Here’s some good news for anyone living in, or visiting, Tokyo, Japan between the dates of July 1st to 18th, 2011: Zac Pac Toys & Collectibles will be hosting Ron English’s first Japanese art show, entitled Popaganda in Japan. If you’ve ever been to one of Ron’s exhibits you know to expect something really far out and fantastic.
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This very cute Pig Matryoshka set would make great gift for anyone who collects pigs or who just likes the color pink!
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Own a set for just $15.95 (sadly, this item is no longer available)
Image Courtesy of Ravensburger AG
If you’re looking for an activity to truly get lost in while house-bound during the next east coast snow dump, how about this world-record-setting jigsaw puzzle from puzzle and games manufacturer Ravensburger? Of course, you’d have to first make sure you had a room with enough floor space to work with the puzzle, titled Keith Haring: Double Retrospect, which has a finished size of 17 feet by 6 feet and is comprised of 32,256 individual pieces!
Continue reading 32 Keith Haring Paintings Make Up World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle!
LEGO Brick artist extraordinaire, Nathan Sawaya made this life size statue of late night talk show host Conan O’Brien for an unnamed commission. I think it is pretty awesome!
NYC’s Boo-Hooray Gallery announces the first retrospective gallery exhibition by subversive toy-making geniuses, SUCKADELIC. Intentionally confusing, misleading, disappointing and really funny, SUCKADELIC’s limited edition parodies of action figures reverberate with a vicious wit and are oddly eyeball-pleasing in the manner of all kinds of toothsome 20th/21st century collage and montage art. The toys and their aggressively situationist piss-take packaging comment on pop culture commodification and the consumer habits of compulsively shopping kidults: The very process that made KAWS, Takashi Murakami and Michael Lau art-stars on the Art Basel Miami/Armory Show/Venice Biennale tip.
Continue reading The Suckadelic Art Toy Universe: Retrospective and Pop Up Store