Miami art and plush collective Friends With You are conquering the world with a host of events from book releases, symposiums, and a grand finale in their...

Tonight in Oakland, CA, Fawn Gehweiler's new solo art show titled Baby Lemonade opens at Down at Lulu's. The reception runs from 6 to 9pm, so...

This Fri, Oct 6th at Gallery AD in San Jose, CA, a show titled Full Coverage opens, showcasing a collection of full back ("shoulders to thighs")...

For anyone wanting to try their hand at some quick and dirty printmaking, try a stencil. It's a cheap, easy way to get your drawing onto any surface:...

Last week saw the opening of enigmatic UK graffiti artist Banksy's living installation in Los Angeles, Barely Legal, the epicenter of which was in...

Swanky Portland, Oregon hotel the Jupiter is hosting a third annual art expo. Affair at the Jupiter Hotel invites art galleries and representatives from...

This Saturday, September 23rd at Giant Robot SF, Rachell Sumpter will be sharing her paintings in a show titled Frizzly Gur. This is the second time GR...

Man, when I was in art school, a portfolio was a stuffy scrapbook of years of work you painstakingly compiled, hoping to present your work as professional.

Tiki News curator Otto Von Stroheim and Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle have teamed up for Tiki Art Now! Volume 3, a survey of contemporary tiki art by "the...

Picasso shocked the art world in 1907. Suicide Girls continues to shock internet viewers in 2006. Now, thanks to New York photographer Luis Gispert, the...

Last month he was known for painting a realistic depiction of a naked man on a wall in Bristol, England. Last week he was famous for replacing 500 Paris...

Bidoun is a quarterly publication examining the contemporary art, design, and culture of Middle Eastern countries with a declaration of wit so apparent...

Amy Ruppel is a wonderful designer, illustrator and encaustic/collage artist living in Portland. Her subjects are soft silhouette birds in a twiggy environment.

A treasure in the worlds of art history and dorm room decoration, Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting The Scream has been recovered, after being stolen...

This Friday, September 1st, a show opens at Oakland's Rowan Morrison, a contemporary art gallery in Oakland, CA. Showing the photography of Jen Siska...

There's only one more week to catch the Brooklyn Museum's survey on Graffiti. The exhibit is based historically on Brooklyn's reputation...

This week kicks off international hippie destination Burning Man Festival, a living installation in the Black Rock Desert created and destroyed over the...

Audrey Kawasaki created a limited edition of giclée prints based on work from her recent show at Roq La Rue in Seattle. Limited to 100 prints in each edition,...

Art Prostitute is a cutting-edge and underground art full color magazine. Tonight, they're celebrating their 8th issue with an arty party at Merry...

Portland's Carson Ellis is a painter, illustrator and calligrapher, sometimes known for the album artwork she's done for her partner's band...

Matt Cipov uses minimal color washes and ink to create images that in areas look sketchy and textured but have linework so refined it looks practically...

On the subject of admission fees, though people seem to be able to justify paying $10 and upward to see Snakes on a Plane, many are reluctant or unable...

Last night's Post Deux opening at GR2 was an enormous success with an overwhelming turnout in both audience and artwork. Roughly 1200 Post-It notes...

This Saturday, August 19th, check out LA's Giant Robot GR2 Gallery for the second group Post-It show, Post Deux. Recruiting a cast of artists prone...

Fellow culture editor PeoplePaula recently did a wonderful write-up on the last of the Sundown Salons in Los Angeles, and the photographs in the article...

SuicideGirl Roethke boasts such a range of creative talents, the more I learn about this wonder girl, the more I'm impressed. Her visual work spans...

I don't know anything about Montrose, Texas besides that it is home to a gang of knitters called Knitta Please. This crew knits and purls for the street,...

SG needle-crafters in the group Stitch and Bitch have been working on a bi-coastal, collaborative mail-away knitting chain since January. Inspired by this...

Make, a magazine "devoted entirely to DIY technology", keeps an interesting and frequently updated blog of user projects, technology news and...

Tiny Showcase is basically a genius idea. Two Rhode Islanders came up with a well-designed and easy to navigate site to showcase tiny works (usually around...

Magic Pony is a shop and gallery based in Toronto, Canada. Featuring a smart selection of vinyl toys, plush, prints, books and other underground art ephemera,...

Remember days of yore, when stereotypes prevailed in children's books without objection? Here's an artist dedicated to preserving the politically...

The Whitney and Tate Museums have collaborated to fund a sort of confusing but interactive internet based project called Screening Circle. The installation...

Ethan Persoff's personal site archives bizarre and offensive U.S. Government printed matter and graphics. One of the finds on this site is an archive...

Here's an unusual portfolio of an artist dedicated to making art (and art replicas) out of dirt, quite literally. As the site says, "Scott can't...

It's all over the papers: "Russia's Hermitage Museum reported theft of more than 220 works worth around $5 million" today. And by the...

Gallery of the Absurd is a blog cataloging one artist's "gossip fueled" visual creations. It's like the hilarious product of someone...

Visiting the exhibit “Société Anonyme: Modernism for America” at the Hammer Museum, what struck me most, besides the sheer mass of work (some expected...