“Toyin Ojih Odutola: Tell Me A Story, I Don’t Care If It’s True”Online at Jack Shainman Gallery What the artist says: “In a time when it seems our priorities are placed on certainty and how to control output amidst a plethora of information that also feels protean and deeply influential, drawing out these vignettes was a […] More
ORGANIC FUTURE by Brazilian artist YUSK IMAI is open now at Backwoods Gallery, Australia. The show is the Imai’s 5th solo exhibition at the space over a period of 10 years. [embedded content] Directed and filmed by Byron Kehoe, this edit was recorded over Zoom through some late night/ early morning interviews with Yusk, who […] More
The Turner Prize-nominated collective Forensic Architecture will present new evidence about the 2011 police killing of Mark Duggan in London in an exhibition at the city’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in the fall. After investigating the controversial shooting, which triggered the 2011 London riots, the interdisciplinary research agency has concluded that Duggan could not have […] More
D*Face is one of the most prolific contemporary urban artists of his generation. Working with a variety of mediums and techniques, he uses a family of dysfunctional characters to satirise and hold to ransom all that falls into their grasp – a welcome jolt of subversion in today’s media-saturated environment. His aim is to encourage […] More
Headache Stencil is back with another mural in Bangkok but this time his work disappeared in less than 24 hours after it was painted. The mural showed a face of Wanchalearm. Mr. Wanchalerm Satsaksit is a 37-year old activist and anti-government campaigner who fled Thailand in 2014. He was allegedly abducted on Thursday in Cambodia. The street […] More
John Pugh had recently worked on another mural entitled “Revolution” in Ottawa, Illinois. This mural depicts women of the ‘Roaring Twenties’, 100 years ago. Greeted by flapper girls Frannie, Cat, and Gaby, the giant revolving walls open into the world’s tallest speakeasy. Adorning the top rotating wall is a painted rendition of a ‘Poppy’ by […] More
On June 20, 2020, over 150 artists from 24 countries will come together virtually to create live works to be donated to the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) in support of COVID-19 research. For a 24-hour period, artists will be broadcasting live via Instagram from their workspaces, studios, and the street. Although physically distanced, […] More
