It’s not every day that the art world gets a public break-up, but that’s the case with art collective MSCHF . This week, cofounder and founding chief creative officer Lukas Bentel announced, via a formal press release, he was leaving the group to pursue solo work.

“I am enormously grateful and proud of the MSCHF team and what we created together, it was an enormous collective effort,” Bentel said in a statement. “We moved athletically at MSCHF, but we were designing stories that last. That’s where I want to get back to: making art that stays with people long after the moment has passed.”

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