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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.