Psychedelic bicycle painter, interior decorator and performance artist Kenny Scharf has a slew of sculptural ceramic smoking devices on sale at Cerealart. The Philadelphia gallery, which specializes in selling artist’s multiples, is offering the “Object to Enjoy” bong in orange, purple and green editions for between $350 and $450. Additionally, an edition of 25 water pipes, hand-painted by Scharf, is on sale for $6,500 each. |High Snobiety|
Combining two of life’s greatest joys, bicycling and art, Lance Armstrong’s Stages exhibition opened at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in Paris last week. On view through August 8th, the benefit show for the Lance Armstrong Foundation features commissioned work from the “world’s most accomplished and promising international artists.” The selection of 16 artists, all but two of them male, was tasked with creating new work with some type of cancerous connection. Read more »
Two-wheeling sculptors, photo-shooting messengers, and velocentric painters are among the many bicycle inspired artists converging in downtown Manhattan for the Joyride art show tonight. The exhibition, part of the Bicycle Film Festival, takes place across multiple venues between Houston and Broome Street, a move that festival founder Brendt Barbur hopes will lead people to literally joyride among the various installations, performances, and parties in the neighborhood. ANIMAL got a sneak peek of the show while it was still under construction, so preview the work after the jump before you go see it tonight. Read more »
Famed bicycle painter and psychedelic performance artist Kenny Scharf lures a New York Times reporter into his Bushwick basement which he’s turned into a Cosmic Cavern: the walls and ceiling are covered in Day-Glo-painted junk and illuminated with black lights. “If your appliance breaks down or wears out, it’s still useful because it remains … art.” |NYT|
While you’ll never be able to ride like Lance Armstrong, you can at least look like him. That is if you win an auction for the artist designed two-wheelers being raced by the cool guy cyclist in the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France. In addition to the bikes styled by Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf there is a forthcoming design by hype artist Damien Hirst. While we’d love to see Lance’s new ride incorporate chopped up animals and handfuls of diamonds, there’s a strong possibility it will simply be another iteration of Hirst’s spin art.
Over the weekend, tastemaking cyclist Lance Armstrong twittered photos of his new bike, a Trek Madone styled by legally embattled artist Shepard Fairey. Armstrong will ride the frame in the upcoming Giro d’Italia, which begins this Saturday in Venice. Click the images above for details of Fairey’s paint job that we assume is original.
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