Brian Dettmer

Is this the coolest thing you've ever seen or what? Atlanta based Brian Dettmer creates intricate sculptures from old cassette tapes! Art inspired by the demise of analog media. Love it.

Wall Art: London

Wall Art: London

Steven Meisel limited edition puzzle

It is fairly rare to find work by Steven Meisel out of the glossy pages of exclusive fashion magazines. You can now play with it for ever and ever with this jigsaw puzzle of 1000 pieces published by Art+Commerce.

Deathwatch

Art industry blog How's My Dealing? is making the news and creating a whole lot of controversy with their gallery Deathwatch. Although they aren't always right they've already successfully predicted the closing of Plane Space and Roebling Hall, 2 galleries put on virtual Deathwatch in October. How’s My Dealing? bills itself as a site on which artists can anonymously rate dealers they have worked with and they look for artists to share positive and negative experiences with critics, curators, and galleries. They want to know how you got into the gallery, how or why you left the gallery, about your studio visits, who won't pay or pays only after much cajoling, who loves your work until it doesn't sell, who supports your work despite your weak sales, who won't return work or say where work has disappeared to, who is awesome, who tries to influence your work or presure you to make work you would rather not make, and who abuses power.

Change

Wall Art: Paris

The Mini Boosh

Naboo the enigma, everybody’s favourite South London shamen has exercised his magical powers and shrunk Vince Noir, Howard Moon, Bollo and himself down and created the mini Boosh. A series of art toy style figurines available for all Boosh fans in the form of two double packs brought to you by toy label Playbeast. This is a pre release item, available on Dec 1st.

The Wood Show

Paul Smith hosted an exhibition of the work of British artist Richard Woods at Paul Smith SPACE, Tokyo. The exhibition showcased a new logo floor – logo 57, 5 off cut inlay prints plus 4 sculptured logo prints and a green lamp. Although not part of the exhibition we thought the white ghetto blaster with the matching cassette tapes in front of the shop were pretty cool. The last shot is of Sir Paul himself trying on a tattoo stocking at the opening. To read more or to buy a limited edition print CLICK HERE.

Doze Green in NYC

One of our favorite old school graffiti artists Doze Green is showing his work at Jonathan Levine in NYC until Nov 15th along with French artist Blek Le Rat.

Wall Art: Tokyo

This piece ran all the way down the stairs to the underground manga and anime shop Madarake in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Banksy in New York

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill is Banksy’s first official exhibition in New York, his representatives say, and it will be open to the public daily through Oct. 31. CLICK HERE to go to the New York Times to read the complete story and see more photos.

KAWS Stormtrooper

Original Fake, KAWS' collaborative store with Medicom Toy in the Aoyama district of Tokyo is following up their Darth Vader KAWS Companion with a new Stormtrooper toy for their legendary Star Wars series.

Stüssy artist series

We've been watching the Stüssy artist series (a limited run of tees in black, grey, and white dropping quarterly designed by different artists) since they launched it in April with exclusive designs by Canadian skateboard artist and genius illustrator, Andrew Pommier. They've just announced their newest collaboration with artist Andy Murphy (sorry no website), an Australian illustrator and painter with a strong graphic style. The shirts are released in a limited number (100), and are only sold at freestanding Stüssy stores. The Stüssy x Andy Murphy tees will be available starting in October.

Banksy in New Orleans

New York's Wooster Collective who's website is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities worldwide is now tracking Banksy's progress in New Orleans. CLICK HERE to go to their site to view.

Wall Art: Berlin

In your place

We just discovered this amazing website/blog from photographer Todd Selby appropriately called The Selby. Basically he travels around photographing people and their possessions at home and in their work spaces and he does it beautifully. The photos below are from his photo shoot with Mitch Alfus "leather king of New York" at work.

Wall Art: London

They are now covering up all the Banksy art around London with wooden and plastic boarding because night marauders with chisels are actually trying to the take the walls home with them since his art is worth so much money. We are lucky to have gotten this shot a couple of months ago.

Maison Martin Margiela, The Exhibition

Martin Margiela (one of our top picks next to YSL) is celebrating 20 years of fashion with a special exhibition at the Antwerp Mode Museum from Sept. 12th-Feb 8th, 2009. Not your traditional retrospective, (after all, Martin Margiela was never the traditionalist), the Paris-based designer also has created exclusively for this exhibition several limited-edition items that will be on sale during the entire exhibition at the Fashion Museum reception desk. A catalogue in English will accompany the exhibition.

Dungeons and dragons

Chococat has always been our favorite Sanrio character and frankly we are a little dissappointed that Hello Kitty always seems to get the limelight but this dark Hello Kitty Black Wonder exhibition in Hong Kong deserved a post. You can help rescue Hello Kitty and Dear Daniel until August 3rd. Silly thing has made special tote bags, t-shirts, as well as a blazer and matching white button up for the occasion and Colette has done a special Hello Kitty watch. All available at the exhibition and Colette.