Best known as a painter and photographer, Hockney was an important member of the 1960s Pop Art movement. There were around 30 attractions, which included a walk-in "shadow room" by Georg Baselitz, a musical "enchanted tree" by David Hockney, and boldly colored glass labyrinth by Roy Lichtenstein. Aside from photographs of the installation, the book also includes the moon graphics and short text that each artist was asked to create for the promotion of the event. Luna Lunahad all the hallmarks of a traditional fairground, featuring carousels, games, and walk-in attractions.

The immediacy and energy of his line – his radiant babies and dancing dogs in super-bright colours – are as much a part of the ’80s lexicon as the first MTV logo planted on the moon by an animated spaceman. Over the course of 13 weeks, more than 240,000 people visited this unique take on a traditional amusement park. DreamCrew, the arts and entertainment firm co-founded by rapper Drake, has acquired all remnants of Luna Luna, an otherworldly art carnival that debuted to the public just once in Hamburg in 1987 with attractions created by a number of notable artists.Luna Luna was an open-air museum and amusement park in Hamburg, Germany from June 4 to August 31, 1987. Due to licensing restrictions, we are unable to provide a quote,” is what I was told by Uniqlo’s office when I approached them for details on units shifted. In an entry dated 20 March 1987 in Keith Haring: Journals, he records how he hasn’t been tested for HIV but is sure he has it, and that “my days are numbered.

Warhol, who died in February 1987, was memorialized with a booth where visitors were allowed—based on Warhol's credo 15 minutes of fame—to be photographed next to life-size pictures of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich. In the summer of 1987, the world’s first art amusement park opened in a lush, green park outside Hamburg, Germany. A recent show at UCCA in Beijing, Somewhere Downtown, explores his place in the turbulent landscape of New York when he was first active.The art park was the brainchild of Vienna-born multimedia artist André Heller, the culmination of his yearslong odyssey to bring together the public and the avant-garde art world. This inflatable tent, the “Dream Station,” housed a cafe and was one of two attractions built by Vienna-born multimedia artist André Heller, Luna Luna’s creator. And the Nakamura gallery in Japan, which has one of the most substantial collections of his work, is currently celebrating its 15th anniversary by restaging its first Haring exhibition, Chaos and Hope.

Jean-Michel Basquiat designed a Ferris wheel composed of his various drawings, which prominently featured the rear-end of a baboon.Giving access to rare artworks that have not been widely viewed in 35 years, this book is being published for the first time in English with an updated preface. Borrowing its name from Coney Island’s Luna Park, the colorful carnival was unlike anything that had ever come before—or since.

As a tribute to Joseph Beuys, who died in January 1986, Heller had a manifesto drawn up that the artist had authorized a few years prior. While some of the artists traveled to Germany for the project, others sent their designs to Vienna, where a specialist team of technicians and theater painters, carpenters and architects carried out the work.After graduating in Film from The University of Bristol, they worked freelance, writing for independent publications such as Little White Lies, INDIE magazine and design studio Evermade. She cultivated expertise in street art which led to the purchase of her photographic archive by the Treccani Italian Encyclopedia in 2014. There are 30 pavilions in this international carnival of the avant-garde, and each one simultaneously elevates the mind and makes the jaw drop,” a 1987 Life magazine article wrote. Until we’re able to experience the real thing, Atlas Obscura took a trip down memory lane—with the help of images from Luna Luna: The Art Amusement Park (Phaidon, February 2023), the first English translation of Heller’s 1987 book about the project. In 2022, it was reported that Luna Luna is being revived for a global tour with production assistance from Live Nation.