Brought to you by boom-art, an “art gallery dedicated to skateboarding” (no, not that skate art gallery), this deck recreates in color a 1967 black-and-white illustration by Mad Magazine founding cartoonist Wally Wood, published by Merry Prankster Paul Krassner. For $340, you get two hand-screened decks chock full of your childhood favorites doing the dirty in an illustrated wooden box. Limited edition, so get them while they’re hot.
The amount of street art in Shoreditch is palpable. It's all over, creating an almost Disney-like atmosphere as tourists of all ages walk the streets with their smart phones in hand, snapping photos, even if they have no idea who exactly they're shooting. A lot of the work continually going…
The latest offering from skate/art gallery boom-art puts Renaissance painter Heironymous Bosch's notoriously trippy and nudity-filled Garden of Earthly Delights rendered across three skate decks. Though the original is also a triptych, the skate version appears to only feature its middle panel (the most trippy and nudity-filled one, natch). Incidentally, the…
The cartoon-inspired work of the young and nationally recognized Austrian street artist NYCHOS is the subject of a recently opened solo exhibition at Brooklyn's own Mighty Tanaka art gallery. The show, titled 'Silly Slicesophy' features a selection from the artist's latest body of work–– in which he focuses mainly on depicting some…
