Did you know that words can die? It’s true. This stencil street art on the pavement in Venice Beach, in…
FRESH BUCKLEY MURAL
ARTIST GUSTAVO ZERMENO‘S AWESOME “NEED $ FOR RENT” STREET ARTWORK
Don’t we all? Don’t we all need money for rent, in some way, at some time? At least, don’t most…
“LOW EXPECTATIONS, HIGH HOPES” TYPOGRAPHIC TEE
PINK PHALLIC POST-MODERN AWESOMENESS FROM FRANZ WEST
The oft-repeated quote “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” comes to mind here. The quote is attributed to Sigmund…
VENICE BEACH ULTRA-MINIMALISM
MATH BASS MURAL
“CHA CHA CHA …”
On Abbot Kinney Blvd. in Venice, Los Angeles.
REPLICA OF GAME BOY DAMAGED IN GULF WAR
A JAR OF JELLYBEANS AS CONTEMPORARY ART
SKULL X ROBOT NYT MAGAZINE COVER
STREET ART MASTERPIECE IN HONOLULU
Street art in the Kakaako area of Honolulu, Hawaii. Photo by Taquecy.
SMOKING DOG IN BATHROOM
KAWS GETS ABSTRACT IN L.A.
“Activity Trap” by the artist KAWS on view at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles.
EPIC MURAL IN MEXICO CITY
Epic, sublime mural by the Argentine artist Bosoletti on a building in Mexico City. The artwork is titled “Mascara Social.” …
THE LONDON POLICE IN AMSTERDAM
Photo by Gry Goa ( @gryen74).
ARTWORK BY BARRY MCGEE
Artist Barry McGee’s work has been a fixture in our memory and imagination for close to two decades now. We…
“AESTHETICS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS”
MINIMALIST CONSTRUCTION HOARDING
MOCO: DESIGNY PING PONG TABLE
THE DRUNK AQUATIC
ARCHITECTURE: IF PAUL SMITH DESIGNED AN OFFICE BUILDING IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE THIS
ADDICTIONS: NEON SIGN PERFECTLY EXPRESSES COFFEE VICE
But first, coffee! Absofuckinlutely! Before anything, we need our espresso. In the summer, preferably four shots over lots of ice.…
“SHIRT WITH OBJECTS ON CHAIR”
Sculptural object titled “Shirt with Objects on Chair” by artist Claes Oldenberg at MOCA, Los Angeles.
ARTWORK AT VARDAGEN
STENCIL STREET ART IN VENICE
ACTIONABLE: SURF N’ SKATE MURAL
STREET ART AS POLITICAL OP-ED: “TRUMPTY DUMPTY”
MICHAEL JACKSON X PEPSI REDUX
BEACH CULTURE: AT THE VENICE BEACH SKATE PARK
RADNESS: ARTWORK BY JASON WOODSIDE AT GJUSTA
SHEPARD FAIREY IN LALALAND’S WEST SIDE
SAINT MARK OF VENICE BEACH
“LIKE MAN I’M TIRED (OF WAITING)”
EPIC FAILE AT BEYOND THE STREETS
WE ALL SCREAM …
… FOR ICE CREAM! Well, we didn’t want any ice cream before we saw this mural on Melrose Avenue in…
SECRET LIT: THE UNKNOWABLE WRITING OF THE ARTIST KNOWN AS RETNA
Retna is an artist with an easily recognizable and distinctly esoteric visual grammar that stands out from graffiti-art vernacular. The…
PLAGIARISTIC LIKE A KLIMT?
This epic mural adjacent to a couple of rental-car parking lots in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles, is impressive and…
IS TAKASHI MURAKAMI ON DRUGS?
This massive hanging canvas by Takashi Murakami is like nothing else the Japanese artist has exhibited before or that we’ve…
ON THE SCENE AT TORTOISE
MR. A. BY ANDRE
WHO KNEW? INVADER SURFS!
CLAW IN LA LA LAND
The story may be apocryphal, but if true — and we believe it is — it’s a telling anecdote about…
CURRENT EVENTS: “BENEDICT DONALD”
Given the news in the past 24 hours about U.S. President Donald Trump and his meeting in Helsinki with Russian…
INVADER WAS HERE
The French street artist known as Invader (a.k.a., “Space Invader”) occupies a distinct place in the street art world. He…
MINIMALISM: ALL OF THE LIGHTS
Pictured here is “Monument,” a minimalism masterpiece by artist Dan Flavin. It’s made only of fluorescent lights arranged like a…
ARCHITORTURE: GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY, WHERE TOURISTS AND NERDS BEAUTIFULLY COLLIDE!
One of Los Angeles’s great landmarks is the Griffith Observatory, an architectural gem that mixes art-deco and Mayan aesthetics. It’s…
DAVID HOCKNEY’S ARTIST ON ARTIST PORTRAIT
Los Angeles-based British painter David Hockney’s “82 Portraits and 1 Still Life” includes one of that very L.A. artist John…
PROFANE: FRESH ARTWORK FROM MAYA HAYUK
We’ve been following artist Maya Hayuk’s work throughout her career and seen many of her colorful, cross-hatched abstract murals in…
SPRAY AND DESTROY! GRAFFITI ARTISTS’ TOOLS ON DISPLAY AT “BEYOND THE STREETS”!
A massive collection of various brands and types of spray paint — tools of the trade for artists and creators,…
STARSTRUCK: ALEC’S INEVITABLE MARILYN MONROE MURAL
The artist ALEC has made a career of street art and massive murals with images of pop-culture icons and celebrities…
“IT’S JUST A ROCK” … REVISITING “LEVITATED MASS”
Artist Michael Heizer‘s awesome, infuriating, confounding and beautiful installation-art master work “Levitated Mass” on the north-side of LACMA in Los…
BEYOND THE STREETS
BLACK AND WHITE AND MASSIVE: JR IN NYC
ROMANCE: “SOMEONE LOVES YOU”
“Some Loves you” scrawled on a low wall along the pavement in Venice, Los Angeles.
CLOUDY: SKYWRITING “#AMERICA”
Look up in the sky! It’s … it’s a … it’s a hashtag! Yes, right there, in the air, under…
EXPLOSIVE: CELEBRATING AMERICA’S B-DAY IN LA
DRINKING: PATRIOTIC BEVVY ON AMERICA’S B-DAY
WRIT LARGE: “PLZR” AT YOUR PLEASURE
This massive “PLZR” graffiti art across a row of roller-shutters is probably the only graffiti art or genuine street art…
CAFFEINATED: “BUT FIRST, COFFEE”
“But first, coffee.” Truer words were never spoken, or at least that’s what I think in the few minutes between…
PAINTERLY: YOUR SURF TRASH IS A CONTEMPORARY ART MASTERPIECE
GAMEY: VINTAGE PACHINKO MACHINE HAS SEEN THINGS
This vintage Japanese pachinko machine sits on the floor in the corner of a small conference room at the L.A.…
BEACHY: DETAILS FROM MURAL IN A CALIFORNIA BEACH TOWN
Beachy, summery mural and decorative set-up at Right Tribe, a vintage clothing shop in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles.
ARTSY: WE’VE GOT AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF ARTWORK ON A WALL
This painting titled “SaMo” is by our very own Van Corsa and hangs at Global Graphica HQ in Los Angeles.
HOTNESS: BUILDING-ON-BUILDING ACTION
High-rise condo building reflected in windows of a modern glass-and-steel skyscraper in Akasaka, Tokyo.
PRIDE: IN THE NAME OF LOVE AND VENICE BEACH
It’s Pride Month and some of Venice Beach’s iconic lifeguards towers are getting a rainbow pride-flag makeover.
RELATIONSHIPS: WHEN STREET ART GETS TOO SEXY
This street artwork of two rabbits in flagrante leaves nothing to the imagination. The relationship between the creatures is raw and natural…
HIGH-FLYIN’: 800 VIEWS OF AIRPORTS
We — and possibly you, too — are a big fan of large coffee-table art books by the likes of…
VEHICULAR: THE COBRA SNAKE VAN
Wait … what? The Cobra Snake van is parked on ultra-luxe Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, in Los Angeles? Actually…
STYLE: ALL THE COOL KIDS WITH THE PINKED-UP KICKS
These pink-and-gray Nike sneakers, as worn by our colleague M., are FIRE! Fire, we tell you! Sick! We have a…
ARCHITORTURE: ART-DECO MOVIE THEATER MAKES US WONDER IF WE’VE GONE BACK IN TIME
The Aero movie theater on tony Montana Avenue on Santa Monica’s northside is a Los Angeles treasure. A working cinema…
STREETSY: ELECTRICAL UTILITY BOX AS CANVAS
The electrical utility box is a feature of the built-up urban landscape in many U.S. cities. These boxes tend to…
DIVINE KIM KARDASHIAN AND SAINT / NORTH
This simple photographic wheat-paste street art in Venice, Los Angeles, depicts Kim Kardashian with, we assume, one of her two…
ARCHITORTURE: MODERN-CONTEMPORARY BUILDING TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT
Somebody do something, PLEASE! This building … it … it .. hurts our eyes. It’s just too damn beautiful. Must…
CONFUSED: LUMBER YARD OR ART MUSEUM?
The answer to the question is …. art museum, obviously. Specifically the Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles. The…
TIME AND TOO MANY SUNSETS
ALL THE FEELS WRIT LARGE
This poignant street art, if it can be called that (we think it qualifies), is essentially poetry painted in black,…
FISHY: AQUATIC GRAFFITI ART
Some quick-and-dirty spray-painted graffiti art of a fish on the side of a dumpster in a Venice Beach alley.
SUBLIME: MADE OF HAGOP
The street art of the artist who goes by the moniker Made of Hagop never ceases to impress us with…
SNEAKERS : ARTIST DUMPS USED KICKS ON FLOOR, INSTANTLY CREATES CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED MASTERPIECE
Hey, you! Yes, YOU! You, the savvy reader of this blog. In case you did not know it, you are…
UNNATURAL : GRIZZLY BEARS ROAMED VENICE BEACH, MURAL EXPLAINS
Sometimes street art works can provide an educational nugget like this artwork by artist Eric Junker in Venice, which states…
STREETSY : STENCIL STREET ART NOT DEAD, APPARENTLY
Stencil street art seems like it’s everywhere these days. It wasn’t always so. There was a time when mere graffiti…
SPACES: HIPSTER-MEXICO SURF CHIC
Salt Fish Surf Co is a surfy boutique in Venice, in Los Angeles, run by the effusive and friendly French…
FASHION: BOXING PANDA T-SHIRT’S GOT GAME
Our colleague L. showing off a graphic t-shirt with the image of a boxing panda bear. How can you not…
DESIGN FOR DANGER
How do you sufficiently inform people of danger? Usually warning signs use visually strong graphical elements and bold lettering in…
BEACHY: THE HIPSTER SURFERS OF ABBOT KINNEY
A TREE GROWS IN BRENTWOOD
Brentwood is a verdant, upscale neighborhood on the westside of Los Angeles. It’s filled with mansions and luxury condos and…
WHAT HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE: THE MINIMALIST ESPRESSO BAR
This is probably the most minimalist coffee-making/-serving set-up we’ve seen. It’s in the courtyard of the Hammer Museum of art…
DESIGN WTF: THE RETRO-FUTURE WANTS ITS JUNK BACK!
Hey, the retro-future is calling. We’re guessing from sometime between 1973 and ‘79. It wants its junk back including this…
SHEPARD FAIREY IS EVERYWHERE YOU WANT TO BE
We were in Silver Lake, in Los Angeles, stopping by a popular espresso bar for a quick coffee, driving around…
FROM OUR BOOKSHELF: “RACKGAKI” DOCUMENTS AN ERA OF JAPANESE GRAFFITI ART
It’s time again to randomly browse our bookshelves at HQ and re-discover a forgotten coffee-table tome. Today we’ve pulled out…
STREETSY: ARTWORK ON A BILLBOARD – WHEN CAPITALISM AND ART MAKE A BABY
Capitalism and art. They’re not the best of friends. Sometimes they look at each other with roiling contempt. The fact…
THE STUNNING PHOTOS OF SLAIN AFGHAN PHOTOJOURNALIST SHAH MARAI
Agence-France Presse photojournalist Shah Marai was among those killed by two suicide bombers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Marai’s photos,…
THE CUTENESS! STENCIL STREET ART APPEALS TO BASE EMOTIONS
Ah, so cuuuuuuuuuuuuute! This street art in Venice, Los Angeles, depicts an almost life-sized, stenciled, spray-painted image of a man…
ACCIDENTAL STYLE TRENDS: MATCHING NATURE WITH FASHION
There this. And also this. And then there’s this too.
STREET ART HOMAGE COLLAGE TO PHYSICS GENIUS
Why? Just ‘cause, we speculate. So many questions here: Why the crown? Why the Supreme pants? Why the NASA jacket?…
NEW TUNE BY THE BAND ALOHA DEATH!
That’s us! Our electronic music project — and now band — Aloha Death have just a released a new tune.…
BRUTALISTS IN LEGOLAND!
You, savvy reader, are probably a fan of architecture. If not of architecture in and of itself, then perhaps as…
HAVE WE REACHED “PEAK” YAYOI KUSAMA?
We saw this cool street-artsy mural portrait of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in Santa Barbara, California, while visiting there…
MINIMALISM 101: “WHITE” PAINTINGS … OR “I COULD DO THAT!”
This video on Vox does a great job of explaining so-called “white” paintings by artists like Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin,…
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