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  ARTBATTLES POP UP GALLERY RETURNS TO NEW YORK

  January 12, 2012

  ArtBattles returns to New York after a tour through France and Spain with the ArtBattles Pop Up Gallery NYC. The gallery is open for free to the public for a limited time from Thursday, January 12th through Saturday, January 14th and located at 159 Bleeker St. in the West Village.
  This exhibition of one of a kind originals will feature a live and silent auction starting at exclusive pricing that can only be found at the ArtBattles Popup Gallery. ArtBattles will

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  DOUBLE EXPOSURE: VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS + NUDE MODELS

  November 16, 2011

  Photographer Davis Ayer can’t get enough analogue.  He shoots most of his projects on film and his photo essay series called Time Travel, combines two forms of film photography: vintage photographs of cityscapes and forests projected on nude models. “The arcs of bridges and trunks of ferns hug the hip lines of partially lit girls. Autumnal foliage wraps around the curved back of a model, warping and blurring, as if frozen mid a caressing motion. Scratches dotting the film become indistinguishable from

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  IS REMIXING CULTURE THE NEW DIRECTION IN MUSIC AND ART?

  November 15, 2011

  This Article Is A Remix: Is remixing culture the new direction in music and art?
  For better or worse, like most of my generation and those younger than me, I grew up voraciously consuming and interacting with pop culture. I spent endless hours holed up in my parents’ basement watching after-school cartoons, playing with toys inspired by my favorite movies and TV shows to create my own, unique story lines; scenes based on existing characters, reinterpreted and re-imagined by me. Years

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  PAPER HEROES: VINTAGE SUPERHERO POSTERS

  October 31, 2011

  Nerd Alert: French illustrator Grégoire Guillemin delves into the golden age of superheros to create this new retro poster series. The posters are part of  a larger Exercise in Style, a slice of which, is available online at  Society 6 store, including his papercraft designs aka. Paper Heroes.  
   

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  CREATORS PROJECT 2011

  October 16, 2011

  Day 1 of a two day Creators Project affair invaded DUMBO yesterday, with 4 locations along the waterfront and a number household and soon to be household names, it was, in this review’s mind, an unabashed success. That said, it wasn’t without glitches; a prematurely printed schedule booklet failing to reflect accurate set times, a number of recalled rsvp confirmations, and most unfortunately of all, a prematurely shut-down Justice DJ set (that they performed without their iconic cross platform). On

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  BOWIE LIONIZED ON NEW BRITISH POUND, KEEP THE CH-CH-CH-CHANGE

  October 7, 2011

  Maybe if the United States started printing rock legends on our dollar bills, the economy might pick up.  Over the great pond,  the Brixton district in London has been experimenting with it’s own alternative to the sterling pound to promote local commerce.  The newest, and hands down, the most fun to funky cycle of this British currency features David Bowie, wearing ‘Aladdin Sane’ makeup from the 1973 album following up ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’.

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  DOUG AITKEN’S INSTALLATION BLACK MIRROR: FEAT. CHLOE SEVIGNY

  October 5, 2011

  LA based artist Doug Aitken is most known for his innovative fine art installations but not limited. In 2007, Aitken’s “Sleepwalkers” exhibition at MoMA was able to transform a whole city block into an expansive cinematic experience. His work, which utilizes a wide array of media and artistic techniques, ranging from photography, sculpture, film, and  sound can be seen on display in London, in a new solo exhibition in London taking over both floors of Victoria Miro. The exhibition  includes a specially reconfigured presentation

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  BACKSTAGE PHOTO PASS: ELODIE CHAPUIS

  October 3, 2011

  Meet Elodie Chapuis, the newest member of the discosalt Artist Collective.  Since she began photography in 2006,  Elodie has contributed her music and fashion photography to a slew of culture magazines and fashion projects.  In 2007, she spent 4 days covering the Roskilde Festival in Denmark; the first step towards a personal artistic project to photograph live performances and off stage portraits.  Elodie’s work in music, has lead her to several solo and collective exhibitions and she is constantly

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  DAN MOUNTFORD: DOUBLE EXPOSURE

  September 26, 2011

  At just 20 years old, revealing little background information, English photographer/ graphic designer Dan Mountford has created a professional portfolio which already includes clients like EMI Records. His series of portraits titled The Worlds Inside of Us, is a surreal visual journey into the minds of his subjects, using the process of double exposure and photoshop to create thoughtful, captivating and superbly composed images. You can purchase prints through Dan’s shop or see more of his work on flickr.

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  JOHNNY LYON: SKULLS, MULLETS AND DAVID BOWIE

  September 26, 2011

  Johnny Lyon, the shaggy haired kiwi guitar player of  the surf pop revival band, The Psychs, flexes his vibrant artistry in the world of digital illustration with a distinct visual style that is an “eclectic mix of candy-pop surrealism; featuring plenty of skulls, mullets and Davide Bowie.”  See more of Johnny’s work here: johnnylyon.tumblr.com
   

   

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  IMPENETRABLE BOUNDARIES OF STEEL, GLASS AND CONCRETE

  August 22, 2011

  Before immigrating to Europe and studying at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Algerian Driss Ouadahi studied architecture. His paintings of the ubiquitous high-rise, the legacy of Modern Architecture’s failed promise to improve the human condition, are renderings of impenetrable boundaries of steel, glass and concrete.
  Ouadahi’s exploration begins with images of the enormous public housing developments in Algiers that had been modeled on France’s habitation à loyer modéré (housing at moderated rents). In North Africa, these monoliths accommodate displaced rural populations; in Europe, they

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  SNEAK PEAK: TOP SECRET SARA BLAKE PROJECT + 100 GIRLS

  August 15, 2011

  Before she heads over to Auckland, NZ to speak at the amazing We Can Create conference series, a 2 day conference for creatives, discosalt artist Sara Blake is sharing some new work.  Not only can you can see more of Sara in the new issue of DISCOSALT Magazine, but she has been busy preparing new work for a side event exhibition with several incredible local artists as well. The exhibition will be the first installment of a year long project called 100

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