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Viewing modern toy art in a museum/fine art gallery is an amazing experience. As LA’s Toy Art Gallery celebrates the 1st anniversary of its Melrose Ave showroom, and major
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conventions
Comic-Con comes but once a year, and collectors of designer toys (and other niche nerds worldwide) prepare for many months in advance. Given all the hard work that goes
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conventions
At the end of the four days, the lasting memories of Comic-Con aren’t about the comics and the toys. The memories are about the people: the artists, the
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Pop CULTure
This is kind of cute overload. In the video, a little girl named Riley presents a deep question about toys, gender and marketing. “Some girls like superheroes, some
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tech toys
Right now, if you live in San Francisco, New York, Chicago or London, there are designer toys in your midst. They’re all around you in fact, but in
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conventions
November 5th marked the 6th and biggest year of DesignerCon, the world’s premier designer toy (and related ephemera) extravaganza. For 7 hours, artists and toy collectors converged on
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resin
Scott Wilkowski‘s unique vision of “interior design” has previously resulted in skeletal Bud Bats and Bud Cats. For this weekend’s DesignerCon, Wilkowski and DKE present Skin Deep, a
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sculpture
At a time like this, artists are the last people to be in favor of economic inflation, but their sure are a lot of inflatable art artists! Perhaps
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paintings
Last Gasp followed up its 40th anniversary Lowbrow Art show with a 41st anniversary Art Almighty pop surrealism exhibit extraordinaire. The event opened after Wondercon [recapped] last Friday
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vinyl
I took this photo a few months ago at an undisclosed location, but the cat is now out of the bag. This morning, Vinyl Pulse posted photos of
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