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A Subtlety or The Marvelous Sugar Baby

A Subtlety or The Marvelous Sugar Baby

“A Subtlety or The Marvelous Sugar Baby” is a public artwork made by Kara Walker and cosponsored by the developer that is converting the site of Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar Factory into condos. While the Subtlety refers to the sugar sculptures

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Spring Is Fleeting Ophelia Is Not Bleeding

Spring Is Fleeting Ophelia Is Not Bleeding

A new month, a new poem by Vanessa Matic. Read it after the break.

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Carved from marble

Carved from marble

Feminine, delicate dresses, right? Guess again, because these have been carved from marble by Edinbrugh artist Alasdair  Thomson. His website describes these garments of art at its best: Through his current series of sculptures, Alasdair is exploring the way fabric

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Plastic Doll Faces

Plastic Doll Faces

This is a lovely series of faces composed of plastic toys, made by Australian based sculptor and printmaker Frey Jobbins.  She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa but grew up in West Sydney, Australia. These toy assemblages are part of

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Pinar & Viola – Lick my Nikes

Pinar & Viola – Lick my Nikes

For their latest performance, Dutch artist duo Pinar & Viola headed to a gabber exhibition (Gabber Expo) to dominate a trainer fetishist. The duo slipped into their AirMax’s and forced a sneakerslave to sniff, lick & worship their trainers &

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FatCatArt

FatCatArt

FatCatArt is a project for ‘art-loving cats’, featuring Zarathustra – a cat weighing 10 kilograms of ‘pure undisturbed joy’ – who loves to sit for great artists. Because, according to the creator, only great artists can appreciate Zarathustra’s generous body

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Gif-fiti

Gif-fiti

British artist INSA layers several sheets of paint onto walls, photographs each stage and then transforms the still images into a gif. Of course, the effect only comes alive when viewed online as a stop-motion, looped digital short ‘Mixing retro

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Happy Red Fish’s thread collages

Happy Red Fish’s thread collages

Amsterdam-based designer Hagar Vardimon-van Heummen aka Happy Red Fish adores the combination of paper and embroidery, resulting in collages of buildings and thread. He uses thread to draw lines and build structures, creating a unique exoskeleton for each building.

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Nychos dissects a Volvo

Nychos dissects a Volvo

Austrian artist Nychos has ‘dissected’ a Volvo XC90 as part of the first live art performance at the Volvo Art Session. The detached car parts offer the audience a particular insight in the inner workings of the car, but instead

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Photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Cinematic photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia who takes everyday occurrences beyond the realm of banality, aiming at inspiring the spectators in his pictures to be aware of the psychology and emotion contained in real-life situations. Documentary photography mixed with the fictional

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