Streets: Vhils x Pixel Pancho (Lisbon)
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Studio Visits: Tessar Lo
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Basel Week Miami ’13 / Studio Visits: Faile & Bast – “Deluxx Fluxx”
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Streets: JR @ National Library of France (Paris)
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Streets: D*Face (Tokyo)
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Basel Week Miami ’13: Art Basel First Look (Part I)
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Basel Week Miami ’13 / Streets: “Women on the Walls” (Wynwood) – Part I
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Streets: Os Gemeos – Nelson Mandela Tribute
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Overtime: Dec 2 – Dec 8
- George Clooney x Yayoi Kusama x Giorgio Armani featued in W Magazine's art issue.
- Manny Silverman Gallery and Martin L Cohen sue Knoedler for selling them fakes.
- Marguerite Hoffman's lawsuit due to breach of confidentiality regarding sale of her Rothko piece.
- Aaron M. Freedman, assistant to accused antiquities smuggler, pleads guilty to possessing looted items.
- Tom Dewhurst aka DNB, spared jail time because judge thinks he can be the next Banksy.
- Bavaria considering changing law to make it easier for government to claim Munich Nazi collection.
- Kenny Schachter's story about how auction houses are after his father in-law's art collection.
- Art fair week in Miami becoming less and less about art?
- Detroit is eligible to enter bankruptcy, judge rules, putting issue of sale of art from DIA front and center. Appraisal for DIA's art collection surprisingly low. A. Paul Schaap gives $5mil. toward protecting DIA art and Detroit pensions. How Banksy could help the city.
- Rhode Island to become first U.S. state to stop collecting sales tax on original and editioned art sold there.
- USPS sued for using Robert Davidson's version of Statue of Liberty for its stamps.
- $504 billion or 3.2% of US’s Gross Domestic Product in 2011 was attributable to arts and culture.
- Dani Levinas proposes opening Institute for Contemporary Expression kunsthalle in Washington at Franklin School.
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Afghan art project could be early casualty of US pullout from Afghanistan.
- Sotheby's first auction in mainland China turns out to be a success.
- eBay plans to launch an online venture that will focus on fine art. Josh Baer is consulting.
- Alice Walton said to be the buyer of the Warhol Coca-Cola piece that recently sold at Christie's.
- The economic trend of the contemporary art market over the last ten years.
- Should auction houses be more transparent with reserves?
- Joel Mesler's guide to the art of art dealing.
- Art Basel Miami Beach had $3bil. worth of artwork this year. Marc Spiegler says that Art Basel will remain in Miami despite concerns over renovation of convention center. Miami to have trolleys with direct service to Midtown and the convention center and satellite fairs. Bloomberg's Art Basel market report.
- Van Gogh Museum Edition limited edition works are coming to the US.
- Norman Rockwell biographer suggests that he may have been gay.
- Inventor solves mystery of how Vermeer may have painted his photorealistic effects?
- Rob Pruitt 2013 Art Awards winners revealed in A.i.A.'s December issue.
- Some think Banksy may be doing a project in Paris. His Flower Girl street piece offered at auction.
- Damien Hirst and Qatar Museums Authority create another Hirst challenge with prizes. The artist also plans to build 750 homes in North Devon.
- Behind The Scenes Of Salvador Dali's In Voluptas Mors shoot.
- Jerry Saltz reviews Lucy Dodd's show.
- Jeff Koons waits 15 minutes to get into an event. It becomes news.
- KAWS and James Jebbia featured by i-D.
- Marian Goodman will have a solo show with Oscar Murillo in Paris in May.
- Jim Kay commissioned to give Harry Potter a artistic visual makeover.
- Interview with Anne Pasternak.
- Vanessa Prager gets interviewed.
- Tim Barber's new site Time & Space - formerly tinyvices.com.
- 11-year old Charles Gitnik's gun art.
- Sophie Gamand's pictures of wet dogs.
- Jee Young Lee's photographs staged in her studio.
- Gracie Hagen demonstrates how the way you pose matters.
- New art project edition incorporating sound with Bjarne Melgaard.
- Doug Harvey's Less Art Radio Zine biweekly radio show.
- Karen Kilimik George Clooney print released.
- Nate Lowman ornaments and more available at RxArt shop.
- Richard Serra signed posters available at Gagosian shop.
- Daniel Arsham Future Relic No 1 Mobile Phone released by OHWOW.
- Alex Rodriguez buys $140,000 Nate Lowman piece at Art Basel from Massimo De Carlo Gallery.
- Justin Bieber accused of spraying graffiti on an Australian hotel wall and told to clean it up.
- Kanye West hires Andy Warhol's cousin Monica to paint Kim Kardashian's portrait.
- Lindsay Lohan participates in the Miami Beach fair festivities, attending the Art of Bullfighting.
- Jeffrey Deitch mistakenly calls Diddy "Kanye" at ABMB. Happens to all of us.
- The Kardashian's Christmas card, by David LaChapelle.
- Celebrities like Masta Killa and Ryan Reynolds invade Miami for fair week.
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Basel Week Miami ’13: PISTON HEAD & Colette x Alchemist: Art Drive Thru
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Interviews: Poesia / Graffuturism –“L’Avenir” Group Exhibition
Arrested Motion (AM): First of all, can you tell us a little bit about your background? I know you’ve been pounding walls since the 90s, but do you have any formal art schooling at all? You seem to have a broad knowledge of historical art movements as well as an encyclopedic grasp of graffiti culture…
Poesia Transcend (PT): I have no formal training other than a semester or two in junior college. I have always been the type of person that delves into whatever I’m focused on - studying and learning has always been important to me. Coming from the early nineties scene, I was able to learn the history of New York graffiti through books about subway and spray can art but I was really able to see the scope of graffiti through sharing flicks and writing other artists internationally. During the magazine era pre-internet I was able to see the potential early on of a global art form. Through graffiti, I was introduced to art and I also set out to learn as much about art history as I could. I thought if I was to become an artist I should learn about that history as well.
AM: And of course you’re part of the Transcend collective. How did you come to run with that crew?
PT: I don’t know how Joker found me but I was honored when he reached out to me and later asked me to be part of Transcend. I was influenced by his work and ability to think progressively, so maybe he saw something in me.
AM: Being such a global entity, how does Transcend communicate ideas and ideals? I’m very familiar with long distance art relationships myself, but I’m interested how you guys do it.
PT: It’s tough because everyone is so busy but we always support each other whether it’s a phone call, text or email. In the early days of Transcend, Joker and the collective were integral in myself being able to do some of the things I wanted to do artistically. Knowing that you have this support system that will have your back fail or succeed on a concept or idea makes it a lot easier to take risks. I think Transcend was that support group for me that no matter what I did they would understand and give me feedback positive and negative. We try to do the same today but with four new members in the last couple of years, I'm excited to see what we can accomplish in the future.
AM: Your moniker translates as 'poetry.' How did you come by that name? Did anyone in particular bestow it upon you? It seems particularly fitting in the here and now, particularly with the fine art work you are producing lately, but how has your work evolved over time?
PT: By chance really, only later did I find out the meaning. I have come to appreciate it over time not particularly because of my work but because I felt graffiti was always a bit like poetry but in a visual way. I think my work up till now has been working through the ideas that I have had before when I first starting painting. Early on ,you have this rush of ideas yet maybe the timing wasn’t right or your skills and experience weren’t there yet. Today, if anything has evolved, it is my ability to be at the right place to work on these concepts and ideas finally.
AM: You mix your time up between painting walls, a career as a fine artist, a curator and a prolific blogger. How do you find that time to cram all these different roles in your life?
PT: I don't. Sometimes I take on too much and one of them is always going to suffer, and I am ok with that. I never thought I would be anything other than an artist, but the more I read online and witnessed what was being exhibited in galleries, the more I saw we needed new perspectives, not an artists perspective but from someone with some understanding of the art form and where it might be headed. As a whole, I try my best to do all my current roles justice, but I can’t wait till others take the slack so I can focus more on my painting.
AM: On the subject of the blog, Graffuturism is one of my favorite reads out there and has been for some time. Your passion for the movement comes through in your writing. What was it that motivated you to start writing the blog?
PT: At first, it was about getting familiar with the scene and artists again, and that led me to find a large amount of artists that weren't being represented at all online, so I figured why not me and why not a basic blog to showcase these artists. I had no idea how to manage a blog let alone create one but thanks to YouTube I figured it out.
AM: And you do it all pretty much by yourself? Trust me, I know how much time it can take up even with a team of writers that we have at AM!
PT: Yes, most of the writing is by myself there are a handful of people that contribute articles also from time to time, but the daily is just me. I have gotten used to it though and learned so much running the blog; one of these days I'll find a suitable intern.
AM: The blog and the artists you cover have pretty much generated a movement, or certainly at least coined a phrase that people now identify a particular style of art by. How have you seen the blog grow since the early days? Has it been satisfying to reach out and connect with similar minds the world over?
PT: Its been one of the most satisfying feelings I have ever had creating anything, not because it has grown to be as big as it has but because the feedback I receive from so many of the artists I respect. Being able to create something and having that intention connect with the right people is amazing. One of the most important aspects of the blog is that it has brought together not just myself but so many other artists with each other. I think most of artists know what its like to be part of a crew as a graffiti artist, or maybe a collective as an artist but Graffuturism is one of those things that transcends both a crew and collective. It's a road that we all were traveling but didn’t realize that others were on that same road, or maybe we did know but never stopped to say hello and interact with each other. The collaborations that have already happened with some of the artists are remarkable - Jaybo/Kofie, Clemens Behr/CDB, Mr Jago/Myself, Remi Rough/Nawer, Sat One/Roids, the list goes on. Being able to be a part of that is humbling not only as an artist but a fan of art as well.
AM: Which I guess leads us onto your role as a curator. You have a trans-global collective of artists in your upcoming curatorial project L’Avenir. How did your selection process lead you to the participants in the show?
PT: Knowing that I was going to be writing my first curatorial statement, I knew I wanted to showcase a wider range of aesthetics. I also wanted to lower the amount of artists in the group show compared to past shows of 20-40 artists and we narrowed it down to 11. Because of past shows where certain artists were able to participate already, I could now focus on a mix of past artists and new ones like Borondo, and Robert Proch. Being able to bridge not only a legend but also a relevant contemporary painter like Doze Green with Kofie is amazing. Graffuturism is sometimes seen as an abstract movement, but I don’t think there is any one style that makes anyone more part of the group or not. We all have our own influences outside of graffiti/urban art thus of course we will have a wide range of aesthetics and concepts.
AM: And what about the work itself? Did you instigate any controls over the creation of work for the show, or let the individual artists just do their thing?
PT: Because we had a small group we didn’t need to restrict the artists to any size or amount of work - it was up to them to exhibit what they like. I chose the artists because of their individual work and didn’t want to get in the way of that work or hinder any part of that process.
AM: Was working with White Walls on this project an important decision for you? I’m wondering how the show came about?
PT: Many don’t know the full story of how Graffuturism started other than just a blog, but the backstory is the week before I started the blog Kofie and Remi Rough had planned to be in town for a show. Joker from Transcend flew down to see Remi and we all planned to paint together. We ended up painting collaborative wall together, and then ended the night at a group show at White Walls Gallery where Remi Rough and Kofie were exhibiting new work. The show also introduced me for the first time to the work of Jaybo Monk, and in a way brought us all together. I made the blog the next week. So having our first show in San Francisco at White Walls Gallery made perfect sense to me.
AM: Taking cue from the title of the show, how do you see the future of graffiti, and in particular the Graffuturism movement panning out?
PT: Graffuturism I think will be swallowed eventually into the larger neo-contemporary art scene but we will definitely have our moment. One of the biggest reasons for our success as an art form is our ability to engage the public and our own generations. The contemporary art world on the other hand is failing to engage anyone other than the intellectuals and elitists that their institutions cater to. For this reason I see a bright future for our art form.
AM: What's next for you in your many avenues of output after L'Avenir?
PT: Hopefully more time painting that’s where I need to focus my attention. With more blogs like Arrested Motion covering many of our artists, it's great to see so maybe I can relax a little bit. I have some other shows in the works Italy is an option for a large group show in 2014 and I’m working on a A4 show coming up in March with over 100 artists.
AM: Many thanks for taking time out do the interview Poesia. We wish you all the very best with L’Avenir.
Pictures from L'Avenir courtesy of the Curator. Poesia portrait by Jerome Coton.
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Basel Week Miami ’13 / Streets: “Women on the Walls” (Wynwood) – Part II
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Streets: Sam3 (Barcelona)
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Overtime: Dec 9 – Dec 15
- Do Ho Suh creates a home within a home at the MMCA in South Korea.
- Adrian Procop, final suspect in Dutch art heist, arrested in Britain.
- A drug dealer tells what happens in Miami during Art Basel.
- Jack Armstrong has been accused of drugging and raping a woman after a night out in Beverly Hills.
- Despite record prices, broader art market is in the doldrums, according to experts who track sales data.
- French court allows auction of 25 Hopi artifacts to proceed despite legal protests by the tribe.
- Egyptian police recover ancient statue of Tutankhamun's sister, stolen during unrest in August.
- William Kentridge believes South Africa let Nelson Mandela down.
- Mike Nelson's plans to dismantle residential block and rebuild it as pyramidal sculpture met with opposition.
- Two Damien Hirst prints stolen from Exhibitionist Gallery in London.
- Ronald Lauder urges Germany to comb its public museums for Nazi loot.
- US and Israel stepping up pressure on Germany to overhaul way it handles return of Nazi-seized art.
- The defense in trial over Farrah Fawcett portrait by Andy Warhol rests its case.
- Plans for Tefaf Beijing 2014 art fair fall through.
- Amy Cappellazzo leaving Christie's to work as a private dealer and adviser.
- A security guard's experience working for a high-end gallery (Gagosian?) in London.
- Annenberg Foundation buys 24 Hopi and Apachi artifacts and plans to return them to the tribes.
- DIA joins in talks to protect its art in bankruptcy and free it from city ownership.
- Artnet to start a 24-hour global news site headed by Benjamin Genocchio.
- Don't take pictures of artwork if you want to remember it better.
- Artists like Wael Shawky and Ryan Gander opening alternative art schools.
- Gallery and museum attendance in UK up despite decrease in arts participation.
- LACMA launches its Art + Technology Lab, bringing artists and technologists together.
- Michael Sullivan gives 400 works of modern Chinese art to The Ashmolean Museum.
- Steve Martin will co-curate a 2015 Lawren Harris exhibition at the Hammer Museum.
- NYPL opening exhibitions of antiapartheid memorabilia and election ballots to commemorate Mandela.
- Damien Hirst’s private Murderme art collection exhibited for the first time in Moscow.
- NEA announces its grants for 2013.
- A Art Basel Miami Beach buying experience with Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown.
- Jerry Saltz's picks for ten best art shows of the year.
- Artes Mundi prize shortlist announced.
- Paul Chan, Charline von Heyl, & Steven McQueen among finalists for Hugo Boss prize.
- Vulture's ten best television shows of 2013.
- Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster's best and worst architecture and design of 2013.
- The first sketches of the town ("Hirst-on-Sea") that Damien Hirst hopes to build.
- Daniel Arsham's Future Relic No 1 film, created with Swizz Beatz and Richard Chai.
- Take a look into Alex Prager's Silver Lake, CA studio.
- Christopher Bollen interviews power couple Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz.
- LA Canvas feature on Jen Stark. Complex interviews her.
- Lucien Smith in Inteview Magazine.
- PIN-UP 15 features a collaboration with Jon Rafman.
- Video interview with Mickalene Thomas.
- Art Spiegelman speaks about Ad Reinhardt.
- Jeff Koons lithograph available from Gagosian Gallery.
- Barbara Kruger L.A. Rays Sunglasses by Freeway Eyewear and ForYourArt now available.
- How to Succeed in Contemporary Art Without Really Trying.
- David Blaine joins Madonna as a guest curator for the December installment of Art for Freedom competition.
- White House holiday card this year is a pop-up style one featuring Bo and Sunny.
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Basel Week Miami’13: Caleidoscoop Project
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Streets: Risk, Meggs, Insa, Uglar, Echo – Abandoned Water Park Project
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Projects: Matt W. Moore, Push, Victor Reyes @ The Z (Detroit)
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Streets: D*Face (Tokyo) – Part II
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Overtime: Dec 16 – Dec 22
- Sam Falls' show at T293 in Rome opened on the 17th.
- RIP: Frank Lobdell, who lived until the age of 92.
- RIP: George Rodrigue, who died of cancer at the age of 69.
- RIP: Günther Förg, who died on his 61st birthday.
- RIP: Al Godstein, who died at the age of 77 of renal failure.
- Beijing Poly International Auction may pose a formidable challenge to much needed reform in China.
- Profile of Pei-Shen Qian, the Knoedler & Co. master forger.
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Students dressed as Father Christmas demonstrate against unpaid work at Serpentine Gallery.
- Germany won't return two paintings once owned by a Jewish businessman who fled the Nazis.
- Ludwig Museum agrees to restitute Nazi-looted drawings to the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim.
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National Gallery of Australia continuing to display statue of Shiva, despite it being identified as looted.
- Katz family sells painting to raise funds to continue the family’s fight for 188 other works of art.
- US acknowledges “mistakes in Iraq” over the protection of cultural property after the US-led invasion.
- West Chicago City Museum removes Jason Pallas from exhibit after minstrel show hoax.
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Shia LaBeouf allegedly ripped off Daniel Clowes comic for his new short film HowardCantour.com. He then appropriates his apology.
- Alec Soth on when photographers give up on photography.
- China's art market last year saw roughly half of the country's auction offerings go unsold.
- George Zimmerman's America-themed painting on eBay causing a controversy.
- Norton Simon Museum declines to lend Hans Memling’s “Christ Blessing” to Huntington Library.
- James Jenkin to resign from Printed Matter to take position at Clinton Foundation.
- US Copyright Office calls for Congress to reconsider royalties (droit de suite) for artists.
- Vagina knitter Casey Jenkins not sorry for her 28 day art performance.
- New York Court of Appeals finds that sellers of auction pieces can remain anonymous.
- CA jury decides that Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett belongs to Ryan O'Neal.
- Alastair Adams' portrait of Tony Blair revealed at National Portrait Gallery.
- 25-year old Jeffrey Gonano is the winner of the $1mil. Picasso painting raffled by charity.
- Christie's India auction does very well.
- Italy comes to the aid of Alexandria, helping to restore Greco-Roman Museum after five-year closure.
- Leadership position openings at arts institutions in DC could prove to be a big opportunity.
- Jori Finkel moderates a discussion that explores the role the arts play in shaping our selves.
- More on Amy Cappellazzo leaving Christie's and Tobias Meyer's departure from Sotheby's.
- Felix Salmon's latest piece on the state of the art market bubble.
- Art investment professionals discuss art as an investment.
- What happens if a buyer changes their mind about a auction win or a gallery purchase?
- New York galleries seeing an increase in visitors due to their selfie missions. Line for Kusama's Infinity Room at Zwirner getting kind of out of hand. Jerry Saltz says it's overrated and doesn't think it's worth the wait.
- V&A Museum has "rapid response" strategy for collecting objects as soon as they become newsworthy.
- National Gallery of Art receives Vincent van Gogh’s Green Wheat Fields, Auvers from estate of Paul Mellon.
- Christopher Knight reviews the Alexander Calder exhibition at LACMA.
- Francis Bacon’s triptych of Lucian Freud to be shown at Portland Art Museum for a few months.
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum acquires two video games for its permanent collection.
- Martha Sutherland donates first painting Warhol ever sold to Crystal Bridges Museum.
- Cleveland Museum of Art reports 39% jump in attendance over a one year period.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art successfully completes five-year, $54 million campaign to endow 29 staff positions.
- Roy Lichtenstein Foundation donating Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender Photography Collection to institutions.
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Bill Cosby's daughter Erin Cosby stages exhibition of photographs at Art Sanctuary
- Obama nominates Thomas E. Rothman to be in The National Council on the Arts.
- Christopher Knight picks his best of 2013.
- New American Paintings has their list of artists to watch in 2014.
- What Theaster Gates has been up to.
- Andres Serrano's project of buying signs from homeless people off the streets of NY.
- Daniel Rolnik to give "The Great North American Art Adventure" lecture Jan 2 at Amanda Harris Gallery.
- Roberta Smith reviews Martin Creed’s shows at Gavin Brown and Hauser & Wirth.
- Kim Gordon interviews Raymond Pettibon for Interview Magazine.
- Interview with Jon Rafman about his Google street view works.
- Mark Flood's works make an appearance on CBS’s Elementary.
- How I Met Your Mother creator Carter Bays wants Banksy to be in the show's finale.
- Artist-made Christmas cards from The Tate's archives.
- Frieze reviews Sam Falls exhibition at Eva Presenhuber.
- Ashton Cooper reviews Christian Marclay's show at Paula Cooper.
- Julian Garcia & Matt Goerzen of Boca Gallery marketing to Shaquille O'Neal via "Artisanale Data Mining".
- Lady Gaga's ARTPOP on track to lose $25mil. and break Interscope Records.
- Alec Monopoly looking to team up on a piece with Justin Bieber. Video of the collaboration.
- Pablo Picasso by Christian Zervos: Catalogue of Works, 1895–1972 (33 volumes), revised edition now available.
- Converse x Nate Lowman shoes for Just One Eye on sale now.
- Jeff Koons Split-Rocker limited edition vase now available.
- Tracey Emin releases new items and editions in her web shop.
- Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin soft sculpture available again.
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Rewind: Dec 2 – Dec 22
- Paolo Troilo, the artist who uses only his fingers to paint with.
- Ken Butler creates instruments from trash.
- Interview with Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe about their hotel room at 21c Museum Hotel Louisville.
- Casey Neistat uses entire budget for video on victims of Haiyan.
- Cyrcle. creating its mural in Miami.
- Nan Goldin - The Ballad of Sexual Dependency - on MOCATV.
- Colby Documentary with Craig Stecyk on MOCAtv.
- Nan Goldin – I Remember Your Face, the new documentary directed by Sabine Lidl trailer.
- Video interview with Swoon.
- A look at Hush working at the Tao Downtown in New York.
- A video documenting the Neon Golden show at Above Second in Hong Kong.
- The Crimes of Minds film.
- Vaginal knitting as an art form?
- A look at Nuart 2013.
- Kidult - No Gallery, No Master.
- Timelapse of El Mac working on an interpretation of Mictecacihuatl in Los Angeles (via MTN-World).
- NEKST Forever - keeping his name alive.
- Steve Harrington painting a wall at Urban Outfitters.
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