BM just sent through some shots from his show and opening last week at Oh Really.
looking good

Damn, I can’t get enough, from Choe’s facebook album, befriend Choe on facebook here check the rest out.

Choe’s recent installations at Facebook HQ.

Sometimes street artists tend to pigeon hole themselves, sticking with one character, style, aesthetic and bringing it to every installation or piece that they do. This works on some levels, but a definite indication of Choe’s artistic strength can be seen in how varied his work is in all these installations, and also the fact that its fucking mad, lets not forget that.

Video interview with Cheos about the work here on Bloomberg

Here’s some photo’s grabbed from the blog-o-sphere of a Baseball bat exhibition that launched in Tokyo on the 22nd.

63 bats, 59 artists. On show at B1 Cafe.

Adb/AKIM/AMES/ARAI/BASK/Belx2/BEN MORI/BONBONCASPER/DEM/DEXTER/DICE/DISKAH/Dopesac/ESOWHUZE/JOE/jota/JUN/MARIE/KW/KAMI/KANE/KE/KRESSKUNI/ImSS/MAY/MYST/NAOMI/NEIM/NESM/NIS/Nofm/PAIONE/QP/RACK/RAME/ROM/SASU/
SECT/seki/松竹梅/snipe1/SUIKO/TOMY/VALUDAS/VERYONE/VIX/WANTO/YOTA/YUJI/ZEN/ZYS and more……
From Yuri Shibuya’s blog, Hellorahs flickr and AMG

Kill Pixie is launching his latest show, “I’ll hit you up tomorrow” this Saturday in L.A.

The opening reception will be hosted by actor Tim Roth played out by band Autolux.

Anyone whose around head down and check it out, looking to be a good show, and a chance to get your hands on some of KP’s latest work. at MERRY KARNOWSKY GALLERY, 170 S. LA BREA AVENUE (IN THE ART 170 BUILDING) L.A

KP sent a couple of previews, looking good.

As a follow up to the Refill 7 show, Luca Ionescu, designer, typographer and art director brings us Record time, an exhibition of lasered vinyl time pieces

24 local and international artists, designers and Typographers explore the notion of time by laser etching and cutting their art on vinyl records.

Alife . Andrew Van Der Westhuyzen . Arbito . Alex Trochutt . Andy Howell . Bigfoot . Ben Brown . Cody Hudson . Dan Funderburgh . Deb . Eric Elms . Jeremy Hollister . Joseph Allen . Jeremyville . Jonathan Zawada . Kid Acne . Kelvin Ho . Luca Ionescu . Matt French . Michael C Place . Michael Leon . Marok . Phibs . Tilt . Todd Bratrud.

Some highlights from the show.

Matt French

Phibs

Ben Brown

Tilt

Jonathan Zawada

Eric Elms

Luca Ionescu

Limited edition pieces are available at TheGoodFolk.com.

Good to be back, kissing hands and shaking babies.

The one Australian art magazine that has maintains a steady rate of awesomeness, with the dopest content, styling and above all consistency is King Brown Magazine by The Yok, a.k.a Yokadile Dundee or the Silver Crested Yokatoo, who despite his absence managed to throw together a tight little launch last Thursday at Gorker. Here’s some shots.

Bonsai, out of the woordwork

Meggs

Rone busting the mad spirograph style

King Brown will be on our online store in the next couple of weeks, more news soon.

Shots from his recent trip to Moscow are up on KR’s 12Oz Blog, including insane subway photos.

Who is the bigger intellectual property asshole?

Is it the artist who has amassed a small fortune based on “appropriation” yet still sends cease and desist letters to other artists for appropriating his work? Or is it the largest (and only) US based nationally-oriented news service which fails to recognize “fair use” even when it literally stares them in the face?

Read more to find out… after the jump.

A traditionally trained Japanese calligrapher Miyamura Gen has developed the ancestral techniques into his own expression of minimal abstraction in which textural motif interplay within sweeping movements to create the most impressive, minimal yet most undeniably hardcore style.

For more check Gens’ site

1000 x 1530 – Flame – 2008

700 x 1400 – Reverberation – 2008

700 x 1400 – Black vestige – 2007

100 x 700 – Subjet – 2007                                                    100 x 200 – Soak – 2007

1000 x 2100 – Foura – 2004

I recently met Gen through his collaborative work with Tokyo designer Shun Kawakami whose work is also well worth checking out.