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• Punk Art: Custom Chandeliers

  Here's a spotting that couldn't help but catch our eye: Rock and Royal creates chandeliers with attitude, made to order. The company veers sharply away from the standard ring and crown shapes that adorn swank homes and hotels across the world. Fusing Read More... Posted Friday, March 02, 2007 7:17 PM by Ester | 0 Comments Filed under: Art, Design, Furniture, punk, chandeliers

• Can't Stop the Rock

  I don't know how I've not seen this in the four years it's been alive, regardless Yoshihiko Satoh's guitar is, well, it = rock * 12 via MusicThing Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Monday, February 26, 2007 9:44 AM by Phil | 0 Comments Filed under: Art, Music, Sculpture, Guitar, Rock

• Interface Space

  Exploring the intimate relationships people have with their computers, Design Observer takes a look at art that comments on the two-dimensional interfaces of modern life. Some work, like Hans Gremmen and Monique Gofer's Empty Trashcan (pictured), translate Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:42 PM by Phil | 0 Comments Filed under: Art, Interface

• Artist / Inventor Adam Frank's Reveal

  Adam is an artist/inventor whose work focuses on the investigation of light and interactivity. The products are decidedly low tech, but fascinating all the same. The Reveal uses projected light to create the impression of sunlight streaming through a Read More... Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 10:06 AM by Phil | 1 Comments Filed under: Art, Interactive, Light, Adam Frank

• Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive

  Austrian collective monochrom invites you to be buried alive in a private graveyard at the Blackwood Gallery. Premature Burial as a Field Trial for Near Death Activities will offer participants an opportunity to be buried alive in a coffin for up to fifteen Read More... Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 12:17 PM by Ester | 0 Comments Filed under: Art, Installation, Blackwood Gallery

• Why did the Conservatives take the weed whacker to Canadian arts promotion abroad? asks Margaret Atwood

  During the last days of September, I was at a trilingual literary festival in Vincennes, near Paris. It's called Festival America: Littératures et Cultures d'Amérique du Nord. It was Canada's year of honour, so there were 26 Canadian writers there, as Read More... Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:47 PM by Phil | 0 Comments Filed under: Art, Canadian, Conservatives, Atwood