New Art
New Art / Dan May
June 11, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
I want the furry, bulbous creatures in Dan May’s paintings to hang out with me in my dreams. They’re a little creepy, but ultimately they have a sad benevolence about them. Read more
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New Art / Luke Kopycinski
June 11, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak 
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Luke Kopycinski is a concept artist for a game company in Melbourne, but his fine art transcends any niche genre with its rough paint strokes converging into luminous and expressive figures. Read more
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New Art / Brian Cooper
June 10, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Brian Cooper’s almost Cubist yet trompe l’oeil paintings of boxes and architecture confuse depth and space rather like MC Escher, yet with a grittier, urban texture and detailing. Read more
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New Art / Miranda July’s Hallway installation
June 9, 2009 | New Art | 
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For those unable to check out Miranda July’s latest installation in person, this video takes you through her magic Hallway. Although just words on walls, it’s intriguing and makes the viewer feel as if they’ve stopped in time to ponder their very existence.
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New Art / Simon Schubert
June 8, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Renowned German installation artist and sculptor Simon Schubert has created a lot of large-scale pieces, but his amazing images of architectural spaces created by carefully creasing and scoring paper have a huge wow-factor despite their smaller size. Read more
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New Art / Andrew Foster
June 6, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Andrew Foster’s whimsical and erotic nudes seem to simultaneously lampoon and pay homage to the Impressionists. His pastel landscapes are completely devoid of men, and the women that inhabit them seem not to mind. Read more
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New Art / My Milk Toof
June 4, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
My Milk Toof is an adorable little photo comic by artist Inhae. I’m not sure what a milk toof is, but it sure gets its little self into a lot of funny situations.
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New Art / The dark side of David Griggs
June 1, 2009 | New Art | by Xavier Toby |
David Griggs doesn’t want you to feel comfortable. His paintings often begin with detailed images of a simple, arresting beauty, which is then subverted with graffiti or scribbles. He’s an artist that quite clearly works with the darker sides of humanity, as his pieces often contain violent imagery. His work also regularly deals with contemporary politics and current issues. Read more
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New Art / Nathan Sawaya’s lego art
May 29, 2009 | New Art | by Sonya Rosendorff |
Nathan Sawaya creates art with lego bricks, creating fun, colorful blocks of large-scale sculptures. He started using lego bricks in his art early on in 2000. Mythbreakers wanted to see if they could make a large large ball and roll it down the hill without it breaking. But they didn’t have enough lego pieces, so they called upon Sawaya to supply them with lego bricks. Mythbusters tried rolling it down the hill, but it didn’t roll straight and broke apart before it hit the car. Sawaya advises to use glue.
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New Art / Are Mokkelbost aka ION
May 28, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Are Mokkelbost aka ION makes the most intense collages you will ever see. The source images are almost completely unrecognizable as the Norwegian artist creates new forms, fields of depth, and color gradients. Check out the album art Mokkelbost did for Norwegian electro-prog-metal band Next Life’s latest album, Lost Age. Read more
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New Art / Christian Rex van Minnen
May 27, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Taking Surrealism back to its roots, Denver-based painter Christian Rex van Minnen, riffing on Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s sixteenth-century portrait heads composed of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. Van Minnen’s takes a less direct approach, playing with finely-rendered textures and abstracted but visceral components that suggest organs, skin, meat, crustaceans, and plant life, but also including more literal elements like flowers, clothing, leaves, and silhouettes. The artist’s use of dramatic, one-point lighting adds a depth and creepiness to his work, drawing out the grotesque forms and surfaces. Read more
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New Art / Bill Carman
May 27, 2009 | New Art | by Zolton |
I love the deep sense of mystique and other-worldliness that resonates through Bill Carman’s artwork. Of his creative process, he says: ‘Things seem to crawl from my brain, through a sketchbook, and end up on some beautiful surface. I am an image maker who illustrates, draws, and paints’. Read more
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New Art / Kate MccGuire
May 26, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Kate MccGuire uses found and repurposed materials to create intricately layered yet conceptually elegant installations and sculptures such as a map of the Americas made out of dozens of sheets of carefully burned paper or her feather pieces that seem like giant creatures turned in on themselves or fluid masses erupting from broken pipes.
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May 26, 2009 | New Art | by Casper Johansson |
The New York Times has just run an interesting article about artist Jorge Colombo, who created this week’s cover for The New Yorker magazine exclusively using the iPhone application Brushes: ‘Absolutely nobody can tell I am drawing’. Colombo told the Times. ‘In fact, once I was doing the drawing at some place, and my wife was around, and they asked her why did I have to work so hard? I seemed to be always on my iPhone sending messages’. Read more
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New Art / Veronique Meignaud
May 23, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
That’s it. I’m going to be the Malcolm McLaren of metal and start an all-girl, technical death metal band. They will be called Vagina Dentata and their album covers will be done by French artist Veronique Meignaud. Read more
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We checked with with legendary Australian designer Vince Frost and asked him when he felt he was usually at his most productive: ‘First thing in the morning. I am alive and excited about the new day. I have built an amazingly diverse team around me and I know that we can do anything that comes our way’. Read more
I don’t know how San Francisco artist Liz Hickok constructs her dramatic cityscapes entirely out of jelly without at least nibbling a bite out of one of the imposing facades.
FFFFOUND! is a fun website that allows you to bookmark your favorite images from the Internet and share them with fellow users, sort of like a del.icio.us specifically for pictures. The site is still in private beta and not currently supported on Mac, but as its collection of images expands, it’s likely to become much more widely available.
If you ever happen to find yourself riding across the mid-west on horseback with an iPod jangling about in your holster, be sure to let Calexico soundtrack the experience. They’re cleverly fusing a range of genres, mixing some good old country with US indie, a bit of jazz and even, in 2003’s Feast of Wire, some smatterings of electronica. Lead singer Joey Burns gives a healthy amount of cowboy twang and the soaring orchestral background and sweet country guitar licks add a real atmosphere to the music.
Listen to the Calexico song, Convict Pool.
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Anything goes in New York, even a white peacock in the middle of Manhattan. Yes, a white peacock! Who says the Upper West side is ‘upstate?’ Come visit one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in New York, which host the famous Cathedral of St. John The Divine (112th St. and Amsterdam Avenue). Read more
An intelligently told, morally complex tale with a raft of unexpected twists, Gone Baby Gone is one of the most original films of recent times. Most films give you a sense of their narrative arc and it is easy to recognise the major plot points. Read more
Much2Much is an exquisite ‘bourgeoise punk’ jewellery line crafted with unlikely bits and bobs. Read more
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Trip out with Sparrow Vs Sparrow’s retro illustrations, I love their aesthetic, color use and sense of humor. Read more
Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
Good thing Kris Kuksi channelled the trauma of growing up with an alcoholic stepfather, his disdain for ‘the typical American life and pop culture’, and his fascination with the macabre into obsessive, baroque assemblages, paintings, and drawings. Read more
Yum, yum, cupcakes are fun. These creations are so clever, so arty, so damn bizarre that it would almost be a shame to eat them. Almost! Read more
Diane Koss’ recycled bottle monsters
Check out Diane Koss’ amazing handmade stuffed monsters if you’re looking for a last-minute gift. Her mostly cycloptic creatures are fashioned from felt made from one hundred percent recycled plastic bottles. Read more
Made from 100 percent organic cotton, pesticide free, and eco-friendly, this super soft tee featuring a unique, bold design celebrates a sinister world of kaleidoscopic colours and ripples of psychedelia, of serenading Queens, of dancing flamingos, of unimaginable euphoria. It’s all the work of Sydney label, Das Monk and it’s available through the Lost At E Minor online store for just US$40. Now, there’s one hell of a Christmas present, even if we do say so ourselves Read more
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