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Last month we told you about the Italian painter who turned a Piaggio P.180 Avanti into an art installation. Now as part of a partnership between private jet charter and ownership firm VistaJet and Bombardier Aerospace, acclaimed street artist RETNA has hand-painted a unique work of art on the tail of a VistaJet Global Express [...]

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Last night saw the opening of LA graffiti artist RETNA’s Hallelujah World Tour in London and we at Hookedblog headed over to see if the show lived up to all the hype. The private view was held in the vast Old Dairy popup space in Bloomsbury tucked away in a little side street. Having previous [...]

Yesterday at The Old Diary warehouse space, the LA graffiti artist RETNA (MSK-AWR crews) had his London exhibition after the one in New York of few months ago. “The Halleluja world tour” is supported by the duo Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld (the son of the ex Editor in Chief of Vogue Paris, Carine [...]

By Emily Cronin | Posted: Thu 09 Jun 2011 The style set turned out for last night’s RETNA exhibition opening… Thank you, Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, for infusing ye olde midweek gallery opening with a frisson of fashion industry glamour. The Roitfeld scion, now accomplished as a contemporary art curator, flung open the doors to an exhibition of [...]

Retna has been keeping himself busy recently — among other things, by participating in the Art in the Streets exhibition at MOCA, Street Cred at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and painting the tail of a business jet in Geneva for VistaJet. He’s currently in the UK for the London limb of his Hallelujah [...]

VistaJet unveils unique work of art by artist RETNA on the tail of one of its Global Express XRS aircraft during EBACE 2011 in Geneva.

by Fabiola Beracasa on April 18, 2011 - 2:33 PM While in LA for ELLE’s Women in Music party, I took a minute to catch up with Retna, the breakout LA street artist who’s among the lucky few chosen by Jeffrey Deitch for MOCA’s Art in the Streets show. Retna, aka Marquis Lewis, has a [...]

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  An inscrutable message in powerful white letters is scrawled in the center of a square canvas, leaping out from a dark, cross-hatched background of Arabic-style writing. A gallery floor is covered with white dots, circles, and checks, while massive black vertical and diagonal banners cleave the walls into a chaotic series of geometric shapes. [...]

The Art of Art It was an evening of superlatives. Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, the youngest of Carine Roitfeld’s progeny, and his longtime friend, Andy Valmorbida, presented the RETNA The Hallelujah World Tour in New York on February 10, 2011. The artistic showplace for this, the first solo presentation of Roitfeld and Valmorbida, was a warehouse [...]

At Indochine Thursday, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida hosted an after-party for the opening of “The Hallelujah World Tour,” an art exhibit by the Los Angeles graffiti-turned-studio artist Retna, whose work, once seen only on the street, was selling for upward of $30,000. “I’m going to be a street-hold name,” said the painter. Olivier [...]

Retna, the 31-year-old artist from Los Angeles, opened his first New York solo exhibition last week, and I got to see what it’s like to be an artist at the peak of his powers. Retna, whose real name is Marquis Lewis, comes from a graffiti background. The nom de plume – derived from a Raekwon [...]

AT FIRST glance, the work of the artist Retna looks like an undiscovered ancient script: a series of hypnotic symbols—complex, beautiful and captivating. But Retna has created an original alphabet, fusing together influences from ancient Incan and Egyptian hieroglyphics, Arabic, Hebrew, Asian calligraphy, and graffiti. Each piece carries meaning, conveying an event or dialogue that [...]

Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, 26, is an art dealer and curator. His most recent endeavor, with his partner, Andy Valmorbida, is the recently opened exhibition of the Los Angeles-based street artist Retna at a gallery space in SoHo. Mr. Restoin Roitfeld, born and raised in Paris, is surrounded by a holy trinity of fashion-savvy women: his [...]

African American Heritage Poster Award Ceremony at the new LAPD building. Photos by Eriberto Oriol, ForbiddenArtLa.com

“The Hallelujah World Tour”‘. As anticipated last weekend RETNA has inaugurated the first stage of his exhibition ‘The Hallelujah World Tour’. Here’s a look at the inaugural event in NYC. Truly remarkable how many new works, including paintings and installations, 3D, created by the artist and exposed to California specifically for this project. After the [...]

Behind gate 37E on Washington Street lies a warehouse with a Buick Regal parked inside. Photographers are snapping away, laptops are out, and well-dressed critics buzz throughout the space. This was the scene when I visited “Breaking Bread,” the first stop on Retna’s three-continent-spanning Hallelujah Tour on the day before its opening. Sponsored by VistaJet [...]

PETA and friends made a more fashion-friendly appearance at Fashion Week in Stella McCartney‘s boutique, with not a drop of paint in sight, while the opening of street artist RETNA’s Hallelujah World Tour rolled out the concrete carpet for an innovative new art installation. Check out all the action from these parties here! PETA’s Fashion Week [...]