Reader Finds

Starting today, you'll notice a new little tab in the nav bar above. Reader Finds enables readers to post their own favorite discoveries on CH. To make it happen, we've teamed up with our friends over at ThisNext, so if you don't have an account already you'll need to go here to create one. Every "recommendation" you make on ThisNext tagged with "Cool Hunting" will …

Jane McKay

Australian artist Jane McKay creates swirling artworks that convey a sense of unrest and visual chaos as the colours clash in magnificently elaborate patterns. Her paintings are "abstractions of the landscape in which the land is portrayed as place and life essence…responses to the vast open spaces of the natural environment which reveal existential themes. The distant horizon line conveys the great expanse of the …

Freedm Sidewalk Galleries

Taking art literally to the streets, Dr. Martens' Freedm Sidewalk Galleries are curated art shows exhibited billboard-style on the sides of buildings in New York and San Francisco. Now in its second installation series, each street side "gallery" showcases one of the five emerging artists chosen by either artist Shepard Fairey or Surface magazine brand director Riley Johndonnell. The current crop selected by Fairey are …