This past Friday, January 4, in San Francisco, Chandran Gallery, in association with Juxtapoz and Power House Productions, presented a special benefit exhibition, installation, and auction in support of an innovative artist-in-residence program in Detroit. The exhibition, Iron To Gold/Ashes To Hope, is now presenting the donated artwork as part of an online auction on Paddle8 closes on January 22nd at 10am EST.

Elfandiary is an illustrator and artist in Bandung, Indonesia. He put this gorgeous rendering timelapse together of a portrait piece he created. 'It was about 2 or 3 hours drawing, not really sure about the duration, on a 12 x 12" 300 gsm paper with inecolour marker, sakura micron pen and faber castell classic colour.' With the magic of technology, this was recorded with iPhone 4s. Song credit : The Wombats - Moving to new york ( Kyte remix )

In part of MOCAtv’s art in the streets series, Swoon is the subject of their newest installment focusing on her work for the "Konbit Shelter" project in Bigones-Leogane, Haiti. Take nine minutes out of your day for this insightful look into what Swoon has been up to.  

Airports are busy, but rarely do we get an idea of just how many flights come in and out of a given airport over a short period of time. Cy Kuckenbaker captured 5 hours of air landings at San Diego airport, and condensed it into just a short 25 seconds. The flights took place between 10:30am and 3pm.

'I've been a big fan of music by the great composer Ludovico Einaudi for a long time. About 2 years ago I found this great, very different and mysterious track of his. After searching for it I couldn't find any info on it. Who are the people, where is it from? Which just made me even more interested and right after hearing it for the first time I knew I had to make an animation for it. It was a project that has always been in the back of  my mind and hasnt changed a whole lot since day 1.'  

We are very excited for the highly anticipated Sam Flores solo show, Lion and the Lamb, opening at FIFTY24SF Gallery in San Francisco on 12/12/12. Because Flores' last show opened in Egypt days before a major revolution erupted on the streets of Cairo in 2011, this is the first time many people have seen a solo from the Bay Area artist.

A new video focusing on the work of Spanish artist, Remed, was released to promote his upcoming solo exhibition at David Bloch Gallery in Morocco. The show entitled “EPYPHISM” will showcase a number of new paintings from the artist. The video documents his process painting in the studio, as well as creating a simple abstract piece in the streets.

A collaboration of body painter extraordinaire Alexa Meade and performance artist Sheila Vand, involving the before-mentioned body painting work before Vand lies in a pool of milk. Both in still and video images, this is a particularly interesting collaboration, where the subject comes to life in a fluid "still-life." If that doesn't make sense, click after the jump, and see the video.

Edward Munch's The Scream is an unanimously recognizable artwork for common folk and art lovers alike. One of Munch's pastels of the image is up there with the highest art sales to date going for nearly 120 million dollars (it is the highest in dollar amount but eight in value when adjusted for inflation).

Every 8 weeks, Mercedes-Benz will release a mixed tape featuring 10 up-and-coming artists from around the world under the Mixed Tape Music section of mb! Magazine. Lucky for us, they featured our good friend and Los Angeles based fine artist, Sage Vaughn. The even better part is that we get to see what Sage's garndmother thinks of his artwork. She has her theories...