TMG is proud to announce multi-talented artist Sam Grant is having his second solo exhibition, “Double Vision” at Loakal Gallery. The show features him killing two mediums (photography and painting) with one stone. His acrylic paintings are realistic rendered scenes that reflect a mid-century America framed in modern realities. They’re humorous cynicism symbolizes a realm that reaches back to a simpler time caught in extraordinary circumstances. Instead of post World War II it’s post indiscriminate data-gathering and NSA surveillance. Two drones fly …
Author: Tracy Jones
Travis Bedel (aka bedelgeuse) is an American artist. His mixed media anatomical collages reinforce humanity’s relation to nature and their common ancestry. Travis Bedel (aka bedelgeuse) Twitter …
It’s the biggest art show in Japan. The ninth annual Art Fair Tokyo is returning to The Tokyo International Forum on March seventh through the ninth. 145 galleries from Japan and overseas are scheduled to participate in what will hopefully be a lot more interesting than its past shows. AFT has a reputation for having either a “multiple personality” for the kind of art presented at the three day event or, a lack of focus for what their platform is …
If you discovered graffiti in the 80’s or early 90’s it’s mostly credited to this lady, famed photographer and hip-hop culture historian Martha Cooper. She stuck to the artist’s G code (always stay curious) and it paid off. When white America thought these poor brown kids were just destroying public property, Cooper saw young disenfranchised artists and urban dwellers who had built their own universe out of nothing. Aside from photographer and film maker Henry Chalfant (Wild Style, 1983), co-author …
Finally it’s official “official”, on April 15, 2014 Pharoahe Monch is dropping P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), a follow up to his acclaimed 2011 album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades). It was suppose to drop in late 2012 as an EP, but the tracklisting says otherwise. It’s seventeen shots to the dome. Monch is the truth. This man been talking about global warming since the early 90’s (“Releasing Hypnotical Gases”). As one half of the pioneering Queens duo Organized Konfusion, his playful cadences and innovative …
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