Press

W magazine | 05 December 2025

"So when Capital One and The Cultivist offered [Prager] the chance to stage an immersive exhibit during Art Basel Miami Beach, she decided to recreate Los Angeles...The result was her project “The Mirage Factory,” which last night, doubled as the backdrop for a party hosted by Capital One and The Cultivist with W Magazine."

Artnet News | 05 December 2025

"Fittingly located inside the former Beach Theatre, a shuttered Miami Beach movie theater, “Mirage Factory” is the latest offering from private art club and creative agency the Cultivist, created in partnership with Capital One Bank. The project opened with two nights of private events—one for Capital One cardholders, and the second for the Cultivist’s community of art world insiders such as artists Sam Falls, Es Devlin, and Nate Lewis and public arts guru Yvonne Force Villareal."

Galerie Magazine | 05 December 2025

"Just when you think Miami Art Week couldn’t possibly fit another spectacle into its sun-soaked landscape, the artist and filmmaker Alex Prager arrived this year with a showstopper. Her pop-up installation, Mirage Factory—created with Capital One and The Cultivist—burst onto Lincoln Road like a Technicolor dream, pulling visitors into the haze, humor, and hypnotic glamour of Los Angeles."

Vogue | 05 December 2025

"During Miami Art Week—which seems to become ever more crowded each December—The Cultivist and Capital One’s experiential pop-ups have become some of the hottest tickets in town...For 2025, artist, director, and screenwriter Alex Prager transported audiences to her native Los Angeles in a sprawling immersive installation, characteristic of her uncanny oeuvre.

Galerie Magazine | 12 September 2025

"It’s not easy to make a splash during New York fashion week, when the whole city is taken over by a buzzy energy and a slew of exciting art, design, and fashion presentations and openings. But a highlight of the week was Anna Weyant’s “Dollhouse,” a spectacular collaborative art installation by the acclaimed artist in partnership with the Cultivist member’s club and Capital One."

WWD | 10 September 2025

"Weyant transformed the Academy Mansion into a whimsical, life-size dollhouse during New York Fashion Week, with Marc Jacobs, Capital One and The Cultivist bringing her surreal vision to life in an immersive art-meets-fashion experience."

Elle Decor | 10 September 2025

"The Dollhouse by Anna Weyant is an ambitious, life-sized installation inside New York’s Academy Mansion. Pegged to Fashion Week, the immersive experience is a collaboration between the artist, Capital One, and The Cultivist, a membership-based art appreciation club."

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."