Art Basel Hong Kong: East

Highlights from the Asian component of the recent fair

After six years of galleries, artists and buyers surging upon Hong Kong’s ART HK festival, Art Basel has taken the reigns to build upon Asia’s creative boom, bring the local market global and take global audiences local. With 50% of the fair required to showcase works represented by galleries in Asia and Asia-Pacific, the East had an opportunity to demonstrate their style and technique to …

Interview: Jonathan Harris

An interactive online experience documents the daily lives of the women who make lesbian porn

We first spoke with artist Jonathan Harris six years ago and gained some insight into his process and work at the time. Since, Harris has continued to create extremely involved and engaging work, exploring the human condition through a technological lens, often expressed in complex interactive online experiences. From tracking how people are feeling across the world wide web to documenting a whale hunt in …

Granny Squared at CAFAM

Knitting street artists transform the façade of a downtown LA museum with globally sourced crocheted squares

The giant office buildings and imposing Los Angeles County Museum of Art dotting LA’s extensive Wilshire Boulevard make the quaint Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) look like a little dollhouse. This architectural quality inspired the guerrilla knitting group Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) to create Granny Squared, a worldwide project devoted to crocheting colorful squares that, when stitched together, would cover the entire façade …