Put together by MOCA’s director Jeffrey Deitch, Aaron Rose of the Beautiful Losers & Roger Gastman best known by the History of American Graffiti, Art in the Streets is the latest book to come out of the Rizzoli publishing house. The Book was released alongside the same exhibition at MOCA LA earlier this year.
“Art in the streets'” attracted 201,352 visitors from April 17–August 8, 2011, marking the highest exhibition attendance in the museum’s history
“It is my mission to increase MOCA’s attendance and to engage new audiences,” said Deitch. “Art in the Streets reflected a wide array of creative disciplines and local communities, and these record-breaking attendance figures go a long way to doubling the museum’s attendance this year.“
The book surveys the global history of graffiti and associated street arts. Focusing on the scenes in NYC, L.A. and San Francisco a wide array of artists are discussed and showcased including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Blu, Martha Cooper, Shepard Fairey, Stelios Faitakis, Futura, Phil Frost, Os Gemeos, Keith Haring, Todd James (REAS), Margaret Kilgallen, Lady Pink, Barry McGee (Twist), Steve Powers (ESPO), Lee Quinones, Retna, Kenny Scharf, Swoon, and Ed Templeton, among many others.
For those that couldn’t make the show, the book is the next best thing
Parra (b.1976) is best known for his curved post-Pop imagery, highly saturated colors, vibrant hand-drawn letters and worlds inhabited by hybrid, surreal characters. Celebrated by galleries and championed by an underground following from the outset, Parra has quickly become a respected and eclectic artist worldwide. Working across drawing, painting, animation and sculpture, Parra creates an enigmatic and instantly recognizable style that defies easy categorization. Parra is cofounder of cult apparel label Rockwell Clothing and a member of electronic music group Le Le. Parra lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Fly new coffee table' by Parra 90 x 70 x 40 cm — edition of 8 wood, fiberglass & enamel paint.
Just in time for the 30th Anniversary of the Memphis Milano Design Movement, Third
Drawer Down is pleased to release the first collection of products featuring the playful
patterns of one of the Memphis Group founding members and celebrated artist,
Nathalie Du Pasquier.
Please click on the links below to the first articles written by Annemarie Kiely for Vogue Living.
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FIY, Confetti system has just finished special collaboration with United Bamboo, presented at installation LIGHTS UP! at W/ —- Project Space, NYC. May 19th-June 2nd.
Woolfiller repairs holes and hides stains in woollen jumpers, cardigans, jackets and carpets, for example. How?
Through embracing the specific character of wool. The fibres of wool contain miniscule scales which open up when they are pricked with a felt needle. The open scales bind with each other and will not be separated. Not even in the wash.
Woolfiller can be used with a special machine or with the hand. It is simple, sustainable and satisfying. A new solution for an age old problem.
This is an amazing new gadget, where you draw and make music at the same time. using electronic currents like a theramin, you can use anything to make sound. Water, plants, people, pencil… whatever you can think of! Now Available here
Francis Upritchard is a New Zealand born artist, living and working in London. She creates sculptural installations, often surrounding humans as a central theme. These figures inhabit a world replete with found objects warped to their own uses. They showcase the diverse human condition, often cheerful, miserable or introverted. The humour in her work often mixes ancient with the future, and creates evolution gone askew.
‘In this exhibition, Upritchard has set a stage for archetypes. The iconic martyr, 'The Misanthrope’, the vilified and cruel beast, ‘Mervyn’ the fool, ‘John’ the knowing jester.
Gestures are exaggerated, suggesting a common language.
There is sensitivity to our place in history, and an acknowledgement that today there is no common faith, or a unified community: the fool has no court to amuse, or anyone to listen to his truth. Ultimately, the figures are lonely and comical, Handmade bowls are ghostly, faded memories; a translucent wash replicates the colours and pattern of a coarsely woven bowl. But, there is humour in this work too. Two furry camel heads sit on the top of urns with snooty expressions. A necklace of cigarette butts hangs prosaically from a wall. Colour acts as a counterpart to the seriousness. Echoes reverberate between the present and past in an attempt to identify a semblance of shared experience, and make sense of modern life.‘ Release by kate MacGarry Gallery
By following the lives of five Japanese individuals this documentary by Mike Mills (Thumbsucker and Beginners) explores the problem of depression in Japan and how the marketing of anti-depressant drugs has changed the way the Japanese view depression. Marketing of anti-depressants did not begin in Japan until the late 1990s and prior to this, depression was not widely recognized as a problem by the Japanese public. Since then, use of anti-depressants has sky-rocketed and use of the Japanese word “utsu” to describe depression has become commonplace, having previously been used only by psychiatric professionals.
Hikikomori (What is Hikikomori?, literally “pulling away, being confined”, i.e., “acute social withdrawal”) is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive people who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement because of various personal and social factors in their lives. The term hikikomori refers to both the sociological phenomenon in general as well as to people belonging to this societal group. In Western terminology this group may include individuals suffering from social phobia or social anxiety problems. This could also be due to agoraphobia, avoidant personality disorder or painful or extreme shyness.
Francis Upritchard is a New Zealand born artist, living and working in London. She creates sculptural installations, often surrounding humans as a central theme. These figures inhabit a world replete with found objects warped to their own uses. They showcase the diverse human condition, often cheerful, miserable or introverted. The humour in her work often mixes ancient with the future, and creates evolution gone askew.