Granny Squared at CAFAM: Knitting street artists transform the façade of a downtown LA museum with globally sourced crocheted squares

Granny Squared at CAFAM


The giant office buildings and imposing Los Angeles County Museum of Art dotting LA’s extensive Wilshire Boulevard make the quaint Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) look like a little dollhouse. This architectural quality inspired the…

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Interview: Becky Crew: Australian science writer and author of “Zombie Birds, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals”

Interview: Becky Crew


Becky Crew spent her childhood in the picturesque Blue Mountains in Australia, with her (human) family and a menagerie that included dogs, cats, pigeons, crabs and all kinds of critters. Suffice to say she has always had a bit of a fascination with…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : NASA’s 3D food printer, Sydney’s Vivid Festival, the Whitney’s new identity and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Todd McLellan’s 50 Disassembled Objects Skilled lensman Todd McLellan likes to take things apart. What began as a meticulous photo project dubbed “Disassembly Series” has now expanded into a new book for Thames & Hudson, called “); return…

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Interview: Sam Walton of Hole & Corner: A British magazine that celebrates the kind of quiet, dedicated craftsmanship that rarely gets indulgent editorial

Interview: Sam Walton of Hole & Corner


by Gavin Lucas Hole & Corner is a brand new bi-annual print magazine devoted to “celebrating craft, beauty, passion and skill.” Hot off the press, issue one takes a look at how Chris King carefully…

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Interview: Stelios Kallinikou: The Cypriot photographer on the cyclical flow of creativity and balancing artistic and commercial work

Interview: Stelios Kallinikou


by Emily Millett Inside the stark walls of Penindaplinena Gallery in Cyprus, beautiful people flit from one exhibit to another, while outside on the damp pavement, others balance cigarettes and glasses of wine. Standing confidently between…

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Jon Burgerman’s Drawings of Girls I’ve Seen on Tumblr: Brooklyn’s cheeky illustrator looks to the ladies of the internet for colorful inspiration

Jon Burgerman's Drawings of Girls I've Seen on Tumblr


by Gavin Lucas Intrigued by the Tumblr-girl phenomenon—where images of girls are posted online and then endlessly reblogged on various Tumblr sites—Brooklyn-based illustrator Jon Burgerman has decided to join in….

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Toyin Odutola “My Country Has No Name”: The Nigerian-born, Alabama-based artist discusses process, identity and selfies

Toyin Odutola


A recent graduate of California College of the Arts, Toyin Odutola is already celebrating her second show at Jack Shainman Gallery in NYC. The energetic artist produces ink works…

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Shot by Kern: Seven years of intimate portraits by photographer Richard Kern

Shot by Kern


The thin line between fine art and explicit material has been tiptoed by adventurous artists for generations, but few contemporary photographers expose the alluring and complex nature of the naked female form quite as well as NYC-based ); return…

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Do Book Company: New publishing house from Do Lectures produces pocket-sized guides to inspire and instruct

Do Book Company


“The idea is a simple one,” says Do Lectures founder David Hieatt, “people who do things can inspire the rest of us to go and do things too.” This is the premise of the small yet…

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David Brandon Geeting + Levi’s Made & Crafted: Plants, cats and avocados in the young Brooklyn-based photographer’s lookbook interpretation

David Brandon Geeting + Levi's Made & Crafted


While it may not seem like it, the concept of a brand collection lookbook is relatively new. In fact, the single word still draws a red squiggly line under it in most word processing programs. But now…

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