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Amazing Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan 2021
Echigo Tsumari: To view contemporary art you generally head for a museum. But the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, an landscape-scale art festival held every three years in the Echigo Tsumari region of Japan, offers a vastly different experience. Echigo Tsumari is an economically distressed region with a decreasing and aging population. It covers an area of […]
Toyota Corolla Wireframe Design 2021
Toyota Corolla If you’re thinking this is Photoshop trickery, think again. This is a wire frame model of Toyota Corolla, rendered entirely with wires by Benedict Radcliffe. This work is used on numerous ad-campaigns by Japanese Densu Inc. Unique, creative, and very cool.
Amazing Street Art on the Reservation 2021
Wheatpaste Art by Jetsorama Chip Thomas is a man with multiple identities. He’s a longtime Indian Health Service physician working on the Navajo Reservation. He’s also a great photographer. He’s also the wheatpaste artist known as Jetsorama, and his large, street art-style images of the people in his community resonate with striking power against the stark Arizona landscape. Check […]
The Only Amazing Manga Museum in the World 2021
Kyoto Manga Museum, famed for its geisha girls and global warming protocol, is also home to the only museum catering to manga, i.e. Japanese comics of wide-eyed heroes and heroines. The Kyoto International Manga Museum opened in November 2006 in a refurbished primary school and houses approximately 200,000 manga books and assorted historical items. On any given […]
Amazing African Artists Address Environmental Struggles 2021
African Artists: Africa’s multi-dimensional environmental struggles are the focus of a well-received exhibition at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs. Environment and Object: Recent African Art includes works by a number of preeminent and emerging African artists, including El Anatsui, Viyé Diba, Yinka Shonibare, Zwelethu Mthethwa and Barthélémy Toguo. New York Times reviewer Holland Cotter recently praised […]
Richard Russo: Seriously Funny 2021
On Wednesday September 17th Seattle Arts and Lectures kicked off its 2008-2009 season with a lecture on humor by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. Humor- it seemed an odd topic to me mainly because most of the aspects I remembered about Russo’s novel Empire Falls were dark in nature. The book explored characters dealing with […]
Quality design gets Kinky 2021
In the age of Ikea, Walmart, and Super everything, quality design has been relegated to the era of walking uphill both ways in the snow just to get to school. Most of the furniture that populates the living rooms of the western world has a shorter lifespan than our grandparents clothing. Things are meant to […]
Crazy 4 Cult: Art and Cult Films in Perfect Harmony.
Gallery1988 art in LA is currently showing some of the hippest and cutting-edge interpretations of cult films in their latest exhibition: “Crazy 4 Cult: This time its personal”. Over 100 up and coming artists have produced works for the show that has been a massive success and continues until September 12th. At the Opening Party on […]
Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico at LACMA Resnick Pavilion 2021
A mind-bendingly broad spectrum of human creative output will be on display when the new Resnick Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opens to the public on October 2. The opening trio of exhibitions, together with the facility itself, should provide some intriguing contrasts. The Resnick Exhibition Pavilion moves LACMA’s ongoing redevelopment forward […]
Lisa Congdon You Won’t Believe her Amazing Art 2021
Stumbling, eclectic and intense; three words that San Francisco based artist Lisa Congdon uses to describe her work. She began in the education and non-profit world and worked her way onto the art scene later in life. When she began producing art at the age of 33, she had no formal training – save a painting class […]
