Last night we checked out some fresh artwork from Brooklyn-based artist Maya Hayuk at the opening of her new show “Light Heavy” at the Cinders Gallery‘s pop-up space in New York’s Lower East Side. Most of the works in this show are her colorful cross-hatch paintings. These are similar toContinue Reading
One of artist Bradley Theodore’s recent street art additions to the downtown New York CIty landscape is this diminutive full-body skeletal portrait of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and his Birman cat Choupette. The iconic Lagerfeld, currently serving as creative director for Chanel, has made many public appearances with Choupette thatContinue Reading
A copy of the first issue of the comic book Action Comics — in near mint condition — recently sold on eBay for $3.2 million. The issue was published in 1938 and purchased for 10 cents. It was in the pages of Action Comics where Superman first appeared. See theContinue Reading
This king of spades street art on Great Jones Street in NoHo, in downtown New York, is by the incredibly prolific artist Cost, and it’s one of the few pieces by him that rely on graphic images rather than on text alone. The King if spades is much less cryptic,Continue Reading
New York-based Swiss artist Urs Fischer‘s famous giant yellow teddy bear and lamp has been installed at the recently opened Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar. Our Tokyo editor Mayumi Ihara was recently there and took a few quick pix (below). The artwork is officially titled “Untitled (Lamp/Bear),” and it’sContinue Reading
