Alfred Steiner’s “Likelihood of Confusion” Exhibition

Iconic logos reconstructed through found imagery at Joshua Liner Gallery

There’s something uncanny about Alfred Steiner‘s latest exhibition “Likelihood of Confusion,” now on display at NYC’s Joshua Liner Gallery. There’s an element of deep recognition and familiarity to each work, but an exploration within reveals numerous components that add further dimensions and question the piece as a whole. Steiner had a view in mind to tackle the pervasiveness of media and advertising. And he did …

2014 OUTDOOR Urban Art Festival in Rome

15 artists from six different countries come together for NUfactory's ephemeral celebration of street art

At the recent private preview of the OUTDOOR Urban Art Festival in Rome, we were approached by two men in their 60s while we stood outside of the massive gates of an abandoned house in San Lorenzo. While uninvited, they were welcomed by curator Francesco Dobrovich, and we embarked on a tour together in which the men expressed an incredible knowledge of the Roman street …

Los Grumildos: Self-Moving Sex Puppets by Ety Fefer

A bizarre yet charming NSFW exhibition of explicit automatons

Down a dark set of stairs, just off the NYC Museum of Sex‘s main lobby, a new temporary exhibition from Peruvian artist and puppet-maker Ety Fefer transports guests into otherworldliness. “Los Grumildos” succinctly blends inspiration from Lima’s old world red light district and the mythic imagination of Fefer. Her handmade automaton puppets oscillate and gyrate, in a perverse manner, as each figure represents something both …