If anyone debunks the notion of street art as buildings tagged with incomprehensible spray-paint calligraphy and some sort of stencil-work it’s MTO. The Berlin artist creates large 3-dimensional imagery in which he incorporates the urban landscape he chooses into the movement of his work. His labor intensive procedure breeds paintings which are equally remarkable in […]

The rattling of the above ground subway is almost audible in the new mixtape from Brooklyn collaborative effort Mosholu. Supposedly the recording process began in the legendary Bushwick bathroom of Eastern District Gallery, although producers (including Ghost Dad of WIN WIN, Picture Plane, Amaze 88, and more) were brought in to clean things up and make things […]

Accomplished French street artist JR has traveled around the globe making making his mark in countries such as Kenya, Liberia, Sudan, India, and Cambodia just to name a few. After seeing the hardships and injustices women face daily, he decided to capture and “take their stories around the world”. Using his iconic mural-size posters, he […]

The year 2008 was a great one for Robert Downey, Jr. The same year he played Tony Stark in Iron Man he also played Kirk Lazarus, the black faced “method actor” in Tropic Thunder. Both were big hits, but it was Iron Man that had legions of acne-pocked fanboys clamoring for more of the villainous […]

Tonight at the esteemed Wooster Street Social Club the Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game is manifested into the art world via some of the world’s top contemporary artistic minds. Artists from the U.S. and Mexico — including Sam Flores, 3rassiere, Estevan Oriol, Eyeone, Jeremy Fish, Jorge Alderete, N8 Van Dyke, Rico Deniro and Robert […]

Throughout time, art has been used as a means to express one’s feelings on the world around them. Whether it was to showcase anti-government sentiments or used by the government for propaganda campaigns, art in all its forms has been the driving force behind documenting the joyful and the destructive moments that humans have enjoyed, […]

For anyone living under a rock for the last 30 years, Henry Rollins was of course the former frontman for punk legends Black Flag, later going on to helm his own Lollapalooza era Rollins Band, as well as other solo efforts. Henry has also made several guest appearances on other artists’ (TOOL, Tommy Iommi, Les […]

It was supposed to be just another Tuesday. Do some laundry, write a little, get a haircut, and apply for non-existent jobs. That all changed when I woke up to an email from Charlie Meadows asking, “U wanna go Drifting today?” Ummm, huh? I had no idea what that meant. I thought he was cracking […]