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• WATERTOWER | Tom Fruin

  photo by Robert Banat Tom Fruin’s Watertower is a new sculpture installed on the rooftop of 20 Jay Street in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn.  As part of his series Icon, the first to be placed in the US, Fruin utilized plexiglass and steel to create a sculptural piece atop a water tower platform on [...]

• Cindy Sherman | Balenciaga

  Cindy Sherman created this series of photos wearing clothes from Balenciaga back in 2008. The photos are set up to comment on the never ending supply of party photos in magazines and websites, showing aging socialites, party girls and boys, and the fashionably disdainful. This series was lesser known than some of her other collaborations [...]

• Alex Fischer

  Revelatory digi-collage-paintings by Alex Fischer. So lush… | via Triangulation

• Ryan Trecartin for W

  I really enjoyed seeing Ryan Trecartin come up so quickly the last few years. His fashion spread from W (now a few months old) was jaw-dropping. Still, the step-by-step notes and process that are featured at dis right now… they take it to a whole new level. Yowza.

• Guim Tio

  These fashionable paintings by Guim Tió of Barcelona make me smile. | via The Fox is Black

• Eda Akaltun

  Crushin hard on Eda Akaltun‘s collage work right now. | via Nobrow

• Painting the ATLAS Particle Accelerator

  Artist Josef Kristofoletti was recently commissioned to paint a mural on the structure containing the ATLAS particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. What did he paint? The THING ITSELF. I don’t get it, but hey — it’s science, and I LIKE IT!

• The Sketchbook Project 2012

  The Sketchbook Project is a new yearly exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Art House Co-Op. Organized through their local gallery/shop, The Brooklyn Art Library, The Sketchbook Project is a traveling exhibition of sketchbooks created by artists like YOU. “Anyone – from anywhere in the world – can be a part of the Project. To participate [...]

• Views from the Internet

  I really like something about “Views from the Internet,” by Penelope Umbrico. This was conceived and displayed for the New York Photography Festival in 2008. So pretty. From her site: “Views from the Internet” (2006 ongoing) is a project that investigates the views through windows on home improvement Internet sites. The windows in these places [...]

• Phil Poynter | Ponystep Monotone symphony

  Photographer Phil Poynter‘s shoot for Ponystep Magazine Spring/Summer 2011. Need we say more?