Five Artists in the News: Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘Hold Me’ Blankets, MSCF Knocks-off Handbags and Jeff Koons’ Lunar Lift-Off Is Delayed

Jeffrey Gibson, who represents the US at the Venice Biennale, has designed a limited edition cashmere blanket to support the pavilion. Called I Feel Real When You Hold Me, the edition of 60 is priced at $7,500 each and available at Sotheby’s. Gibson’s blanket will be on view at the IFPDA Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory in New York this week.

MSCHF, the subversive New York-based collective, has created a "Frankenstein" handbag by asking factories to create an object through prompts, including references to designer brands. MSCHF started sending the instructions "knock off a Birkin bag" to a factory in Peru, Dezeen reports

Tiona Nekkia McClodden's new solo show “A Mercy/Dummy” at White Cube in London is an “excellent, rigorously crafted exhibition", posted curator Nancy Spector on Instagram. “Spend the time to hear the soundtrack,” she urges.

Jeff Koons’ Moon Phases project is set to become the first authorized art to make it to the moon. The Valentine's Day mission has been thwarted, however, as technical issues blight Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket, Artnet News reports.

Leslie Martinez’s first New York solo show is now on at MoMA PS1. The Dallas-based, Latinx Artist Fellow addresses political binaries and cultural survival in large-scale paintings that are a collage, including dust and detritus, writes Southwest Contemporary.