Though he probably wouldn’t admit it, it’s in his nature to push buttons; it must be. Or maybe he is just excited by the provocative and shocking world we live in? We are talking about Milan-based artist Andrea Maestri, whose most recent collection, MAESTRILAND, pokes fun at religion, racism, stereotypes, and iconography. If you’re dining room needs …

Last Saturday Sebastian Errazuriz’ holy wine “Christian Popsicles” were  served at the opening of the Love it or Leave it show at R’Pure Gallery in New York. The popsicles’ wood sticks are ingaved with laser and will be frozen with red wine to be distributed as a refreshment to the gallery attendants. According to Errazuriz the popsicles have been …

united colors of benetton has just unveiled its new ‘unhate’ advertising campaign in a handful,of cities, featuring manipulated images that show unlikely pairings of international religious and political leaders kissing one another. The ad campaign supports the company’s ‘unhate foundation‘ think tank and arts research center, designed to organize events and promote acts of intervention towards a more …

Last week I was reading a magazine and was very touched by this article about a design duo :mentalKLINIK. :mentalKLINIK is an artist duo from Istanbul. Yasemin Baydar (*1972) and Birol Demir (*1967) established their own space in 2000 in İstanbul to present their artistic and theoretical approach. mentalKLINIK regularly runs exhibitions and exhibition models …

Pretty scary editorial in Papercut Magazine: The witching hour. Shot by Christopher Hench PAPERCUT MAGAZINE Website VIA

A few weeks ago there was a documentary about contemporary artist Sarah Maple on Dutch television. Sarah Maple is a pretty amazing person, her work is funny, sharp, feminim and a little controversial. I was very impressed by her courage and light ways to approach heavy subjects. So for the people who don’t know yet …

As a trend-professional I am continiously looking for appealing images of cultural and social changes. When I saw this work from New York based artist Kevin Bourgeois (what’s in a name?)on Trendland.com my hart made a little jump! He combines photorealism, illustration, and Pop symbolism that results in a fragmentation of surface and reality, Kevin creates …

                I Just love this lookbook from Dimepiece, the styling is amazing, simple, rebelish and very contemporary! Here ‘the story behind the story’. This is a world of polarity. Light and dark, maturity and innocence, pleasure and pain. With that concept at hand, designer’s Ashley Jones and Laura …

Here in the Netherlands we have a satiric televisionshow called Koefnoen which makes funny sketches about recent developments in the news. This weekend they imitated the Pope that had some sharp en funny moments I would really like to share with you! The first few seconds of the movie are in Dutch but most of …