Cool video from Arrested Motion documenting Australian-born artist Anthony Lister’s visits to Los Angeles in the last 9 months — working on murals, prepping and installing his recent solo show at New Image Art… a revealing look into the artist’s motivation and meaning behind the work. Video courtesy of Arrested Motion & Carlos Gonzalez. -edward

Arizona-based artist Colin Chillag‘s portraits are hyperrealistic and meticulously rendered, but there are bits and pieces of these paintings left unfinished. Viewers are confronted with the artist’s pencil lines, bare negative space, and canvas used as painter’s palette. The work reminds me of the way our memories and dreams are recalled in fragments, equal parts [...]

Don’t miss this Travis Millard opening in San Diego on Friday! Digging a Hole, Looking for Something New work by Michael Krueger and Travis Millard Opening Reception: May 18, 2012 (6-10pm) Double Break is delighted to announce Digging a Hole, Looking for Something, an exhibition of new work by Michael Krueger and Travis Millard. Coming [...]

Welcome to David Jien‘s surreal, isometric world, where you will find sex and violence right along with worship and reverence. The Los Angeles artist’s mixed media drawings are large, obsessive and detailed… stylistically like a cross between old Asian scrolls and Super Nintendo. -edward

After a recent showing at LeBasse Projects in Los Angeles, German duo Herakut are back with another exhibition in California, this time at 941Geary in San Francisco. Here is a cool time-lapse video by Colin M. Day, showing the artists’ interesting collaborative dynamic in action — layering, trading off and achieving harmony with two seemingly [...]

San Francisco artist Akira Beard’s painted heads appear bludgeoned and bloody, dripping and oozing from the inside… grotesque, yet beautifully painted in a candy-colored palette of deliciousness.   Images courtesy of the artist’s Flickr page. -edward

“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” opens tonight at Copro Gallery in Santa Monica. Curated by Rob Wilson and David Lynch, this huge group art exhibition presents artwork that celebrates the 20th anniversary of Lynch’s 1992 film of the same name. The reception will feature unreleased music from the film, as well as many surprise [...]

Over the last four years, in addition to creating his large-scale paintings, Los Angeles painter Alex Gross has also been making mixed media works on top of vintage cabinet cards. Gross transforms the original subjects in the Victorian photographs into a variety of comic book heroes and villains, as well as other zany pop culture [...]

“Everything is a Remix is a four-part video series about influence and appropriation in creation” On top of being super entertaining and informative, the message behind EIAR seems particularly important in an age when freedom of expression can get tangled up in obscure notions of intellectual property that translate into damaging litigation. Even below that [...]

Painter Greg “Craola” Simkins is set to have his next solo exhibition, “Cloud Theory”, at Merry Karnowsky Gallery on April 21st, 2012. The show, Simkins’ first with the Los Angeles gallery, will feature all new paintings and large-scale works—one of which can be seen here in this new time-lapse video: Photo courtesy of Arrested Motion. [...]

Mexico City-based artist Saner’s exhibition at FIFTY24SF  opened on March 16th, 2012. Entitled “Corazón Sagrante” (Bleeding Heart), the show is Saner’s first in San Francisco and features new paintings and drawings on paper that depict his signature mystical animal beings with Mexican masks and skulls. Saner was last seen in the L.A. area showing at [...]

“The Keith Haring Foundation has scanned Keith’s journals from 1971 to 1989, some of which are featured in Keith Haring: 1978–1982. A page will be posted each day for the duration of the show, which will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from March 16 through July 8, 2012. The exhibition is the first [...]

“Will Brown is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition, Illegitimate Business—a collaboration with Zachary Royer Scholz and Brion Nuda Rosch. This exhibition of artworks and ephemera with peculiar provenance investigates the ways in which works of art are acquired outside of galleries and auction houses. The eclectic collection of objects, from some of the world’s [...]

Why are people always trying to make fashion, art, and skateboarding hang out? Do orinthology and scrimshaw have this problem? Maybe I’m just hating because the opening for this  jam-packed exhibition—which Metallica announced on their website just last week—is invitation-only. Juxtapoz posted this exclusive preview to hold over the hoi-polloi until Monday, when it opens [...]

The LA-based concept gallery and boutique IKO IKO (which translates to “let’s go!”) has just premiered a new, downloadable digital zine. In the spirit of collaboration with artists they admire, each monthly issue will feature a “light catalog” of images from a particular artist. The first issue features the work of Japanese photographer Akio Nishimoto. [...]

Susan Kare (who kinda happened to be a babe back in the day?) was a young artist working on a steel sculpture of a razorback hog when she got offered the job of developing the first fonts for the Mac OS. She then went on to design many of the, er…iconic user interface icons that [...]

Just, hear me out. This is probably old-hat to many people, but the man whose iconography I had only known as bedazzled graphic licensing run amok, is in fact a hyper-intelligent, classically-trained artist who passed on a graduate scholarship to Yale in order to pursue the once-illicit craft of tattooing. Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World, [...]

  Hand-beaded skulls from Our Exquisite Corpse, available at LN-CC, for those of you with an extra 800 bones (get it?) lying around… Click here for more images via Style Bubble -christina

“The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz’s new fly-on-the-wall documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting. Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter’s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical abstract works. As we witness him mixing layer upon layer of bold [...]

One thing about the Rodarte sisters’ maverick status in the fashion world is that it grants them total freedom, a sort of unfuckwithableness that allows them to go as high or low as they want. Their myriad collaborations with artists and art institutions put them just this side of the fashion/art divide, but then they [...]

via Nowness “Brooklyn-based artist Wes Lang holed up in Room 34 of Los Angeles’s storied Chateau Marmont for Sittin’ On a Rainbow, a collection of daintily rendered drawings referencing everything from Native American iconography to late artist Dash Snow to rock legend Jim Morrison. “The base of it all is American history,” Lang says of [...]

via Hypebeast: “Probably best known for his neon light sculptures and skate decks emblazoned with witty, hip-hop inspired statements – Patrick Martinez has been a busy man lately. In addition to unveiling a window installation at Factory 413 on Fairfax, he has also once again transitioned into the realm of film. His latest short piece, [...]

My good friend Andrew Berardini has curated the first solo exhibition of the prolific, rather eldritch, and completely metal artist / writer / musician /  Brian Butler (look at him. Doesn’t he just make Game of Thrones look like a children’s show?)  Butler will premier his latest video work, Images and Oracles, at the LA><ART [...]

Inge Jacobsen is a talented young artist who grapples with images of women across porn, fashion, and advertising through embroidery, collaging, and cutting. Her choices are restrained and razor-sharp. My favorite pieces are these hand-stitched (actual) Vogue covers…

I’d like to believe I’m not the only who has been awaiting Jeffrey Deitch’s first show as director of the MOCA with bated breath. Judging from the array of events surrounding the retrospective (and the most comprehensive of it’s kind), you can’t wait either. This is art history in the making. Cinefamily is presenting a [...]

Chinese artist/activist Ai Wei Wei – recently famous for his sunflower seeds installation at the Tate Modern – remains in custody of authorities after being detained in a Beijing airport. His work is so funny and inclusive, I never knew that he is also an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and advocate for human [...]

Ron English, the artist who recently pulled one of the most meaningful April Fool’s pranks in recent memory, has in in-depth interview over at Fecal Face. His work spans an array of self-taught styles and techniques and many contain a conceptualist bent I hadn’t been aware of before. Definitely worth reading if you’re only familiar [...]

In a particularly inspired bit of critical commentary, artist Hunter Jonakin asks the question what if you were locked in an art museum overnight, with a rocket launcher, during a Jeff Koons retrospective? The answer, as the preview for this rather belligerent video-game implies, is DUHHH. If collectors don’t get into a bidding-war over this [...]

If you missed the opening for Scott Campbell’s solo show “Noblesse Oblige” at the brand new OHWOW gallery in west LA, you should definitely check it out on your own before it closes in April. SlamxHype posted some amazing photos of the new work on display – Campbell’s cut-currency work is reaching breathtaking levels of [...]

I’ve always dug INSA’s unabashedly sexual work, though I’d call it Finish-Fetish before calling it porn. He talks with HypeBeast about his increasing conceptual awareness and the socio-economic implications of a phat-ass. -christina British street artist INSA recently made his way across the ocean for an American showing of his artwork in San Francisco. For [...]

Jeremyville is posting one community service announcement on his FB page every 24 hours. There’s over 150 in all, so you can enjoy a daily dose of goodwill well through summer. Check them out here.

From the R&R newsletter: “Group show featuring Alex Hinton, Austen Stanton, Ben Sanders, Carly Ealey, Cody Comrie, Daniel James Keegan O’Connell, Dave Frey, Emily Ratajkowski, Evan Stink Rossell, Evanimal, Patch Davis, Gareth Stehr, Heather McMillen, Jeben Berg, Jess Sluder, Kate Elizabeth Keegan O’Connell, Mad Steez, Nil Ultra, Rob Bowen, Sean Fahlen, Sterling Bartlett, Steve Saiz, [...]

(via NPR)”At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, museum goers can dive into the art — literally. They can actually swim in it. The pool is tucked into a dark, back corner of the museum. It’s 3 feet deep, the size of a mini-lap pool, and it’s ringed with small blue lights. An eerie [...]

via Hypebeast: “Opening Friday, January 14 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., THIS Los Angeles and Monster Children magazine host Fierce, a solo exhibition featuring original works by Australian graffiti and street artist Anthony Lister. Fierce debuted this past December during Art Basel at a pop-up gallery space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. The exhibition [...]

The MOMA in New York City is presenting a major retrospective of Andy Warhol’s film-based works. This is a must-see for both the iconic and lesser-known films that will be screened in a theater-within-the-museum created specially for this exhibit. Motion Pictures runs until March 21, 2011. Exhibition hours and lecture schedule here. -christina “Andy Warhol: [...]

Via Don’t Panic: “Voina (or “War” to give them their English name) are a radical art group concerned with challenging the Russian establishment on important political issues such as attitudes towards homophobia, race, and the totalitarian actions of the state, through creating outrageous and provocative art performances in Russia. Two of their members; Oleg Vorotnikov [...]

Artist Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen from Copenhagen, Denmark spent 38 days on this lush pencil drawing (adderall alert! Just kidding…maybe). See the finished product and a video of the process here (via FecalFace) -christina

Olek is a Polish artist who works exclusively in crocheting yarn – she’s exhibited in galleries around the world and is known for pulling street art stunts like covering the Wall Street Bull in NY and inspiring others to create knit-based street art (they call it “yarnbombing”). Her work is always meticulous and colorful, and [...]

Don’t know if you’re up on the hulaballoo that followed Olivier Zahm’s posting of a personal email he received from tattoo-artist-cum-fine artist Scott Campbell (a very low brand of exhibitionism Zahm gets off on – but that’s another issue), but Interview magazine recently sat down with Scott to figure out exactly what happened – and [...]

Aoi Kotsuhiroi is an enigmatic designer/sculptor with a new jewelry line that reflects her dark inspirations. Each piece is a one-off sculpture, and no two are ever alike. The collection is in progress, but you can check out the first of her new pieces here.

Photographer Matt King has posted some pictures from the Haunch of Venison Gallery London’s latest exhibit, Punk on Paper, a sampling of art and other detritus of English punk curated by artist Toby Mott and gathered in an accompanying book. Click here to check out the rest of King’s images, and try to imagine the [...]

via the Agenda Inc. blog: “Jason Alper, a designer more familiar from his work as the costume designer who created the Borat mankini for Sacha Baron-Cohen’s Bruno is turning his satire to luxury brands. In a new exhibition called “Proletarian Drift and the Enfranchisement of the Bourgoisie” at the Guy Hepner Gallery, in West Hollywood, [...]

3+1 is an art and photography exhibit that opened at agnes b’s Galerie du Jour in Paris earlier this month; featuring works from the late Dash Snow, Harmony Korine and Ryan McGinley. Slamxhype posted a couple of great videos from the opening. The first is an interview with curator Agnes B herself, and the second [...]

via Hypebeast:”Off the back of the Japan based-exhibition “Now I Remember”, New Image Art brings this awesome show to the US with never before seen images. “Now I Remember” brings together eight different personalities, as they each share their own photos captured with their cell phones. With the widespread use of the cell phone for [...]

Our good homie Kevin Hayes has a mini-interview up on Fecal Face! Kevin shoots takes amazing nude portraits of girls looking louche and comfy and totally like themselves, even when you can’t see their face. There’s so much trust in his photos, it’s sort truly moving and sort of fucked up at the same time. [...]

There’s a fun interview with artist Eric Joyner up on Arrested Motion. Joyner’s work centers on the subject of robots and donuts…and not much else. He has a solo show opening this Saturday, August 14th, at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA. Read the full interview here I’m hungry.

The “about” section of this blog is an excerpt from a review of ‘Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Mankind’ which I think is trying to make a point about the democracy of aesthetics. That’s all well and good – I’m just completely psyched on these selected pieces from filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s long-running comic strip [...]

“Harvey Pekar, the irascible writer who spun the mundane details of his own life and the quotidian existences of his fellow Cleveland residents into comic-book narratives, and who showed that the comic-book panel could include everyday feelings of anxiety and disappointment as easily as it does the adventures of costumed heroes, has died, The Plain [...]

“Is It Art or Fart? collects images found on the street that happen to bear uncanny resemblances to great works of contemporary art. It began as a blog run by two friends whose obsessive preoccupation with contemporary art spilled over into the recognition of “fart” – bogus versions of art everywhere. The sightings are a [...]

“An Ansel Adams photo sold for a record-high $722,500 this week. That raises a broader question: How does pricing work in the art market, anyway?” There’s a great story on NPR’s Planet Money that examines the curious mix of market forces and aesthetic criteria that goes into pricing fine art. click here to listen (image [...]