May 22, 2022 Artists Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! San Luis Potosi is culturally rich, has a UNESCO protected historic downtown, and just hosted the Miss Mexico pageant last night – yet most people think of other Mexican cities before this one. It’s been an educational week discovering the city, its rooftop beer gardens, its cathedrals, it’s markets, […]
May 22, 2022 Artists Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! San Luis Potosi is culturally rich, has a UNESCO protected historic downtown, and just hosted the Miss Mexico pageant last night – yet most people think of other Mexican cities before this one. It’s been an educational week discovering the city, its rooftop beer gardens, its cathedrals, it’s markets, […]
One of the best ways to see a city is through its advertisements, especially when hand made. Perhaps we’re feeling this way because increasingly there is a blurred line today between street artists branding their legal/illegal work on the street with social media tags or websites that lead to products to purchase – effectively functioning as advertisement. Sensacional: Mexican Design. […]
One of the best ways to see a city is through its advertisements, especially when hand made. Perhaps we’re feeling this way because increasingly there is a blurred line today between street artists branding their legal/illegal work on the street with social media tags or websites that lead to products to purchase – effectively functioning as advertisement. Sensacional: Mexican Design. […]
A selection of new paintings by American artist Charlie Roberts. Currently based in Oslo, Roberts’ work takes inspiration from pop culture, hiphop, comics, folk art, as well as artists like Henri Matisse, James Ensor, and Florine Stettheimer. Marking his first presentation in Taipei, “Short Cuts” offers up an investigation into what it means for the modern subject to grow, create, […]
Vienna, Austria-based photographer Erli Grünzweil (previously featured here) explores the relationship between objects and humans in his most recent series, and subsequent photobook, “Consider Things”. Merging themes of destruction, consumerism, and new possibilities, the work centers around “things.” Grünzweil explains: “Things, as part of the artificial and man-made world, served as the starting point for this work. Specifically, destroyed things […]
May 20, 2022 Artists, BSA Film Friday Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening:1. WATER III – A film by Morgan Maassen2. Graffiti TV 101: Tank3. No Cry Babies – Volume 2 WATER. We simply can’t live without it. That’s obvious – a natural resource that never should be privatized. […]
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“I’ve faltered, but I haven’t given up,” says Calendonia Curry AKA Swoon. “I believe in it and I hope you do too.” She is speaking about the much ballyhooed Braddock, Pennsylvania church which she purchased a decade ago and parlayed into an art project, or two. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Now we enter “The Sanctuary”. […]
Born in Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, Spain, artist Juan de Dios Morenilla’s work is a compendium of relationships and influences from recent popular culture; music, cinema, video games, and cartoons, along with an awareness of the Spanish pictorial tradition. Though his initial sketch process involves many changes, Morenilla appreciates painting for its finality—the ability to freeze or stop a […]