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Amazing Dad Photographs Baby Daughter as Fruit Ninja, Flying Fairy, Car Mechanic

By Judy Berman on

If you’ve seen one photo of a naked baby in a bathtub, you’ve seen them all, right? Wrong. Sweden-based photographer Emil Nyström‘s portrait of his daughter Signhild in the bath with a woman who is probably her mother shows the child hovering several feet in the air over the tub, seemingly preparing to direct a spray of urine at the poor lady. That’s just one in a series of images that finds Nyström photoshopping the baby girl into hilarious situations, transforming her into a real-life Fruit Ninja, a car mechanic, and a fairy, among other occupations. Click through to see these wildly imaginative baby pictures, and visit PetaPixel to read more about how Nyström created them. … Read More

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London Activists Protest Economic Injustice by Projecting Giant Penis on Gherkin Building

By Reid Singer on

Members of the art collective Shift//Delete have succeeded in projecting a wanking penis onto one of the most prominent fixtures in the London skyline. A video of the intervention, after the jump, testifies to a persistently successful partnership between radical politics and giant, public renderings of the male anatomy. … Read More

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10 Art Fair Horror Stories

By Reid Singer on

The Venice Biennale opened to the press last week, more or less without a hitch. Reviews were mostly admiring, and heavy on praise for Massimiliano Gioni, the Director of Exhibitions at the New Museum, and the Biennale’s youngest-ever curator. Given his eager availability in a run-up to the fair’s opening, which Gallerist called a “force-five media machine,” Gioni is coming off as a refined director. There are nevertheless a few things that can be copped off to good luck. Here are a  few of the greatest art fair disasters, which Gioni fortunately missed. … Read More

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Meet the Most Un-Bushwick Artist in Bushwick

By Reid Singer on

Bushwick Open Studios — the neighborhood-wide gallery event for Brooklyn’s increasingly fertile art scene — was in full swing last weekend. People who live in Bushwick got the rare chance to see a lot of art without taking the subway, and people who reside in other parts of the city had permission to visit that mythologized land that’s supposedly home to New York’s edgiest young artists. … Read More

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Film

Gorgeous Artwork Inspired by Your Favorite Modern-Classic Movies

By Jason Bailey on

Alice X. Zhang is a designer and illustrator with a love for movies, and that affection is clearly displayed in Moments, her upcoming solo show at the Bottleneck Gallery in Brooklyn. Zhang’s gorgeous images masterfully capture the essence of such modern classics as Pulp Fiction, There Will Be Blood, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Moonrise Kingdom; here’s a few highlights from the show, which opens Friday and runs through the month. … Read More

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Charming Paintings of Vintage Books That Smoke, Drink, and Slip on Banana Peels

By Tyler Coates on

London-based illustrator Jonathan Wolstenholme proves he’s as literary as he is artistic. His collection of watercolor paintings depict anthropomorphized books in a variety of humorous settings, adding a lighthearted touch that has a vintage feel in both its aesthetic and its sentiment. Check out a selection of these charming paintings, spotted via Hi-Fructose, after the jump. … Read More

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10 Works of Street Art That Went Commercial

By Reid Singer on

Street art purists grumbled this week when the Sincura Group, a concierge company in London, held a members-only event to exhibit Slave Labour, a spray painting by the artist Banksy, which was eventually sold for more than £750,000 ($1.1 million). In an expression of self-assurance that bordered on defensiveness, Sincura’s director told Bloomberg that this was mission accomplished. … Read More

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7 Artists Whose Airbnb Would Have Been Better Than Donald Judd’s

By Reid Singer on

If you were enticed by the Airbnb ad for the late Donald Judd’s renovated former home and studio in Soho, prepare to be bummed. The ad was quickly taken down, and an artist in Detroit named Tyler Taylor has spoken with ARTINFO to announce that it had been a prankish work of institutional critique. In any case, given the city’s recent crackdown on shady short-term sublets, the Judd Foundation’s (ostensible) asking price of $2,000 a night would have probably been offset by a $1-5,000 fine. … Read More

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Whimsical Illustrations of Rooms Composed With Words

By Alison Nastasi on

Thomas Broomé, a Swedish artist we learned about on Fubiz, creates illustrations of rooms composed entirely of words. The artist doesn’t randomly assign words to objects; he defines the objects themselves with text. The word “wall” repeats across the walls of rooms and becomes increasingly distorted with the changing perspective. Words, letters, and lines become patterns and form. Give the artist’s whimsical rooms a read in our gallery. … Read More

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