This past weekend iconic graffiti artist RISK held a private exhibition, entitled “Old Habits Die Hard”, for friends and close associates at his Los Angeles home. On display were a number of new works alongside some of his more well-known paintings, installations and statues, each sporting his unmistakable style. Presented here is a glimpse into the exhibit and a few of the highlighted works.
The Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning earlier this month released a revised 2035 General Plan Update Draft –the first comprehensive update of the General Plan for unincorporated portions of the county since 1980 (that plan expired in 2000). For some context, when the 1980 General Plan was crafted, planners lacked the ability to map specific parcel details, not to mention the 1984 Olympics hadn’t even happened yet, so Angelenos still didn’t know what a car-free weekend looked like
‘ I have a style that is best described in colour and realised in detailed design. Bold vibrant colour forms the basis of a working practice that seeks to unite dreams and reality. I try to give the viewer a feast of colour and complexity, my surreal macabre touches are the counterpoint to my sweet and childlike innocent subjects.’ Natsuki Otani is a Tokyo born illustrator working in England
So much ink has been spilled on how vote suppression will affect the 2012 presidential election, one hesitates to write another word. Ari Berman has done terrific work uncovering the ways in which the new voting laws have aimed at suppressing the votes of elderly, minority, student, and other voters—particularly in swing states—who tend to vote for Democratic candidates.
‘ In those countless cheap and long forgotten men’s humor magazines, Bill Ward’s voluptuous ‘girly’ drawings shared the pages with photos of Bettie Page and Mamie Van Doren, and pin-up cartoons by the likes of Archie’s Dan DeCarlo and Playboy magazine’s Jack Cole. Thumbing through those digests, it quickly becomes evident that Ward was Humorama’s dominant pin-up cartoon artist…’
New 3-D models suggest that what’s been seen as one of Earth’s first land walkers was actually more of a flopper.
Oxygen-breathing life exists on Earth today because of changes in the planet’s magma 2.5 billion years ago, a new study says.
Harvard and China have one thing in common: They both consider themselves to be the center of the world. So, it was always inevitable that when the scandal that brought down Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai broke , the repercussions would be felt, somehow, in Cambridge
Seiko Kato is originally from Japan and moved to England in 1999, she fell in love with this country and it’s history.
Artist Lucrari Claudiu Cândea knows how to take something utterly grotesque and abnormal and make it appear natural- or even sexy. In his series of drawings, the subject matter are apparently unphased as their skin peels and unfolds from their forms. Anatomical small intestines, hamstrings and organs are uncovered as morbid and suggestively macabre female figures are portrayed with simultaneous grace and beauty
