The MoMA (that’s the Museum of Modern Art in the New York-fucking-City) has recently launched a web video series on YouTube … More
Month: November 2017
SUFFER FOR FASHION: VINTAGE MOTO HEADWEAR DESIGN FOR YOUR RETRO LIFESTYLE
TYPOGRAPHICALLY YOURS: THE FRIGHTENING OMNIPRESENCE OF KOOK STREET
HEAVY CRITICAL: MORE POWERFUL LATIN AMERICAN ART FOR YOUR PLEASURE
SIDE HUSTLES: WE LIKE TO SKETCH
Yes, it’s true, savvy reader. Sometimes we here at Global Graphica like to pick up a pen, pencil or, preferably, … More
HOBBIES: WHERE TO PUT THAT $450 MILLION DA VINCI PAINTING YOU JUST BOUGHT AT AUCTION
Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “Christ the Savior” has just sold at auction for a record $450 million. Just to clarify, … More
SEEN: MASSIVE CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION AT MOCA CREEPY AF! AND WE LOVE IT!
Some will hate it. Some will love it. Many will be confused. More to the point, it’s creepy AF! But … More
PINKISH: PORTRAIT OF ROBED ELEPHANT-HUMAN STREET ART BEFUDDLES PASSERSBY
Street art often provides many unanswered questions, not only about the artwork itself, but also who created it. There’s seldom clear … More
CAPITALISM 101: STRANGER THINGS APPAREL SPOTTED IN THE WILD
Have you binge watched season two of Stranger Things? If you have then you know how good it is. Some … More
POLITICAL BORDERS: THE AESTHETICS OF GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
The New York Times has just published a fascinating article titled “Eight Ways to Build a Border Wall” that looks … More
CONFUSION: “ART-NOT-ART” STREET ART
A funny thing about “art.” Sometimes the happiest of aesthetic accidents happen as a consequence of totally non-artistic impulses. Take … More
STYLE: THIS FORMER EURO-AMBULANCE COULD BE YOUR NEW CALIFORNIA CRUISER
Style. It’s important. You know it. We know it. When it comes to personal transport, the mode of transit you … More
TECHNOLOGY: STREET ARTWORK LITERALLY “PHONY”
An electric utility box along Sunset Blvd. in Silver Lake, in Los Angeles, has been painted as an old-school public … More
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: NEW MAYA HAYUK MURAL IN NYC COMPLETED
Aaaaaaaaaaand … it is done. As breathlessly reported here earlier artist Maya Hayuk had started work on a new mural … More
BREAKING: NEW AWESOME GEOMETRIC-ABSTRACT MURAL BY MAYA HAYUK GOING UP IN NYC
… More details to come, but here’s a pic from Maya of the work in progress.
SWEET: ARTIST TURNS CONCRETE BARRIERS INTO GIANT TOBLERONE
Abso-fucking-lutely brilliant! Artist(s) turned these concrete barriers into a giant Toblerone chocolate bar. At time of reporting it could not … More
CULT OF KAWAII: WHEN STREET ART “GETS CUTE” WE ALL SUFFER
Look, savvy reader! Look at the photo above! See that tiny wheat-pasted street artwork of a poodle-like canine waltzing … More
DESIGN LUST: SURFBOARD SHOP THINLY DISGUISES ITSELF AS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FIRM
It’s no secret that we here at Global Graphica are fond practitioners of surfing, the so-called Hawaiian “sport of kings.” … More
TRASHY: CLUSTER OF TATTERED AND FADED STREET ART “ADDS CHARM” AND CRED TO NEW STREET ART
STRANGER THING: ARTIST TURNS MUNDANE ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL INTO THOUGHT-PROVOKING ARTWORK
Clever, fun and intriguing installation artwork by artist Monica Sosnowska at Hauser and Wirth gallery in Los Angeles.
HEAVY: CREEPY ART INSTALLATION AT LA GALLERY PROVOKES “ALL THE FEELS”
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE: STENCIL STREET ART ATTEMPTS WRY SOCIAL COMMENTARY ON SMARTPHONE USE
We were were recently walking down the street in the Arts District near Downtown Los Angeles (a.k.a., DTLA). We … More
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