The Beetle Chair by Maximo Riera.
The latest in the Italian designer’s ongoing series of zoological furniture.
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Sealife Portraits by Hannah Faith Yata.
(Above: Monarch; Moors; The Walls They Bleed; Black Mascara; It Hits The Fan and Throwing Up The Children)
Garden Tower in Toronto – The nighttime version of an installation by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata at Toronto’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (which ended yesterday), consisting of hundreds of chairs and benches stacked up into a hollow tower, lit from within.
(Pix: Alex Tsang)
Stacks of things were high on the agenda this year.
Every Autumn, after the rice harvest, Kagawa Prefecture and Niigata Prefecture in Japan host straw art festivals.
Taxidermy man’s gonna have a heart attack when he sees what I brung him..
And so forth.
MORE: Japan’s Straw Beasts Are Huge, Wonderful, and Highly Flammable (Kotaku)
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Banksy marked the 13th day of his Better Out Than In residency in New York by setting up an unannounced stall in Central Park staffed by a disinterested old gent apparently selling $60 Banksy knockoffs that were actually original signed canvasses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In the course of seven hours, just three people bought a total of seven canvasses with no idea they were real. One walked off with four pieces to decorate his new house, unwittingly landing the bargain of the decade..
The point having been made, the trolltastic stunt will not be repeated.
Previously: Meanwhile In New York
The subversive slaughterhouse squee of Banksy’s truck-borne installation ‘Sirens Of The Lambs’, which will be touring Manhattan’s meatpacking district and then citywide for the next two weeks.
By illustrator Josh Ln.
Géométrie de l’impossible – a series of impressive anamorphic illusions of impossible 3D shapes by French photographer Fanette Guilloud.
All were created earlier this year (there’s no digital trickery involved, just carefully composed shots taken from precise vantage points) in various locations at Toulouse, Bordeaux and in the French Alps near Lyon.
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Irish graphic designer and illustrator (she of Megan’s Movie Alphabet) Meg Hyland’s contribution to LA Gallery 1988’s Crazy 4 Cult: Say Hi to the Bad Guy show opening next week. Meg sez:
My piece is called ‘CRAZY 4 GARY’ and is a set of four of Gary Oldman’s greatest screen villains. Zorg from Fifth Element – titled ‘My Favourite’, Stansfield from Léon – titled ‘EVERYONE!!!’, Drexel the Pimp from True Romance – titled ‘I Know I’m Pretty’ and Dracula from Bram Stoker’s Dracula – titled ‘A Man of Good Taste’.
In related illustrative news, don’t forget tonight’s Illustrators Ireland exhibition at the Copper House Gallery in Dublin.
Illustrator Donough O’Malley (that’s one of his, bottom right) writes:
This Friday sees the start of an Illustrators Ireland exhibition in the Copper House Gallery in Dublin. The Art of Superstition show brings together a number of Ireland’s finest Illustrators for what promises to be an amazing show. The show, featuring people such as Steve Simpson, PJ Lynch and the Laureate na nÓg Niamh Sharkey, will be examining the world of irrational beliefs and superstitions as we come up to Halloween.
More information can be found at the website here.