It’s nice to see that CBS News is covering other things besides the elections, various wars and the downward spiral of the economy. Posted on Kaws’s blog (where we grabbed these pics) were photos from a recent visit of a CBS News crew and correspondent Serena Altschui (who’s also worked with CNN, Channel One and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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JCauty&Son (the artist James Cauty along with his fifteen year old son) made a bloody splash at The Aquarium L-13 Gallery in London. The show is entitled Splatter and “the exhibit aims to look at violence and death from the perspective of cartoon characters”. And that “The Cautys’ new project employs hijacked popular cartoon characters [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
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Lola, L-O-L-A, Lola. Yeah, songs have been sung about a different kind of Lola, but you know what, we’ll be busy singing our own song of praise for the upcoming Lola show at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California. “Wondermental” is the Los Angeles artist Lola’s solo show that starts October 25th and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
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Last night oodles of scensters, celebrities, art afficidanos and just people who care, came out to celebrate clothing company Hurley’s 2nd Annual Art Chest – an event to benefit the Boarding for Breast Cancer oganization. The event, that went to raise money for a very worthy cause, included a slew of artist and celebrity-customized corsets [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 16, 2008
I’m having some wicked flashbacks from looking at British artist Banksy’s New York debut show. When I was a kid, I had a friend who was really into little stuffed mice. Like real mice. Stuffed. She played with them as if they were Barbies or Little People. She loved them, but they just creeped me [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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Good things come in small packages. And to prove this point, Giant Robot New York City will present their exhibit Crocodile Tears: Small Works of Art by Over 50 Artists. The show opens on July 18th and features works that are all five inches by seven inches or smaller. Each of the fifty artists involved [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 2, 2008
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I’ve been following Melbourne artist Jeremy Geddes’ blog for the past couple weeks. I think it was Ashley Wood’s blog that turned me onto Geddes, but casual readers of this site may also realize that members of the community named Jeremy can occasionally get the nepotistic “ToyCyte Bump.” Jeremy Geddes spends his days smearing pigment [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 25, 2008
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The artist and tattoo designer Mitch O’Connell has been doing some spring cleaning. You might have his Circus Punk or his quirky coffee table book of inkin’ ready tattoo flash, now you can get more of him at low, low prices. Tonight and tomorrow at Chicago’s The Tattoo Factory Gallery Mitch will be unloading giclee prints, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 23, 2008
You only have three, yes THREE, days left to check out the amazing Noferin “The Start; or Where We Begin” show at the cutting edge Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica. The exhibit features paintings of Noferin’s Pecan Pals frolicking in the woods, forests and cold chillin’ in willow trees. Also available are a set [...]
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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