How's about getting an original Christmas gift for your loved ones this year? Supporting this event, you will not only be able to buy original pieces by great artists by bidding on them but you will be making sure the gallery cat will live happily ever after :)

Sainte Machine, graphic arts collective from Bordeaux, invites us to the newest addition in the city's cultural landscape - their redesign of the local theatre foyer and bar...

Flying to the United States is a massive stress. It can make you paranoid and nervous and only in the air does Uncle Sam place emphasis on safety before customer service.

...and so is the sun.

Modart is learning all about Miami Vice. Bit hungover after seeing Iggy Pop play at the beach last night, followed pure hedonistic delight sponsored by the Deitch Galleries … so, we’re hungover and will shut up.

Ruedione is here with us in miami. As the artist photography he is, we feel that his pictures can do the talking em self...

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Some more samples from miami...nice one Ruedi!

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..and one with some smashing content.

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Opening today at the Mr Ego shop in Brussels: an exhibition of original artistic christmas gifts by young artists from Brussels... Sounds promising!

Now here's an interesting concept. Three artists combine their forces and find a place in the heart of Shoreditch, London, where they can work and expose simultaneously for a month! They ask 25 creative friends to come hang out with them and have fun during a three week residency, developing the works as they go...

Early Griffin Prints are back again with a new round of printed beauty. I love in each series how the styles of the participating artists work so well with one another yet are each unique. The new talents include Holly Wales, Neasden Control Centre and Robert Hanson. The prices are more than reasonable and as always a percentage of the sales goes to charity.

The Road was calling and Above and I (Ripo) had to answer. "The Road" involves visiting and painting in nearly 18 countries from Brasil all the way up to Mexico over a period of roughly 6 months. Check out the photos and stories from one hell of a wild ride...

"The flowers in this garden were planted by my grandparents" is Brazilian twin brothers Os Gemeos' first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. Otavio and Gustavo are best known for their huge murals on the streets, but this exhibition shows a threedimensional installation in which all the pieces of their fascinating art puzzle fall together...

"Behind the Seen" could have easily been called "You Don't Know Me!" as a large group of well known street artists were called upon to show work they weren't known for at the Ad Hoc Gallery in NYC. The results included photography, watercolors, oil paintings, sculpture, drawings, found objects, and certainly shoved it down the throats of anybody with the balls to say street artists don't know jack about anything but bubble characters and paste ups.

Plenty of good things are going on in Brussels (Belgium) for the christmas period - there's not only an exhibition of graffiti godfather Sozyone Gonzalez running at Alice Gallery, but at the same time, Parisian collective "Arrache-toi un œil" ("Tear your eye out") are showing at Plin Tub', who also present their second "Zeke Bazaar" magazine...