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Unity Peg's unconventional graphics of conventional domestic products printed on tea towels and tablecloths are an easy way to liven up kitchens with modern graphic flair. The brainchild of an Australian husband-and-wife duo, their goal with Unity Peg it to explore visual ideas and carry them out on textiles, making the mundane household item modern and relevant again. Beginning with the "Wash Up" series, furniture...

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In an abandoned apartment in the south of the city, Roger Hiorns turned the idea of sculpture inside out, covering the walls of a room with copper sulphate solution which, after a few weeks, transformed into bright blue copper sulphate crystals. Whether there's any political message in covering a room in crystals in Elephant and Castle, certainly one of London's less affluent neighborhoods, has been...

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Florida-based artist, Andy Espinoza, studies at the Ringling College of Art and Design, majoring in Illustration. His paintings are beautifully conceptualized, rich in narrative and technically impressive. Of his work, he says, "I see each human figure as a unique challenge. I am coaxed to find the unique relationship between the shapes and tones that give the particular subject its subtle appeal and unrepeatable vitality....

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Currently on view at Lehmann Maupin in New York, Japanese artist and Kaikai Kiki collaborator Mr. is presenting his first foray into film with Nobody Dies, a 35 minute short about a group of adolescent Japanese girls who partake in a paintball riddled war game of capture-the-flag. Carefully toeing the line between perversion and commentary, the film is a continuation of the artist's investigation...

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For the inner composer in you, Sonoma Wire Works created a new iPhone application that allows you to record music anywhere. The process is as easy as sliding the record button to the right, belting out lyrics and hitting the stop button. With its clever interface, the four-track recorder allows you to execute a full harmony by recording one track while listening to the other...

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by Russ LoweEmerging from a veritable seedbed of interesting architectural endeavors, one of Portland's latest and most compelling building projects is as much a study in anatomy as it is in design. A community-focused and environmentally conscious new development, Clinton Condominiums unites spectacular design with ergonomic construction. The sophomore release from celebrated mixed-use developer Randy Rapaport takes its name from one of the Southeast quadrant's...

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A biennial of a slightly different sort, Electrohype is an exhibition of computer-based art featuring 10 artists from six countries. The fifth such exhibit in a decade, this year's theme touches upon the rhythmic aesthetic of machines working toward a singular purpose. There promises a lot of whirring, buzzing with lights flashing in a way that seeks to challenge how we perceive time and...

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Sol LeWitt's final triumph opened today at the MASS MoCA. Conceived by the artist before his death last year, he developed the idea with the Yale University Art Gallery, and then partnered with the MASS MOCA and the Williams College Museum of Art to create it. The 27,000 sq foot installation of his Wall Drawings comfortably lives on three floors in the newly renovated...

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Tomorrow multi-talented Hungarian-American artist Rita Ackermann celebrates the release of "Under Pressure from 2006 - 2007," a new collection of her collages and installation work. With an extensive curriculum of projects and exhibitions (if you've been to the NYC bar Max Fish, you've seen some of her work in the stained-glass windows), the book itself is a forty-page, full-color, over-sized publication of her mixed media...

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In L.A. this weekend artist and professional skateboarder Ed Templeton will be signing his new book, "Deformer." Filled with over thirty years worth of material, Templeton has been working on the book for the past eleven years and will present it in conjunction with his exhibition, Map of the Inner War. A scrapbook of his California upbringing in suburban Orange County, this beautifully-designed volume...

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