Metal Hurlant relaunches in English with a star-studded issue #1, Nintendo unveils its upcoming art gallery, and ArtMeta’s Painteboxed exhibition comes to a close. Read more in Post Rendered’s news roundup for June 2025.
ArtMeta’s Paintboxed Lands at The Digital Art Mile in Basel
From June 16-22, ArtMeta hosted the finale of the Paintboxed – Tezos World Tour at the Digital Art Mile Conference in Basel.
The Paintbox is a dedicated computer graphics workstation released in 1981 by Quantel. Artists including David Hockney, Jennifer Bartlett, and Richard Hamilton created digital works on the machine, with the late Keith Haring noting, “It has totally revolutionized the notion of art and the image — why hasn’t anyone noticed?”
With only a dozen known machines still working in the entire world, Paintboxed was an invitation for contemporary artists to create “new works on this rare system and reignite its creative legacy.” You can learn more about the exhibition here, and see the works created here.
Via ArtMeta
Le Petit Prince original artworks featured in Sotheby’s From Grolier to Godard sale
Sotheby’s From Grolier to Godard sale this month included 15 original artworks (several of which were unseen) of Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s famous character, The Little Prince. The drawings feature prototypes and characters that were cut from the final story. Fine Books & Collections explained, “Among the 15 drawings, Antoine Saint-Exupéry sketched the Little Prince beside a snail (estimate: €30,000 – €50,000), a creature that never made it into the beloved cast of characters we know today. Intriguingly, two additional sketches of the Little Prince with a gastropod are held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, hinting that the author may once have toyed with the idea of a snail companion before settling on the iconic fox.”
The Nintendo Museum in Japan set to add a dedicated art gallery
Eurogamer reported that Nintendo will be adding an extension to their museum dedicated to “a wide range of game artwork, including character illustrations and concept art.”
The extension is set to open on September 3, 2025. In April, we reposted Time Extension’s article regarding video game preservation efforts by Japanese companies. Perhaps Nintendo’s project will spur more organisations to display artworks and illustrations from their past.
Post Rendered Recommends: Metal Hurlant #1
Humanoids launched the English edition of Metal Hurlant this month. The premier issue features over 270 pages of content, with highlights including the classic strip Is Man Good? from the late Metal Hurlant co-founder Mœbius, an interview with Alan Moore, and a brief history of the magazine by Tom Lennon.
Humanoids describes the publication as “a full-throttle celebration of what comics can be: rebellious, cerebral, provocative—and completely unfiltered.” Metal Hurlant will be published quarterly, and both individual issues and subscriptions can now be purchased from Humanoids.
Via Humanoids