JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City on Nowness.com Wake up + take a trip to Havana, Cuba with longtime collaborators José Parlá + JR in film short, ‘Wrinkles In Time’. Commissioned by the 2012 Havana Biennale, it’s part of a global series of public art installations + expressionistic murals centered around enigmatic portraits of the residents in each metropolis, […]
‘GIF-iti’ By Insa Might Make You Dizzy
When offline meets online like this, who would expect such genius? After collecting images of his graffiti artwork from around the world, designer INSA animated them as GIFs + calling the series ‘GIF-iti’. The series is comprised of graffiti wall murals that are each hand painted + photographed in sequences of 8 frames. Sounds easy, right? Some of […]
Love These Tanaka Paper Toys For Karl Lagerfeld
Last night, at Karl Lagerfeld‘s flagship boutique on Paris’ Left Bank, the designer unveiled 20 paper toys by Japanese paper artist, Shin Tanaka. Hybrids between origami + street art, Tanaka’s paper creations included an identical replica of Karl, down to those signature oversized shades on him + on Choupette, his white kitty. Check out T-Boy below, the […]
JR: Blow Up on Nowness.com. Here’s Matt Black‘s latest film portrait of one of our most important contemporary artists to date, JR, the self-described ‘photograffeur’. Entitled ‘JR:BLOW UP’, we get to hear from JR himself on his road to stardom from his small beginnings of tagging Parisian streets to the camera he found on the […]
Diane Pernet At Gansevoort Street In West Village By Nick Walker
Check out this amazing stencil by Nick Walker of fashion extraordinaire Diane Pernet + it’s location is so apropos – on the facade of what used to be Florent (1985-2008), the famed 24hr ’French diner’ or luncheonette for the fabulous, (no matter who you were), on Gansevoort Street in the West Village. (via ASVOF)