T Magazine: The Real Artists of Marfa | Jennifer Lane
The latest installment in Vincent Dilio’s series of portraits: A filmmaker creates a festival to showcase the work of visual artists.
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FAILE TEMPLE – STUDIO EDITION BOOK
Faile’s newest 128-page book titled,
CINDY’S NIGHT OUT
Few photographers meld art and artifice as deftly and delightfully as Cindy Sherman. The subversive self-portraitist’s penchant for wigs, props and prosthetics was on full display last night in MoMA’s 6th floor gallery, where a crush of people had gathered to fête the artist’s eponymous retrospective. Coincidence or not, some of the assembled gawkers bore more than a passing resemblance to the Sherman characters (fashion victims, society matrons and retro ingenues) they were admiring, a fact not lost on legendary lensman Bill Cunningham.
8 Shipping Containers Equal 1 Family Home Designboom
Like deep dish pizza, prop comics, and nude beaches, there seems to be no gray area when it comes to shipping container homes: some people truly love them while others despise them.
TheSeventhLetter: 50 Characters in Miami
As the final videos from Art Basel 2011 begin to roll out, TheSeventhLetter’s “50 Characters in Miami” is certainly a nice way to end the event coverage if this is indeed the swan song from the art exhibition. Featuring MSK’s RIME, he takes on an expansive space as he tries to expand on a repetitive theme popular among graffiti enthusiasts. The finished piece is certainly an awe-inspiring display that TheSeventhLetter crew continues to churn out on a consistent basis.
Todd James "King Of the Wild Frontier" @ Gering & Lopez, NYC
Todd “REAS” James, recently part of our Graffiti Spotlight and his August 2008 cover in our Top 25 Covers list, will be opening a solo show, King of the Wild Frontier, at NYC’s Gering & Lopez Gallery on March 1, 2012. The exhibition will present two new bodies of work: canvases depicting James’ familiar Somali pirate series and a recreation of the Vandal’s Bedroom that was so essential to the Street Market installation at MOCAs’ Art In the Streets.
Christopher Kane. London, 20/02/12
Click images to enlarge. Christopher Kane’s collection started in smart pinstripes and blacks, and then bloomed into dark flowers and intricate embellishments. Prints included abstracted, low-contrast concoctions of purple wood grains on dresses and bluish cheetah spots on leather macs; details included large blossoms embroidered on scarlet sheer blouses and skirts, and flower beds of beads and shiny sequins.
Fashion East. London, 20/02/12
Click images to enlarge. Fashion East showed the exact same line-up as last season – Maarten van der Horst, Marques’Almeida and James Long.
Joshua Marston Draws Blood
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Build an Igloo Out of Milk Jugs
Well, if this igloo doesn’t beat them all.