Forever Bicycles is the centerpiece of Ai Weiwei’s new exhibit in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The Chinese artist, famed for previous works like Sunflower Seeds, utilizes more than 1,000 bicycles for his new work. The exhibit opened this Saturday (October 29, 2011) with the noted absence of Ai himself due to the Chinese government’s […]

In 1993 William Gibson wrote an infamous critique on Singapore in Wired, entitled “Disneyland With the Death Penalty“. 18 years later, chewing gum is still banned, and his portrayal of a sanitized, technocratic, insipidly consumerist culture still has some truth to it. So what would he make of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel? Whether arriving […]

In 2011 it’s easy to dismiss Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans as been-there-done-that monotony. Who wants to stare at a painting of an object you can buy for less than a dollar at Ralphs or the 99 Cent Store? I do, and we all should. Warhol’s iconic painting is actually thirty-two paintings side by side, […]

Conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldman is important. So important in fact that he was named the recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize last November — a bi-annual award presented to artists who make significant achievements in contemporary art. Attached to winning the award, the German artist received $100,000. In a stroke of artistic inspiration, Feldman — […]

When New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty retrospective exhibition last month, nobody quite expected the response to be so great. To deal with the overwhelming turnout, the Met has decided to extend the show’s run an additional week until August 7th. In order to commemorate this unexpected but well […]

The London-based design studio Mash Creative has collaborated with the Design Museum for their latest collection of varied goods. Their “State of the Obvious” collection is a hodgepodge of items including iPhone and iPad skins, marker pens, USB sticks, travel card wallets and keyrings. And like the title suggests, each piece of the collection tells […]

Seeing as Mundt is lost in the dark jungles of Nicaragua right about now, allegedly working on filing some tales of Mayan adventure, this clock is the just thing his mosquito filled tent might be missing. The World Time Clock from MOMA is a unique and very portable way to quickly figure out what time […]

The thing that most bugs me about this whole BLU mural getting whitewashed is not really the beauty or fantastic nature of the mural itself. To be honest, the mural was so straightforward that it almost bordered on obvious. But that’s not the point. When you ask an artist to paint you a mural — […]