I've really enjoyed watching the evolution of Japanese artist Aya Takano. She uses acrylic and diluted gouache paints to create fictional, erotic, and sullen images featuring thin, big-eyed Geisha girls-- there's a taste of sex, sadness, and the future all…
Continue Reading →French artist Denis Darzacq's La Chute work is unnerving, unique and fascinating. My French is rusty so the only translation I could find explains his work as somewhere between the take off and the fall-- where the social elevator is…
Continue Reading →We've seen Jonathon Keats' profound conceptual art projects before, and were blown away by their social relevance. The key breakthrough that led to Keats' interest in the Agrifolk Art Movement was made at the MacNamara Foundation on Westport Island in…
Continue Reading →Eric at Modern Self just made a great post about how to craft an arty LED Lightbox all by yourself (mommy will be proud). While I haven't experimented with any sort of illuminated art in my own house, I can…
Continue Reading →I've just received word that Marlene Haring, the same artist that brought us the 'Sucking Marks' Exhibit at Scope Miami, is going to be performing 'Secret Service' in New York City tomorrow. What is the 'Secret Service Society,' you ask?…
Continue Reading →I have mixed feelings about subways. From one perspective, they're one of the best places we have for musing and people watching; however, it's also important to note that feeling comfortable in such an undeniably "underground" setting is tough, to…
Continue Reading →Jillian Tamaki calls herself a displaced Canadian illustrator, currently braving the wilds of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Having lived in Greenpoint, I can only imagine what she's finding so wild about one of the statistically safest neighborhoods in all of the five…
Continue Reading →Shepard Fairey, who you know from the Obey Giant campaign, recently worked his mural magic at the Hotel Des Arts in San Francisco. Shepard painted both an outside mural and an in-room mural as part of the hotel's Painted Rooms…
Continue Reading →In a world full of Crazy Frog and Chamillionaire ringtones, Jonathon Keats is breathing some fresh air into the annoying market of sounds with his My Cage ringtone. Available for download at Start Mobile, My Cage is a 4:33 "interlude…
Continue Reading →Feeling a little drowsy myself on this overcast Monday morning, I felt compelled to share with you the impromptu art of Yvonne Doll. Yvonne is an indie musician and artist from Chicago, who has found a unique art niche-- inspired…
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