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LA photographer Noe Montes. We met him at #OCCUPYLA while he was taking portraits. The last two photographs are in a limited series of post cards that he made, he was kind enough to send us one of each...
Emerging Voice & VisionIntrospective:Art For Joy, Love and Life Amber Robles-Gordon received some blunt criticism during her graduate studies when she was told she couldn’t seem to separate herself...
Global Arts: Visual Arts - Experimental Film/Video Julia RaynhamBorn 1966 (Cape Town, South Africa) Julia Raynham’s work melds choreography, theatre, poetry, video, sound, performance and improv, in a distinctly experimental vein. After studying architecture and music, she trained extensively as a sangoma (link beeen the ancestral and human worlds, specialist of herbal medicine, counsel in matters of psychological disturbance in Zulu, Swazi, Xhosa and Ndebele communities of Southern Africa). An ex-member of key...
UK street artist Ben Eine is everywhere from SA to SF
South African artist Mary Sibande has done something amazing in her series Long Live The Dead Queen. We really love her installation/sculptures but what we love the most is how she takes over buildings...
New York photographer Jamel Shabazz posted these recently on his facebook. We've been fans of Jamel's work since the release of his first book 10 years ago Back in the Days. http://papillionart...
Absolutely adore Fred Eversley sculptures and the concept that created them. He currently is on view at the Hammer Museum in the group exhbition NOW DIG THIS looking back at the LA Black art scene from...
YES OLEK…Occupy Wall Street has been continuing to stay in the headlines and put NYC back on the map. A very special artist using crocheting has been making her own #OccupyNY statements. Her crocheted...
If you are in London be sure to catch the film on painter Gerhard Richcter titled "Gerhard Richter Painting" by director Corinna Belz. It will be shown a few times over the next month at the Tate Modern From the trailer alone it looks amazing, we would not miss a chance to see the full documentary. Was also really cool to see him working in his studio alone, without 20 assistants in there painting for him. #oldschool The film is being screened in conjunction with his solo show Panoramawhich opened at Tate Modern...
We went to the opening of NOW DIG THIS at the Hammer Museum last Saturday. It was a blast, we met artist Hank Willis Thomas and chatted with Garth Trinidad about his new art studio and what he thought...
Amazing LA artist! Megan Geckler currently has an installation up at Papillion Institute of Art. For more info visit http://papillionart.org
Nick Cave's latest series Ever After is on view in New York right now. To see other things from Cave click HERE
On a trip to LA Drake snatched up this Patrick Martinez piece.
Ilana Kohn, Fashion Designer, Illustrator and Brooklyn advocate. http://www.ilanakohn.com
The talented painter whose subjects lean towards feminism and identity was mentored by Kerry James Marshall and is the director of the Blue Sky Project artist in residence program. http...
One of my favorite girlfriends and artist from NY was Essie Baroz. I met the Palestinian artist in 2002 when I was curating a 1 year anniversary show of the 9/11 attacks. It was a group exhibition...
I saw LA painter Mark Bradford's "Alphabet" at the Studio Museum in Harlem last December and his Pinocchio is on Fire is still touring. The interactive (free digital downloads) website they created...
The amazing Kerry James Marshall. In 1997 he received the MacArthur Genius award. The last photo is of him wearing the tee-shirt he designed for Gap's artist series.
If you know who Tameka Norris is, TELL US! We love her performance art series as a Yale Art School student
Kehinde Wiley's show is still up in LA at Robert's and Tilton gallery.
Kenturah H. Davis is a Los Angeles based artist, writer, producer, designer. http://www.kenturah.com/
Vogue's Chioma Nnadi is BEAUTIFUL...these photos were taken by Garance Dore ****UPDATE**** We didn't know when we posted this that it was Chioma's birthday!!!! So HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO A CLASSIC BEAUTY...
Do You Hear Us artist Ronald Hall releases new works These are the 2 paintings currently on view at the gallery
16 years old and the girl is outstanding, Ann He is a young photographer in Dallas TX. When I went through her images Tim Navis came to mind first, than Melodie McDaniels, than there was one photo...
One of the artists in our 1 year anniversary group exhibit. Tatyana leaves in Philadelphia and the two paintings below of Oscar Grant and Sean Bell are from her Victims of Fear series. To see these...
Can hardly believe a year has passed....whoa Hope to see you tomorrow night for the celebration! 4-14-11 8pm
Glenn Ligon's mid career retrospective AMERICA opened last month at the Whitney Museum in NYC and is up until June 5, 2011.
Last year we did our first solo show with photographer/DP and all around super creative Paul "Animalchan" Chan. The show was titled "Things Done Changed" and featured some amazing photos shot on film...
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