Cool Hunting
| 26 April 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
The Graffiti Art Project
by Tim Yu
Reminiscent of Wooster Collective's 11 Spring project in New York City last year, the Kelburm Castle in Scotland is the next building in line to be covered in street art.
Beginning on 10 May 2007 the Kelburn Castle (above) will experience a barrage of paint, paste and paper as top Brazilian street artists, including Os Gemeos (below right), Nina (below left) and Nunca work alongside Scottish talent to cover the south side of the castle in graffiti art. The artists will be living together for approximately one month, sharing ideas and ultimately producing a giant piece of collaborative art. Taken out of its urban context and applied to the historic walls of a rural Scottish Castle, the project is a new challenge to the public's understanding of street art that goes beyond the usual "high vs. low" debates.
Stay tuned by visiting The Graffiti Art Project for updates and more info.
Impossibly Familiar
by Tim Yu
The culmination of a year-long curatorial project by FIT's (Fashion Institute of Technology) Art Market Master of Arts program, "Impossibly Familiar" is a group exhibition featuring works by Antenna Design, assume vivid astro focus, Ragna Berlin, Cui Fei, Ivan Navarro, Brandon Neubauer, Aurora Robson and Zbig Rybczynski. Strategically curated to encourage viewers to reconsider the impossible and challenge our perceptions of the future, the show brings together an idiosyncratic bunch of artists and designers.
Be sure to look out for Aurora Robson's Jungle Series—playful and intricate sculptures constructed from discarded plastic (above left). Also, the always interesting Antenna Design will be exhibiting Shrink Bench, a proposal for a New York City public art project that freely dispenses psychotherapy (above right).
Click here for more info.
Impossibly Familiar
Opening reception: Thursday, 26 April 2007, 6pm–8pm
26 April-19 May 2007
Art Gotham
547 West 27th Street, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10001 map
tel. +1 212 714 1100
Schwipe
by Lost At E Minor
Australian label Schwipe create luminous clothing that's too hip for hipsters and too chilled for chillsters but sits in somewhere in between. The label packs the momentum of tsubi/ksubi with the experimentation of Limedrop, and a blatant disregard for political correctness similar to Tight Knickers. They're the sort of well cut, finely styled threads that you'd wear to a Mystery Jets gig. Or a Dave Eggers reading. We like.
