Bauhaus-Inspired Nike Air Max 270 Sneakers Inspired Toilet Paper Magazine Posters

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Bauhaus-Inspired Nike Air Max 270 Sneakers Inspired Toilet Paper Magazine Posters

Nike’s first lifestyle Air Max marries the softest, smoothest and resilient foam, Nike React before landing on design studio inspo boards paying tribute to art movements over the last 100+ years. First up is the Air Max 270 React paying tribute to the Bauhaus, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

Street Art Pilot Comes To New York's Never-Ending Scaffolding and Protective Construction Structures

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In a moment of utter foolery, I once asked myself if I could live in New York and walk my neighborhood just one month without dealing with the pervasive scaffolding and protective construction structures that litter the city with boring, nondescript ugliness.

There are over 300 miles of construction fences and sidewalk sheds across the city, but New York City construction codes currently prohibit anyone from posting on them, writes artNet News.

Think again. What if all those ugly construction-related walls could be repurposed as canvasses for public art, a showcase for NYC’s world class artists? This is the vision of City Canvas, the latest program from the New York City of Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with the Department of Buildings and the Office of the Mayor.

Eye | Blondey McCoy's Burberry Manhattan Murals | 'Here We Are' In Hong Kong & Paris | Gobbetti on Luxury

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Burberry has teamed up with British artist, designer ande pro-skater Blondey McCoy for a three-mural collab in Manhattan. Celebrating the holiday season, the murals will be in place through December. 

The 19-year-old London-based model and skateboarder for brands like Palace, Adidas and Supreme 

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Burberry's new CEO Marco Gobbetti, plans to change the luxury brand's focus away from competing with brands like Polo Ralph Lauren and move it head-to-head with Louis Vuitton and Gucci. 

Consumers Prefer Either Luxury Itams or Mass-Market Brands . . . The Mid-Market offering No Longer Has A Place With These Consumers

Gobbetti, who comes to Burberry from the French house Celine, says consumers either wear H&M or Zara, top-end luxury brands -- or a mix for a creative look. The middle is a dead as America's closing shopping malls.

Burberry, one of the fashion industry's most successful turnaround brands in the early 200os, has lost its pep, says Gobbetti, who is searching for a new designer. 

“You want someone crazy to come in and break the mould,” said Michel Phan, professor of luxury marketing at the Emlyon Business School in France. With luxury brands captivated over Gucci's delightful and dramatic transformation.

“Young people in the fashion world don’t want to buy the same trench coat that their parents had.”

 

Update: Trump Between Mushroom Clouds & Nazi $$$ Signs Billboard Appears In Downtown Phoenix

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(Photo: Johana Restrepo/The Republic)

Updated: Santa Monica, Ca artist Karen Fiorito accepted a commission from Phoeniz gallery La Melgosa for a billboard dedicated to Donald Trump. The billboard is located near Grand Avenue and Taylor Street in downtown Phoenix.

La Melgosa commissioned Fiorito to do a similar anti-President George Bush billboard in 2004, when she was a graduate student at Arizona State University. 

"I was given the opportunity to just say what I want," Fiorita told The Arizona Republic. 

The result is a large billboard sign featuring a photo of Trump backed by two mushroom clouds typically associated with nuclear explosions. Swastikas on either side of Trump have been manipulated to look like dollar signs.  

March 19, 2017 update: Beatrice Moore, owner of the billboard and a long-time patron of the arts on Grand Avenue, says the billboard will remain as long as Trump is president. As expected, artist Fiorito is receiving death threats on a much escalated level than when the Bush presidency billboard went up in 2004.

Read more about Beatrice Moore: Grand Avenue May Never Be Home to Fancy Coffee Shops and Cell Phone Stores, and That's Just Fine with Beatrice Moore Phoenix New Times

(Photo: Johana Restrepo/The Republic)

British Art Scene Will Highlight Gay History in 2017 | NYC Second Ave Subway Unveils First Permanent, Apolitical LGBTQ Mural

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David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)(1972). Photo: courtesy David Hockney.

Britain Plans A Year of LGBTQ Art Celebrations

ArtNet: British Institutions Will Highlight Gay History in 2017 Read on.

British institutions including  British Museum, the Red House, the Walker in Liverpool, the Russell-Cotes museum and gallery, and more are marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalized gay relationships between men over 21.

The 1967 act amended the law of England and Wales regarding homosexual activity, with Scotland following suit in 1980, and Northern Ireland in 1982.

One of the largest exhibitions will be the Tate Britain's April 2017 'Queer British Art 1861-1967', featuring a full-length portrait of British icon Oscar Wilde, who was imprisoned for his sexuality.

NYC's First Gay Mural

Artist Vik Muniz told the AP that he chose to include New York married couple Thor Stockman and Patrick Kellogg in his new Second Ave Subway mural project because 'Perfect Strangers' represents "just the people you would expect to see" riding the city's subway.

The new Second Ave subway opens on New Year's Day.

Amanda Wellsh Glitters In 'Underground' By An Le For Vogue Portugal January 2017

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Amanda Wellsh Glitters In 'Underground' By An Le For Vogue Portugal January 2017

Bringing an ounce of glamour to the New York City subway system is challenging, but the mood of An Le's images of Amanda Wellsh delivers. Looking at the editorial, I'm prompted to share ArtNet's article about the 6am Jan. 1 opening (FINALLY!!!) of New York's new Second Avenue line.

See the Second Avenue Subway's Gorgeous New Chuck Close and Sarah Sze Art