Tam Dieu, aka Okedoki and one of my favorite Canadians, came out of her igloo earlier this week to hand-paint a new big Benny the Dreamer. The sculpture
If Frank Kozik’s Smorkin’ Potamus was a strange (yet successful) choice for the porcelain treatment, Nathan Jurevicius‘ Bunniguru was a character I could envision coming from the Limoges
If that most excellent Philadelphia-based museum of medical oddities, The Mütter Museum, curated its collection with imaginary curiosities instead of, for instance, Chang and Eng’s conjoined liver and John
Steven Harrington has explored his “You & I” theme in 2D (prints, shirts) and augmented reality, but this new 9-inch porcelain multiple marks its debut as a 3D
And from creative carpets of The Netherlands, let’s hop over to prophetic art multiples from Belgium! You may already know I’m a big fan of Toykyo [tagged |
I love a nicely-replicated object with a side order of sentimentality. For their Future Fossils series, husband/wife design duo, Bughouse (aka Rebecca Johnson and Jeff Klarin) gave gravitas
Eggpicnic is a design duo from Santiago, Chile who have created an extremely adorable series of four characters known as The Crin Collection. Each character has an equally
I’m really digging the neo-pop art work of Barcelona-based Quim Tarrida, whose first exhibition in the U.S. opens tonight at Toy Art Gallery. If You Blink, You’ll Miss It
Testament to the power of the object d’art: it can make you desire something in its objectified (idealized, symbolic) form that you wouldn’t actually even want in its
There’s something really satisfying about seeing “highbrow” art history movements contained inside that trusty standby of souvenir shops: the “lowbrow” snow globe. The History of Art Snow Globes by