Art
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IKEA Ninjas
The art of hiding in plain sight, a ninja skill and military staple, was tailored for average pedestrians a little over a year ago by Japanese clothing designer Aya Tsukioka as a way to avoid urban crime. It was a…
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A Change in the Air?
“Something is happening in artists’ studios: a shift of emphasis, from surface to depth, and a shift of mood, from mania to melancholy, shrugging off the allures of the money-hypnotized market and the spectacle-bedizened biennials circuit.” So wrote New Yorker…
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You Never Knew It Could Be Like This
Koert van Mensvoort is transforming the Internet and the culture around it. A Dutch artist and professor, Mensvoort challenges how we experience the world around us, especially, but not only, the digital world. His Web site asks: “Why not start…
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Ten People’s Favorite Blog
Flavorwire interviews online curator and blogger Leslie Miles about his visual curation site. “The concept was simple enough: No words. Just images. Each post is a theme. The beauty is in the simplicity of the visual inspiration. … I was…
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The Artful Crosswalk
These artful pedestrian crosswalks are street art of a different stripe. Their most notable creator is Peter Gibson (aka Roadsworth), a street artist who got his start as a frustrated cyclist in Montreal. Having “found little encouragement in breathing car…
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Arthur Ganson’s Poetic Kinetics
Yesterday my heart went out to the image of a small, walking wishbone that seemed to pull, like a frail ox, a complex contraption behind it. It was the most melancholy wishbone I’ve ever seen. Like most of Arthur Ganson’s…
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Amy Crehore’s “Dreamgirls & Ukes”
Oregon-based artist Amy Crehore opens her solo show at Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, this Friday, February 13. Crehore has painted over a dozen antique ukuleles as part of this exhibit, most of which are from the 1920s, as well as…
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The Other Martin Amis
When you’re looking for new and exciting information on Martin Amis, you might want to check out this Martin Amis. His photographs are quite striking. He recommends new photography books that aren’t easy to find. For some reason if you…
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Lost Love’s Artifacts
The Museum of Broken Relationships is coming to San Francisco just in time for the holiday that commemorates, lest we forget, the martyrdom of St. Valentine, who was stoned and beheaded for his acts of devotion. Founded in Croatia, the…
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In the Art Rags
The new issue of Bidoun has glitter on both covers, smells like a pack of baseball cards, and includes a stellar essay by Negar Azimi, “I Often Dream of Slavs.” The last issue of frieze celebrated FILE Magazine‘s idiosyncrasy; the…
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The Rumpus Long Interview with Ron English
“…The day that you don’t have any Republican friends, or you don’t have any Christian friends, or you don’t have any Muslim friends, that you only have, like, artists-from-New-York-City friends, then I think you have a problem.”