Color of the Year 2019: The engaging nature of Pantone Living Coral encourages lighthearted activity

  For 20 years, Pantone’s Color of the Year has influenced product development and purchasing decisions in multiple industries, including fashion, home furnishings, and industrial design, as well as product, packaging and graphic design. Symbolizing our innate need for optimism and joyful pursuits, PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral embodies our desire for playful expression. Pantone, provider … Read more

Art Basel Miami: how this year’s fair aims to increase diversity

This year’s highly attended artfair will focus on more work from artists of colour as well as a range of impassioned protest art

Auction history was made throughout November and around the globe

  In November, Sotheby’s concluded a month of worldwide sales spanning New York, Geneva, London, Paris and online, with 1,675 lots sold over twelve auctions for a total of more than $1 billion. Across the auctions, nineteen lots exceeded $10 million and ten lots exceeded $20 million. From 20th- and 21st-century art to magnificent jewels … Read more

Exclusive collaborations: Virgil Abloh for Moët & Chandon, Laolu Senbanjo for Belvedere

    Partnerships that meld contemporary lifestyle and authentic heritage. Virgil Abloh for Moët & Chandon: Moët & Chandon Nectar Impérial Rosé. Champagne Maison Moët & Chandon unveiled the exclusive collaboration with Virgil Abloh. Virgil Abloh, who became artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear in spring 2018, has signed his first collaboration with a Wines & Spirits … Read more

‘These aren’t extinct cultures’ – indigenous art gets a stage at the Met

In two exhibitions in New York, Native Americans are given a spotlight both with their artwork and the inaccurate ways they’ve been portrayed by others

Special Edition Speakers by Bang & Olufsen. Artwork by David Lynch

  Bang & Olufsen and director, screenwriter, actor, artist, and musician David Lynch previously teamed up in 2017 to create a limited edition of Beoplay A9 speakers featuring the artist’s famed “Paris Suite” lithographs. All 30 speakers were personally signed and numbered by Lynch and were available exclusively through the MoMA Design Store. Last month, … Read more