Posts categorized: Art

They say that switching up your normal routine is a great way to meet guys. You know, go somewhere different for happy hour or take up a new hobby. Well, Miami does the work for you every year during the first week of December when Art Basel Miami Beach washes ashore an international import of men you’ve never met before. While I, for one, have sworn off long distance love affairs (at least until the next really tempting one comes […]

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For East London artist RYCA, you could say all the world is his toy chest. Drawing inspiration from Pop Art and London’s street and stencil art movement, he’s managed to create a playful, light-hearted world revolving around a few of his favorite things, comic books, sci-fi movies and most importantly, Star Wars. Embracing the Digital Age’s devaluation of original works due to the easily reproduced and proliferated nature of imagery on the Internet, RYCA’s work riffs on iconic pop culture images, […]

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Inside Robert Fontaine Gallery’s pristine white showroom in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, ballerinas are twirling and leaping around the walls. Their diaphanous tutus are saturated with color splashing like splattered paint and dripping from their bodies. They’re dressed in red, yellow, purple, blue, black, and pink. Their skeletons are sometimes exposed, like an x-ray, offering a peek at the fine-tuning and muscular mechanics behind their fluid motion. These are the works of Australian street artist Anthony Lister, a man who […]

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Studying one of Nick Gentry’s portraits, a pair of steely eyes look back at you with a stoic, unsmiling, sometimes stunned, expression. The face is decidedly beautiful–almost too beautiful–with perfect proportions and symmetry, hair smooth and sleek, often slicked away from the face to further show off large, luscious lips, an attractive jawline, a delicate collarbone. The London-based artist paints these large scale portraits onto a canvas of used floppy disks. His newest works are light box portraits composed of […]

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After New Years Eve, birthdays are my favorite holidays to celebrate. For mine last weekend, I decided to live out a long held fantasy of residing in a luxe hotel in New York City’s Meatpacking District, more specifically The Standard High Line. I’ve had a fascination with that hotel ever since it was erected straddling the newly minted High Line. Both developments seemed to have breathed new life into the neighborhood that I’d made so many memories in back when I […]

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There’s a lot of fun to be had in Sin City–gambling, partying, shopping, dining. And, of course, you’ve got to see a show. Cirque du Soleil’s The Beatles Love at the Mirage is a high-flying, theatrical interpretation of The Beatles’ music through acrobatics and dance. The soundtrack draws from archival master tapes from Abbey Road Studios and anyone who loves The Beatles music will fall in love with this whimsical, romantic production. From “Get Back” to “Hey Jude” and “Blackbird” to “Yesterday,” you’ll […]

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Get lost in the surreal, Modernist world of Antoni Gaudí during your visit to Barcelona. The city is filled with his structures, from Casa Battló in the Eixample to his unfinished masterpiece the Sagrada Familia Cathedral. Tour all of these before you visit Parc Güell as a primer to get inside of Gaudí’s head. His unique blend of Gothic and Art Nouveau architecture, along with forms and colors inspired by nature have a sort of psychedelic funhouse effect that will […]

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