Louis Vuitton announces their new ‘Louis Vuitton Voyages’ exhibition, which opened on May 31st at the National Museum of China in Beijing, with the above animated video.

“The “Louis Vuitton – Voyages” exhibition retraces the crowning moments in the history of the Maison, which since 1854 — the date when it was established — has beautifully paired form with function, creating travel items that bear witness to the French lifestyle.”

The exhibition runs until August 30th, 2011.

Curated has a great little Q&A with artist Vanessa Prager:

“Self-taught painter Vanessa Prager reveals her latest works this Thursday (June 2, 2011 to be exact) in a special one-night-only exhibition hosted by Danny Masterson. The venue is fitting for Prager, a painter who finds inspiration in a mix of contemporary narrative and vintage photographs. In anticipation of the show, Prager and I got on the phone to discuss the idea behind Across the Universe and her process.”

Read it over at Curated.

Curated turns us onto this:

“Maarten Baas designed the “empty chair” at the request of Amnesty International in support of their campaign against the suppression of activists and to honor the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo. The chinese activist was unable to accept the prize in person due to imprisonment.

Baas’ chair, standing five meters, was unveiled last weekend for the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International in Amsterdam.”

See more over at Curated.

Curated turns us onto Castellucio’s sculptures:

“Sculptor Franco Castellucio confronts science and art in his latest work, “The Double Helix XX-XY.” The work images an animated strain of DNA, with sinuous male and female bodies twisting to the top. Castellucio also twists the notion of “survival of the fittest,” his desire being that people confront, in his work, the notion of enduring compassion.”

See more over at Curated.

APEX worked with Kiya Babzani of Self Edge in the acquisitoin of the Japanese denim necessary for the “Indigo” project. “The idea for the work featured in Indigo came from APEX’s personal obsession with jeans, and his desire to experiment with denim as a fine art surface. After some trial and error, he developed a method for stretching denim over wood panel, in place of ordinary canvas, and completely fell in love with the look and feel of it. After this, APEX realized he wanted to do an entire gallery’s worth of his “super burners” all over denim. The aesthetics of the exhibition has roots deep in the graffiti movement, making reference to the self-painted denim jackets most inner city tag artists used to wear in the 1980’s.”

Curated previews the forthcoming Helmut Newton: Polaroids book coming August 1, 2011. “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…”  Pre-order from Amazon

Looks from inside Helmut Newton: Polaroids over on Curated.

Curated points us at a short series of McQueen prints from Mr. Burt and the Fancy. Printing info: “High quality digital print onto Somerset Velvet 255 gsm for a beautiful textured matte finish.” 10 total prints are being produced. Could be gone already.

Richard Phillips’ short film Lindsay Lohan will be included in “Commercial Break,” presented by the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Venice, Italy, June 1 – 5, 2011, running alongside the opening of the 54th international exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

Crap=Good lets us know about Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt. We could waffle on about it, but a picture is worth a 1000 words and all that.

Take a leap to see more.

David Welch’s latest work ‘Material World’ creates totem poles from everyday objects to ‘encourage debate on consumption’. We’re sure it’ll do just that – and, if not, at least there’s a bunch of great pictures to look at. (Fubiz)

Take a leap to get a better look.