Art

August 2, 2017

7 Most Spectacular ‘Mirror Room’ Installations by Yayoi Kusama

For decades, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has experimented with multiple mediums and styles of artistic expression. While her experience spans drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and performance art, she is perhaps best known for her immersive—and seemingly infinite—Mirror Room installations. Introduced in the 1960s, these interactive, large-scale pieces invite viewers to wander through surreal environments. Some, like Phalli's Field, Dots Obsession—Love Transformed into Dots, and Love is Calling feature soft sculptures covered in repeating patterns of polka-dots.

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August 2, 2017

Fine Line Tattoos Intricately Detailed Like Folklore Illustrations

Using stark, black ink and fine lines, Portland-based tattooist A-B M creates strikingly detailed works of body art. Ranging in scale and subject matter, each illustrative tattoo exhibits A-B M's artistic background and dedicated approach to the craft. While motifs explored by A-B M vary, most pieces depict an interest in expressive and energetic animals—both real and imaginary. In addition to creatures like hares, wolves, and even dragons, the artist also dabbles in plant portrayals, portraiture, and surreal scenes.

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July 27, 2017

Japanese Artists Imagine ‘Tokyoiter’ Magazine Covers Inspired by ‘The New Yorker’

Since 1925, The New Yorker has graced newsstands with its conceptually clever and creatively illustrated magazine covers. In homage to this recognizable and world-renowned aesthetic, a group of Tokyo-based illustrators have created their own covers inspired by Japan's blossoming capital city. Created for The Tokyoiter, a faux publication, each cover aims to “celebrate illustration, cartooning, drawing, design , creativity . . . and Tokyo.” Each Japanese illustration retains several of the original magazine's familiar features.

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July 25, 2017

Hyperreal Whale Beaches on the Banks of the Seine to Raise Environmental Awareness

The Captain Boomer Collective, a Belgian activist art group, is back with another incarnation of its beached whale installation. The hyperrealistic sperm whale sculpture has been beached on the banks of Paris' River Seine. Since 2008, the group has installed the beached whale in different European cities, most notably along the banks of the Thames in London, as a way to raise environmental awareness.

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