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
Contemporary crochet artists are a little out of my comfort zone, so please permit me an obvious comparison to help us get orientated. Esther Traugot is like a quieter Olek minus the
Root Division is a San Francisco arts organization that seeks to “improve appreciation and access to the visual arts by connecting personal inspiration and community participation.” Among other cool
Mark Landwehr and Sven Waschk [coarse] return to Chicago’s Rotofugi Gallery (via Germany and Hong Kong) with their signature brand of lean, pristine toy art. Speaking in the lexicon of
I’ve held off on posting my photos from Barry McGee’s retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum until now because I was waiting for the words to come. Curators Lawrence
Over 500 whimsical objects have just been on exhibit at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The nostalgia-inducing art and toy designs are all connected by Swedish social theorist
Los Angeles-based artist Megan Whitmarsh recently opened her third solo show at New Image Art Gallery in West Hollywood. The exhibition gets its title, Here Comes Purple, from a hand-sewn
Portland’s WeMake has organized the construction and deployment of over 100 designer birdhouses throughout the city. Local, national and international artists answered the call to action and created amazing birdhouses that will be auctioned
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
Bad Smell is an exhibition of new work by Italian (anti-)artist, Laurina Paperina, currently on display at Fouladi Projects in San Francisco. Paperina’s (anti-)art is a mash-up of pop culture