Wednesday's Muse, and Gucci's Muse for 08 Martha Streck.

Matthew Barney, New Sun

Hologram World", a music video for The Tiny Masters Of Today. Directed by Kids With Canes, aka Karen O + Barnaby Clay, it features cameos from members of The Beastie Boys, Services, Blues Explosion, and The Butthole Surfers. Unleash The Beast and YYY.

Lucky Italy. Opening at Marella Gallery in Milan this Thursday the 21st is Something Old, Something New, something Borrowed, Something Blue. Curated by Aaron Rose the show features a line-up of Heavy Hitters with the likes of Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Ed Templeton, Clare Rojas, Mike Mills, Phil Frost, Matt Leines, Raymond Pettibon, Deanna Templeton, and Ari Marcopoulos. We need more shows like this stateside.

Swoon came off on two sides of the World over the weekend. First, there was her solo show at New Image Art in Los Angeles. On the same day, 8 hours ahead, she was included in Black Rat Press' Print Show, where it could be said that they were printing money. From that show is where this gorgeous two-plate etching and screenprint, Argentina, came from. Retailing at £600 in a signed edition of 95, the print is a must have for any SWOON collector.
Buy the print here

See photos from SWOON's solo show here

And a couple videos of the Black Rat Press event and New Image Art show after the jump.

A couple interesting articles for your perusal today.
If Ebay is an indicator, Obama will win presidential race.

And, Shepard isn't the first artist to dabble in presidential campaign design. A brief history.

On a random tip, a question. If Obama was to be elected, would Shepard Fairey be called upon for the presidential portrait?

Checkout apples exploration in the use of advanced multitouch gestures under Mac OS X. Via Macrumors

Your local hardware store is offering a little more than just nuts and bolts. You probably spend most of your time at Crest buying what you need to make the art. Now you will be able to show what you made. Back in the late 90's the Store became the home to a few art exhibits and, it was also featured on a PBS special. This summer Crest will host its first in a series of art exhibits. Stay tuned, we will bring you all the details.

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Rejoice. For this weeks NY Mag, Lindsay Lohan is photographed by Bert Stern, recreating Marylin Monroe's "Last Sitting." Monroe is still hotter, but a taste of the Lohan flesh is enough to get this shortened week started.

See more here

Celebrate 20 years of televised law enforcement. Sit back, drink some beer and laugh at crackhead shenanigans with Cops: 20th Anniversary Edition ($20). The two-disc set includes tons of highlights, behind-the-scenes secrets, bloopers, car chases and domestic disturbances. Over five hours of new content is included. Filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement since March 11, 1989.

We are closed today so enjoy the holiday and all the presidents day sales!


More photo's after the jump.

In a galaxy far far away... We know Lucas likes merch. here are a few rejects that never made it to production, I so want the fridge. Check out geekologi for more concepts.

Ostuni, Italy

Dead Sid by Paul Insect

Gridskipper has put together an informative death map, pinpointing the spots where celebrities have died.

Opening up tomorrow is Michel Gondry's installation for his upcoming movie Be Kind Rewind. Luckily, the installation is in the bigger Deitch space on Wooster, which means the creator's imagination has more room to run free.

So while some of you were out romancing and others were getting black out drunk, the upper crust was spending money on art and laughing at the plebeian recession. Thankfully they spent their money well, bidding up Banksy well over his estimates. RUINED LANDSCAPE (above) sold with a hammer price of $385,000 briskly passing the high estimate of $300,000. That was the smallest margin between estimate and hammer price. The outstanding VANDALISED PHONE BOX more than doubled its estimate of $300,000, selling with hammer for $605,000. The star of the show however was Banksy's defaced Damien Hirst painting, KEEP IT SPOTLESS, which set an auction record for the artist weighing in at $1,870,000, well over the $350,000 estimate it was given. Now watch the secondary market prices rise once again.

We saw this one on Search and Destroy and we were immediately inspired. A simple idea with a big message. As the kid from AI or was it I.A. said in that other movie Pay it forward.

Our version.

This morning under the suggestion of a reader I went with 'plastic'.

Jeff Wall

Over on the Art Market Blog, Nicholas Forrest describes to readers how he doubled his money overnight. Nice one guy!

What more can be said about this epic group of artists? Not much, except that they will only get better and their work, more unattainable. The movie/documentary about them slated for release this Spring should solidify any doubts you may have had. So why not take the easy way out, and get pieces of their work together in one bundle? The easiest and most affordable way to do this is by purchasing The Beautiful Losers Catalog (Boxed Edition). Available in an edition of 100 and costing $1500, the "Custom slipcased First Edition / First Printing catalog is packaged in custom military grade wood box with limited editions and original works of art by the Beautiful Losers artists." For a full rundown of the goodies inside check the site. Here are some of my faves, Cynthia Connolly - Page, Arizona [from the portfolio Ice Machines featured in the Beautiful Losers exhibition], silver gelatin print, 4 x 6 inches, printed and signed by the artist, edition of 100, Barry McGee - Untitled, marker on various sticker papers, dimensions variable, signed by the artist, James Jarvis - The Thin Blue Line, action figure, approx. 6 x 3.5 inches, signed edition of 100.

Check out Gareth Pugh Fall Ready to Wear Collection on Style.com. I am not going to lie there is a bit of a fantasy going on here.

A big happy VDay from YoPeace, check out their holiday contribution.

Check out the new trailer for Indy. "If you like adventure, nostalgia, explosions, soundstages as exteriors, long inexplicable pauses in action for joke delivery, or any combination thereof, you're going to be excited as shit." I second that! Via I watch Stuff

Flats. Again and again.

State of America Part VII: In Bruges

I know I’m awake, but it feels as if I’m in a dream.

The double sidedness of a statement is a thing of undeniable beauty. To be awake, but to feel as if you’re in a dream. There is an enchantment to it, the idea that the dreamlike qualities of what is real are idyllic, wonderful, fantastic. It is too good to be true. It is the thing we have been waiting for our entire lives. It is the post-orgasm tranquility of life.

Before today, I hadn't a clue who Leslie Minnis was. Truthfully, I still don't, but what I do know is that her paintings are sick. Available now for purchase through Andenken Gallery is a print on canvas of what I believe to be her strongest work to date. Signed in an edition of 10 and measuring 20" x 30" the print costs $400. If interested, contact the andenken shop.

The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago, Illinois, in the winter of 1929: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish/German gang led by Bugs Moran. Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected to have played a large role in the St. Valentine's Day massacre, assisting Capone.

On the morning of Thursday, February 14, 1929 St. Valentine's Day, five members of George 'Bugs' Moran's gang, a gang "follower", and a mechanic who happened to be at the scene were lined up against the rear inside wall of the garage of the SMC Cartage Company in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were then shot and killed by four members of Capone's gang (two of them dressed as police officers). When one of the dying men, Frank Gusenberg, was asked who shot him, he replied, "I'm not gonna talk - nobody shot me."[1] Capone himself had arranged to be on vacation in Florida at the time. For more info check out wika p

Kate Moss, Valentines Special, sorta.

You know what day it is.

It's so ghetto but it is really one of the best video's out there. Via Internet Famous.

Artist Golan Levin created Opto-Isolator a artwork that's realistic-looking eyeball actually responds to an onlooker's gaze with a bunch of human-like movements, including coy side-glances and blinks. For more images and background check out gizmodo.

First it was Gocco, now Polaroid. Polaroid announced this past week that they are shutting down the last of their film producing factories in the United States. They have also announced they will close their factories abroad in Mexico and the Netherlands before the year’s end. It was seemingly inevitable and soon coming after they stopped producing film cameras a year ago. In their press release they’ve stated there will be stock on shelves at least in to 2009 so I suppose if you are the hording type you have time to stock up. Via The WashingtonPost.

They have also stated they are looking for someone to license the technology to so enthusiasts can hope Fuji or another company can find something profitable there to work with.

Thanks to Search and Destroy for pointing this out. Now I will have to stock up on film for the land camera.

More than excited about this opening on Saturday at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles. SWOON baby!

New Image Art is pleased to announce the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by SWOON, "Drown Your Boats." Partially inspired by Angela Carter's "Burning Your Boats," this show, and much of SWOON's work is not only a momentary glimpse in contemporary life; her work speaks of tales, legends, and variations on mythic themes, sparked by great vitality, inventiveness, and a deeply macabre imagination. Having recently participated in an armada of sorts SWOON along with other fellow Pittsburgh "boat punks" constructed their own flotilla and sailed down the Hudson and Mississippi Rivers. For this new exhibition SWOON will be executing a canoe as her central installation piece that will later become part of a Deitch Projects show this Fall.

SWOON's worlds are often populated by realistically rendered-- and evocatively cutout street people, often her friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping-- these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Bridges, fire escapes, water towers and street signs create crisscrossing shadows and spaces through which her figures move. Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from German Expressionist wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, SWOON is a master of using cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets.

On the brink of Valentine's Day, Men.Style.Com has put together a nice feature where you can read about and vote on various sex positions.

Here is the direct link to the voting

Wednesday's muse, Rosie Huntington Whiteley and Ellen von Unwerth(left).

Sebach Potties, take a shit in a masterpiece.

Via, eternallycool