Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  On day 7, Banksy painted swimming piranhas on a phone box in the City of London Police “sentry” box as part of the Banksy’s London Street Zoo. He mentioned something about uplifting the people, and I do feel, in my heart of hearts, that swimming piranhas might be slightly on the…

Source Design You Trust  Vitaly Medved, an artist from Slavutich, Ukraine, creates art based on his own preferences and skills. Several years ago, his daughter gifted him a sketchbook with black cardboard sheets and a white gel pen, sparking his interest in this drawing style. Later, he experimented with colored paper, combining orange paper with…

Source Design You Trust  1st Place Winner: Flower Portraits by Tim Platt The 2024 Fine Art Photography Awards celebrate breathtaking nature photography from around the world, showcasing awe-inspiring landscapes, intimate wildlife moments, and striking natural phenomena, with entries for the 11th Edition contest open until October 13th, 2024. More: Fine Art Photography Awards, Instagram 2nd…

Source Design You Trust  Anastasia Malinovskaya In early June 2024, activists in Ulyanovsk, a historically significant Russian city on the Volga River known for being the birthplace of Lenin and its role in Russian history, raised alarms about the Marishkin spring, a cherished natural site that had deteriorated into a swamp due to illegal dumping.…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Maybe it was just right in front of us the whole time. Banksy, and Day 6 of the “Banksy’s London Street Zoo” series, has painted a cat on an unused billboard, in Cricklewood in north-west London. It is also reported he told the Guardian that he is,…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Around 1615, Flemish artist Clara Peeters painted Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels. It’s quite a striking work, albeit quite conventional even in its beauty. There is cheese, almonds, pretzels, curls of butter, figs and a bread roll; pretty standard still-life luxury of the era. Peeters was…

Source Colossal   “Shallow Gardens of Apo Reef” (1986), oil, acrylic, mirrors, plastic buttons, cotton yarn, rhinestones on stitched and padded canvas, 132 x 137 1/2 inches. All images courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery, shared with permission After a traumatic childhood moment in which she nearly drowned, Pacita Abad (1946-2004) developed a profound fear of water.…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Remember the counting? That got debugged. Remember the Brothers Grimm metaphor. Still in play? Who knows! For Day 5 of “Banksy’s Lonodn Street Zoo” for which we have titled it, we get two stenciled pelicans atop a fish and chip shop on the corner of Pretoria Avenue and…