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Os Gemeos: Vertigo

São Paulo street art heroes, Os Gemeos—known for mesmerizing the international art scene with their colorful characters and experimental style—marked a homecoming with their long overdue solo show at the city's highly revered fine arts school, ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  9 Nov 2009

Antarctica Sub Zero Pop-Up Bar and Restaurant

As São Paulo's humid summer approaches, just in time to help cool things down an unusual pop-up restaurant/bar called Estação Antarctica Sub Zero opens this weekend in the bar-heavy neighborhood of Vila Madalena. Conceived to promote the Brazilian ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  6 Nov 2009

WK Interact: How to Blow Yourself Up

No stranger to controversy, WK Interact keeps upping his ante. For his newest show "" at L.A.'s Subliminal Projects, the artist moves away from spray paint into multimedia work. Playing on ideas of the apocalypse (2012 being the most recent ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  4 Nov 2009

Garbage Pin Project

The traveling exhibit, , aims to bring environmental awareness and an artistic aspect to the old adage that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Currently on its Los Angeles stop at Touch, the Garbage Pin Project is one of the biggest group shows ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  3 Nov 2009

Type as Object Exhibit and Pop Up Shop

Indubitable masters of font and design House Industries has long taken their art not only beyond simple curves but out of 2-D confines, coaxing them to jump off the page and into beautifully tangible objects. In the Type as Object show opening today at ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  20 Oct 2009

Four Female Olympic Hopefuls

With the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver just a little over four months out, Nike brought a group of journalists last week to the gleaming Canadian city to check out their female athletes' intensive training as they prep for possible Olympic stardom. ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nike,  Joan Benoit Samuelson,  Julia Mancuso

Three Apples: An Exhibition Celebrating 35 Years of Hello Kitty

The world's most iconic feline, Hello Kitty, has lived way beyond her nine lives—she currently 35, in fact. To celebrate this all-important birthday marking her mid-thirties with no crisis in sight, Sanrio's extravaganza revolves around opening at ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  13 Oct 2009

Base-V: Box 3 Art Prints

Kicking any hint of soccer rivalry far aside, Sao Paulo's Base-V art collective got together with their compatriots south of the border to release a super-limited-edition set of 25 color prints showcasing São Paulo and Buenos Aires artists. Called "Box ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  2 Oct 2009

Skram Wood Drop 14 Stool

It's a hunk of tree. Look closer. It's still a hunk of tree, but that's the point. The Wood Drop 14 stool by North Carolina-based Skram basks in all its imperfect glory, its naturally occurring cracks and flaws turned into valuable assets simply ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company

RojoOut Urban Stage São Paulo

After São Paulo city officials ordered graffiti cleanup crews to leave work by Os Gemeos and other famous São Paulo street artists alone, art collective and magazine Rojo asked the city's Urban Development Department to allow them to tap artists like ...

From PHUONG-CAC NGUYEN, Cool Hunting,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Tofer,  Nuria,  Eltono

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