THE CARIBOU RESTO & BAR BRANDING
In-your-face simple, yet effective, branding by Maxime Brunelle. I’d like to have this in my home bar counter. If I had one to begin with. Check out THE SOURCE.
MANILA: SECRET FRESH
Secret Fresh was born from a passion for collecting. What was once a childhood pastime had become a hub for mining new talent in the cross pollinating fields of graffiti, comics, film, animation, music, architecture, fine art and design. This commitment has grown to facilitate and showcase further this thriving field through its gallery. Located in [...]
FRUITY SKULLS BY DMITRI TSYKALOV
Paris-based Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov has carved and crafted many things, from wood to meat. But some of his latest creations are deathly skulls from life-nourishing fruit and vegetables. This guy is quite something. Check out THE SOURCE.
BEIJING: BRING ME THE HEAD OF…
Istanbul-born artist Serkan Ozkaya encourages you to play with your food as part of his conceptual piece “Bring Me The Head Of…,” in which diners consume an edible, teddy-bear-shaped head. He has previously taken the work to restaurants in Istanbul, Shanghai, and New York. For its Beijing debut at Capital M, the head takes the [...]
SKIN DEEP: THE GREAT WALL OF VAGINA
Artist Jamie McCartney’s Hay Hill gallery expo celebrates the female body and looks closer at how beauty is defined in today’s society. Jamie McCartney’s new exhibition, SKIN DEEP, leads a legion of lady-parts to Mayfair’s Hay Hill Gallery. Launching a bold assault on perfection, the artist presents a one-hundred strong display of plaster cast vaginas [...]
THE FOLDING OF A KNOWN WORLD
Currently on display at Galleria Patricia Armocida in Milan, Italy, “The Folding of a Known World” is a seamless collaboration among three distinct American talents: Swoon, Monica Canilao and Dennis McNett. McNett’s ferocious animal characters usually occupy a blank page, while Swoon’s surreal, cut-out portraits adapt to whatever context they are pasted into. When joined with the found-object dream [...]
HONG KONG: ART HK12
In just a few days the fifth edition of the Hong Kong Art Fair, ART HK12, will be landing upon us at the Hong Kong Convention Center located in Wanchai’s picturesque and glorious Victoria Harbour. This year, as i’ve learned from my interview with Fair Director, Magnus Renfrew, there will be over 260 Galleries around [...]
HO RYON LEE’S DOUBLE EXPOSURE PAINTINGS
Double exposures are often used in photography as a way to simulate movement and mood. But these paintings make me feel like a dirty old man and make my eye bounce from the edges to the center and back to the edges again. Does their perfectly painted beauty seem to initially hide their pervy upskirt tease factor? [...]
CARDBOARD SCULPTURES BY SCOTT FIFE
Created entirely from archival cardboard, artist Scott Fife conjures life-like busts of people and beasts alike to stunning effect. Building up layers of cardboard with glue and a screws, the works include a variety of texture and color, culminating in the expressive features of celebrities such as Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley as well as [...]
FUTURE SELF AT MADE
FUTURE SELF studies human movement, mirroring interaction in dance, light and sound, while exploring the self, present and future. FUTURE SELF brought together a media artist collective, rAndom International, a choreographer, Wayne McGregor, and a composer, Max Richter in a unique interdisciplinary clash at MADE. The FUTURE SELF Project Film documents the creative working process, [...]
BUY BYE BY VUE PRIVEE
Vue Privée marked the official launch of their new gallery at Spottiswoode Park with the opening of Buy Bye, a group exhibition that aims to showcase how Asian artists have been observing and responding to societal changes. In this instance they are taking on today’s luxury consumerism society that has been brought about by a [...]
TATTOOED POSTER BY THE CHAOS CREW
Munich tattoo studio the chaos crew has created a poster that shows the bavarian tattoo artists’ skills in a grand scale. The collective developed a massive poster from calfskin, stretched into a window display in order to showcase their tattoo artist’s techniques and historical events which took place in 2011. The chaos crew tattoo studio notes, ‘just [...]
ANDREAS ENGLUND SUPERHERO PAINTINGS
It’s not often that you think about what superheroes do when they get older. Do they retire? Hell no, according to Andreas Englund’s captivating series on the daily travails of a slightly weathered ass kicker. Check out THE SOURCE.
NO ONE CAN SAVE US: MOJOKO x ERIC FOENANDER IN JAPAN
HERE HERE if you happen to be in Japan. (We decided to keep the Japanese characters for decorative purposes). この度、シンガポールを拠点にしている作家、Mojoko（スティーブ・ローラー）とEric Foenander（エリック・フォーナンダー）の展覧会を開催いたします。 CLEAR EDITION is proud to announce NO ONE CAN SAVE US by Singapore based artists Mojoko aka Steve Lawler & Eric Foenander. ///////// “NO ONE CAN SAVE US” Mojoko + Eric Foenander 会期 / [...]
Transmission: Kaleidoscope Opening
TRANSMISSION: Kaleidoscope derives inspiration from the patterns that a kaleidoscope produces, and aims to explore the notion of change in a world of constant flux; the contrast between rest and movement, structure and chaos. This edition of TRANSMISSION comprises of 10 apprentices from varying creative disciplines and backgrounds who have been under the mentorship of [...]
SHEPARD FAIREY AT WORK: HARMONY AND DISCORD
Shepard Fairey spent several weeks in New York in July 2011 and February 2012, creating and printing the works for his forthcoming exhibition at Pace Prints. In this video, he discusses the ideas behind the works and the printmaking processes that he used. All the works were created at the Pace Paper studio and Watanabe [...]
Fuck You World, I’m Out: solo art show by Wasted Rita
Wasted Rita is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Portugal who describes herself as a ‘rough mix between Jesus Christ and punk-rock’. Rita is having her second-ever solo show, Fuck You World. I’m Out, between April 28 and May 24 atÓ! Galeria in Porto. And, yes, her artwork contains a healthy amount of obscenities. [...]
Prodip for ORBIS
On the BREAK THE WALL website, you can visit a visit a virtual wall of art that Prodip did especially for ORBIS. You can go visit this wall and “hammer” out a part of it, as well as learn about real cases of helping preventable blindness. Check out THE SOURCE.
Murmure Concrete Business Cards
Drawbacks to a concrete business card? Could you carry more than three of them in a coat pocket? Also, your target will not likely keep it in his or her wallet. Then again, it would be very difficult to throw something so singular into the wastebasket. Anyway, a very cool idea from French design agency [...]
Beautiful ceramics by Lusesita
I have an obsession with cups and saucers. And Lusesita has such a beautiful collection of them at her utilitarian ceramic store. I love the color palette and the shapes of her ceramics. Last weekend, we went to her solo show and I couldn’t help buying a super cool set in white with vintage rose [...]
Bape x Medicom Toy Life Entertainment x Andy Warhol Camo Banana Cushions
The Andy Warhol banana cushion, that is being produced by Medicom Toy Life Entertainment since a while already, gets the Bape camouflage treatment in three sizes and three colorways. Look out for a release towards the end of April 2012. Check out THE SOURCE.
Kidult Runs Fake Supreme x Kate Moss Poster Campaign in Paris
French street artist Kidult striked once again and for the second time his victim is New York brand Supreme. After having hit the Supreme New York store with a massive ‘KID’ tag in May 2011, Kidult is back and has now put up fake Supreme x Kate Moss posters all over Paris walls. Check out [...]
Ara Peterson & Jim Drain’s Fan Installation at Transmission LA: AV Club- 04.21.12
Ara Peterson & Jim Drain created a mind trip of household fan driven pinwheels which are dizzying and fascinating to walk through at Avant/Garde Diaries Transmission LA: A/V Club at MoCA… Constantly spinning as you wander through them and feel slight breezes coming from different angles, they suck you in if you fixate too hard [...]
Building as a Body
Commissioned by Singapore Art Museum, as part of The Singapore Show 2012: Future Proof By Grace Tan and Randy Chan Extended until Sunday 22 April 2012 The Substation Façade Building As a Body is an art installation by Grace Tan and Randy Chan. The installation is a veil, composed of a matrix of dots and [...]
