Third Drawer Down Limited Edition Dish Towels

Bringing art and style into the everyday doesn't have to be out of reach or precious. Companies like Ikea and Target are helping drive that point home. Third Drawer Down, an Australian company, makes limited edition dish towels, aprons, napkins and runners using silkscreens and embroidery. Abigail Compton has taken work by artists/designers including Royal Art Lodge from Canada, Tobias Rottger from Germany, Frederique Daubal …

Needled: Skin Is a Language

Needled visits the Whitney's exhibit that takes skin—metaphorically, literally, and otherwise—as its curatorial premise. Skin Is a Language includes works by some heavy-hitters from the Whitney’s permanent collection such as Catherine Opie, Ellen Gallagher, Félix González-Torres, Eva Hesse, Roni Horn, and Jasper Johns, and the pieces included in the show all touch on the ideas that help inform the significance of skin as a canvas.

Leo Villareal’s LED Light Tubes

Remember the LED tubes we saw at CES and showed you in this CH Video? Leo Villareal, our favorite light sculptor, has taken them and applied his sometimes soothing, other times frenetic animation style. The video below is of Columns 4 (4) (2005, light emitting diodes, microcontroller, plexiglas tubes, circuit board, 42 x 72 inches, edition: 3) a new piece featured by Connor Contrmporary Art …