Art & Design
The essence and aesthetics of visual expression from museum walls to bathroom walls.
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Art Rivalry: Kapoor banned from Semple’s ArtShop
Anish Kapoor, the artist who secured the sole license to use uber-pigment Vantablack has been banned from the artist and activist Stuart Semple’s conceptual art experience qua retail pop-up “ArtShop.” The space opened in London’s Mayfair art district the first week of August and follows Semple’s other restrictions against Kapoor, namely forbidding him from obtaining…
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NYTimes: Garlington and Bertotti’s Paper Arch at the Smithsonian
Congrats to pals Michael Garlington and Natalia Bertotti whose collaboration, “Paper Arch,” figures prominently in “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. This is its first major national showcase. And, thanks to the artists’ generosity, a version of the arch also figures prominently…
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How Baudelaire Became Stock Art
At first I was rankled, not least of which because the derivative image was dubbed “Blocky Man” (or technically “stock-illustration-22470448-blocky-man.jpg”), which I’ll just pretend is crappy transliteration of “Baudelaire.”
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Minding The GAP Logo Gaff
Much has been written about the Gap’s logo gaff, wherein the San Francisco-based clothier attempted a logo switcheroo only to be shouted down by what seems to be the entire Internet. Not much, however, has been said about Laird+Partners, the NewYork-based agency that devised the rebranding FAIL. Their “About Us” page claims “In creating a…
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Closet Case: Andre Benjamin
Andre Benjamin, rapper, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, perhaps best known by his nom-de-music Andre 3000 in the group OutKast, can add a new gig to his resume: fashion designer. Last Fall, Benjamin launched his Benjamin Bixby line, inspired by American college football culture circa 1935. He took a moment to speak editor Daedalus Howell about…
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WWDMAGIC All Aflutter with Butterfly Designs, Denim for Fall
Given the frequent appearance of butterfly designs wavering throughout the WWDMAGIC fashion trade show, held in February in Las Vegas, fashion professionals might have thought they were at an entomology convention. At the biannual affair, the butterfly motif was just one of many trends that mark fall 2005 as a season of — to use…