A Danger Sign Shaped Like a Pyramid: Andy Medina's Cultural Hijack
Mexican artist Andy Medina's solo show "MEX I CAN" at John Doe Gallery in Los Angeles takes apart traffic signs, the Supreme logo, and F1 racing symbols one by one, then reassembles them—asking who really gets to define "Mexican-ness."
HOKA Tor Ultra Lo Retro Isn't Rushing It—Four Colorways Rolling Out Over Five Months
HOKA is bringing back the Tor Ultra Lo, built with nubuck leather, GORE-TEX, and a Vibram Megagrip outsole. Four colorways are set to drop across a stretched-out timeline from August through December, making this a slow-burn retro release rather than an all-at-once drop.
Specimens of Desire in Room 223: Photographer Lin Zhipeng Takes Over Saint Laurent Rive Droite Beijing
Under the moniker "No. 223," photographer Lin Zhipeng opens an exhibition at Saint Laurent Rive Droite Beijing, personally curated by Anthony Vaccarello. Timed just before Qixi Festival, the show explores fleeting, tender moments of romance through a series of intimate images. Runs through September 11.
Artek x Paul Smith Team Up for a Third Time on the Stool 60 — With a Secret Hiding Underneath
Artek and Paul Smith return for their third Stool 60 collaboration, pairing three-tone dyed birch legs with a hidden malachite green seat bottom that only reveals itself when flipped over.
teamLab Turns an Osaka Sunflower Field Into a Living Ecosystem — the Title Is the Only Clue
teamLab's latest work, "Life is the Small Sun Flickering in the Dark," transforms an Osaka sunflower field into an interactive ecosystem — and the title itself is the most honest explanation the piece offers.
Jil Sander Wraps Thonet's Tubular Steel Frames in One Silent Slab of Leather
The JS. THONET collection expands with the S 411 armchair and S 1070 table, as Jil Sander uses unbroken leather panels and minimal seaming to make this 1932 Bauhaus tubular steel structure look like a floating sculpture.
Spike Lee Returns to Brooklyn — This Time to Throw a Film Fest for His Hometown
Spike Lee has teamed up with Clara Wu Tsai to launch "Playback," a brand-new film festival hitting BAM this November, bringing screenings and block parties to retell Brooklyn's story.
Sable Elyse Smith Turns Prison Waiting-Room Chairs Into Children's Toys, Dismantling Institutional Violence One Object at a Time
Sable Elyse Smith's solo show "Clockwork" lands at The FLAG Art Foundation in New York, using neon, video, and sculpture to examine how incarceration and surveillance seep into everyday language and objects.
Spend HK$300, Stamp Your Own Name: MUJI's Leather Luggage Tag Workshop
MUJI's "Travel Companion" campaign puts the spotlight on a leather luggage tag workshop offering 15-minute letterpress stamping for qualifying purchases, touring six stores across three weekends in August — plus limited-edition stickers with luggage purchases.
Mooncake Meets Butterfly Puff: Yue Collection Marks 4 Years in Taiwan with Exclusive Mid-Autumn Boxes
Hong Kong bakery brand Yue Collection is launching three Taiwan-exclusive Mid-Autumn gift boxes, mixing mooncakes with butterfly puffs and cookies for the first time. The 18-piece box is bigger yet cheaper than the 6-piece one, with early-bird 5% off pre-orders running until August 30.
Pippa Pitches Illustrators on a Spotify-Style AI Royalty Deal — Only 4 Artists Have Signed On
Generative AI startup Pippa wants to replace unauthorized data scraping with royalty sharing. Subscriptions run up to $99.99/month, but artists are paid just $0.005 per image — and the underlying model is still built on scraped web data.
Checksy Choi's Eotieum: A Hanji Fishing Boat Docks Inside a Seoul Cold War Bunker That Never Lets Anyone Land
Taking her grandmother's escape boat from North Korea as its origin, artist Checksy Choi builds a breathing vessel of welded steel and hand-torn hanji paper inside a Cold War anti-tank bunker in Seoul—letting separation and longing remain unresolved, rather than rushing to patch memory whole.
Virgin Mary Meets Betty Boop? Palace's Fall 2026 Lineup Turns Workwear and Worship Into a Full-On Fever Dream
Avirex leather jackets, GORE-TEX technical outerwear, a Betty Boop collab, and neon-embroidered Virgin Mary hoodies — Palace's latest drop puts religious iconography and cartoon characters on the same rack, rolling out in phases starting August 7.
Yoshitomo Nara Joins David Zwirner, Plays Mind Games with Scale Across Two NYC Shows
A palm-sized clay prototype blown up tenfold into a giant bronze figure — Yoshitomo Nara's first collaboration with David Zwirner lands across two New York spaces on October 29, marking his largest solo presentation in the city in nearly a decade.
Rolling Stones Once Stayed Here: This Train Station Landmark Becomes Innsbruck's Only Five-Star Hotel by 2029
Built in 1869, Grand Hotel Europa hosted Queen Elizabeth II and the Rolling Stones. Minor Hotels has signed on for a full renovation, reopening in 2029 with 120 rooms and a rooftop bar as the city's only five-star property.
Facebook Marketplace Pops Up IRL in LA, Recreates Creator Madi Webb's Closet Down to the Last Piece
Facebook Marketplace took over Melrose Avenue in LA for a three-day pop-up. The July 23 VIP party brought fashion, home decor, and Y2K nostalgia into a physical space—right down to recreating creator Madi Webb's actual closet.
Memory, Neighborhoods & Strippers: Dazed's 5 Most Talked-About Photo Stories of July
From self-portraits restaging family trauma to a Xerox-degraded photo show, these are the five photo stories Dazed readers couldn't stop talking about in July — each one using a different tool to fight against something slowly disappearing.