ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Photos From KAWS Art Opening

Kaws marked his return to the formal art scene with his much-blogged Saturated show at Miami’s Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin this weekend. I would have liked to be there to see the Smurfs and Spongebobs and to try to pop off a question or two to Brian D himself, but I was quite happily supporting the [...]

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Bay Area Collectible Toy Show

This weekend’s Bay Area Collectible Toy Show was touted as the event to attend if you missed SDCC ‘08.  A slight case of wishful thinking perhaps, as this Oakland affair was geared more toward mainstream kids toys and a handful of celebrity guests whose heyday occurred long before the attending children were even conceived. Nonetheless, [...]

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Alex Pardee Sells Out

It’s a lesson we’re all familiar with: Although Alex Pardee blogged about his Smurf giclees just this Wednesday, the prints sold out within hours. There were only 26 prints depicting various Smurfs (+ Gargamel and Azrael!), each numbered and hand-signed by Pardee. The Smurfs were printed with archival inks on Velvet Rag Fine Art Paper. [...]

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