Shepard Fairey Is Staying On The Obama Train

It’s interesting to me that this New York Magazine blurb opens with; “Even though Obama’s popularity has been sliding significantly…” because for me personally, it’s Shepard Fairey’s act that’s starting to wear a bit thin. Today the acclaimed artist released Art For Obama, which is a collection of Obama inspired artwork. However, I question the [...]

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Thanks To Andres Amador, “The Guardian” Is Covered In Sand

If you head over to The Guardian you will find a great little series of photos depicting the work from artist Andres Amador.  Amador, who is based out of San Francisco, does a lot of landscape art or earthscape art.  For the purpose of The Guardian photo spread this translates into massive and intricate designs [...]

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The Turner Prize Shortlist Isn’t All Bad

A couple weeks back I had a post that kind of put Jonathan Jones (and the Turner prize) on blast for his, and other high-culture types, casual dismissal of the work of the street artist Banksy.  Well, being a rational and fair-minded man, I of course believe that everybody deserves their day in court.  In [...]

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Banksy and Street Art’s Place In Society

While I was cruising around the Guardian website this morning I came across this post from arts & culture journalist/blogger Jonathan Jones. In the post Jones talks about his brief and impish consideration of nominating graffiti-artist Banksy for the Turner prize.  First I suppose I should explain that the Turner prize is a pretty high [...]

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Appreciating Early 20th Century Russian Art

The focus of this feature over at The Atlantic is a pair of exhibits in Paris and London that are showing collector George Costakis’ massive collections of early 20th century Russian Art.  As the article describes him he seems like a pretty normal dude who just has a passion for the preservation of art, or “art [...]

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