Press

Vogue | 18 July 2025

"I had arrived in the Red City to meet Hajjaj and explore the city through his eyes as part of an immersive trip he helped curate in collaboration with Capital One and the members-only art club The Cultivist (in fact, so immersive that at some point, everyone in our group found themselves clad in Hajjaj-designed clothing in front of his camera for a photo shoot in Riad Yima)."

Plaster | 12 May 2025

"Back in Manhattan, art membership club The Cultivist celebrated its 10th birthday with a boxing ring which they mounted under the Prince George Ballroom’s ornate ceiling. In lieu of floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, however, artists like Shaun Leonardo, Hiba Schahbaz, and Caleb Hahne Quintana flexed their artistic muscles to a group who was there to play the role of the boxing game judge which included legendary painter Judith Bernstein."

THE ART NEWSPAPER | 09 May 2025

"A knockout event took place this week at the Prince George Ballroom—literally, as artists took to the boxing ring for the Round Ten event marking the tenth anniversary of the Cultivist art members’ club."