Go to your kitchen! GO! Go right now! Grab some aluminum foil. Rip a sheet out of the box. Now, … More

Artist Ed Ruscha has a deep and longstanding relationship with the city of Los Angeles. It’s where he studied art. … More

Driving a motorcycle taxi in Nairobi is a competitive business. To stand out and lure fares, the taxi riders adorn … More

The Washington Post has published an “Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sleeping Positions on a Plane” on its website. The article does … More

An ordinary-looking fitted bed sheet is draped from a canvas leaning against a white gallery wall. It’s an artwork by … More

The world was sad to see the news earlier this week that artist John Baldesarri had passed away last week. … More

We came across this rad black-and-white mural of tiger in full stare-down mode in Santa Barbara’s gentrified former industrial area … More

Where in the hell have these delightful Yayoi Kusama dog sculptures been hiding? Currently on view at LACMA in Los … More

There’s a certain European “interiors” publication has made a unique design for the spine of each issue of its magazine. … More

It’s an amusing conceit. In the high-ceilinged foyer of the Barney’s store in Roppongi, Tokyo, an unpotted Japanese bonsai tree … More

Along one side of this steep hillside street in Tokyo’s Akasaka neighborhood, there’s a guard rail decorated with cute plastic … More

When the graffiti writers rocked up to this spot for the first time, they must have been salivating, drunk on … More

In what was once an old, small two-story house next to the elevated train tracks in Tokyo’s Naka-Meguro lives Onibus … More

So many choices, so many options, so many variations. Who knew there could be so many nut-based crunchy-delicious Japanese snacks? … More

Iconographic sign in the Azabu Juban neighborhood of Tokyo.

We briefly swung by Japanese cellphone carrier and telecommunications giant DoCoMo’s current design exhibition in Tokyo that shows how the … More

Artist Urs Fischer is one of a handful of contemporary artists who have collaborated with Louis Vuitton to create a … More

Another contemporary artist who has collaborated Louis Vuitton on the Capucines Collection handbags is Alex Israel, whose artwork heavily employs … More

Sometimes it takes a bold yet cognitively dissonant vision to center our thoughts on what’s really important in life, about … More

The “canvas” in the headline above is actually eight, large square-shaped canvas panels placed together to form a masterwork by … More

Beats made these Mickey Mouse headphones for fans of the iconic Disney mouse. Beats headphones, worn here by a colleague, … More

Peter Lindberg, the German fashion photographer whose work ushered in the era of the “super model,” died this past Tuesday. … More

Artist Brenna Youngblood’s wry painting titled “3 Dollar Bill (Dirty Money)” is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art … More

We’re a bit world-weary at times about art. Dare we say, a bit cynical, even. We’ve seen so much and … More

The recently passed Chinese artist Wang Guodong is not well-known name in the art world. For decades and practically the … More

Late African-American artist Barkley Hendricks‘s photo-realistic painting titled “What’s Going On” is a beguiling image. The artwork is a group … More

Like an incredible childhood fantasy made real, “Metropolis II” at LACMA comes to life with the sound of whirring and … More

Artist Yunhee Min’s site-specific floor mural for Hammer Projects takes center stage at the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles. … More

Artist Sarah Lucas emerged in the 1990s as a so-called “YBA” (“Young British Artists”), one of a generation of British … More

British artist Matthew Stone‘s paintings are not really paintings. His epic images look like paintings but look closely at the … More