Marco Mazzoni
Marco Mazzoni’s work is getting a lot of attention these days, for good reason – it’s exquisitely beautiful, provocavitve, and masterful. Coloured pencils, no less. I first heard of him when he was the featured artist in Hi-Fructose, but have been…
Nude Painting of Canada’s PM has Some Folks in a Tizzy
There’s been some buzz in the air as of late up here in Soviet Canuckistan; it seems that nudity is still “a thing”. Granted, it’s a nude painting of the Prime Minister riffing off the whole “Emperor has no clothes”…
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is probably the most popular living American photographer. Sherman is best known for her staged self-portraits, particularly the “Untitled Film Stills” series, officially 1977-1980 but some work from the series is dated 1975-1981. In these staged self-portraits, Sherman changes…
Kevin Cyr
If you haven’t heard of Kevin Cyr before, he’s a Brooklyn-based artist that does a bunch of different very interesting stuff but is best known for his paintings of old, beat up, graffiti-covered delivery vans. He got the inspiration while…
Jeff Wall – Dead Troops Talk
A 1992 photomontage by Canadian photographer Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk (A Vision after an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter 1986), has fetched more than $3.6 million at auction. Golly. Dead Troops Talk (1992) –…