A DEAD ARTIST

These came out years ago. But I still find it kinda funny and irronic since during his lifetime he was always paranoid about dealers. He never trusted them and felt ripped off. I wonder if he would feel ripped off about this.  I wonder if Basquiat's family sees any money of the sales of these sneakers. I surely hope so. They are pretty dope. But these kinds of things always make me feel a little funny.

Guns don't kill people...but my farts do.

In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin started a literary magazine for psychiatric patients at a Pennsylvania hospital, which was distributed amongst the patients and hospital staff. This could be considered the first zine, since it captures the essence of the philosophy and meaning of zines.

HEAVEN

NO TRAFFIC, HEAVEN TOO.

HELLO, MY NAME IS GOOGLE. I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. I PLAN TO KEEP IT THAT WAY. SO, GO AHEAD. DO A SEARCH FOR SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU. I'M HERE TO HELP. I'LL BE WAITING...AND MOST IMPORTANTLY. I WILL BE WATCHING YOU.

Mark Bradford is an artist who incorporates ephemera from urban environments into mixed-media works on canvas that are rich in texture and visual complexity. Though he has experimented throughout his career with many different artistic media, including public art, installations, and video, his signature and best-known work takes the form of massively scaled, abstract collages that he assembles out of signage and other materials collected, most frequently, from his own neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. Bradford’s aesthetic language makes use of such elements as bits of billboards, handmade advertisements, foil, string, and permanent wave end-papers from beauty shops, which he arranges, layers, singes, sands, and bleaches into brilliantly hued, painterly structures that appear to sprawl and swirl. Loosely gridded and often cartographic in character, these pieces both reflect his interest in the formal traditions of modernist abstraction and reference the communities from which he culls his materials.

Glimpses of partially legible text and imagery within his map-like works evoke a multitude of metaphors and suggest intricate systems in a constant state of flux. In the multilayered tableau Los Moscos (2004), bursts of bright yellows and reds radiate through a predominance of darker fragments, calling to mind clusters of pulsing city lights viewed from a collapsed and distanced perspective. With this piece and numerous others in his increasingly ambitious body of work, Bradford is developing a visually arresting means of representing in two dimensions the dynamism and depth of the sites and streets he excavates.

Mark Bradford received a B.F.A. (1995) and an M.F.A. (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

A LITTLE KATY PERRY

"I like experimenting and I’m totally OK with ending up in the ‘worst dressed.’ It’s happened many, many times, but I’m proud of those outfits. I don’t follow trends. I’m just not into what everyone else is wearing."

WOWZERS

BITCHIN' WITCHIN'

Gotta <3 It.

New York is a lot of work. is an edition of 1,000 real dollar bills emblazoned with a maxim, “New York is a lot of work.” The text is hand-imprinted with a high-gloss foil stamp.”

The above is the simple description of Reed Seifer’s presentation at The Armory Show. Seifer, known for massive scale public art initiatives, also handled all graphic art for The Armory Show itself.

Via:Curatedmag.com

NEW YORK IS EXPENSIVE. PERIOD.

COKE.