Invisible Poem Paintings by Lu Xinjian

Chinese artist Lu Xinjian has created a series of paintings with classic poems from Charles Baudelaire and William Shakespeare buried beneath the visual illusion, implementing pattern recognition concepts similarly found in stereograms (sort of what you would find in magic eye books.) Each acrylic on canvas painting blends a myriad of colors and patterns through reinterpretation of...

ArtNowNY Launches in Chelsea NYC

ArtNowNY is an urban contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea arts district of New York City. Founded by Joseph Gross in 2012, the gallery focuses on the representation of a diverse stable of emerging and established artists working in variant mediums and genres. With a curatorial program that highlights the contemporary experience of aggregate cultural influence, ArtNowNY...

Blek Le Rat Street Art ‘Stencil Pioneer’ [Documentary]

While searching the interwebs, we came across this interesting documentary entirely devoted to Blek Le Rat, the legendary French artist who began 30 years ago to make stencils, later inspiring a Banksy and everyone else who uses them in their art. Check out the docutmentary below which retraces Blek Le Rat’s history, step by step, location after location. The quality is not tip...

Unique Surroundings: The Classical Baby Grand Hotel Hires 10 Urban Artists to Create 55 Custom Designed Rooms

In an attempt to capture “a sense of New York in the heart of Athens,” The Classical Baby Grand Hotel in Greece hired 10 artists to custom-decorate and design 55 rooms with signature looks. The artists came from various fields of urban art including graffiti, design, and illustration. The result is a creative one. For instance, the hotel’s main lobby uses the body of a Mini...

JR x Jose Parla: Wrinkles of the City [Cuba]

Artist and good friends JR and Jose Parla are in Cuba at the moment completing the Wrinkles of the City project. This public art project is set up in time for the Eleventh Havana Biennial 2012, turning the streets into works of art. Large-scale photo print posters of JR works harmoniously with the free flowing calligraphy style of Parla, which then blends in effortlessly...

Still-Life x Video: Glitch Paintings by Kon Trubkovich

The following paintings by Kon Trubkovich draw inspiration from technology and the modern world. This Russian-born, New York City based artist began his work by filming his own videos. The artist then further analyzes the videos, deciding to create still-life paintings of some and others become separate films in themselves. The paintings are of oil and graphite presented on canvas...

The Tattooed Poster: A Retrospective on 2011 by Chaos Crew Tattoo Studio

The concept of a year in review is nothing new, however, the people over at the Chaos Crew Tattoo studio in Munich have added a new twist to this concept. The Chaos Crew has developed a poster depicting famous events from 2011 and tattooed it on a large piece of calfskin stretched and placed on display between two panes of glass. The work showcases the crew’s creativity and...

Shepard Fairey Printing “Harmony & Discord” at Pace Prints [Video]

Infamous street artist Shepard Fairey exemplifies the ‘hard-worker’ in this video. In preparation for his upcoming exhibition at Pace Prints, Fairey does double duty and attends both the Pace Paper studio in New York and the Watanabe Press in Brooklyn in order to create for the show. In this video short below, he shares some of his inspiration behind the art direction with regard...