Concealed graffiti artist Banksy has confirmed his first solo exhibition in over a decade will soon open at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art.
The elusive graffiti artist has revealed that CUT & RUN will showcase dozens of stencils used throughout his career. Banksy will showcase his behind-the-scenes process for the first time, examining the creation of several famous artworks.
Banksy will exhibit stencils used for Kissing Coppers, which resides on the walls of Prince Albert pub in Brighton. Outlines for Bristol’s Mobile Lovers will also be displayed, expressing an embraced couple secretly looking at their phones.
Furthermore, Stormzy‘s Union flag stab vest worn during his headlining set at Glastonbury in 2019 will be available for all to see. Lastly, Banksy will explain how he shredded his Girl With Balloon painting, which later sold for over £18 Million GBP.
Banksy’s CUT & RUN exhibition will open at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art on June 18.
Despite his extremely humble demeanor, center Nikola Jokić was recently immortalized in the history of basketball lore by hoisting the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy for his Denver Nuggets. To commemorate the occasion, artist Tyler Upchurch has worked with basketball platform Local Hoops on a new limited print of the Serbian superstar.
Entitled Struck Gold, the artwork features Jokić in a semi geometric pastiche as he walks off into the sunset. Much of Upchurch’s work operates at the intersection of basketball and hip hop, as he reinterprets cultural icons and events in a grainy, saturated and collage-like aesthetic.
Local Hoops was founded with the goal to tell authentic stories at the center of basketball and culture, while raising the bar for equality on and off the court. The limited Giclee ink print sizes at 16 x 20 inches and is available to purchase unframed for $100 USD via Local Hoops.
Womxn in Windows is a platform with the mission to spread the ideas of underrepresented womxn (cis, trans and non-binary inclusive) through moving image. The organization was founded in 2019 by curator Zehra Ahmed as a way to showcase womxn-made art films in window storefronts, but has since developed into a larger platform that has fielded performances and installations across the U.S., including Times Square.
This Saturday, June 24, at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, the organization will showcase American Gurl — an ongoing curatorial project featuring work that explores all shades of American Dreaming. Co-curated by Ahmed and American signer Kilo Kish, the exhibition will explore themes related to Kish’s musical of the same name, while spotlighting the nuances of the Black feminine experience in relation to notions of “beauty, success, freedom and power in America,” wrote a release by Womxn in Windows.
Eight films by intergenerational artists will be on view, including a piece by Kish, alongside works by Ayanna Dozier, Ja’Tovia Gary, Savanah Leaf, Lorna Simpson, Martine Syms, Carrie Mae Weems and LaJuné McMillian in collaboration with Marguerite Hemmings.
Opening night will run from 6 to 9pm PT at the gallery’s courtyard in DTLA, including a performance by Marawa and DJ sets by KittyCa$h and Quinn Blake. For those looking to attend on Saturday, please RSVP at Hauser & Wirth, while the exhibition itself will be on view until July 30.
In case you missed it, we spoke to Bijan Berahimi about reconnecting to his Iranian cultural heritage for Hypebeast Magazine Issue 31.
Hauser & Wirth
901 E 3rd St
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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