Please take a few minutes today to wish Seymour Chwast good wishes on his 95th birthday. Below is a sampler of his’s unpublished cut metal pieces. Like an Energizer battery, he never stops. The post… Read More »The Daily Heller: Seymour Chwast, 95, Still Making Things!
With gestures and postures doing the heavy lifting, the artist tells us why hands have become a recurring motif in her work. “I always wanted to be an artist,” says Stefhany Lozano, and looking at… Read More »‘Hands are the protagonist’: Stefhany Y Lozano on communicating with fingers and gestures in her paintings
With works that are “slightly lonely and quietly optimistic”, the artist turns the everyday into something familiar, nostalgic and utterly beautiful. A pigeon on a beach path; a blue elephant spring-rider bolted to tarmac; a… Read More »Inspired by man-made objects and nature, Naruhiko paints ‘ordinary’ neighbourhoods and parks across Japan
For 25 years, Gotham has done something few typefaces manage: it has become ubiquitous without becoming entirely invisible. Born from the anonymous lettering of New York City and originally commissioned by GQ, the typeface has… Read More »Gotham Variable and the Art of Evolution
Consider the storefront awning. Perhaps you never really have before, because, well, why would you? Storefront awnings are the sort of mundane structures that populate our day-to-day lives, serving a clear utility function and don’t… Read More »Egon Van Herreweghe Reveals the Artistry of Storefront Awnings in His Show ‘The Menu’
Cat Sock, 2024 © Minyoung Kim The South Korea-born and London-based artist has always been obsessed with cats. Below, she tells us why they’re a recurring motif and her reasons for only showing the indirect… Read More »Cats take centre stage in Minyoung Kim’s surreal and subtle paintings