From 1985.

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The work of Christian Marclay. Monograph here.

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‘You may have visited Fools Foundation, Liz’s gallery and music venue, had your hair done by Sarah at Honey Salon, or seen their band Screature play around town. Liz and Sarah dabble in various mediums and collage is just one of many outlets for these two.’

I loved Fools Foundation – it was in the basement of a building in Sacramento’s midtown and a regular stop whenever I was in the area.

And opening this weekend is Permabond: New work by Liz Donner and Sarah Scherer at Sacramento’s Bows & Arrows.

Details and interview here.

‘Blurring the lines between street art and fine art’

The work of London-based Alex Daw – currently on exhibit as part of Rook & Raven’s Nostalgia.

Website here, blog here, interview here.

Show runs thru February 23, 2012.

The graffiti of Jerm IX.

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Geo. Watkins’ Anchovy Sauce. Illustration by Hwa Young Jung.

Flickr here, website here.

The work of Pavel Guzenko.

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In-camera photograph by Ren Rox.

Found via Laura Serra

Change to Win’s animate of ‘The End of the American Dream?’ – done in the style of RSA Animate.

Found via Occupy San Francisco

‘Give a Wall Street banker enough rope and he will hang himself’

The work of Miami-based street artist Above. Video by Peter Vahan and Hermes, location provided via Primary Flight and White Walls Gallery. Article here.

‘The Largest Magazine Ever Produced by Guinness World Record. No shit!’

Gaga, photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Visionaire 61 – the ‘Larger Than Life’ issue.

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In 1977, this poster hung on my bedroom closet door – and was eventually eaten up by use of that same door.

It came as an extra large ‘freebie’ in the Star Wars soundtrack, which I bought thinking it was this album. It wasn’t. It was the symphonic score; for me, an introduction to classical music. What I learned from the free poster – as a young impressionable creative – is abstraction, when done right, looks great.

It was painted by artist John Berkey - who used quick brush strokes that up close were a gloopy mess, but at a distance create energy and implied motion.

Berkey’s work influences me to this day.

And for my iTunes-loaded tracks of the Star Wars radio program, I’m using some of his art as my ‘album covers,’ below.

As for Star Wars’ ‘terrible lizards,’ these are them.

Poster found via KlaatuCarpenter

Illustration by the great Bob Peak. From 1972.

Found via Martin Klasch

‘The range moniker pays homage to The Third Mind, a 1978 book and concept by William Burroughs and Brian Gysin, which showcased the ‘cut ups’ technique originating from the Surrealists – a form also adapted to film making by Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren. In this mode, unrelated texts and images where literally cut up and rearranged to form radical narratives and vistas.’

Abbey Lee Kershaw, shot by Elle Muliarchyk for ManiaMania. Info here.

Found via Fashionising

The mixed media work of Danny O’Connor, a.k.a. DOC.

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One of my favorite bands from the 1980s is Yes. And former Yes guitarist/vocalist Trevor Rabin has a solo album about to drop, cover painted by Hannah Hooper.

Hooper is in Grouplove with Trevor’s son Ryan. Below, video for Grouplove’s Colours.

Every person I encounter named ‘Chelsea’ turns out to be incredibly cool.

Sacramento’s Chelsea Wolfe is now in LA – and here’s the video for Mer, from her new album Ἀποκάλυψις.

Below, photographed by Anna Dobos for Interview magazine.

Interview here, tees here.

‘Drop caps not bombs’

An anonymously-created stencil interpretation of myself – spotted last quarter on the wall at the Art Institute of California Sacramento.

(Okay, I know which student made it, but I ain’t tellin)

‘He just sold this painting of a burning Chase bank branch on eBay for a cool $25,000   . . .   It helped that he got a shitload of publicity, from two(!) police investigations.’

The work of Alex Schaefer.

Articles here and here. Alex’s blog here (he’s now ‘symbolically’ burning other buildings as part of the Occupy movement).

Found via Gawker

The work of Robin Rhode.

Below, image from Rhode’s Variants.

‘This is just me fucking about trying to make a secret font’

The work of London-based Kevin Winter. Album covers, fabric collage, printmaking and more. Blog here.

Handlettered type for GAMA-GO by the great Ray Fenwick.

Ray is the author of one of my favorite typographic comic panels, Hall of Best Knowledge – now available in convenient book form.

‘Imagine what it must have been like for those living in America’s eastern cities to hear tales from the Western Frontier  . . .  Images created by Ben Walker tell tales of mystery and excitement that make the ladies squeal with fear and delight as their men quietly slip away to buy passage to The West.’

It all started with a bear and a gun – which was the most dangerous thing Walker would set out to draw. These became icons for Walker, who went on to become an Illustrator of The Great West, spending time on the Ponderosa and a long haul in Sacramenty.

Ben Walker is now based out of San Francisco.

Check out his website here, art and prints available here. Snake Oil Clothing here.

The work of London based-Sandra Dieckmann.

Website here, blog here, shops here and here.

‘For a decade, Danny created art for musicians – album covers, event posters, and logos, among others. Now those artists are paying tribute to Danny with a free, downloadable 35-song album titled ‘DJG Was Here.”

Danny J. Gibson’s been a friend for years – and he’s one of the most prolific, experimental artist/designers I know. In a few days Quietly Contributing – Poster Art of DJG Design will open at the 1819 Event Space + Gallery in Kansas City.

More details here. Snag the free album here (please use the tip jar).

Article here. And visit Danny’s site here.

The work of Hannah Höch, Tailor’s Flower, 1920.

Yan Saquet: Les Djinns (Trentemøller Remix)

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‘I am interested in the female form and the objectification and dismemberment of women. I try to make sense of this dismemberment by the very act of dismembering  . . .  more often than not, the artworks manifest themselves through the female gaze.’

The mixed media work of Thelma van Rensburg.

Poster for No Limit (1931) – featuring original ‘It Girl’ Clara Bow.

The Shocking Blue: Venus (Alex Dias Remix)

The work of Charles Loupot, advertisement for Coty, 1938.

The Burning Hotels: Stuck in the Middle (Baron Von Luxxury Controls Everything Remix)

Art Nouveau meets Russian Constructivism. Motion design by Matt Duplessie.

Superman, as portrayed in Mark Millar’s Red Son (2003).

Motion comic here.

Found via Raving Toy Maniac

‘Underneath they wrote: ‘Keeping Up with the Times.”

From June: The redecorated Monument of the Soviet Army in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria.

‘Unfortunately, the art survived for only a day – very early the next morning, the die-hard worshipers of communism’s corpse washed away the paint.’

Story here.

‘Suprematism, considered ‘the first systematic school of abstract painting in the modern movement,’ was developed by Kazimir Malevich in 1913 and introduced at the 1915 0-10 exhibition in St. Petersburg.’ -Alexander Boguslawski

This is my favorite Suprematist piece, Malevitch’s Sensation of Flight, c. 1914-15. Pure objects, any meaning comes from the viewer’s own interpretation.

‘Avant-garde German artists were now branded both enemies of the state and a threat to German culture.’

In 1937, the Nazi party hosted ‘Entartete Kunst.’ This traveling exhibition showcased modern art as the work of madmen, ‘degenerates’ out to destroy the world.

Confiscated art – works of Kirchner, Nolde, Beckmann, Ernst, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Dali, Klee, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Grosz and many others – filled the show. After, the pieces were either destroyed or auctioned off.

For more about Entartete Kunst, read here or here. Exhibition catalog here.

Art, ideas, original thoughts: All dangerous.

This past weekend I watched a documentary on The Inquisition. Things such as inquisitions, persecutions – Entartete Kunst, McCarthyism – cycle throughout history.

What beliefs, doctrines and laws exist today that limit freedom, individuality and progress?

Images from the Weimar blog post ‘From Calgari to Hitler,’ named for Siegfried Kracauer’s book on German cinema (1910-40).

Jakob Steinhardt, The City, 1913

Robert Wiene, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari, 1919

Original sketch for a scene in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari from Lotte Eisner

Erich Godal, Die Straße (The Street), 1923

Louise Brooks in “Pandora’s Box” (G.W.Pabst, 1929)

Rudolf Klein Rogge in Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, 1933

Otto Dix, The Actor Heinrich George, 1933

George Grosz, John, the Lady Killer, 1918

Art director Erich Kettelhut & crew create the futuristic city set of Metropolis


Raoul Hausmann, Mechanical Head (Spirit of Our Age), c. 1920

John Martin, Illustration to Paradise Lost, 1825

Magnus Zeller, The Orator, 1920

Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will, 1934

Ever wonder what Germany may have looked like if the Weimar Republic kept going?

I like to think answers to this question could be found in the wonderful image sets posted over at kraftgenie’s Weimar blog. Each post is a collection of seemingly related imagery that is simply  . . .  Weimar.

Eugenio Recuenco

Yuval Yairi

Sabine Pigalle

Chantal Michel

Mikel Uribetxeberria

Bill Brandt

Madame Peripetie

Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden

Marilyn Minter

Inez van Lamsweerde

Tamara Lischka

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Berlin of the 1920s was considered by many to be the cultural center of Europe; home to innovative art, music and a bawdy nightlife – all squashed when the Nazis came to power in 1933.

Above, Walther Ruttmann’s silent (add your own music) Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), which ‘portrays the life of a city mainly through visual effects and music, not narrative content. The impression it conveys of daily life in Berlin is dynamic, anxiety-ridden, cacophonous – and a helluva lot of fun!’ -Jessica Glaser, MoMA

Below, visual highlights from MoMA’s recent exhibition, German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse. Additional commentary here.

The Etch-a-Sketch work of Stéphane Lallemand.

More here.

Found via Olivier Lelong

‘Portrait de Mariacarla Boscono’

The work of Neal Turner.

The Smashing Pumpkins: Bullet With Butterfly Wings (demo)

The work of Jenia Maslova.

The work of Vincent van Gogh, interpreted photographically by Serena Malyon.

More here.

The real deal. Zoom and pan Van Gogh’s original via The Google Art Project.

Click image to view/jump.

‘the glittering night life of Las Vegas portrayed in the style of Van Gogh’s Starry Night’

Figurine of Marybeth Butman’s Red Rock Cow (2003).

Found via Music City Gifts

Make your own here.

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‘Philip Colbert created a fashion music film as part of his autumn/winter 2011-12 collection, Venus in Sequins’

The Rodnik Band. Rock band, fashion label. Referencing Duchamp, Van Gogh and Warhol.

Website – with free track downloads – here.

Found via Wearable Art Blog