NASA Wants to Send Your Artwork into Space

NASA is currently calling for artwork submissions to be carried along on its next space explorer, the OSIRIS-REx. They’re looking for any space-lover to send through an artistic expression of how the OSIRIS-REx’s mission of exploration is reflected in their own lives. Submissions will be saved on a chip aboard the spacecraft and will ride along as the craft travels to the asteroid Bennu to …

Junior Boys: Big Black Coat

Directed by Tim Saccenti, the just-released video for Junior Boys’ “Big Black Coat” is a little lo-fi, industrial and distorted, but entirely mesmerizing. Apparently born of the Canadian duo’s love of analog and experimental film art, the video complements the song’s blend of minimal, glitchy, synth-heavy pop and singer Jeremy Greenspan’s forlorn vocals.

Kristen Morgin’s “My Best To You, Little Girl-Boy” at Anthony Meier Fine Arts

Unfired clay and found materials unite for fragile pop-art works in this SF show

With iconography, nostalgia and sentiment as entry points, a curious new exhibition known as “My Best To You, Little Girl-Boy” continues to unfurl with deeper inspection. The show—LA-based artist Kristen Morgin‘s first with SF’s Anthony Meier Fine Arts gallery—features 20 sculptural works employing trompe l’oeil and collage. References to the Hulk, Star Wars and The Hardy Boys are all present, but it’s her use of …