The Pharrell-curated “Femmes” exhibition—his first in more than a decade—has opened at Perrotin.
Pharrell—Louis Vuitton Men’s creative director—has made a return to the art world with “Femmes,” on view now at Perrotin Paris. The show follows his 2014 curatorial debut, “Girl,” also with Perrotin. “Femmes” is a group exhibition honoring Black women’s artistic contributions across generations and disciplines and features the works of luminaries including Carrie Mae Weems, Esther Mahlangu, Tschabalala Self, Nina Chanel Abney, and more. The show celebrates identity, activism, and femininity through the photography, painting, and textile works of nearly 40 artists.
Launchmetrics reports $8.4 million in media impact from Bad Bunny’s Calvin Klein campaign.
According to data analytics platform Launchmetrics, Bad Bunny’s recent Calvin Klein underwear campaign generated $8.4 million in media exposure for the brand, within just 48 hours. The campaign, shot by Mario Sorrenti in Puerto Rico, amassed more than 56 million views across social media, highlighting his hold on music, fashion, and culture in the wake of his most recent album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, and previous campaigns with Jacquemus, Adidas, and Gucci.
Interior designer Randall Jones has won the third Female Design Council Grant.
The Female Design Council has awarded its third grant to Randall Jones of Floret Studio, providing her with $20,000 in unrestricted funding along with mentorships and funded memberships to the Female Design Council and the 1stDibs Trade program. Jones, a Howard University and Parsons graduate, plans to use the grant to collaborate with artisans and underrepresented creatives.
Acclaimed contemporary photographer Nona Faustine has died at the age of 48.
Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-born photographer known for her powerful self-portraits and interrogations of historic conventions, has died at 48. Her work, including the “White Shoes” series, exposed the overlooked histories of slavery including Black women’s erasure by staging her own body at former slave auction sites in New York City. Further, Faustine, whose 2024 Brooklyn Museum exhibition marked major institutional recognition of her art, recently explored the African presence in ancient Rome as the 2025 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow.
Court documents reveal that Meta used a database of pirated creative material to train its Llama 3 AI model.
According to recently released court documents, Meta used the pirated database Library Genesis (LibGen) to train its AI model Llama 3, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s approval. The digital collection, which contains millions of books and research papers, includes works by prominent artists, architects, museums, and galleries, raising new concerns about copyright infringement. Several authors have sued Meta over the practice, following similar legal action against OpenAI for using LibGen’s collection without permission.
Today’s attractive distractions:
A new photo book and exhibition captures the iconography of cowboys and drag queens.
Passions, obsessions, fixations—why creatives have “a tendency to go all-in.”
A monumental new Wes Anderson exhibition has opened at Cinémathèque Française.
In “Remixed,” Karl Lagerfeld’s go-to DJ recalls how he ascended to fashion’s epicenter.
