Earlier this year, photographer and barber Gogy Esparza made the trek to Tokyo for his exhibition titled LIGHTTIME TOKYO which featured over 3,000 pictures placed throughout the walls of Tokyo’s popular hotspot Le Baron. On the way, Gogy documented the process through this short film and while it lacks the crispness of a DSLR rig, [...]
The art community comes together in this video for a protest revolving around the recent drama between MoCA director Jeffrey Deitch and his involvement in the censorship of Blu’s mural, which after six days of work was abruptly taken down at the request of Deitch. A bit further information on the situation was covered here [...]
Mainland Chinese artist Feng Mengbo offers a bit of social commentary via the use of video games with Long March: Restart currently taking place at the MoMA. Revolving around the world of Communist China, the video game allows participants to play the role of a Red Army soldier versus evil communist troops with cameos by [...]
The post-Christmas leg of Reverting to Type will reopen on January 4, 2011. The showcase features the efforts and work of 20 modern day letterpress practitioners from around the world. There’s no need to detail the demise of print, yet exhibitions like Reverting to Type continue the legacy and beauty of printed materials. The exhibition [...]
The 1960s marked a dramatic change of direction in the art of Roy Lichtenstein: while his earlier works consisted mainly of paintings of American history and the American West, in 1961 he turned to black-and-white drawings. Inspired by advertising and media illustrations as well as by comic strips, Lichtenstein created about seventy impressive black-and-white drawings [...]
In a joint grand opening with BAPE STORE Beijing, the I.T Beijing Market represents a large-scale retail affair combining the efforts of regional powerhouse I.T and globally respected Dover Street Market London to continue on with Rei Kawakubo’s “Beautiful Chaos” vision. As an associate of COMME des GARCONS, Dover Street Market has enjoyed a strong [...]
This past month, Los Angeles-based brand The Hundreds and Garfield aligned to create a comprehensive project spanning both fashion and art. The two-part project included a series of T-shirts, toys, skate decks and New Era fitted caps as well as a collaborative art show featuring many familiar artists that surround The Hundreds brand. In this [...]
Damien Hirst’s controversial work will hit the shores of Hong Kong next month with the unveiling of his “Forgotten Promises” exhibition. Earning the title as the most lucrative living artist of our times, the exhibition will take place at the Gagosian Gallery located in Central, Hong Kong. The exhibition will run from January 18th, 2011 [...]
Created by Bram Snijders and Carolien Teunisse, RE: is an audiovisual installation created for the Borderless Reality, an exhibition organized by ISMAR 2010 and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media. The overall goal was to bring to light a so-called “borderless world developed from the point where physical reality and virtual layer become entangled in augmented [...]
Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present After The Rain, a group exhibition featuring Boogie, Guy Denning, Aakash Nihalani and Pascual Sisto. After The Rain merges and contrasts the palettes of four artists who work in a range of media. The precise neon color sculptures and abstract mixed media canvases of Aakash Nihalani highlight the raw, [...]