Buy What You Love

A collaborative visual arts fundraiser, Buy What You Love supplies over 200 artists from around the world with the materials to create an original work over the course of one day. Limited to 8.5 x 11 inches in size, each of the works will exhibit at NYC's Jack Shainman Gallery and then sold with proceeds supporting the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Joining the cause is …

Projections Film Festival

by Ariston Anderson Director and curator Aaron Rose's five-week film series, "Projections," brings some of the more obscure and rarely-screened gems of the silver screen to L.A.'s Roberts & Tilton Gallery starting this weekend. Like his renowned Beautiful Losers exhibit and documentary, the fest's setting lends white-wall cred to the often ghettoized micro-length format. As Rose explains, "Some of the most inspiring films I’ve ever …

Steffen Dam: Specimen Panel

by Julie Wolfson The glowing Specimen Panel series created by Danish toolmaker Steffen Dam evokes a feeling of mystery with glass structures housing gorgeously creepy floating ocean creatures, plant life and magnified cells. Drawing on inspirations from geology, astronomy and mechanical constructions, Dam claims that he's not "a true scholar." Tending to forget the actual facts, Dam visualizes the images from memory, transforming them into …