Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam launched The Shop, a curated selection of art, design, clothing, literature, craft, concepts and crap from all over the world. Celebrating this event they will host a show by Paris-based artist Julien Langendorff at the W+K gallery starting the… [ Continue reading ]

Bryony from Blinkart shared this fantastic piece with us. A striking sculptural window installations by our friends Lernert & Sander at Selfridges, London, to celebrate the opening of the new shoe department. It’s up until October 20th and definitely worth a visit. [ Continue reading ]

Harland Miller will open his new show today at Gallery Alex Daniels, Reflex Amsterdam. Inspired by the famous Penguin book covers of classic works by Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, Edgar Allen Poe and others he creates poster sized works of art where the titles are replaced… [ Continue reading ]

Every day, for the next 100 days, Vivienne Westwood and Lee Jeans will publish one image of active resistance online. Active Resistance is a project of positive thoughts, active changes, speaking up and being heard. And you can be part of thatli. The images… [ Continue reading ]

This week Gallery Gabriel Rolt will open an exhibition with some beautiful new paintings, watercolors and three dimensional works by the British artist James Aldridge called Unnatural Order. ‘James Aldridge takes on themes of nature, landscape and mortality in works that are simultaneously beautiful and disturbing,… [ Continue reading ]

Again a really inspiring find by Walter Manning/Old Chum: The work of Betty Goodwin (1923 – 2008). ‘Attracted by the materiality of found objects and sites, Goodwin made visible their histories and innate characteristics.’ ‘The soft-ground technique adopted by Betty Goodwin creates the… [ Continue reading ]

The Dutch gallery Kap Pur will host an exhibition with works from Jarik Jongman. Impressive oil paintings are made upon- and inspired by new and found photographs from lost and abandoned places, empty motel rooms with mysterious lights, all in a beautiful dark color… [ Continue reading ]

This is a call to anyone that did not get a chance to visit ‘The Conspirators’, an exhibition by Gallery Gabriel Rolt of recent paintings by British artist Dawn Mellor. The works are all based on film stills and show portraits of actresses like… [ Continue reading ]

Started today, the Zuiderzee Museum is presenting two new projects at the Salone del Mobile in Milan by Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk. Shown above ‘The Poor Man’s Gold’ by Joost van Bleiswijk, was inspired on the voyages… [ Continue reading ]

New York based artist Eric White just finished a 16 food wide reinterpretation of Bruegel’s Massacre of the Innocents. On view since yesterday at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NY, together with work by Nicola Verlato and Fulvio Di Piazza. Above:… [ Continue reading ]

If you're in Amsterdam be sure you'll visit Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex between april 10 and june 15 were Andrew Moore will show 15 of his large scale photographs of abandoned places and collapsing infrastructure.

“Colour is the first thing that imbeds itself in the viewer. It sets the emotional key to the picture. It creates a unifying overall mood – and I establish that right through the beginning.” — Andrew Moore [ Continue reading ]

Last week Bas shared this fantastic work with me and just wanted to share it with the rest of the world. Anna Atkins (16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871), the English botanist and photographer, is considered the first person to publish… [ Continue reading ]

‘IkebanaMedulla’ by Benjamin Graindorge is the result of shi six-months residence at the villa Kujoyama where he transformed his line sketches into a real vase.

"When I began designing the IkebanaMedulla vases two things were foremost in my mind. The first was practical – design a vase that would be inhabited even when there were no flowers in it. The second was to think out a project whose form would bring together complete calm with a wild – almost animal – tension. I’m exploring the idea of natural savagery, and the IkebanaMedulla vases are my first attempt at a resolution." — Benjamin Graindorge [ Continue reading ]

Not new, but definitely note worthy: Three years ago the French artist Julien Berthier create this piece of art. An abandoned 6.5 metre yacht cut in half to create a permanent wrecked ship to ‘sail’ the world. ‘The image, and metaphor of the sinking… [ Continue reading ]

My favorite artist Adam Stennett made a new painting for the exhibition curated by Marc Straus which opened yesterday at Ana Cristea, 521 W 26th Street, NYC. Above his new work Soothing Syrup with two Poppies… Other artists in the exhibition are… [ Continue reading ]

Designboom shared this beautiful project by london based designer Tithi Kutchamuch and frequent collaborator Nutre Arayavanish. ‘The Housemates’ is a collection of 6 unrare hidden lives in our house, caterpillar, ant, spider, fly, fruit fly, cockroach, inspired by collectors of rare insects… [ Continue reading ]

Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, former editors at the design magazine I.D. started the online publication Sight Unseen focusing on people and creativity. They’ve already shared some very interesting views behind-the-scenes at design studios and factories as well as some nice book reviews… [ Continue reading ]

After a long time living and working in the US Peter Schuyff moved back to the Netherlands and is now exhibiting his work at Gallery Gabriel Rolt. Passing by quite often I was attacked by these hand carved baseball bats. These two… [ Continue reading ]

Lovely new work (video and paper) by my favorite artist Adam Stennet at Schuebbe Projects in Düsseldorf. [ Continue reading ]

Now showing in Berlin at Jiri Svestka, ‘Relics of the Afterfuture’ by Ioana Nemes. Beautiful works decorated with traditional motives with traditional techniques from historical objects from different parts of Romania, brought back in a new light and in a new story… ‘What we have is no longer… [ Continue reading ]

New treasures in the new Blend nr 45 featuring Marijn Akkermans, the Gentleman’s Cap by Rapha, our favorite new danish label Libertine-Libertine and the Le Labo candle Petit Grain 21. Enjoy Blend (dutch) here > and… [ Continue reading ]

Ed Ruscha’s visual interpretation of autumn. “Fall All Leaves All Fall” (2009). Courtesy Ed Ruscha and Gagosian Gallery. Via NYT… [ Continue reading ]

Jaakko Pallasvuo is studying at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and makes some really nice work. [ Continue reading ]

Here’s a new project by our favorite photographer Pablo Delfos: Sentimentale. A performance by Ivan Hennetin with Opus 51 by Tchaikovslky played by Janine Jansen. It resulted in this beautiful short movie and a fantastic series of pictures. [ Continue reading ]