Vivienne Westwood for Chivas Regal Bottle

Vivienne Westwood is the latest designer to lend her hand to an alcohol bottle. The legendary british designer brings her signature style and feel to this Chivas Regal 18 year scotch bottle. Westwood has brought her bottle design to life, bringing a 3 dimensional layering to the packaging

Ai Weiwei Under House Arrest in Beijing

Probably China’s most famous, and certainly most politically vocal artist, Ai Weiwei has been detained by Beijing Police in an effort to prevent and event this weekend at the artists Shanghai studio space. The event was a party in protest of the governments orders to demolish the artists studio space.
“Tensions between the artist and the Chinese government have increased steadily over the past several years. Ai presented the results of an investigation into deaths related to the 2008 earthquake in the Sichuan province in the form of a major art exhibition at the historically-weighted Haus der Kunst, Munich, in 2009. He also participated in the design of the Bird’s Nest Stadium for to the 2008 Beijing Olympics – an event he subsequently condemned as politically-manipulated by the Chinese government. The iconography of his current installation in Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall, comprised of more than one million hand-painted sunflower seeds produced in Jingdezhen, China, also addresses his nation’s political history, censorship, and problematic ideologies of labor.
According to Art Forum, Ai believes that “the decision to prevent him from attending the party was indicative of the Chinese government’s inability to tolerate dissent or debate.” Regardless of the outcome of the event itself, its prevention and the institutional and social-media dialogue surrounding it have provided a highly-visible means of engaging an international community on the role of art in censorship and the problematics of political transparency in the artist’s home country.” – Art Observed.

The Amsterdam Show by Parra

Here is a look at the works that Dutch artist Parra created for his most recent exhibition at the impressive Common Gallery in Harajuku, Tokyo. Entitled The Amsterdam Show, the works epitomise the artsist fun approach with some small sketches and some larger scale pieces compromising the installation of works that attracted a great crowd

A Canvas i painted earlier this week i call this one "the drunkin cupid"

Scott Campbell burns entire Show in Mexico

A few weeks ago we mentioned the upcoming solo show of Scott Campbell at Mexico’s Vice Gallery. We were pretty excited to see new works from the hugely popular artist, one of our favourites, but also one of the world’s most in demand contemporary artists. As expected with a Scott Campbell show, the works sold out opening night, but the show didn’t end there. Campbell had issues with the way the gallery executed and handled the show, and after seeing no genuine comeback from the owner, the NYC Tattoo come fine artist took his entire sold out show to the sidewalk and lit fire to it! A lesson to all gallery owners to show the upmost respect its artists! If Scott wasn’t held in high enough regard by us already, he’s just boosted his stock ten-fold.