April 30, 2022 Artists In a triumphant finishing act, we slapped a few stickers on the board this week to say goodbye to our exhibition, Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures at Urban Nation museum in Berlin. The original sticker board in the gallery area had become overloaded and layered with stickers from visitors to the show and also from sticker artists […]
Artist David Heo’s practice spans a variety of different genres, including large-scale paintings, works on paper, mural paintings, and brand collaborations. Though wide-ranging in medium, his works all reflect an idiosyncratic vision of the contemporary world, as well as his personal approach to subject matter, defined by a meticulous yet whimsical layering and color palette. Heo plays with the peripheries […]
April 29, 2022 Artists, BSA Film Friday Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening:1. A Playgirl and Lowrider Life in Paintings 2. DRM Crew & Edward Nightengale in Berlin. I LOVE GRAFFITI3. Elmgreen & Dragset: Useless Bodies “One of my friends said, ‘You make fine art for cholos,” says Los […]
Saype Stays True to Biodegradable Art at Venice BiennaleBecause the photos from each installation are always so good, here is the latest installment by French-Swiss artist Saype, who is featuring his giant biodegradable landart painting on a floating …
Sander Coers is a photographer based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In his ongoing series, “Blue Mood (Al Mar),” Coers creates a tender portrait of a generation. Steeped in nostalgia for the sultry summer days of his youth spent in Zeeland, the project visualizes the vulnerability of growing up, the transformation to adulthood, and the search for love and self-acceptance. Exploring […]
This one goes out to the coffee pressers, the bean grinders, and the latte artists putting hearts and roses on the foam. Get your chocolate croissant ready, and grab a cold brew of coffee making inspiration from this list of awesome coffee station ideas. People love coffee because it’s a delicious way to start their day, and it gives them […]
A selection of recent work by Métis artist Jean Paul Langlois (previously featured here). Known for using ultra-saturated colours and pop culture motifs as a way of grappling with a sense of alienation from his own cultural backgrounds — both indigenous and settler — Langlois’s latest paintings mark a slight shift away from his previous focus on storytelling and family […]
Gender, Caste, and Crochet : OLEK Transforms a Shelter in DelhiThe fluorescent pink and orange sari skims the svelte frame of Brooklyn’s Olek as she glides across the dirt lot in Delhi’s South Extension with bags of yarn, needles and fabric slung over arms and sh…
Inspired by all things that don’t exist, Stefan Koidl turns his imagination into theatrical scenes that play on our nerves. He takes us to the dark side of our minds and tells us stories that do not let us sleep. Being mainly self-taught, the artist confirms that his unbelievable art skills result from talent, hard work, and motivation. His feedback […]
Artist Paul Rousteau’s practice pushes photography to its limits, distorting reality and breaking free of conventional representation standards. Blending the medium with digital art and painting, his work is an experimental hybrid, examining the relationship between painting and photography. It is with this pictorialistic approach that Rosteau visited Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, France. Struck by the simultaneous paradise of […]