Mash SF Clothing Release

Mash SF who we all know to well as the legendary track bike lifestyle group have one of the most impressive logo’s around, designed by Benny Gold it is always good to see a release surface. Mash SF continue to take their clothing to the next level, especially with their previous drop and here is the second release from there Spring/Summer collection which includes a zip-up hood featuring a thermal lining and black foil transfer watermark, a run of bleach colored tees and the highlight a Chuey x Mash cycling cap which is very impressive. Check them out below and get them from the Mash SF online store.

Utah guy - this one is for you.

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Portishead Return

On the 23rd of April,  Portishead return with their third album, Third.  The first single from this album is called Machine Gun.  

Museum Of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Hosts ‘Building Pictures’

 

In April 2008 the MoCP opens Building Pictures, a group exhibition that explores  connections between architecture and photography, from methods of spatial representation to the relationships between the real and virtual worlds in each discipline. It examines the responses of artists to the ideals of modern design, and explores the connections between the immersive natures of both photography and architecture and the networks of spatial relationships on which they depend. Topics addressed include architecture as idealized space, the idea of progress, and the perceived failure of the utopian ideals of modernism.  On view 4 April - 31 May, 2008.

MoCP

Christies Sells Buddha Sculpture For $14.3 Million

A newly discovered wooden sculpture of a Buddha that had religious objects sealed in its torso for 800 years sold for $14.3 million, setting a world record for any Japanese work of art, Christie’s auction house said. The seated figure of Dainichi Nyorai, or the supreme Buddha, is attributed to Unkei, considered one of the two best sculptors of the early Kamakura period in the 1190s, when the most highly regarded Buddhist art was produced.

Marlborough Fine Art To Exhibit Zhang Qikai

Marlborough Fine Art will host the first UK exhibition of paintings by celebrated Chinese artist, Zhang Qikai.  It will comprise twenty recent works, many using the image of the Panda, paintings for which he has been highly praised.  The panda also suggests the desire to escape, such as driving away in a car or clinging to the stem of a rose.  There is always a bid for freedom in these dream-like paintings but there is always a sense that we are held back by the constraints of reality. Private View: 28^th May 2008. Exhibition: 29th May – 21^st June 2008.  

Vale Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008

Arthur C. Clarke has died at his Sri Lankan home, aged 90.

Clarke is best known as the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but his reach stretched beyond Science Fiction. In 1945 he accurately predicted the use of Satellites as a communications tool, and later joined Walter Cronkite in covering the Apollo space launches.

Clarke was knighted in 2000 and the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter was named in his honor.

Clarke’s Wikipedia entry can be read here 

Via:AP

Alex Hornest

 

Brazilian artist Alex Hornest, or Ornesto as he’s otherwise known by his street name, is a different kind of artist than the others I’ve been sharing with you lately. A rooted legend in this country’s street art scene, Ornesto’s just released a book of drawings with another street artist, called 100COTIDIANO . Rojo Magazine is dedicating its art space in Sao Paulo to his work starting tomorrow at the Livraria Pop store in a show called That Isn’t Easily Found, which will show Ornesto flexing his artistic muscle on found materials, from sculpture to paint works. I’ve always liked his drawings, but will find his mixed-media stuff equally as thrilling if it all looks like what you see in the photo. The theme of this show revolves around his heroic task of sorts: to save and remind the public about basic human values such as sincerity, generosity and friendship. Simple, but we need someone to put them in our face once in a while. The show runs through April 19th.

Via:JoshSpear