Be Here Nowish: A new, slightly NSFW web series in which two NYC girls swap their home city for awakening in LA

Be Here Nowish


A change in location often seems to be the best way to shake off bad habits, a dead-end job or the lingering remains of a broken relationship. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but an adventure is always in store. Filmmakers Alexandra Roxo…

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Climate Changed: An expansive graphic novel-style analysis of the world’s environmental woes and the policy action around them

Climate Changed


Visual learners, rejoice. French artist and journalist Philippe Squarzoni—known for his celebrated non-fiction, graphic novel-style works on politics and human rights—lends his eye and storytelling panache to an extensive work on one of the world’s most significant and controversial issues: climate change. Inspired…

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Leonardo Magnani: The Voyage 2014: Tracing the steps of Charles Darwin for the sake of expansive public art pieces

Leonardo Magnani: The Voyage 2014


In his four years traveling the globe, Charles Darwin filled notebook upon notebook of observations and experiences—enough source material for the scientist to pen “On the Origin of Species.” Now, Florentine artist Leonardo Magnani hopes to…

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Cool Hunting Video: Flex: Remarkable skills, creativity and self-expression combine to define Flex dancing

Cool Hunting Video: Flex


Not long ago, we were honored to meet some of Brooklyn, NY’s premiere competitive dancers and experts in the Flex style. We spent a few hours with the crew—learning about the style and watching some fantastic moves—and their remarkable talents were mesmerizing….

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The Art Lover’s Guide to Japanese Museums: The first English language guide of its kind to be published in 30 years

The Art Lover's Guide to Japanese Museums


Across 176 full-color pages, author and historian Sophie Richard delivers comprehensive insight on over 50 art museums and galleries throughout Japan, in her first book “The Art Lover’s Guide to Japanese Museums.” Filled with practical knowledge,…

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Letters of Note: Correspondence across the ages that reveal the personal side of public figures and humanize great events

Letters of Note


Not so long ago—in the age before Twitter, email and Facebook—people wrote out their feelings, gripes, grievances and praise on hotel notepads, scraps of paper and personal stationary, and then mailed them. While some might argue that the art of correspondence died with…

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2014 Drawing Now Paris: Illustrations that transcend paper at the world’s leading dedicated art fair

2014 Drawing Now Paris


The eighth edition of Drawing Now Paris, the art fair dedicated to contemporary illustration, proved that drawing is not dead and, furthermore, showed that the medium is sprawling and verging into other forms of visual art. Evolving to include 3D objects, writing, monochrome…

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2014 Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas: A spectacular race in Austin featuring the world’s fastest racers on two wheels

2014 Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas


Grand Prix motorcycle racing (aka MotoGP) is known to many worldwide as the greatest show on earth; showcasing the fastest road-racers, hitting speeds beyond 200 mph. The series—which travels to 18 race tracks in 14 countries over…

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Xu Zhen: A MadeIn Company Production: The Chinese artist balances between spirituality, irony, somberness and humor in his ongoing exhibition

Xu Zhen: A MadeIn Company Production


Xu Zhen is a pioneer within Chinese underground contemporary art and an influential figure in Shanghai’s scene. In 1998, along with Davide Quadrio, he founded Bizart in Shanghai, a platform to support local and international artists, which has been at the forefront of…

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Raymond Pettibon: Are Your Motives Pure?: Words and art combine to make up this bold, surf-centric exhibition

Raymond Pettibon: Are Your Motives Pure?


by Charlotte Anderson With characters and landscapes composed in stark ink, self-trained artist Raymond Pettibon’s style is a melding of images and text––reminiscent of William Blake’s illustrated poems––wryly focusing in on motifs of American life, literature, comics,…

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