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Month: November 2017

BEHIND THE SCENES: EXCRUCIATINGLY AWESOME VIDEO SERIES “AT THE MUSEUM” SHOWS INNER WORKINGS OF MOMA

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

art museum, at the museum, documentary, moma, New York, nyc, video, video series, youtube

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

art, artwork, contemporary art, drawing, sketch, surf, surf culture, surfer, surfing

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

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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

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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

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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

clothes, fashion, media, netflix, pop culture, stranger things, style, televisions, tv

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

america, architectural design, architecture, border wall, geography, mexico, politics, trump, us politics

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

abstract art, accidental art, architectural design, architecture, arts district, artwork, dtla, graffiti, la, los angeles, minimalism, style

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

la, la street art, los angeles, pay phones, phone, silver lake, technology, trompe d'oleil

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

arts district, cellphones, dtla, iphone, la, la street art, los angeles, silhouette, smartphones, stencil, stencil street art, tech, technology
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