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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 8, 2025 visibility 9 link 3 artists

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MSCHF, the Brooklyn-based art collective known for viral stunts like the Big Red Boot and a Damien Hirst dot-selling ATM, has unveiled a new participatory sculpture titled *King Solomon's Baby* (2025). The work is a large-scale polystyrene foam and paint sculpture that will be progressively dismembered and sold in thin slices as more buyers join. Priced at $100,000 for a single buyer, the cost drops as more participants purchase shares, down to $100 each if 1,000 people buy in. Sales open July 10 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, with the fully deconstructed work on view July 13.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 10, 2025 visibility 11 link 3 artists

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DEMO2025, a multi-day art, design, and tech festival presented by the New Museum, concluded its first round of programming with a celebratory dance party at Water Street Projects in New York. The afterparty featured DJ sets by Honey Bun, OSSX (EQUISS and Lektor Scopes), and Niidal, and drew a cross-disciplinary crowd including artist Kennedy Yanko, designer collective MSCHF, and writer Whitney Mallett. The festival continues through June 22 with Track Showcases at 180 Maiden Lane.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 4, 2025 visibility 20 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

Art Basel Miami Beach Diary: a pettable bronze piece, an un-buttoned up party and tarot in a grotto

At Art Basel Miami Beach, the art collective MSCHF invites fairgoers to touch their bronze sculpture *Touch Me Sculpture One More Time* (2024) on Perrotin’s stand, featuring a counter that tracks each pat. The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami hosted a VIP opening night with figures like director Alex Gartenfeld and artist Andreas Schulze, while the Thom Browne club stood out in matching attire. Other highlights include kinetic sculptures by Breakfast (Andrew Zolty) at 1 Hotel South Beach, a tarot-reading grotto by Julie Schenkelberg at Nada fair, and Robbie Williams’s furniture debut with Moooi at Design Miami.

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 4, 2026 visibility 15 link 2 artists

A new home for Asian contemporary art opens in landmarked building in Manhattan's Chinatown

The Wang Contemporary has officially opened its doors in a landmarked Beaux Arts building at 58 Bowery in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Founded by fashion designer Alexander Wang and his mother, Ying Wang, the cultural organization debuted with a site-specific installation by the Brooklyn-based conceptual collective MSCHF titled '20,000 Variations On A Paper Plane In Flight.' The performance featured red and gold paper planes launched from the building's central oculus, blending traditional Lunar New Year symbolism with conceptual art in a space that formerly served as a bank.

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