Monsieur Magique is an illustrator from the United Kingdom who has lived in Finland since 2004. He uses gouache, hand printing and Photoshop to create his illustrations. Sac describes his style as “playful aggression, like a delicious custard pie in the face”. He seeks to amuse and confuse and is particularly interested in pattern and repetition, abstraction and letting...

Renos has always had impeccable tags no matter what name he is writing down. Here he showboats on a number of other writers name. Sizzlin Styles!

In conjunction with our June Beastie Boys issue, we continue to bring you special content all month! Today, we bring you their 1983 debut single "Cooky Puss." And a Valentines day video  of them on The Scott and Gary Show, a 1980s public access TV show in NY, promoting it. Woah. The original logo on the single was done by Cey Adams who is featured in the magazine! He went on to creat multiple Beastie identities over the span of their career. Read an excerpt from the interview after the jump!

Opening this Saturday evening at Prohibition Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles is OUT THE WINDOW a group show featuring works by Andrew Luck, Henry Gunderson, Jordan Bogash, and Mario Ayala.

Franco Fasoli aka Jaz recently completed this monochromatic mura in Vitry, France that depicts a group of headless creatures in a lust landscape setting. 

Every Friday we feature someone old or new, traditional or unconventional, active or not, and so on. This week’s spotlight is on Duem.

We are enjoying the work of Candace Couse this morning. Candace is a visual artist who primarily works in installation and video. Her work examines the "basic human need to acquire territory as a prerequisite to identity, as well as the loss of security and anxiety that comes with disorientation." See her paitings, installations, and videos after the jump...

Pasadena-based artist Jesse Fillingham works to explore themes of "myth, introspection, creation, and wizardry." We like those themes, and his series of drawings depicting "an alternate creation myth composed of trees of strife, knowledge and life, as well as ephemeral libidinous pritis - robed men ponder and wander through graphic landscapes."

We are really enjoying the photographs of New Jersey-based photographer Robin Schwartz this morning. Schwartz, as you probably gathered from her photos, is an animal person and her daughter has been the subject of her body of work stretching over eleven years. Schwartz is a professor of photography at William Paterson University.   

Photographer Ruben Brulat has traveled via land only, through Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Japan and Mongolia for his latest series entitled Paths. "The bodies of people become friends, performing - not without difficulties - leaving wounds, marks, and souvenirs from a time before heading towards different paths, (after sharing one for a while). The Bodies of these people become a part of the accidental and dramatic landscapes, like the trees, the rocks or the black sands of gunung bromo."