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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Piece' (6)

4,800 Puzzle Pieces Table



What could have possibly driven 27-year-old Rupert McKelvie to spend hundreds of painstaking hours to assemble 4,800 puzzle pieces into this fully functional table?



"I was all too aware of the frustration of nearing the end and realizing there were ‘missing pieces,’" explains McKelvie. "It became something that would never see completion. Left to gather dust in the attic, amongst all… Continue

Added by Belly B on June 26, 2011 at 9:12am — 2 Comments

Most Expensive Piece of American Comic Art Ever Sold



Guess what you're looking at? Ok, so the title gave it away. This is the single most valuable piece of American comic art ever to sell. The original art from Page 10, issue #3 of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (DC, 1986) was recently brought for $448,125 as part of Heritage Auctions’ May 5 Vintage Comics and Comic Art Auction.



“Frank Miller's… Continue

Added by alice on May 9, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Behind Audrey Kawasaki's Suggestive New Piece (8 pics)



Our all-time favorite contemporary artist Audrey Kawasaki has created yet another amazing piece, this time for a group exhibit called "Suggestivism" that's going on now. Located at Cal State University's cutting-edge museum arm, Grand Central Art Center, the exhibition is curated by writer and artist Nathan Spoor. The show explores and documents contemporary artists in the modern art… Continue

Added by alice on February 10, 2011 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

New Street Art is Commentary on Banksy's Popularity

Street artist ABOVE personally wrote to us to tell us about his most recent stencil in Paris. He created it because he found it to be "an interesting topic about Banksy and the thievery of street art works." To fully understand the piece, read his personal story, below.



"Last year I was traveling for 3-months around Europe and spent 2 weeks in Paris. One… Continue

Added by alice on September 23, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Ana Bagayan's Charming New Pieces (2 total)



Artist Ana Bagayan has just released two new prints that will be available at her upcoming show at Mondo Bizzarro Gallery. The one shown above is called Flutter and the one below is called Tick Tock Clock. For those of us who can't make it, Ana's making a select number of the…

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Added by alice on April 28, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Awesome Collaborative Piece - Baby Tattooville Art Jam 2009

A spectacular event called Baby Tattooville took place last month. At this year's event, some of today's best modern pop artists participated in "Art Jam", a collaborative piece on a 4x5 foot canvas. Artists used different mediums like brushes and acrylics, and had 24 hours of to… Continue

Added by Eugene on November 22, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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