Upper Playground has been supporting street artists in its stores and galleries for ten years, so it only makes sense that they would start stocking the tools to make the art. At the Upper Playground web store's new department for…
Continue Reading →Visionaire rarely, if ever, fits into the traditional magazine category. For starters it's only published three times a year and each issue is more of a curated art project around a certain theme. For their holiday issue (we aren't sure…
Continue Reading →The work of London-by-way-of-Berlin artist Boxi paints a dark picture. Described by the artist as a collection built around themes such as paranoia, grief, and mistrusts, "Grey Area" pulls together images of humans and the nebulous backgrounds they find themselves…
Continue Reading →At first glance, British artist Hush's paintings have an obvious Japanese animation influence, but the chaotic backgrounds belie his street art roots that made his name in London. Take a look through a couple paintings made available as prints here.…
Continue Reading →Any ping pong table can become a dining room table with the proper table cloth, but did you know that the early gaming tables were originally used for both purposes way back in Victorian times? Recalling the olden days when…
Continue Reading →The lovely new website celebrating artist Mira Nameth's creations covers a broad range of illustrations and images broken down by prints, commercial, personal, fashion, vector, and hand-drawn work. (And you thought you had a lot on your "to do" list.)…
Continue Reading →This Saturday marks the second international Support Women Artists Now (SWAN) day, a commemoration and series of celebrations to raise visibility for women artists around the world. Whether you're in Austin, Jerusalem, or Nairobi, there are a series of events…
Continue Reading →[caption id="attachment_14018" align="alignnone" width="550" caption="Photo from Black Rainbow Extraordinaire Magazine"][/caption] Although Brazil's famous graffiti export Os Gemeos have gone from painting streets in Sao Paulo to castles in Scotland, they deserve more than a few solo shows given to them…
Continue Reading →Gallery1988 was once snubbed by Juxtapoz, but it now celebrates its fifth anniversary as one of the most relevant art galleries of our generation. On April 2, G1988: LA presents Idiot Box, 100 artists paying tribute to icons of the…
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