Southern Guild was established in 2008 to provide a platform for collect­able, limited edition South African design. Each year 45 diverse talents are invited to produce new work, which show­case as a collection, under the Southern Guild brand, premiering at the FNB Joburg Art Fair. The list includes the most inspiring furniture designers, including long…

Thanks to a growing revival that's been sweeping cities worldwide, the burger - that simple staple of meat between two buns - has become the recipient of more variations on a theme than most food combinations. Fuelled by their mutual obsession, Daniel Young - creator of cult burger meet-up events BurgerMonday and…

Comedian and cabaret artist Ursus Wehrli must be the tidiest artist I have ever come across. He is the author of Tidying Up Art, a visionary manifesto that yearns toward a more rational, more organized and cleaner form of modern art. 

His upcoming book, The Art of Clean Up, extends this principle into the physical world, with extremely (though oddly) satisfying results. Scroll…

                  Title-'The World of Salvador Dali'

I have already shown some of Tos Kostermans' paintings, they are magically realistic with a touch of impressionism.…

Alexa Meade paints on human beings to make them look as though they are acrylic paintings! Once she has painted her models, she photographs them either in a natural setting or against a painted backdrop. This particular piece was created at the Irvine Contemporary Gallery in Washington D.C. last week. A pioneer in her own right, Meade truly pushes the boundaries of…

Mareen Fischinger takes hundreds of individual photographs of one subject all from the same perspective. Then, she creates semi-transparent layers that overlap onto themselves until they make a complete picture. She calls it panographics.

“These are not panoramas in the normal sense,” Fischinger explains, “but more the result of a new kind of photography – one that captures the…

Based in Los Angeles, the Belgium-born artist Anja Van Herle has been painting portraits since she was a child. Her paintings are an attempt to tell these stories by capturing delicate facial expressions and juxtaposing them with vibrant colour and the dramatic interplay of shadow and light.

"My work is an attempt to capture the complexity of emotions that are conveyed in the…

Inspired by pop culture icons and current social issues, he creates fantastically fun works in the unlikeliest of places. The French street artist Oakoak has been on a tear, turning park benches, stoops and dilapidated walls into wonderful and unexpected places for art. I love his take on pop-culture and can't get enough of his work.…

                  'Part in the subway with Paris Hilton'

I came across these paintings, which I really liked. So I thought I would share some of this stunning art and discover a little more about the artist. Tos Kostermans. This series is called Bold and Beautiful, it is all about life and humoristic situations. The style is very realistic…

        Natalia Vodianova

The exhibition, first shown in Madrid, brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts found in Testino’s work, fashion and the nude. These subjects are to be discovered both in his well-known published oeuvre as a fashion photographer as well as in his personal work, and the show includes a…

Artist Josh Agle, better known as Shag, has an impressive retrospective now on view at the Grand Central Arts Center in Santa Ana, CA. Entitled 'Hand Pulled', the exhibition is an overwhelming survey of every single screen print, etching and pigment print the artist has created over the course of his decade-plus long career. Most of the works are long sold out and this is the ideal opportunity…

                  Expansion by Paige Bradley

"From the moment we are born,the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we…

Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas' 'Post-vs-Proto-Rennaisance' wooden egg installation

inside Venice's Chiesa di San Fantin

The 54th Annual Venice…

one of three room-sized installations in 'origin of the beginning' by levi van veluw

In his solo exhibition 'origin of the beginning', dutch artist levi van veluw makes use of 30,000 wooden blocks, balls, and slats to blanket three rooms that recall his childhood bedroom. the life-size installations are accompanied by photographs and…

“You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”

—Alexander McQueen............................................................................................

The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, celebrates the late Alexander McQueen’s…

If the world were a village of 100 people, how would the composition be? This set of 20 posters is built on statistics about the spread of population around the world under various classifications. The numbers are turned into graphics to give another sense a touch – Look, this is the world we are living in.…