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Blog Watch: Hidden Parking Garage Art On MyModernMet

My Modern Metropolis | Posted by Alice on March 11, 2011 at 11:00am | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Parking Garage Art, Shinique Smith, Street Art, Wallworks Project, Kenny Scharf, Retna, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Hidden Parking Garage Art, Shepard Fairey, Las Vegas, Blog-Watch, Parking Garage, Arts News

While we're all used to seeing contemporary art hang on gallery or museum walls or even on the street, we usually don't come face-to-face with it in u...

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Blog Watch: Erwin Wurm's Chubby Ferraris, Wild Art

thefoxisblack.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sculptor Erwin Wurm, Vienna Museum, Ferrari Sculptures, Sculpture, Artist Erwin Wurm, Austrian Artist Erwin Wurm, Erwin Wurm, Blog-Watch, Ferrari, Arts News

Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist who makes some of the coolest art I've seen in a while. His approach seems rather random and funny to me, like his on...

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Blog Watch: Collapsing Time And Space On DailyServing

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Unhuman Exhibit, Google Art Project, Geography, Google Earth, Trevor Paglen, Science, Daily Serving, Google Street View, Altman Siegel Gallery, Blog Watch, Arts News

Recent advancements in technology such as Google Earth and street-view, has given anyone with a computer and an internet connection the ability to col...

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Blog Watch: 3D Gallery Art On MyModernMet

My Modern Metropolis | Posted by Marica on February 19, 2011 at 2:00pm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 3d Artwork, 3d Artist Daniel Arsham, Artist Daniel Arsham, My Modern Met, 3d Gallery Art, Mymodernmet, 3d Art, Blog Watch, Daniel Arsham, Arts News

If you never believed in the saying, "From tragedy to triumph," then you haven't heard the story of Daniel Arsham. In 1992, Arsham experienced a devas...

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French Street Artist JR's 'Wrinkles In The City' Comes To LA

Jetset Graffiti » JR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Wrinkles in the City, Artist's District, Street Art, Graffiti, Cartagena, French, Artist, Jr, Los Angeles, Spain, La Freewalls Project, Downtown Los Angeles, Shanghai, Jetset Graffiti, Blog Watch, Arts News

JR is in town to put together the next iteration of his trademark "Wrinkles in the City" project. Previously developed in Shanghai, Cartagena, and Spa...

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Blog Watch: Street Artist Vhils Large-Scale Portraits

buzzfeed.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Street Artist Alexandre Farto, Street-Artists, Alexandre Farto, Artist Alexandre Farto, Alexandre Farto Known as Vhils, Street Artist Vhils, Blog Watch, Street Art, Arts News

Alexandre Farto, better known as Vhils, is a street artist who creates large-scale portraits by scratching the plaster out of the walls of dilapidated...

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NOT Miniatures: Tilt-Shift City Photos On MyModernMet

My Modern Metropolis | Posted by Eugene on February 14, 2011 at 12:30pm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Mcgowan, Mymodernmet, My Modern Met, Tilt-Shift Photos of a City, Ed Mcgowan Tilt-Shift Photos, Tilt-Shift Photos, Tilt-Shift, Blog Watch, Arts News

Ed McGowan takes some of the best tilt-shift photos I've ever seen. It's hard to believe that the scenes we're looking at are entirely real or not fab...

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Blog Watch: Egyptian Protesters' Makeshift Helmets On MyModernMet

My Modern Metropolis | Posted by Eugene on February 7, 2011 at 1:00pm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Egypt Revolution, Egyptian Protesters Makeshift Helmets, Egypt, Makeshift Helmets in Egypt, Egyptian Protests, Egyptian Protesters, Egyptian Revolution, Blog Watch, Arts News

The brave protesters on the streets of Cairo face many challenges. Among them, flying rocks and projectiles cause many injuries. With limited resource...

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BLOG WATCH> Miami Art Fairs: Fear and Sacrilege in South Beach On Daily Serving

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Waters, Andres Serrano, Jenny Holzer, Art Basel Miami Beach, Steve Mumford, Daily Serving, Art Basel Miami, Miami Art Fairs, Blog-Watch, Arts News

There is nothing that the art world loves more than four days of not stop money spending and networking. The Miami art fairs are quick to come and go,...

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Blog Watch: Collage Of The Day

collageoftheday.blogspot.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Appropriation Art, Newspapers, Art, Collage of the Day, Art Blog, Collage, Magazines, Blog Watch, Arts News

Collage of the Day Its just what the title says......

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BLOG WATCH> The New Art Of Calligraffiti On My Modern Met

My Modern Metropolis | Posted by Alice on November 4, 2010 at 2:30pm | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photos, Meulman Artist, Graffiti Art, Graffiti, Contemporary Art, Slideshow, My Modern Met, New Art Forms, Calligraphy, Calligraffiti, Shoe Artist, Blog Watch, Arts News

By mixing beautiful and traditional calligraphy with the rawness and grittiness of graffiti, Niels Meulman gives a whole new way of appreciating both ...

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BLOG WATCH> Daily Serving on John Currin: "It's All About The Boobs"

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Currin Portraits, Erotic Paintings John Currin, John Currin Females, John Currin, dailyserving.com, Blog-Watch, Painter John Currin, John Currin Painter, Arts News

The biggest snow job in history is how high art in Western culture has largely been about ogling T&A under the guise of mythological allegory. Work by...

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PHOTOGRAPHY: Dreaming Of Cinecitta On Planet Mag

PLANET° | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Photographers, Roman Movie Studio Cinecitta, Cinecitta, Rome, Italy, Planet Mag, Sanctuary, Gregory Crewdson, Blog-Watch, Gagosian Gallery, Rome Cinecitta, Arts News

Photographer Gregory Crewdson is known for his staged tableux of everyday suburban scenes. He uses movie lighting and post-production effects to compo...

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STREET ART: The Other Side Of Art Basel Miami On Brooklyn Street Art

brooklynstreetart.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mint and Serf, Brooklyn Street Art, Art Basel Miami, Street Art Miami, Street Art Art Basel Miami, Street Art Fairs, Blog Watch, Art Basel Miami Beach Street Art, Arts News

- It's a paraphrase of the Christmas crabby New Yorker who relies on the tourists who pump money into Broadway and Times Square restaurants and FAO an...

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BLOG WATCH> Sue Williams's Permanent Record On DailyServing

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Sue Williams, Cia, New York Art Galleries, 9/11, Daily Serving, Art Installation, Artists, 303 Gallery, Art Exhibitions, Blog-Watch, 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, Al Qaeda, Arts News

Can't we all just learn to trust Sue Williams? So what if, after all her stylistic shifts, she's showing a new body of work devoted to 9/11 conspiracy...

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BLOG WATCH> Untapped American Artists In The 'People's Biennial'

coolhunting.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Artists, Art Biennial, Jens Hoffmann, Untapped Art Communities, People's Biennial, Art Biennials, Cool Hunting, American Art, US Artists, Harrell Fletcher, Blog-Watch, Arts News

In an effort to highlight artists from five U.S. cities not typically considered artistic hotbeds, the People's Biennial features the work of 36 artis...

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BLOG WATCH> International Street Art On Unurth

unurth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Street-Artists, France, England, Street Art, Graffiti, Spain, Unurth, Graffiti-Art, Canada, Blog-Watch, Arts News

Great use of the old signage, including a subtle signature. See more by Ro....

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BLOG WATCH> Johan Thoernqvist's Real-Life Illustrations, On BumBumBum

bumbumbum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swedish Artists, Imaginative Illustrator, Bumbumbum, Blog-Watch, Johan Thörnqvist, Thörnqvist Illustrator, Arts News

Wonderful illustrations of whimsical imagined cities drawn into real life photos. By Swedish illustrator Johan Thörnqvist....

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STUDIO VISIT: Beautiful/Decay Visits Painter Ryan Schneider

Beautiful/Decay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Studio-Visit, Ryan Schneider, Blog-Watch, Beautiful/Decay, Arts News

Ryan Schneider was making some cool paintings when I stopped by his studio....

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BLOG WATCH> Gert & Uwe Tobias' German Exhibit On ArtObserved

AO Art Observed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Modern Art, Graphic Design, Art Exhibits, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Textiles, Berlin Art Galleries, Artobserved, Art Galleries, Folk Art, Art Exhibitions, Blog-Watch, Berlin, Arts News

Currently on view at Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin is "Neue Arbeiten," an exhibition of recent work by fraternal collaborative Gert & Uwe Tobias (b. 1...

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BLOG WATCH> Minimalist Water Tower Transformation On Inhabitat

Green Design Will Save the World | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Chateau D'eau, Bham Design Studio, Green Architecture, Architecture, Inhabitat, Water Tower, Belgium, Minimalism, Minimalist, Blog-Watch, Modern Design, Arts News

Chateau d'eau is a remarkable home made from a reclaimed water tower in the small town of Steenokkerzeel in Belgium. Interior design firm Bham Design ...

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BLOG WATCH> Where The Wild Things Are On Planet Mag

PLANET° | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Costumes, Blogs, Photography, Estelle Hanania, Photographs, Photographers, Planet-Mag, Birds, Blog-Watch, Otherworldly, Arts News

Estelle Hanania's images explore otherworldly spaces, the sharp realness of her photographs a startling contrast to the ethereality of their subjects ...

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BLOG WATCH> Rise Of Rebellion On Daily Serving

dailyserving.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Blogs, Rebellious Art, Sculpture, Arts, Daily Serving, Art Installation, Artists, Painting, Film, Rebellion, Visual Art, Blog-Watch, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

Norwegian visual artist and writer Matias Faldbakken is currently exhibiting a new series of works titled Shocked into Abstraction at Ikon Gallery in ...

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BLOG WATCH> Shrink Wrapped Performance Art On Kuriositas

kuriositas.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photographs, Art, Living Statue, Sensory Deprivation, Performance Art, Shrink Warp Art, Shrink Wrap, Plastic Wrap, Kuriositas, Blog Watch, Arts News

Lawrence Malstaf is an artist who makes unusual designs on his subjects, who he calls volunteers. He literally shrink wraps them. It may sound like an...

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BLOG WATCH> The Awl Anticicpates Burlesque, The Whitney, And Chris Cooper

The Awl | Awl Staff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Soderbergh, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, The Awl, Burlesque, Documentaries, Colin Firth, Chris Cooper, Blog-Watch, Greg Dulli, Arts News

The Anticipation List... (by The Awl Staff) • Ritter, Dene, Voss: it just opened! • And Everything Is Going Fine: Steven Soderbergh's documentar...

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