The Glass Photo-Sharing App Eschews Advertising for Community

Co-founder Tom Watson explains how this image-sharing platform differs from others

For years, social media platforms have become increasingly centered around algorithms, advertisements and distracting features rather than the celebration and enjoyment of content in its purest form. This is not the case on Glass. Launched in August of this year, Glass is a subscription-based photo-sharing app—co-founded by Tom Watson and Stefan Borsje—where amateur and expert photographers can share and explore images as part of a …

Interview: Surrealist Tattoo Artist, Kozo

Currently working in NYC, this creative started experimenting in his field at 17 years old

Some of the most moving artworks throughout history confound the mind, and the same is true of tattoos. Eden Kozokaro—best known as Kozo—is a surrealist tattoo maker who has taken to creating his meticulously detailed work on the canvas that is the human body since he was 17 years old. Now, seven years later, Kozo comes to NYC by way of Israel, where he learned …

“The Art of Play: A Retrospective of William Accorsi” in The Catskills Urban Cowboy Lodge

Whimsical works and inclusive erotica from the folk artist at an exhibition during Upstate Art Weekend

A few weeks before the Upstate Art Weekend opening of William Accorsi‘s retrospective at Urban Cowboy‘s Lodge in the Catskills, the imaginative 90-year-old folk artist died. Leading up to the powerful, playful exhibition, Accorsi spent time developing new pieces and plotting his future. Accorsi knew that death wasn’t far, and yet his empowered vision was to continue crafting sculptures, complete an autobiography and reconnect with some …