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Openings: Souther Salazar & Tobias Fike – “Today is the Day” & “Then and Now and Then” @ David B. Smith Gallery

Posted by Scott Bailey, May 15, 2014

Forsaking his adopted hometown of Portland for several weeks, Souther Salazar traveled to Denver in order to bring a new installation to life at the David B. Smith Gallery. Working onsite, he created a snow covered landscape full of sloth like creatures ensnared in conflict with a thin tongued beast rising out of a colorful pool. Titled Today is the Day, it includes all of the signature Salazar elements including his color palate and the feeling of boundless imagination. Despite the violent motif, the piece […]

Previews: Thinkspace – “LAX / TXL” & Project M/4 (Berlin)

Posted by SAL, May 15, 2014

As previously announced, the Urban Nation project in Berlin is continuing with their fourth phase which includes a pop-up exhibition and mural project curated by Andrew Hosner of Thinkspace. Titled LAX / TXL, the show is opening on Saturday, May 17th in Berlin, and will feature works from an impressive rooster of artists. Similar to their Exploring The New Contemporary Movement show during this year’s POW! WOW! event in Hawaii (covered), this showing is the Culver City gallery’s effort in introducing the artists and their work to a wider audience. […]

Streets: Phlegm (New Zealand)

Posted by SAL, May 15, 2014

After building up and later destroying his first ever gallery show in London (covered), Phlegm took of on a another world trip for a couple of months focusing on what he loves the most – painting large murals. He started the tour by participating in the Public Festival in Perth, Australia (covered), and then head further south to New Zealand. His next destination was the remote little town of Dunedin in the south of the country, where he spent few days working on this stunning mural. […]

Benefits: “Art for Tibet” @ The Tibet House

Posted by Manuel Bello, May 14, 2014

Art for Tibet is up and running on their annual art auction featuring the works of Shepard Fairey, Kenji Hirata, Yuri Shimojo, Peter Parpan and about 40+ others. The auction will run live online until Thursday May 15th at 12pm, at which point online bidding will then be suspended to allow the live auction at the Tibet House in New York City from 6pm-8pm. Any unsold works will be back online until May 27th. It’s for a great cause and could be a great opportunity to swoop […]

Frieze Week ’14: Frieze Art Fair (Part 1)

Posted by AM Editor, May 14, 2014

Now in its third year, Frieze New York is no longer merely the new-kid-on-the-block fair trying to challenge the dominance of The Armory Show (covered 1 & 2) but instead has settled in and solidified it’s place in NYC’s art calendar. As in the past two iterations, Frieze NY 2014, which opened late last week, brought together some of the world’s top galleries, who in turn brought artworks from many of the world’s most acclaimed artists. And although there were plenty of jaw-dropping works to be […]