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By: Brittany Clarke It is that time of the year again music fans! Festival season is just beginning, and to start it off with a bang is the Annual Wanee Music Festival. Since 2005, the festival has been held on the Spirit of Suwannee River Music Park grounds, located in Live Oak, Florida. The park [...]

Ian Ross Subtitle: Hyper-Organic Art By: Michael Keel Photos By: Rob Evans   So who is Ian Ross and why did I choose to share Graffiti art with our readers? The simple answer equals dedication, originality, perseverance and imagery that makes your head spin back a few times. I can honestly say graffiti art is [...]

www.kazanjian.net Jim Kazanjian’s surreal landscapes offer phantasmagoric visions of a where-is-this world, defined by impossibly complex architecture and M.C.Escher-esque black-and-white graphics. Inspired by the imaginary realms of cult author H.P. Lovecraft—whose wild, cosmic short stories set the mold for much of the 20th century’s best science fiction—Kazanjian’s aim is to redress the “misunderstanding that photography has [...]

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been undergoing a facelift for nine weeks this winter to complete the final stages of construction and preservation work in order to prepare for the opening of the new Renzo Pianodesigned wing and the restored Tapestry Room. The brief closure period began on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 and will [...]

Iconic travel photography combines with an ethical & eco t-shirt for a modern, urban look. From East to West, North to South, across continents, across language barriers, through fashion, photography and travel, The Lost Travel TShirt Company http://losttraveltshirt.com/ combines these essential elements of a global citizen to create an adventurous, free-spirited and iconoclastic t-shirt collection. [...]

  MoMa To Unveil Meditation of Light Taking on the flashy role of music producer, MoMA has commissioned a new work by Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights, to be performed at Radio City Music Hall for one night only on 26 January. For the piece, which the museum has described as “a meditation on light, [...]

By Kriston Capps AIA/AAF collection includes 160,000 drawings, 30,000 photographs The Library of Congress announced on Tuesday that it has acquired tens of thousands of architectural drawings and photographs—a rare collection maintained by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Architectural Foundation (AAF). The collection includes 160,000 drawings, 30,000 photographs, and rare books [...]

By: Luke Coleman I was watching a natural history programme the other evening; of the type where the out-of-his-comfort-zone Westerner is constantly amazed by the survival skills of the people who’ve lived in the area in question for hundreds of generations. In amongst the subtly patronizing comments and sweeping vistas so essential to such a [...]

The installation work “Enclosed Content Chatting Away In The Colour Invisibility” by Anouk Kruithof is truly fascinating. Anouk Kruithof (1981) is a dutch artist who lives and works in Berlin, The Netherlands and abroad. This installation is made out of approximately 3500 or so found coloured books. The installation changes everytime she (re)constructs it. Watch a video about the [...]

By Alyssa Reeder In New York City, beauty can be found in the trash lining the streets and rat invested subways, dirt can assume a surprising value. It can even replace the diamond as girl’s best friend. Sayo Granich Lee, West Coast-bred, NYC-based jewelry designer decided to market the very grime that coats the streets [...]

By: Jacob Weis To imagine an Alexander McQueen fashion show, one must follow three simple steps. Step One: Take your conception of a run-of-the-mill fashion show—long narrow stage down the middle of a large dark room; pouty bundles of sticks pacing up and down the stage amidst flashbulbs, oohs and aahs —and tear it into [...]

By: Staff In Street Arts’ latest chapter, the storytellers are hitting up walls with all manner of influences and methods. More than ever before, formally trained and self taught fine artists are skipping the gallery route and taking their work directly to the public, creating cultural mash-ups and highly personal stories of their own, altering [...]

The Clock is a 24-hour cinematic montage containing thousands of television and film clips depicting the minutes from clocks, watches, or announcement of time on screen, all sampled from all genres, cultures and historical eras, that reveal or allude to the passing of time. The project is the latest video art installation display from Christian Marclay.  The Clock, [...]

By: Corey Dembeck You are not an artist. Every snapshot you showcase as overpriced art on coffee shop walls is disgusting. That snapshot of sailboats docked at a marina while the sun is setting–I’ve seen that thousand-piece puzzle before. The photo of the young boy and girl sitting on a brick wall sharing an ice [...]

Reykjavik, Iceland’s 16th Annual Culture Night takes place on August 20th, 2011 this year. This year’s theme is “Go to Town.” The theme refers to the old Icelandic custom of welcoming people by offering to go to town and doing well with their visitors. Culture night has become an essential part of the city’s cultural [...]