by Tyler Durden

Bern Unlimited, in conjunction with the Safe Streets Fund, introduces a limited edition helmet by KAWS. The artist put his signature design of graphic Xs and Eyes in tonal black on the Bern’s Watts model. The collaboration is introduced at the perfect time, with bike month beginning this Wednesday and NYC’s Citi Bike soon.

by Tyler Durden

Remember the first Dark Knight Rises teasers that came out? Where the camera looks up into Gotham’s sky and the buildings form the outline of the bat logo? Well, French artist Thomas Lamadieu is kind of grooving on that same idea with his series ‘Sky Art’. Lamadieu photographs the geometric shapes outlined by the tops of buildings in the sky, then uses Microsoft Paint (old school style) to fill the sky shapes with drawings of bearded dudes riding cats, curvaceous showgirls and other dreamy doodles. It’s the kind of art conceived by someone who would have really cool dreams. We reckon anyway.

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by Tyler Durden

Continuing to ravel up the art world with this shock and awe artwork, comes the releases of two new books from Mark Ryden. The Gay 90s illustrates the works included in Ryden’s 2010 exhibition “The Gay 90s: Old Thyme Art Show” at Paul Kasmin Gallery, along with other paintings and drawing from the series. With masterful painting technique and disquieting content, Ryden’s newest paintings display his fascination with the earnest kitsch found in popular art of the end of the 1800s, yet reinforces how his paintings now more than ever are a skewering of both historical and current pop cultural touchstones.

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by Tyler Durden

U.S.A. (burnt/unburnt) is a 2011 installation by Paris-based artist Claire Fontaine constructed from thousands of green matches that were inserted into a wall at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as part art of “Evidence of Bricks” at the 2011 Time-Based Art Festival. Fontaine has made somewhat of a name for herself with her match installations and flaming geography, most recently completing a similar U.S.A. map at Queens Nails Gallery in San Francisco. Unlike the installation in Portland above, the Queens Nails artwork was actually set on fire, and while it may not have gone exactly as intended, the final post-flame artwork is impressive nonetheless. Photographs above for PICA by Dan Kvitka.

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December 2012 marked fifteen years of contemporary artist Jitish Kallat’s artistic journey. To celebrate the momentous occasion, Jitish Kallat and Richard Geoffroy, Chef de Cave and Creator of Vintages Dom Pérignon showcased a rare ‘creative combustion’ at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur on December 1, 2012. The occasion saw the unveiling of two of Mr. Kallat’s recent video-installations – Forensic Trail of the Grand Banquet and Breath.

BioWorkZ a.k.a. Ben Kwok is an L.A. based graphic artist and illustrator. Born in Taiwan, raised in Los Angeles, BioWork’s portfolio consist of highlight detailed, rendered, polished illustrations. Inspired by H.R. Giger, his work has been defined as “Biomechanics” and that’s were the moniker comes from. Check out some of his illustrations below.

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by Tyler Durden

Once a first class car ferry vessel and occasional luxury cruise liner, The Duke Of Lancaster was considered one of the finest ships afloat at the time. However, on August 10th, 1979, The Duke was beached in Llanerch-y-Mor in North Wales with the intention of turning it into a floating leisure and retail complex called The Funship. And that was where it stayed. Due to ongoing feuds with the local council, the project never went ahead and the The Duke Of Lancaster remained on the Northern Wales beach for over 30 years, rotting like a giant steel whale’s carcass. Until…

Over the past few months, guerrilla street art collective Dudug have made the abandoned ship their latest graffiti project entitled The Black Duke. Dudug plan to, over time, completely cover the ship in huge large-scale murals with the aim of turning it back into something the public can enjoy and creating awareness of the Duke’s historical significance.

Currently there’s eight murals up by artists including Lora Zombie, Fat Heat, Fin DAC and Latvian street artist KIWIE who, along with a some of the other artists, documented the creation of their pieces.
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February 23, 2013 through March 23, 2013

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is pleased to present Tracy Had a Hard Sunday, a series of new works by Amsterdam-based, Dutch artist Parra, in what will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Parra creates witty and often provocative post-Pop imagery in a vibrant palette of highly saturated colors. His distinctive hybrid figures have bird-like features such as elongated, beak-shaped noses. The curvaceous nudes are portrayed in a variety of suggestive circumstances, at times salacious and at times comical; occasionally accented by the artist’s stylized, hand-drawn typography.

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Levi’s Vintage Clothing is launching the “Hot Rod” exhibition in support of its SS’13 collection. The exhibition arrives in New York, at Brooklyn Denim, on February 23rd, and will be on display until March 2nd. The “Hot Rod” exhibition features 35 one-of-a-kind-painted “Kustom Monster” sweatshirts, created by legend Von Franco and a special project with Fender Custom Shop, featuring a hot-rodded hand build guitar and a one of a kind LVC jean jacket. The exhibition will then travel to Ace Cafe in London, 14oz in Berlin and Tokyo.

BROOKLYN DENIM CO.
85 N.3rd Street, No.101,
Brooklyn, NY, 11249,
T 718 782 2600

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