Australian artist James Gulliver Hancock’s idea is not necessarily a new one, but it’s garnering him well-earned attention for his delicate, stylized drawings and paintings of New York buildings, which have recently been turned into a book published by Rizzoli.
Though Louis Vuitton remains best-known in the art world for its collaborations with market-tested darlings like Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama, the fashion label is branching out with a new series of scarfs designed by a trio of globe-trotting street artists: Brazilian twins Os Gemeos, New York’s Lady Aiko, and Los Angeles’s Retna. (more…)
Childhood masterpieces still lining the dusty drawers of your parents’ file cabinets are no longer in danger of yellowing and crumbling away into obsoletion. Barcelona-based designer Bernat Cuni has developed a service called CrayonCreatures that gives three-dimensional life to the colorful characters in children’s sketchbooks by transforming them into lasting sandstone sculptures. (more…)
You’ve been in Miami for a few days already, but you’re only halfway through the festivities. Time to buckle down, ration the champagne and get enough sleep so you don’t crash over the weekend. Before you depart from your hotel for the day, we highly recommend purchasing your tickets for the MoMA PS1 benefit for Hurricane Sandy relief, with DJ sets by Avey Tare and Deakin from Animal Collective and Dave1 from Chromeo, it is sure to be one of the week’s best parties. (more…)
Previews, vernissages, and opening receptions begin in full force today. Below today’s events you’ll find all the fairs and on-going events. Enjoy! (more…)
At Art Basel Miami Beach, even the bars are works of art. Cuban artist duo Los Carpinteros is creating a latticed, circular bar installation on the South Beach waterfront that will be open to revelers for the duration of the fair. The construction, titled “Güiro,” draws its name from the Cuban percussion instrument created from a dried hard-shell, tropical fruit. (Fittingly, güiro is also Cuban slang for “party.”) The oval-shaped bar will hold live music, performances, and activities throughout the week, including a set by Mollorcan composer Joan Valent that incorporates the güiro instrument. (more…)
Ippodo Gallery, which has occupied a cozy space on 26th Street in Chelsea since 2008, will sadly be closing its doors come December 31. The gallery, which specializes in contemporary Japanese art crafts — including ceramics, urushi lacquer, bamboo, dyed and embroidered textiles, cabinetmaking, paper, metal, glass, stone, sculpture, and painting — has three exhibition spaces in Japan and represents over 60 artists. (more…)
Public art: So rich in site-specificity, so lacking in pelvic thrusting. Luckily, the Humping Pact is out to change all that. The brainchild of Berlin-based artists Diego Agullo, 32, and Dmitry Paranyushkin, 30, the Humping Pact was conceived in 2011 during a residency at PACT Zollverein center for performance and choreography in Essen, Germany. (more…)
Comic book fever is in the air. New York Comic Con is finally here, and the Museum of Chinese in America has just opened their concurrent exhibitions “Marvels & Monsters” and “Alt. Comics.” The shows (already surveyed by ARTINFO) chronicle the history of Asian contributions to comics over the years, along with interactive displays of iconic characters and original artwork. Just as crowds are set to don the costumes of their favorite fictional villains and heroes, MOCA is offering fans a chance to win prizes for putting their fantasies to paper. (more…)
