Miami Shopping Guide: Art Basel Edition: Where to stock and flaunt your art party wardrobe for the fairs

Miami Shopping Guide: Art Basel Edition

Sponsored content: Next week Art Basel and its plethora of satellite fairs will hit Miami, bringing the international art community together for the industry’s most important stateside event of the year. Amidst all the new talent on display are the media, artists and megawatt collectors there to buy, view and…

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The Unknown Hipster Diaries: Sharp-witted sketches of urban adventure compiled in a new book

The Unknown Hipster Diaries

by Laila Gohar Illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme has spent the last 25 years documenting representations of pop culture with his pencil. Having created illustrations for an array of high-caliber clients including Louis Vuitton, Maison Kitsuné and Sotheby’s, he began compiling his quirky drawings in a blog titled The Unknown Hipster in…

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Kai D’s American Artisan: Tweed and camouflage take center stage in a new menswear label designed and manufactured in NYC

Kai D's American Artisan

by Michael Raver With the launch of his new artisan menswear line manufactured entirely in NYC, Taiwanese-born designer Kai D has become a classic example of the American dream. The former Nautica designer broke out on his own in 2009 with the desire to create something practical, timeless and long-lasting…

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Red Clouds Collective: Portland-based snowboard industry vets band together to make canvas bags and soft goods

Red Clouds Collective

Offering a wide array of simple soft goods in leather and canvas, Portland, Oregon-based Red Clouds Collective is the brainchild of Jason Brown, Owen Johnson, Seth Neefus and Dan Weaver. “There’s a bunch of us that come from the skateboard and hip-hop industries,” says Brown. “We do a lot…

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Horikazu + Spiritual Skin : Two new books cover traditional Japanese tattooing, tribal markings and scarification

Horikazu + Spiritual Skin

As one of the oldest forms of body decoration and religious art, tattooing plays a significant role in cultures all over the world. While the custom has been extensively documented, few published works present such detail as Traditional Tattoo in Japan: Horikazu and Spiritual Skin: Magical Tattoos and Scarification,…

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Paris Photo 2012: The gardens of the Champs Elysées play host to international talent and broad ideas

Paris Photo 2012

by Andrea DiCenzo Each year Paris Photo grows greater and grander than the year before, ensuring that the 2012 show makes a decisive leap to the front of the line as the best art photography fair to date. Returning to the Grand Palais for the second year running, the show’s…

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Salaryman Project: Documenting the Japanese everyman in an illustrated planner

Salaryman Project

Part weekly planner, part conceptual documentary, “Salaryman Project” from Bruno Quinquet merges the practical with the artistic. Quinquet’s architectural eye for composition pairs with his subjects, a hard-working mass of faceless, suited men that pepper the streets and subways of Tokyo. A Frenchman who has spent seven years in…

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Land of Light: The instruments behind Jonny Nash and Kyle Martin’s brilliant musical experiment

Land of Light

Land Of Light, an eponymous new album from London-based duo Jonny Nash and Kyle Martin, is an ethereal labor of love intended for serious listening. The talented musicians spent the last three years creating the 37-minute-long LP, and the upshot is a highly sophisticated set of sounds that channels…

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Fonds Municipal D’Art Contemporain: Highlights from the municipal collection at the 2012 FIAC Exhibition

Fonds Municipal D'Art Contemporain

While browsing the 2012 FIAC exhibition in Paris last month, we were thrilled to discover the Fonds Muncipal D’Art Contemporain (FMAC) or Municipal Fund for Contemporary Art, which was showing their 2012 purchases. As opposed to private galleries, FMAC is free from market constraints and selling perspectives. It pursues a…

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Burgerac + Rob Flowers Tray: A melamine ode to McDonald’s from two of London’s creative burger aficionados

Burgerac + Rob Flowers Tray

Burger lovers and illustration aficionados alike will delight in the latest collectible from London’s infamous burger detective, Burgerac. Part of the his ongoing burger art collaboration series, which started in 2011 with the Burgermat Show, Burgerac’s new tray features a design by artist and fellow burger enthusiast, Rob Flowers….

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