Hot Dogs Are The Best-Looking Food: Emilio Santoyo’s Special Sauce

Design

Hot Dogs Are The Best-Looking Food: Emilio Santoyo’s Special Sauce

Emilio Santoyo is a Michaelangelo from the Inland Empire, virtually chiseling something out of nothing on the regular. Often getting the sense that something was missing from his everyday snapshots, April 23, 2020
Anatomy of the Artist: Benjamin Spiers

Painting

Anatomy of the Artist: Benjamin Spiers

Fame came calling a little late in the day for the London-based artist, Benjamin Spiers, the former art instructor directly responsible for the development of Oli Epp's distinctive visual language (a April 20, 2020
Kyle Dunn: Ghost World

Features

Kyle Dunn: Ghost World

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” wrote Oscar Wilde in his 1889 essay, The Decay of Lying. Simply put, Wilde believed that we understand emotion through the lens of art, so the April 17, 2020
Do You Compute? Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug, 1950-1999

Books

Do You Compute? Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug, 1950-1999

On the wall of my childhood bedroom, I had a poster of Miles Davis, deep in thought, emblazoned below with the small rainbow Apple logo and simple statement, “Think Different.” This was long befo April 15, 2020
Gentle Reminders: A Conversation With Mark Whalen

Sculpture

Gentle Reminders: A Conversation With Mark Whalen

Over The Influence recently used the window of more relaxed public orders and measures in Hong Kong to open a new solo show and present their new downstairs gallery. The original, upstairs space intr April 14, 2020
VHILS: Etching the Stories of a City

Features

VHILS: Etching the Stories of a City

VHILS first soared into my radar around 2008. By that point, graffiti was already a massive worldwide culture that people from different fields were not only trying to understand, but also monetize. April 08, 2020
Taking a "Raincheck": A Conversation with Louisa Gagliaridi

Painting

Taking a "Raincheck": A Conversation with Louisa Gagliaridi

Louisa Gagliaridi’s debut solo at Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, February 28 through March 28, 2020, in Warsaw, Poland happened in the nick of time, giving us the opportunity to view the everyday thro April 07, 2020
Sieben on Life: Before it Goes Public

Magazine

Sieben on Life: Before it Goes Public

Many years ago, a friend of mine appeared on a cooking program on PBS. The filming occurred in her home and she had to get signed agreements from artists whose work adorned her walls in order to incl April 06, 2020
Katie Kimmel & Lorien Stern On Their New "Very Rare" Show @ Hashimoto Contemporary

Installation

Katie Kimmel & Lorien Stern On Their New "Very Rare" Show @ Hashimoto Contemporary

As we all adjust to the virtues of “virtual” gatherings, where black sweats replace black leggings and jeans, art openings still hum with anticipation.  This weekend our friends at Hashimoto April 02, 2020
Loie Hollowell: The Complexity of Symmetry

Features

Loie Hollowell: The Complexity of Symmetry

No matter how it’s defined, figuration is fascinating, whether formal and idealized, narrative or exaggerated. The merger of abstraction and figuration is exciting and challenging, so to this end, April 02, 2020
KRINK: Graffiti, Art and Invention

Books

KRINK: Graffiti, Art and Invention

So much of graffiti is about the passing of styles, a secret language that goes from block to block, neighborhood to city-at-large, then big cities and entire countries. Word of mouth isn’t the rig April 01, 2020
Art In Uncertain Times: A Sense of Urgency Ripped Out, Guy Yanai From Tel Aviv

Studio Time

Art In Uncertain Times: A Sense of Urgency Ripped Out, Guy Yanai From Tel Aviv

"Just to write this email has become so hard, my mind is numb and I hardly know myself anymore." We could almost hear Guy Yanai stunned, shaking his head  as he opened his heart for our Art in U   April 01, 2020
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