ART / SPORT / CULTURE

Cultural hubs.

Six ways into the game.

Follow the artists, materials and images shaping sport. Choose a cultural guide below.

PSG’s 2020–21 anniversary kit campaign featuring the central Hechter stripe.

FOOTBALL / DESIGN / OBJECTS

PSG ↗

A club read through colour, clothing and the objects that carry its image.

INDEPENDENT CULTURAL GUIDE

FOOTBALL / ART / ARCHITECTURE

Real Madrid ↗

A stadium, a mural, a rose. Three scales of a sporting institution’s visual world.

INDEPENDENT CULTURAL GUIDE

Gian Galang pictured with his wide UFC 300 mural.

COMBAT / PAINTING / PRINT

UFC ↗

Combat becomes an image: on paper, across a wall and on the surface of an object.

INDEPENDENT CULTURAL GUIDE

COURTS / ARTISTS / OBJECTS

Basketball ↗

The court as a studio, a surface and a shared cultural space. Basketball through art, footwear and the objects left after play.

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Naomi Osaka arrives on court in a painted KidSuper coat with a long train

PAINTING / PERFORMANCE / DESIGN

Tennis ↗

From painted courts to a player’s entrance. Tennis through artists, clothing, collecting and objects with a life beyond the match.

INDEPENDENT CULTURAL GUIDE

McLaren race car under papaya lighting at the Designed to Race event

ENGINEERING / COLOUR / MATERIAL

Motorsport ↗

Racing history translated into clothing, images and objects. A guide to the creative work around motorsport, beginning with McLaren’s archive.

INDEPENDENT CULTURAL GUIDE

THE BENI HASAN APPROACH

Look at what is made.

We follow images, materials and makers. Documented facts remain linked to their sources; our readings of form, scale and context are original editorial analysis. Historical collaborations are dated, rather than presented as new releases.