Swoon

A new book explores street artist Caledonia Curry's floating installations and intricate paper cut-outs

“Swoon,” the new eponymous book by the artist (aka Caledonia Curry and one of the best known female street artists in the world), finally came out this month. Tracing her process and showing some of her installations in galleries and streets around the world, as well as her larger scale community projects, including the street art collective Toyshop, the monograph includes essays by Curry herself, …

The Sion District, Belo Horizonte

Caipirinha chocolates and toast coasters in our guide to Brazil's hidden city

The focus on Brazil’s tourist meccas of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salvador makes Belo Horizonte—the country’s third largest city and where I stayed on my recent visit to art park Inhotim—all the more appealing. Full of hidden gems, the city’s a worthy stopover when traveling to Brazil, exemplifying another angle of the famous Brazilian hospitality. The Sion neighborhood stands out as one of …

Stuff

An authoritarian puppet monster poses for artist Mathew Cerletty's latest portrait

The career trajectory of Milwaukee, WI-born artist Mathew Cerletty is a curious one. In the early 2000s, the Boston University graduate made a precocious impact on critics and curators with a technical skill lending his surreal figurative paintings and drawings an unnerving air of realism. More recent work however, since his move to New York City in 2003, uses logos and text as a springboard …