Leave it to Japan to put manhole covers into a street beautification program, creating art that is now a national obsession. Examples of the stunning drain covers are collected in Drainspotting, a book by British-Australian artist and film director Remo Camerota, who also blogs about them, here. The […]
This limited edition “Fish” Lithograph is by Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead, done with Stanley Mouse, 1960s rock poster artist and designer of The Dead’s album covers. It’s one of the offerings in a Hollywood & Music Memorabilia extravaganza next month at Philip Weiss Auctions. The sale […]
Ellen Greene has been painting subversive imagery on vintage gloves since the 1990s. The heavily inked artist explores the repressive implications of gloves with tattoo-inspired art. Her work goes on exhibit this fall in a show called “Invisible Mother’s Milk” at Packer-Schopf gallery, Chicago. The custom-printed gloves are […]
Toronto illustrator Wil Wong has an eye for the culture of the urban coffee house, including each shop’s relationship with patrons and the street. These glimpses of life in the city’s bustling neighborhoods are as accurate as it gets. (Above: Rooster Cafe) Wong often includes progress information, and […]
This talking stick by Haida artist Fred Davis is exquisite. It depicts the legend of Nanasimgit whose wife is captured by Killer Whale and taken to his house under the sea. Read the rest of the story, summarized by Douglas Reynolds Gallery. The material is hand carved […]
Beau Dick, a Kwakwaka’wakw carver, based in Alert Bay, B.C., is on exhibition at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art in Vancouver in an unusual arrangement that speaks to the significance of the works. (Above: From Lattimer Gallery, Mourning Mask, an example of the exceptional range of this Pacific […]
