversy at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, with lyrics that parodied Italian stereotypes, leading Italy to call for his disqualification. Despite finishing third, the incident has drawn renewed global attention to Cash, who has long been a boundary-pushing figure in European art and music. Artnet News resurfaced a 2022 interview with Cash, born Tomas Tammemets in 1991, who describes himself as an artist working across music, fashion, and installation projects, blending post-Soviet visual language with high and low culture references.

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article culture schedule Sep 9, 2025 visibility 20 link 4 artists

jason wu the robert rauschenberg foundation collaborate new york fashion week

Fashion designer Jason Wu has collaborated with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to create a Spring 2026 collection titled "COLLAGE," inspired by the late artist's work and presented during New York Fashion Week. The collection draws on ten works from the foundation's holdings, including pieces from Rauschenberg's "Hoarfrost" series (1974–76) and "Airport Suite" (1974), with Wu granted rare access to study the artist's use of fabric and collage. The collection will be shown alongside a major Rauschenberg piece on September 14, 2025, and will be available for purchase in February 2026.

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article culture schedule Dec 3, 2025 visibility 27 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

Art, fashion and nature join forces

The article features a conversation between Los Angeles-based artist Sam Falls and Edoardo Zegna, chief marketing, digital and sustainability officer at the Italian luxury menswear brand Zegna, during Miami Art Week. Falls creates works that blend Land Art and plein air photography by leaving materials in natural environments, while Zegna discusses the brand's century-long stewardship of Oasi Zegna, a 100 sq. km forest in the Italian Alps. Zegna has created an invitation-only pop-up space called Villa Zegna in the Design District showcasing Falls's works, and Falls also has pieces at 303 Gallery's stand at Art Basel Miami Beach and in the Ruinart Lounge.

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article culture schedule May 11, 2026 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Artist Bouke de Vries creates sculptural porcelain bottles for Dries Van Noten perfume

Artist Bouke de Vries has created five unique sculptural porcelain bottles for Dries Van Noten's unisex perfume Soie Malaquais, which launched in 2022. The bottles, priced at £6,000 each, are sold at the designer's London and New York stores, with a limited-edition series also available online. De Vries, known for reassembling broken china fragments into dynamic objects, designed the bottles to reflect the fragrance's warm notes of chestnut, rose, blackcurrant, and cardamom, developed by perfumer Marie Salamagne.

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article culture schedule Mar 18, 2026 visibility 18 link 4 artists

‘The way the world is, something daft is appealing’ – why everything from pizzas to podcasts has a cartoon character on it

A distinctive cartoon illustration style, rooted in 1920s 'rubber hose' animation and influenced by graffiti, vintage Americana, and underground comics, has become ubiquitous in contemporary branding. This aesthetic, characterized by exaggerated, jointless limbs and friendly faces, now adorns everything from independent pizza shops like London's Yard Sale Pizza to wine labels for Top Cuvee, podcasts, and even global fashion collaborations.

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