Remember Polaroid cameras? It seemed that we all had those instant cameras in our youth. The act of taking a picture, watching it magically print, and then shaking it to […]
ART: Barbara Kruger x The Temporary Stedelijk
If you don’t know about the artist Barbara Kruger, check the Supreme logo and get back to me. Not only was she the inspiration for the street wear […]
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, Hip-Hop Dance Exchange, Part II
“Hip-Hop hasn’t ‘gone global.’ It has been global, or international at least, since its birth in the very local neighborhoods of the South Bronx, Washington Heights and Harlem.” […]
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: Hip-Hop Dance Exchange, Part I
Hip-Hop Roundtable Discussion at New York University. From L to R: Dr. Joseph G. Schloss, Pop Master Fabel, Afrika Bambaataa, Alien Ness and his wife, Sabrina. All photos […]
ART: BLACK AND COLLECTING, PART II
Photo of Michelle J. Wilkinson, PhD by frank talk This is the second post in a two-part series about Black collectors and curators in the Diamond District. I […]
ART: Black and Collecting, Part I
All photos by frank talk. This post is the first in a two-part series of interviews with some of the District’s flyest Black art collectors and curators A […]
Theatre Review: So The Arrow Flies
“Life undulates very oddly,” begins one of the four characters played by Esther K. Chae, the self-declared “creator, performer and polymathic artist” of her one-woman show, So The […]
FEATURE: Wall Lords Asia
While the results for Wall Lords Asia unfold before international viewers and make us feast on an altogether different level of script-ability, this competition is also revealing itself […]
FEATURE: GRAFFIT’ ASIA
Far far across many a wall, great and small … well far away from where I sit counting … runs the great wall of Shenzhen in China. It […]
Gallery Tour: Stolen Space, Brick Lane, London
If you’re a street art newbie as I am, circling in on the world of graffiti, and if you’re looking for the results of aerosol-ed love bombs in […]