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Giant Robot: New exhibition announced

By fpp ⋅ 2-February-2007 at 8:41 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

San Francisco based art gallery has today announced a new exhibition with artists from indie comics, crafting, street-art, and fine-art backgrounds. The 8×10 show at GRSF will be on display from February 17 - March 14….Giant Robot is proud to present 8×10, a group art show with a diverse, dazzling array of participants using the rawest of writing instruments (pencils, pens, crayons, markers, etc.) and a stock frame size. Contributors come from…

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Weird: Nicolas Gaudron’s electric bath duck

By fpp ⋅ 23-January-2007 at 14:29 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

French artist “Nicolas Gaudron” has created this “Electric bath-duck”
…this bath-duck is a project playing on the paradox between two different notions, the danger of electricity in the bath and the sweetness of a bath-duck living on water…”
Our first impressions were “weird, cynical and suicidal”. And as the artist says himself: “One use only”…

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Art: Shary Boyle’s miniature sculptures

By fpp ⋅ 22-January-2007 at 11:07 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

You might call a porcelain sculpture holding its own head a bit morbid, but the work of Canadian artist “Shary Boyle” is definitely outstanding. A selection of her miniature sculptures from the last seven years is currently on display at the…

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Art: Underground artist Banksy gives away hi-res images of his work for free

By fpp ⋅ 20-January-2007 at 16:10 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

UK underground artist Banksy who created quite an uproar with his exhibition in L.A. last autumn, has put up a series of high resolution images of his work for download from “his web site”. Banksy, who’s painting are selling for above USD 100,000 lately, seems to have gotten fed up with all those selling pirated prints of his work on eBay. Looks like pirates don’t like to get pirated themselves…

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