Aakash Nihalani
What started out an accidental exercise with a single roll of painter’s...
art
Flora + Fauna
I’ve been swooning over Kari Herer‘s photographs and illustrations for so long that I need to just bite the bullet and finally purchase a few. She’s now working with a medium format camera, which means…
Las Pozas
Las Pozas is a surrealist garden created by Sir Edward James, a British poet and major supporter of the Surrealist art movement. In 1949 James chose the tropical jungles near Xilitla, San Luis Potosí in Mexico for his garden of Eden. 35…
Oil & Leather
Levi’s Vintage Clothing pays tribute to the renegade spirit and style of the American biker with 21 one-of-a-kind leather jackets, hand-painted by 13 international artists and illustrators. LVC traces the cultural impact of Danny Lyon’s…
Les Robes Géographiques
If vintage maps are your thing, then you’ll dig British artist Elisabeth Lecourt‘s Les Robes Géographiques series. Folded from old maps of San Francisco, Dublin, Conneticut, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, London, and New York, these small-scale, pleated dresses would make…
Paint By Number
After thrifting a Blue Boy painting for $3, I soon discovered that it was actually a paint by number piece! This techinique began in 1950 when Max Klein, of the Palmer Paint Company, got together with artist…
Black Rock City
Burning Man takes place this week in Northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. It’s hard to believe that once a year tens of thousands of people gather to create Black Rock City, an entirely fabricated town…
Random Act
I recently attended the opening of Lab Art‘s newest gallery at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles. Though the 300 square foot space is small compared to their 6,000 square foot gallery on La Brea, it still…
