Takashi Murakami, the Japanese artist who makes intriguing work out of cartoon mushrooms and whose style we most covet, currently has a retrospective going on at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The best part is SuperTouch is giving us a personal…
Continue Reading →Our experience with steel wire sculptures has been limited to crappy key rings and county fair crafts. So when we stumbled upon Frank Plant there was a little bit of hesitation. Not only did he smash our previous notion of…
Continue Reading →The Gift: You like Spanish cartoon characters ... we like Spanish cartoon characters. And now it's time you owned a few from one of our much-hyped friends, Tolky Monky. The muy bien prize pack contains a T-shirt, sweatshirt, and small…
Continue Reading →We've covered a few urban reinvention projects, Guerrilla Gardening and Aakash Nihalani come to mind. Madrid street artist SpY has been making the Spanish laugh with is comical, ironic works involving surreal extensions of what we find commonplace. A basketball…
Continue Reading →Next time you make a pilgrimage to see Gaudi's architectural wonders in Barcelona, make sure to stop by the Iguapop Gallery/apparel store. The shop opened in 2003 within the El Born neighborhood - the hip, funky district where the locals…
Continue Reading →In case you still haven't figured it out, vampires are going to be all the rage this fall. Between two new TV shows and the film Twilight, everyone's going to be talking about bloodsuckers. In celebration, the Spanish Tolky Monky…
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