Alex Pardee Archive
vinyl
Picture it: San Francisco, January 2009. A pre-skinny Alex Pardee had just opened an atrabilious art show entitled Letters From Digested Children. The concept: Missing children who’d been eaten by monsters were being
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Pop CULTure
My fellow Americans, please don’t forget to vote today. At times, the electoral process feels like a broken system. The thing is, you can’t fix it through apathy.
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photography
So Bravo network has this new bottom-of-the-barrel reality TV show about truly abhorrent privileged girls with familial connections to the NYC art world. It’s called Gallery Girls, and since The
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photography
Another week comes to a close, and we are left with these images of toys from the US, UK, Germany, Bali and Japan, plus: gigantic cats, baby cats,
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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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sculpture
Last weekend, Jeremy Fish‘s Listen and Learn solo exhibition at Joshua Liner Gallery drew to a close. Initially, I was bummed that Fish, a San Francisco resident who
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resin
Remember Tupac Cat? Surely you must. I mean, even HuffPo acknowledged it. My buddy JAY222 brings Alex Pardee‘s meme into three dimensions with his insane range of 75
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conventions
As I said back in 2009, “Wondercon isn’t about toys.” It’s about comics, superheroes, Star Wars, extreme nerdiness in a variety of flavors, people in costumes I usually
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Pop CULTure
I have a couple acronyms for the way I feel about Ron English doing the cover art for Chris Brown’s new album, F.A.M.E. Let’s start with WTF, and
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prints
Whether it’s due to a discordance with our accepted (romantic) ideals about the serious nature of art or because artists don’t want to burn bridges to would-be A-list benefactors ,
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