Get ready to fill your week with an eclectic mix of tunes and live performances that promise to stir your soul and get you moving. Whether you're looking to chill out to some nostalgic rock vibes, explore fresh new beats, or dive into the hypnotic world of post-punk,...
Name Tag stickers go back to the origins of graffiti. An easy way to mass-produce a tag and quickly place them, they were they accomplished all the goals of stencils but faster. They're still a prevalent form of graff, faster than stencils, faster than writing, and captured en masse here by photography great Martha Cooper. From Mark Batty...
A pretty self-explanatory tumblr account, these fake science posters make me giggle. They're drawn in the style of classic science posters seen on the walls of biology and physics classes in high school classrooms across America. They haven't been posting for very long, but already some of their posts are making light of A pretty self-explanatory...
JOHN: How did you get started? As far as art in general? JESSE: I used to copy Garbage Pail Kids and skateboard designs out of thrasher magazine and pretty much my dad would ground me, he’d send me up to my room and I would just spend the whole time copying stuff. JOHN: Really? What age was that? JESSE: I got this sketchbook that I started when I...
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Found via Wooster, badass stencils from HZG. Individual works and works in series, it's nice to see stencil work that's largely apolitical and presented on canvas. Not that I don't love seeing quick-up work on walls; to scoff at such work would be to piss on the origins of stencils as art. Found via Wooster, badass stencils from HZG. Individual...
Picasso. Matisse. Warhol. Dali. There's no doubt in my mind that anybody with even the briefest acquaintance with art history knows these names, and knows them well. Picasso. Matisse. Warhol. Dali. There's no doubt in my mind that anybody with even the briefest acquaintance with art history knows these names, and knows them well. That being said,...
It pains me to write this but illustrator Frank Frazetta has passed away leaving the world a bit colder. His work was the supernova that created the visual standard for the sword and sorcery fantasy story. Fearless heroes in untamed worlds surrounded by impossible situations and ungodly creatures of the nigh. His villians were pure evil and his...
What do organic stones, Japanese anime, and future fantasies have in common? They were all inspiration for the Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Annual Juried Fashion Show, "Twenty Ten". The fashion show was hosted at the new addition to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in the Louise B and J Harwood Cochrane Center. As guest arrived...
From the blog of former superstar RVA intern and hated Suns fan, Neil Lopez. Check it HERE. This semester the VCU School of MASC has undergone a renovation process of sorts on the Temple building. By now, you will have noticed that all those stained-white squared walls have started to change into colorful murals. Here is a bit from the Mass Comm...
