Tangled up in boobs sounds like it could be a Bob Dylan song. It’s not though. It’s the new summer t-shirt series from Parra (AKA Dutch artist Pieter Janssen) called “Holiday Drama”. This t-shirt art kind of reminds me of The Point. It would be a fun summertime activity to wear this t-shirt, drink spiked […]
Dutch artist Jasper de Beijer navigates hyperreality with his newest series Marabunta. Initially inspired by the Mexican drug trade, de Beijer spent time researching in Mexico where he gained insight into the contrast between what it’s like to be there and what it’s like to just read about the violence, compounded with ideas concerning how the media plays […]
As artist Jeff Gaudinet explains: “This thing started by accident, mispronouncing “Skate Moss” (while talking about both skateboard & Kate Moss with my friend Oniram). So I decided to create this useless / pointless platform…” The platform being taking images of the timeless supermodel and printing them on skateboards. Pretty simple, but endlessly opportunistic given the […]
Banksy revealed two new sets of work — a series of his more common street guerilla art, as well as 3 new paintings (Ballerina, Lifestyle Out of Order and Parliament). The location of the graffiti/street pieces has not been revealed, probably to keep them from being stolen and/or destroyed before anyone really gets to see […]
Canadian artist Dale Dunning welds metal type and steel hardware to create labyrinthine masks and heads. Trapped underneath layers of rigid bolts and washers, Dunning uses “the head as a container to suggest what’s percolating underneath.” His sculptures of visage are indeed vague and skeletal. They evoke the victims of Pompei or beach fossils or […]
Dutch artist Parra has collaborated with Kidrobot to bring his 2-D painting to the next dimension for a limited edition of 300 pieces titled “Pierced”. Like his Parra vs. Toykyo “Fly New Coffee Table”, Parra’s paintings seem to manifest well into the 3-D world. Originally a silkscreen painting, the “Pierced” figure will stand 10″ tall […]
Echo & the Bunnymen’s founding guitar player Will Sergeant is set to open his art exhibition My Own Worst Enemy at Substrate Gallery in Los Angeles tomorrow (May 18th), where it will be on display until June 16th. Substrate is a Los Angeles gallery exclusively devoted to the presentation and interpretation of contemporary fine art […]
Although not a name well known outside music nerd circles, Amon Tobin has lit the interwebs aflame with his recent Coachella performance. We were among those that were there, and were properly dazzled. The Brazilian born, London-raised, Redwood Forest-dwelling electronic music maverick has always been two steps ahead of his sonic contemporaries. But with his […]