Sometimes I fall prey to romanticizing the anonymous precision of factory-made multiples. It takes only a reporter going undercover at Foxconn or photos from Michael Wolf’s The Real Toy
For those who aren’t inspired by Snow Cones, there’s this: a hand-held hamster ball of nothing. Nothing, for the person who has everything. Congratulations! You have received the gift
Remember Jason Taylor and his Everyday Objects project? Check out his 339th Everyday Object: “Real 3D Glasses”. What’s so great about this one is how simply and effectively
Catherine Coan creates dioramas of suicides starring canary birds. The Canary Suicides are meditations on captivity, miniature embodiment, the pet as fetish and the relationship between death and
New York’s GREY AREA could have swapped the titles on its last and current art shows without altering the content or the message. Considering the two exhibitions’ names–“Bad
Santlov poses Star Wars‘ Stormtrooper action figures in utterly banal, vaguely depressing vignettes of everyday life. In other words, the toys are just like us! Do you see
A. Drauglis is a Washington, DC-based artist, woodworker and furniture maker. He recently caught my attention with this handsome pill box, which comes complete with a dose of social
French artist Soasig Chamaillard takes damaged commemorative statuettes of The Virgin Mary and turns them into pop culture characters. There’s Hello Kitty Virgin Mary, My Little Pony Virgin Mary,
Tsuyoshi Ozawa began making, photographing and eating Vegetable Weapons in 2001. The Japanese photographer now travels around the world taking pictures of women bearing “weapons” made from ingredients for
