Sipho Mabona | The Plague

Mabona Orgami—In his latest installation The Plague, Sipho Mabona materializes the hypnotic ambivalence of money: the quotidian dollar-bill which accomplishes our daily business begins folding in on itself, gains awesome complexity and takes flight as a foreboding swarm of monetary locusts.

Money has gone from being an elementary medium of exchange to being a means of exploitation: a colossal cloud of hot money [and incomprehensible financial instruments] buzzes above the global economy like a biblical swarm of locust. Thus money as bane. Yet money per se, plain as the one-dollar-bill, always retains its basic ability to function as a pragmatic unit of accounting for goods & services. Hence money as blessing.

Each single specimen was folded from an uncut square of (US) currency sheet and took Mabona 4 to 5 hours to complete.

In Search of Moebius

French comics artist Jean Henri Gaston Giraud aka Mœbius (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was one of the founders of Heavy Metal magazine and contributed designs to numerous science fiction and fantasy films, including Alien, Willow, Tron (1982), and The Fifth Element.

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Wayne White | Beauty Is Embarrassing—Bringing Humor to Fine Art

beautyisembarrassing.com—Beauty Is Embarrassing is the story of Wayne White, an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer and much, much more. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Wayne has used his memories of the south to create inspired works for film, television and the fine art world.

After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University Wayne traveled to New York City where he worked as an illustrator for The East Village Eye, New York Times, Raw Magazine and the Village Voice. In 1986 Wayne became a designer for the hit television show Pee Wee’s Playhouse and his work was awarded with three Emmy’s.

After traveling to Los Angeles with his wife, Mimi Pond, Wayne continued to work in television and designed sets and characters for shows such as Shining Time Station, Beakman’s World, Riders In The Sky and Bill & Willis. He also worked in the music video industry winning Billboard and MTV Music Video Awards as an art director for seminal music videos including The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Tonight, Tonight’ and Peter Gabriel’s ‘Big Time’.

Wayne has had great success as a fine artist and has created paintings and public works that have been shown all over the world. His most successful works have been the world paintings featuring oversized, three dimensional text pain painstakingly integrated into cheap landscape paintings he buys at flea markets and thrift stores.

Wayne has also received great praise for several public works he has created recently including a successful show at Rice University where he built the world’s largest George Jones puppet head for a piece called ‘Big Lectric Fan To Keep Me Cool While I Sleep’.

Outside In | The Story of Art in the Streets

Patrick Simpson—The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles exhibit ‘Art in the Streets’ was the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the history of graffiti and street art.

Ron English | The Detroit Project

Artist Ron English takes his family to Detroit for a graffiti vacation.

JR | The Wrinkles Of The City—Los Angeles

This video gives some of the back stories about people artist and TED Prize winner JR photographed for his project The Wrinkles In The City.

Takashi Murakami | Qatar

Behind the scenes with Takashi Murakami as he and his Kaikai Kiki team prepare to launch his first exhibition in Middle East.