A new mural on the side of a seven storey residential building at Rebibbia in Rome by local street artist ‘Blu’ – part of a series of works by a neighborhood group called “Mammut” endeavouring to redevelop abandoned green spaces in the city.
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Intricate and masterful full body calligraphy by French artist Julien Breton, aka ‘Kaalam’ – carefully rehearsed movements which recreate the elegant lines of Arabic script against various urban backdrops.
More here.
Korean artist Yoo Hyun creates these extraordinary hand-cut paper pieces using nothing more than an x-acto knife and a household tweezers, slicing away sections of paper to create zig zags of varying widths.
Up close, the resulting patterns appear abstract. From a distance, or against a dark coloured background, they reveal hyper-realistic portraits.
A 1930 promotional poster from the ‘Sally L. Steinberg collection of doughnut ephemera’ at the National Musuem of American History.
The geometrically precise, Bauhaus/Gehry inspired ‘sand castles’ of sculptor Calvin Seibert on the strands of Hawaii.
More of his work here.
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Made to order hate mail from London based illustrator Mr Bingo who, for several years now, has offered to deride, dismiss and disrespect recipients via post.
Though currently sold out, the definitive collection is currently massively oversubscribed on Kickstarter.
A recent exhibition at Norwich ‘received mixed reviews from the artist himself.’
As you’d expect.
Stainless steel and resin sculptures in various cities from Dallas to Seoul by artist Jonathan Borofsky.
Turntable phonotropes by digital artist Elliot Schultz, created for his 2013 degree project at the ANU School of Art in Australia. Ten inch discs eye-pleasingly embroidered with scenes which come to life under a strobe light.
Illustrated summary of the project here.
Intricate, delicate paper cut blooms by artist Maude White – each painstakingly carved from a single sheet of paper.
The Galway International Arts Festival Skywhale this evening.
A thing of terrifying, pendulously deca-boobed beauty
Pix via Susan O’Keefe
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