Category: Art & Design

Juxtapoz:

Photos from the opening reception of Mike Burnett’s NeighborWOOD, a custon wooden toy group show, at Compound Gallery in Portland, OR. The show opened on December 7th and runs until December 31st.

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NYT:

And Jace, who created a piece on the building’s fifth floor that includes a frighteningly large mousetrap, made of wood and metal and baited with a huge bag of fake money — a clear jab at the development that is about to transform the building — probably won the prize for longest commute. He flew in from the island of Réunion, east of Madagascar, where he lives, spent several days in the building and then returned.

“It’s like a family reunion we’ve got here,” said one artist in from Milan who calls himself Bo and works with a partner, a small woman who calls herself Microbo. “Except some of the family you’ve never met before.”

The other evening, as music blared from multiple stereos, about a dozen artists were arrayed among the floors, still at work. One known as Lady Pink, a veteran New York graffiti artist, was applying the last touches to a large, pink supine version of the Statue of Liberty that was being impaled with a cross but seeming somehow to enjoy it.

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SocialPest:

I think you will agree that these art prints Paul Insect produced for this years Santa’s Ghetto are f*cking awesome.

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Wooster Collective

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NYT Book Review:

They met in 1970 on Thompson’s home turf of Louisville, covering the Kentucky Derby on assignment for the short-lived magazine Scanlan’s. Steadman’s drawings — vicious caricatures of local residents, including Thompson’s brother — shocked the writer with their predatory vigor. Thompson, soon to become famous for a similar bloodthirsty tack in prose, demanded of the artist: “Why must you scribble these filthy ravings and in broad daylight too? … This is Kentucky, not skid row. I love these people. They are my friends and you treated them like scum.” Their first collaboration ended with the journalist spraying Steadman from a can of Mace. “We can do without your kind in Kentucky. Now get your bags and get out, and take your rotten drawings with you!”

Isn’t this how all great buddy movies begin?

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Issue Two artists: Andres Ramirez, Ape Fluff, Arm, AST, Azzwoopin, Billy Simpson, Bonker, Bytedust, Canukistan, Chris Dent, Chuck Trunks, Claudio Parentela, Clay, Clayton Junior, Creep, Dashtou, Earsofa, Eduardo Bertone, Elider Elizondo, Enemy 808, Eno Kruger, Fai1ure, Fenom, Fiodor, Gilbert Wadsworth, Guillo, Ipxls, Iro Iro, Jessica Hobdell, Jim Holyoak, Jimbo, Jizzie Halifax, Kegr, Kenyon B, LET, Lerk, Lick, Lorin Brown, Lune, Madone, Matt Burden, Maybe, Miguel, Mojo Hand, Monica Naranjo, Monsieur G, Mr. 13, Munk, MWM, Mythos, Nicole Andujar, Rehybrid, REone, Revereeh, Rockabilly, Rtyz, Sato Ayami, Stefdem, Street Value, Swrl, Syphos, Vageen, Vector Brigade, Vonster, Wetlands, Zew.

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Wooster Collective:

Looking closely at the sign, it says:

An Ordinary Building

This building was designed by an unknown architect in an irrelevant epoch and never belonged to an important person. The complex does not show any original architectural solutions, nor does it conserve any important works of art within. No memory is kept of any significant historical events occurring on this site. No known personality was born, lived or died here, nor is any excellent artist or sublime poet still working here.

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