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Blue River

Tokyo Hotaru Festival 2012 took place recently, releasing 100,000 blue LED lights to float in the Sumida River. The bulbs rolled along the waves of the river bank, mimicking hotaru (the Japanese word for "fireflies"), for the festival that celebrates the Japanese tradition of watching fireflies float along a watercourse. The spectacular event lit up the waterway with a sparkling sapphire radiance against the night sky.

Kai and Sunny “The Flower Show”

Having been commission by everyone from fashion and literary geniuses Alexander McQueen and David Mitchell to tech giants like Apple and Adobe, the highly acclaimed, award-winning illustration and design duo Kai and Sunny have risen to notoriety over the past few years thanks to their beautiful and highly-detailed nature-inspired designs. Now, in a new solo exhibition entitled “The Flower Show,” the pair will display a series of monotone works that explore the word “flower.” The large-scale, silkscreened images featured within the exhibit will also be accompanied by a limited-edition A3 boxset that contains five letter-pressed images from the show and a short story, entitled “The Gardener,” that was written by author David Mitchell exclusively for this project. Be sure to check out the exhibit, currently on display from now through June 26, 2011 at StolenSpace Gallery in London.

Kim Young Ill “THE MINI GAME IN HONG KONG”

Ryan McGinness Drawing Salon

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Manhattan-based Ryan McGinness has been a busy man lately. From black light painting installations in Miami to a show at Espai Cultral in Barcelona, the globetrotting artist shows no signs of slowing down with his latest project at the Standard Hotel in Hollywood. Already famous for their controversial Box, a glass container housing a model behind the check-in desk in their lobby, The Standard asked Mr. McGinness to draw even more attention to their art-house project by commissioning a series of sketches of some of the lovely ladies of the Box on Standard-branded sheets of paper. In addition to getting to watch the artist at work on these pieces, guests of the Hollywood Standard will also be treated to a McGinness installation on the side of the hotel itself.

Richard Prince

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Gagosian Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition in Hong Kong entitled “Richard Prince” which features a number of selected works from the artist and marks his first ever solo show in Asia. Having been tapped several years ago by luxury label Louis Vuitton to collaborate on a collection of handbags and accessories, Prince is well-known for his stylistic photography that explores the visual definitions of gender form in pop culture through repetition and reiteration. Mining images for his work from various channels including mass media, advertising and entertainment, Prince’s photographs are easily recognizable and also highly sought after. Gagosian Gallery’s “Richard Prince” exhibition is scheduled to be on display through July 16, 2011.

Ryan McGinness “Women: The Blacklight Paintings” Installation

The third and final installment of the Ryan McGinness series “Women: The Blacklight Paintings” is currently being hosted by The Standard’s Purple Lounge at the hotel’s Hollywood location. Filled with paintings and live dancers, the installation also marks the launch of Blacklight Nudie Cards – the world’s first fully fluorescent playing cards that glow under blacklights. The event is scheduled to last from May 28-June 11, 2011.

David LaChapelle “The Raft” Exhibition

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Renowned photographer and director David LaChapelle recently opened his second major exhibition in Hong Kong at the de Sarthe Fine Art gallery. Aimed to take full advantage of the burgeoning Asian appetite for contemporary art, “The Raft” featured LaChapelle’s signature photographs, cut and reconstituted. Additionally, three pieces featured inspiration from martial arts icon Bruce Lee employing LaChapelle’s trademark methods. Take a look into the exhibition below.

Tim Burton Retrospective

Over the years, movie director Tim Burton has reinvented filmmaking in Hollywood. Taking inspiration from pop culture, fairy tales and gothic tradition, he has incorporated these elements into his work as an expression of his own personal vision and developed a unique new genre in the process. A brand new retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores the full range of Burton’s creative work, not only as a film director, but also as an artist, illustrator, photographer and writer. The exhibition will contain a wide range of objects borrowed from various studio archives and private collections including more than 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, storyboards, costumes and other objects. The retrospective is scheduled to be on display from May 29 through October 31, 2011.

Helmut Newton, Polaroids

Taschen has published a new book collecting some of famed photographer Helmut Newton’s test shots. Produced on Polaroid film, these have both a tremendous air of composition and sense of immediacy. It’s all rather magical.

Art Hong Kong 2011 – Takashi Murakami

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Iconic Japanese superflat artist Takashi Murakami presented three new works at Art Hong Kong 2011, the “Tiger Club”, “The Heian Period” and “The Kamakura Period”. Displayed within the Gagosian Gallery booth, each was a larger scale piece, created with acrylic and gold leaf. For those interested in seeing them in person, the showcase will be on display through May 29, 2011.

Zhang Huan “49 Days” Exhibition

Chinese-based artist Zhang Huan is currently hosting a one-person exhibition entitled “49 Days” at Blum & Poe art gallery in Los Angeles. At the center of the exhibition is a monumental brick sculpture named “Pagoda, 2009″ that was originally on display at the Shangai Art Museum. The 22-foot tall bell-shaped pagoda was made from the bricks of centuries-old buildings that used to surround Shanghai but have since been demolished to make room for newer, more modern architectural projects. In addition to this piece, Zhang will also show a series of newly constructed brick sculptures in the likeness of pigs and skull that relate to the story of Zhu Gangqiang. The exhibition will be on display at Blum & Poe from now through July 9, 2011.

LG Optimus Hyper Facade in Berlin

LG Hyper Facade event in Berlin

Gumball 3000 x 4L 3000 x colette

Founded in 1999 by Maximillion Cooper, Gumball 3000 race is a glamorous international parade on board the most extravagant vehicles in the world. Pagani Zonda, Aston Martin One-77′s, Bugatti Veyron Pur-Sang, Rolls Royce Phantom, Tesla, Morgan 3-wheeler! Some 120 vehicles take off each year, embarking on 5000 km (3000 miles) of pure sensations. Many U.S. celebrities are involved, Burt Reynolds, SnoopDogg, David Hasselhoff, Eve, Adrian Brody… Note the presence of two French individuals in this race, Patrice Meignan and Jeremy Taltaud, founder and Technical Director of l’Ecurie, in a 4L3000. For the occasion, from May 23 to 28, a special windows of colette will be dedicated to racing the week of its pass through Paris with many products not to be missed: including the sunglasses, necklace, bracelet, rosette and three finger rings by Good Wood , the Rough Racer jacket by Members Only, in grey or blue or also the camera, speakers and wireless headphones from Veho. Participants will stop in Paris on May 26 before returning to Barcelona… Baller for life!

Art in the street opening

It opened last April 17 at the MOCA in Los Ange­les the extra­or­di­nary (per­haps one of the largest in the indus­try) show Art in the Streets. The exhi­bi­tion runs until August 17 and is prob­a­bly the best you can find in the field, the idea is the fruit of that genius of Jef­frey Deitch (together with part­ner and co-​​curators Aaron Rose and Roger Gast­man), the idea is icon cor­re­sponds to the whole street art from the Sev­en­ties to the present day, focus­ing heav­ily on key cities such as New York, Los Ange­les, San Fran­cisco, Lon­don and Sao Paulo.

Festival of Colors 2011

It is the pur­pose of «Fes­ti­val of Col­ors» . It is a spring fes­ti­val that takes place dur­ing the last full moon of the lunar month…

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