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A spate of iconic rebrands in recent weeks have left some people reeling in a consumerist society where what we buy says a lot about who we are

Dom Perignon hosted a party at the Brant Foundation in New York City's East Village, thousands of miles from its home in the Champagne region of France. At the party, which celebrated Dom Perignon's partnership with the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, actresses Zoe Kravitz and Natasha Lyonne, model Evan Mock and Raul Lopez, the designer of the subversive Luar fashion label, sipped Dom as they swayed to music from the Mudd Club habitue DJ Justin Strauss. The Basquiat painting «In Italian,» a neo-expressionist work filled with gestural scribbles and stark images-faces, coins, dark creatures and cryptic words like «teeth» and «crown of thorns»-hung on one wall. Throughout the room were bottles of a limited-edition release culled from a 2015 Dom Perignon vintage with labels that mirrored Basquiat motifs, including his signature crown in yellow overlaid in a way to suggest a connection between the artist's work and Dom Perignon's own shield-shaped tag. «I think people are looking for more than just the experience of consuming,» said Jacques Giraco, MD at Dom Perignon, speaking of his company's decision to evoke the image of an artist synonymous with the gritty downtown scene in 1980s New York. «It becomes a total experience. It conjures emotion, and that creates a stronger link with the brand.»

Italian authorities say they have dismantled a network of European art forgers who made fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them with the help of complicit auction houses

The financing business of global art and luxury firm Sotheby’s has announced a first-of-its-kind securitization backed by art-secured loans.

One Japanese creation grabbing attention on the Oscars red carpet wasn’t a movie

Elton John's monogrammed silver boots and around $2 million for a triptych by street artist Banksy from his collection: the music icon's personal items brought in almost $8 million at auction Wednesday in New York. Christie's auction house is running a series of eight sales, both in person and online, through February 28 for the collection of the 76-year-old's belongings, including an ivory and gold glam rock jumpsuit from the early 1970s designed by Annie Reavey, which sold for $12,600. As enthusiastic collectors made bids, John's grand piano fetched over $200,000, while a pair of sunglasses, a key element of the singer's signature look, found a buyer for $22,680, ten times more than the initial estimate.

fashion show this week honouring long-time leader President Vladimir Putin by embellishing his face on Andy Warhol-inspired sweaters, in what one nationalist news outlet called an «unusual» display. Since Russia launched full-scale hostilities against Ukraine last year, Putin's cult of personality has burst into the mainstream, with officials effusively heaping praise on the president. The fashion show, held late on Thursday, took place in Putin's native Saint Petersburg and showcased art by Alexey Sergienko, a self-proclaimed patriot whose collection of paintings 'The President is a Kindhearted Man' formed the basis for the designs. «I was impressed when he was re-elected,» Sergienko told AFP, standing in front of his piece «Putin, Star, Crown» — a kaleidoscopic grid of Putin's interspaced with stars and crowns. «The crown is a reference to the past, and it's also an allusion to the fact that I knew that the president would be elected again and again,» he said. «I painted this picture saying that we shall have Putin for a long time, forever,» he told AFP. Many of his works are reminiscent of American artist Andy Warhol, whose vibrant paintings of celebrities and everyday objects popularised the «pop art» movement of the late 1950s to 1960s. The event, which the ultra-nationalist television channel Tsargrad described in a report as «unusual», featured a catwalk of models wearing a range of Putin-themed jackets, t-shirts and neck-scarves. «We came to the show as a whole family,» 48-year-old visitor Andrey Nechaev told AFP. «We are very happy to be here,» he added. The Kremlin's desire to galvanise support for Putin and the conflict in Ukraine has touched on almost every aspect of life, including music and the

Generative art is proving Web3’s creative anchor in the traditional art world. Last month, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) made headlines by acquiring Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations” (2022) alongside an edition from last year’s “3FACE” project by Ian Cheng. These two mark the first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) and nonfungible token (NFT) additions to MoMA’s collection, already home to relics such as Andy Warhol’s soup cans and Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”

Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chair, and iPhone 15 — put a value to them, a price that goes beyond the transactional. The Medicis in 15th century Florence bankrolled artists like Botticelli, Michelangelo and Leonardo — mind you, before they were Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo.

Picasso masterpiece, the late Spanish painter's "Femme a la montre" from 1932, is expected to fetch at least $120 million, Sotheby's announced Wednesday. The painting, which depicts Picasso's mistress wearing a watch, will be sold as part of a two-day auction of late New Yorker Emily Fisher Landau's prestigious collection. Other works up for sale include pieces by Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. Fisher Landau, a longtime board member of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and a renowned art patron and collector, passed away in March at age 102. Sotheby's said in a statement that around 120 pieces from her collection would be for sale and «estimated to bring well over $400 million» in total, with «Femme a la montre» making up a significant portion.

Sotheby’s just landed the chance to sell the undisputed star of the fall auction season: A royal blue, green and red portrait of Pablo Picasso’s young mistress curled up in a chair, “Woman with a Watch," estimated to top $120 million this November. The 1932 portrait hails from the estimated $400 million estate of Emily Fisher Landau, a New York collector who died in March at age 102. Fisher Landau’s 120-piece trove includes major examples by Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol, so market watchers will be closely following the estate’s performance to gauge global bidder interest during the current slump.

on the iconic Red Bull RB14. Cox is among a constellation of cartists like Andy Warhol, Banksy, Roy Lichtenstein and JonOne who have made automobiles a canvas for their work.

French luxury fashion house Hermès International has notched another win in its infringement case against artist Mason Rothschild, after a Manhattan judge ordered a permanent injunction on all "MetaBirkin" non-fungible token sales.

On March 29, nonfungible token (NFT) startup Freeport announced it had passed a Regulation A review by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch its blockchain platform for crowd-ownership of a four-piece collection of Andy Warhol prints. Each piece consists of 10,000 shares, with a minimum purchase of 10 per individual, allowing a maximum of 1,000 individuals to own a piece of Warhol art. 

Pseudonymous digital art collector and writer behind popular digital art newsletter the Medici Minutes who goes by the Twitter handle @CozomoMedici recently announced a major on-chain donation to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. According to a tweet by @CozomoMedici, whose full name on Twitter is Cozomo de’ Medici, he made the first donation of on-chain art from a collector to a museum, which marks the largest such collection of digital art to enter a museum.

Artist collaborations are an undeniable cornerstone of modern pop culture. The confluence of creative minds ultimately captured in a single artwork is something that has perpetually aroused audiences, critics and the creative community.