New Events
New Events / Art Battles Australia at Name This Bar in Sydney
February 10, 2012 | New Events | 
by The Flying Dutchman |
Currently taking place at Name This Bar in Darlinghurst, Sydney, is the summer 2012 season of Art Battles Australia. This fortnightly event pits two artists against each other. Producing a mural in front of a live, cheering audience, the winner on the night progresses through to the semis and hopefully finals in the end. Read more
New Events / Alternative Miss Ireland
February 8, 2012 | New Events | by Mary Furlong |
I’ve been the resident portrait photographer at the Alternative Miss Ireland for sixteen years. It is without doubt the wildest night to be had in Ireland and raises an incredible amount of money for Irish HIV/AIDS organisations. The 18th and final pageant will be held on March 18 in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin.
New Events / Band of Skulls’ Emma Richardson’s new art exhibition
February 7, 2012 | New Events | by Bridget Barnett |
Band of Skulls vocalist and bassist Emma Richardson has explored a new creative outlet by releasing her first solo exhibition Crusin’ for a Bruisin’, a series of drawings and large-scale work created in response to her bands music. The artwork is currently showing at the Londonewcastle Project Space in London.
New Events / Warren Ellis’ Remake/Remodel Jams
February 3, 2012 | New Events | by Sean Hartter |
Held bi-weekly at comic creator Warren Ellis’ Whitechapel message boards, the “Remake / Remodel” threads are genre bending exercises in re-imagining old comic and pulp concepts. Artists of every skill level and discipline create their interpretations of the chosen topic and display the finished product within the thread. Results vary but there are always outstanding and thought provoking ideas presented. Captain Future And His Amazing Lab Goons is the current theme.
New Events / Surasi Kusolwong exhibition at the MOMA PS-1
February 2, 2012 | New Events | by Scratch My Nose |
Acclaimed Thai artist Surasi Kusolwong’s latest art installation, Golden Ghost (The Future Belongs to Ghost), invites audience members into a vast field of industrial thread waste to search for three gold necklaces planted by the artist. The audience member who is fortunate enough to find it, can keep the treasure. The day I visited, there were quite a few excited children looking. The work is playful as visitors climb through tonnes and tonnes of thread waste, while serving as a metaphor for excess consumption at both the global and individual level.
New Events / Peter Greenaway: The Tulse Luper VJ Performance
February 2, 2012 | New Events | by Scratch My Nose |
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway, who is best known for his controversial and visually lavish films, was recently a guest of Santiago a Mil Arts Festival in Chile. As part of the program, Greenaway presented a 90 minute live cinema experience on four screens, which was a mix of magnificent visual and aural chaos. Read more
New Events / Zadok Ben David’s awesome Blackfield exhibition
January 31, 2012 | New Events | by Elly Prestegard |
Blackfield is an installation created by London-based artist Zadok Ben David. Read more
New Events / The Havaianas Australia Day Thong Challenge
January 25, 2012 | New Events | by Margarita Peker |
In 1986, Paul Hogan exposed to the rest of the world that there is something a bit “odd” about Australians. I’m not sure it’s something that we’ve actively tried to live down in the decades since, but I’m going to hazard a guess that sending thousands upon thousands of bikini-clad Aussies off shore on giant inflatable lilo Havaianas annually does not help this reputatation. Read more
New Events / Everything Is Electrified: paintings by Joe Simpson
January 19, 2012 | New Events | by Joe Simpson |
Everything Is Electrified is my new exhibition that launches in Camden on January 20th. The paintings are a departure from my normal figurative painting and use mixed media to create grand skies with pylons and transmissions towers dotted across the horizon. I find these man-made structures strangely cinematic and alluring. Read more
New Events / Win a trip to New York from the Doss Blockos gang
January 19, 2012 | New Events | 
by Lost At E Minor |
Our crew at Doss Blockos Pale Lager were tipped off about an abandoned brewery three levels beneath the streets of New York. Vids from a lifetime squatter and tunnel dweller have given us hope that we can find it by following coded signs from the Mole People that live in the tunnels. Read more
January 17, 2012 | New Events | by Lost At E Minor |
This Brisbane City Council street art initiative is getting artists to paint the traffic signal boxes at intersections. 2010’s award recipient, Penelope Donovan, says it’s a great way to get your work out there, despite the prescribed nature of the brief. It’s all run by Urban Smart Projects.
New Events / Noir City: San Francisco Film Noir Festival
January 11, 2012 | New Events | by Lesya Westerman |
Noir City is back for their tenth year at the historic Castro Theater in late January, dishing up the best of film noir classics. Double-features on a bargain with people who similarly appreciate this underestimated art form. Nothing better than that.
New Events / The Watching Paint Dry Championships
January 4, 2012 | New Events | by Zolton |
The marketing brainchild of LocalTraders, the Watching Paint Dry Championships is an online challenge in which contestants are asked to ‘send in a picture of themselves watching paint dry and state the longest time they’ve managed to stare at a wall of drying paint without looking away’. They ‘also want to know your favourite paint colour and why’. All for a good cause of course. An iPad for the winner. Now, get to watching …
New Events / Dances of Vice: a New York nightlife sensation
January 3, 2012 | New Events | by Christopher Stribley |
Do you ever get bored of just going out to the same old clubs and events and wish for something with a little more pizazz? Shien Lee, the glamourous mastermind behind Dances of Vice knows just how you feel. Since 2007, Shien has been bringing her sparkle to the nightlife of New York, to create fun, memorable events that attract people from all walks of life. Read more
December 24, 2011 | New Events | by Leicha Stewart |
Nathan Sawaya’s newest collection is currently showing at Sydney’s Town Hall. The exhibition, The Art of The Brick, runs until February 5 and showcases his three dimensional LEGO sculptures and over-sized portraits. Sawaya’s largest sculpture is a dinosaur skeleton measuring about 20 meters long. It took him a whole Summer to complete. Read more
Using found/re-purposed paper to draw on, British artist Olivia Jeffries creates pieces that look as if they have fallen out of the notebook of some latter-day Da Vinci.
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Here’s an awesome map generated from Nasa satellite radar measurements of tree density in the United States.
Australian group Pivot have recently signed with the mighty Warp label and — even better (well, for us anyway) — have written a fun Secret Playlist for us. You can see where the many disparate influences have seeped into their latest recording, the beautiful and colourful, O Soundtrack My Heart.
If this image by designer Yanko Tsvetkov is how Americans see Europe, I wonder what a map of how Europeans see America would look like. Do most non-Americans have any concept of what Nebraska is like?
We’ve all been there: funny do’s, extreme do’s, do’s that just don’t. Now there’s a website devoted to ridiculing one thing in life that, the older we get, we all wish we had more of. Read more
Setting Sun’s cover of Tom Petty’s You Got Lucky was recently released as part of Buffet Libre DJ’s compilation CD, Rewind 2. Says frontman, Gary Levitt, of their version on the song: ‘We got back from our European tour on Christmas Eve with a December 27th deadline for the track looming. It was finally started on December 26th and then sent off completed the next day. It was a great exercise in having to let some things go. That’s twenty-four hours out the door complete, old school style. That’s how records used to be made. Motown, baby, MOTOWN!’ We have the song for free download in our Music Download section [psst, it's in the third column of the site]
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Cool name, even cooler clothes. Apparently Karen Walker isn’t the only good thing about New Zealand’s fashion scene. There’s also Jason Gitmans (of Gitmans Knitwear) and Kylee Davis of The Stitch Ministry. Read more
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It’s refreshing to see artists like Joe Kievitt who are contented to explore the beauty in simple forms and asymmetrical patterns. Read more
Matthew Dear’s Black City album totem
Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! Read more
Pencils made from recycled newspaper
The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.
Never ever, ever, ever, ever park here
Some friendly advice for the neighbours, who simply don’t get it, or street art? You decide which one it is.
Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.
Created by graphic t shirt label, the-affair, and printed on beautifully soft American Apparel. Limited edition of 200.
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