Versionfest

Chicago's 4th annual Versionfest is 18 days of experimental art, guerrilla graphics, indie music, political activism, and technology, opening today, 20 April 2006, and running through 7 May 2006. For the Urban Gardening and Exterior Decorating Show, artists painted and appropriated neglected spaces around the city into "charged public spaces." Opening night features a ‘kunsthalle’ and on Thursday 27 April, 2006, the festival hosts an …

Phil Frost

For the past few months, I have had the rare opportunity to watch an artist at work in his studio while working with Phil Frost. It has really been a treat to see his process unfold. He has the most amazing focus and is always working. His studio is filled with papers, boxes, old suitcases, bits of things, feathers, wood, old cartoons and pieces of …

Fotolog.book

An offline component to the world's largest photo blogging community, Fotolog.book is 1,000 of the millions of digital images posted to Fotolog in its four year history. Edited by former New Yorker photography critic Andrew Long, the hard bound anthology ranges widely in tone, subject, and style—from artsy black and white compositions to spontaneous quotidian moments—but the photos all share a unique straight-ahead point of …