PaceWildenstein, which has represented Chuck Close for more than thirty years, is pleased to present Chuck Close: Selected Paintings and Tapestries, 2005-2009 On til June 20, 2009 at 534 West 25th Street, New York City. This is the first New York exhibition in four years to feature the artist’s paintings, and the first to include a large selection of his tapestries.

If you’ve never seen a Chuck Close painting in the flesh, do. They are probably some of the most detailed, amazing paintings this world has to offer in ma humble.

The piece here is a jacquard tapestry!
Self-Portrait/Color, 2007
(261.6 cm x 200.7 cm)

Brilliant is all i have to say to this. We’re waiting on our movie to be produced in 3 frames. It was between Dances With Wolves & Debbie Does Dallas….. more to follow.

Banksy’s summer show opens in Bristol this Saturday the 13th June.
Details of the show are being withheld until he gets the fuck out of there!

the unbearable lightness of being – alinka echeverría

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Steal Our Ideas is a nice idea! When working as a creative enables you to spend all day thinking, and quite often not having any use for the concept. So, instead of it sitting in a book, in a pile of books nestled with a million other thoughts, they blog their ideas for people who need ideas.

Beautiful animation By Jim Jarvis, animated by Richard Kenworthy and paid for by Nike! Love how the music starts.

Semi-Permanent 2009 is lining itself up again as the biggest bow down design show for this year. 

Speakers include: Ian Francis, Ron English, Dave Droga’s clan Droga 5, and Timba Smits amongst a plethora of influential souls. 

Early ticket bonus is still on until March 20th. The show is on in Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland. Go get the days off and be inspired! 

Ian Francis is happily taking on the contemporary art scene around the world. His work has been received the way it should be. 

For the first time His work is being shown in Australia. av butchers will ya. 

Paul Pope x KidRobot x Playboy

Legendary comic artist, Paul Pope, introduces his newest creation.
Inspired by Playboy’s November 1978 cover, this 7.5-inch fantasy’s thigh-high boots and sun-bleached locks are a throwback to the mansion’s heyday.

Available on the KidRobot site for 29 bucks

Book Block©
Design :: Matthew Conway

A beautiful shelf for precious books and ornaments.
Inspired by the simple workings of a woodworking bench, the principle of the dog and clamping. Japanese joinery; simply and exquisitely expressed in timber.
In a world of stuff, book bench offers an island on which to display the special things. Book Block© is a refuge from the clutter. Expressed simply and cleanly it does not add to the mayhem, it adds to the beauty of the world. It is a work that speaks quietly and does not shout, it is restrained in its execution. An element of human interaction is in the work, the interaction of the dog (peg) that is a moveable bookend.

We now stock these in The National Grid shop.