In this 176 page book, Tokyo-based authors Ivan Vartanian and Kyoko Wada take a holistic view of Japanese art throughout its 5 millenniums of history and analyze common threads found throughout. See/Saw finds ways to unite such chronologically disparate themes as Giant Robots and ancient Samurai illustrations, or uniting Murakimi’s Superflat school of art with […]

The Rotterdam-based artist Florentijn Hofman has created this giant flip-flop sculpture of a fat and colorful monkey, lazily fallen flat on its backside. Constructed with the help of local students in São Paulo, where the “Fat Monkey” project was created, Hofman selected Brazil’s very own infamous flip-flop icon as the material of choice to construct […]

Chances are you won’t be buying a Rolls Royce anytime in the near future. Or who knows — maybe you will, who are we to set your ceiling on accomplishment? If I had the funds tho, I certainly wouldn’t be spending them on a Rolls — I’ve got my eye on a Bentley Supersport but […]

God it sucks when people try to make the world a more beautiful, interesting and colorful place. What’s the deal guy — you got too much time on your hands? Don’t you have some place to be making money, or posting Facebook updates to let everyone know how awesome you are? Why you gotta waste […]

It may be hard to believe, but this series of images, titled Another Place, are actually large oil paintings, not photographs. While hyper-real oil paintings are nothing new, these 3m x 4m paintings by Jonathan Wateridge are incredibly accurate, and have a cool central concept. Another Place depicts scenes from the production and narrative of […]

Parisian photographer Anne-Constance Frenoy has a way of capturing the female form with subtlety and true beauty. Her unique eye for the naked female body could be attributed to her early years spent as a dancer and model, but maybe she just always had a knack. As described in Ben Trovato, “her main sources of […]

We first became aware of the work of Mark Jenkins during a recent Los Angeles gallery show, where his absurd human-like characters dominated the room. Raised in the scintillating art Mecca of Fairfax, VA, it probably wasn’t too obvious to Jenkins as a child that he’d wind up a renowned artist. But despite his rising […]

I don’t know what it is about my string of crummy luck lately, but I’ve found myself having to say “I’m sorry” an inordinately amount of times (sorry again, imaginary girlfriend). Is it just me, or is there something in the cosmos? One of the discoveries I’ve made in these trying times is that if […]