Cool Hunting

The Matchbox Project
What began as a joke—twenty tiny presents enclosed in matchboxes mailed anonymously out to friends—is now a full-on project with matchboxes left randomly around the world for strangers to discover. The initiator, a 24-year-old journalist and freelance photographer originally sent gifts so personal that they could safely be tracked back to their sender, motivated by a desire to random act of semi-artistic kindness aimed...

Sarah Beetson's 50 Bucks: Bring On The Sluts Art Vending Machine
Melbourne-based illustrator Sarah Beetson has her second solo exhibition opening this Friday, 6 June 2008, featuring Australia's first Art Vending machine. Titled "50 Bucks: Bring On The Sluts," is a collection of 500 Moleskine-sized artworks which will be priced at $50 each. Those interested in buying one will be able to make their purchase through a donated Pepsi vending machine, which will be dispensing...

Caleb Neelon Is Working On It
Massachusetts-based artist Caleb Neelon is staging his first West Coast exhibition, "Caleb Neelon Is Working On It" at West Hollywood's Carmichael Gallery opening this weekend. The solo show includes several variations of his groupings of multi-colored Beech leaves against brushy backgrounds and marks, in Neelon's own words, "a new and very personal direction for me." Click above image for detail and see more after...

Pop Subversion
This Friday, 8 February 2008, Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, will play host to a large group of both established and emerging artists from the realms of street art, pop surrealism, lowbrow, illustration, print making, and tattoo. Through this group exhibition, promising young artists will have the chance to exhibit side by side with some of the more established artists in...