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ArtPadSF ’12 – “Highlights”

Posted by rhinomilk, May 20, 2012

ArtPadSF hosted its second annual boutique art fair over the weekend, which coincides with ArtMrkt and SFFAF. Unlike your traditional art fair with booths, this one takes over the Phoenix Hotel in the heart of the Tenderloin District in San Francisco with each gallery taking up their own room in the hotel, which gives a more laid-back pop-up gallery vibe. Throughout the weekend, various programming (lectures, music performances, panel discussions) took place in the courtyard as well as in the bar of the hotel.The fair [...]

ArtMRKT San Francisco ’12 – “Highlights”

Posted by rhinomilk, May 20, 2012

artMRKT is one of the art fairs taking place in San Francisco over the weekend, with over 70 modern and contemporary galleries at the Concourse Exhibition Center. AM was able to check out Thursday evening’s preview, which was fully catered with mini-corndogs, cocktail shrimp, mozzarella and booze – the perfect mixture to get you in the mood for buying art! A few gems were on display, which included new works from Jonathan Viner (Sloan Art), Evan B Harris (Red Truck Gallery), Brendan Monroe (Park Life), [...]

Overtime: May 14 – May 20

Posted by Khoi, May 20, 2012

Stories from this week: One of Melbourne’s few remaining Banksy street works destroyed by drilling work for a cafe. Following the BLU controversy, another artist may have had his piece at MOCA censored. Another great mural in Los Angeles unfortunately gets painted over. SEVER’s mural in Detroit causes controversy. A grand opening for Stavenger’s Reed Projects. Bamboo iPhone case with Keith Haring imagery from Colors. New work from REVOK revealed. Hypebeast sits down with a talk with KAWS. Pharrell Williams talks about his favorite artists, [...]

Streets: World Roundup (May 14 – May 20)

Posted by sleepboy, May 19, 2012

We start our roundup off this week with a tribute mural for Maurice Sendak from the PDB crew on Melrose in Los Angeles, You can see more photos on Melrose & Fairfax for those who want a closer look. Other walls worth looking include pieces from Escif (Spain/Morocco), Vhils (France), Blo x Jaw (Australia), Jef Aerosol (Belgium), Isaac Cordal (Belgium), Chazme x Nawer (Poland), Carl Cashman (UK), M-City (Finland), Zilda (Italy), Saner & Aryz (Mexico), Mobstr (UK), Shida x Nychos (Austria), La Pandilla (Mexico), Jaz [...]

Rewind: May 14 – May 20

Posted by sleepboy, May 19, 2012

For our video summary this weekend, our featured piece is entitled A Brief History of John Baldessari. The humorous yet informative video follows a give and take session between the conceptual artist and narrator Tom Waits. The footage includes topics like how Baldessari cremated everything he ever made, his height, and his love affair with dots, his film still collection, how “he will not make any more boring art,” among other zany discussion points. Other notable videos this week… JR, a year after his TED [...]

Releases: Saber – Large Lino Flag Triptych

Posted by sleepboy, May 18, 2012

Dedicated to making his art accessible to all his fans regardless of their economic status, SABER (interviewed) has just released a set of flag lino prints priced affordably on his webstore. Available in red, green, and blue, the 6″ x 8″ editions are limited to 50 each and despite their price ($85), each hand finished. Each version from the triptych is numbered and dated on back as well as signed on front. Discuss Saber here.

Openings: “FRENCH INVASION” @ Fabien Castanier Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, May 18, 2012

Several days ago, the Fabien Castanier Gallery in Los Angeles hosted a group show for a selection of French street artists appropriately entitled FRENCH INVASION. Featuring the likes of Speedy Graphito, JonOne, Nasty, Rero and Tilt, the space was filled with paintings, installations, silkscreens and sculpture from each artist. The evening was rounded out by a live painting session on a collaborative mural as well as a surprise showing from SEEN and Sket One. Photo credit: Birdman Photos & Guillaume Zuili.

Teaser: KAWS – Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

Posted by sleepboy, May 17, 2012

Following in the tradition of other artists (Takashi Murakami & Tim Burton) who have had their iconic characters blown up for the famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, street turned contemporary artist KAWS will have the honor the next time the event comes around. The huge balloon (40 feet long, 34 feet wide and 30 feet tall) will be in the shape of his Companion figure covering his face with its gloved hands, as if he were ashamed or crying in a pose inspired by Rodin’s [...]

Openings: Word to Mother – “Can’t Afford to be Broke” @ White Walls

Posted by rhinomilk, May 16, 2012

London-based artist, Word to Mother’s (interviewed) latest offerings were put on display last Saturday evening at White Walls in an exhibition entitled Can’t Afford to be Broke (previewed). With this show, he took his weathered assemblage style and incorporated past and current pop icons with typography to create a commentary on the current state of our economy and society. The pieces evoke a sense of desperation, yet with some humor and color, there is still some optimism. In addition to the mixed media pieces on wood, [...]

Openings: KAWS – “Nature of Need” @ Galerie Perrotin (Hong Kong) Part II

Posted by juggernut3, May 16, 2012

On Tuesday, Galerie Perrotin held the grand opening for its Hong Kong gallery location with a showing from the New York-based KAWS (a.k.a. Brian Donnelly) and it was a quite an event. Yesterday, we brought you an intimate look at each of the pieces in the exhibition entitled Nature of Need. Today, in the second part of the coverage, we give you an idea of impressive scale of the works as the audience hovered from piece to piece taking in all the colorful compositions created by the artist. [...]

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