Eepmon recently made this new piece to contribute to an art show event on September 19th at PARCO department store in Shibuya, Tokyo.

The event is part of LOVE FOR NIPPON, an initiative in supporting the Great East Japan Earthquake recovery.

As September marks six months since the disaster, this project arose from a desire to bring happiness to people across Japan through art. More info can be found here.

This Kickstarter project Five Nights In Maine looks like it could turn into a great film. Have a look! As of this post, they’re halfway to the $40,000 goal. If it moves you, support it! Already awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, it seems well on it’s way. Good luck Maris and team.

If you like stories, go vote for this wonderful SXSW panel featuring many incredible people.  It will no doubt be a highlight of the week It’s organized by Rudy Adler of 1000memories featuring Aaron Rose, Jonathan Harris (go Jonathan go!), Starlee Kine and Casey Caplowe.

Josh Brill is at it again! Four new portraits (Giraffe, Zebra, Elephant & Rhino) in that same mid-century minimalist modernist style that Lumadessa is known for.

Who knew swear words could be so beautiful? Well, Theo Olesen did.

Above is an exclusive limited edition print of Dave White’s iconic Eagle print, taken from the critically-acclaimed Americana series (I purchased some pieces from that show, covered here and here).

The print will be released in an exclusive limited edition at an event hosted by artrepublic Soho on Thursday 28th July.

It’s also worth mentioning that a small number of these works will be hand finished in gold leaf by the artist. Gorgeous and powerful as always!

Artist Agustina Woodgate has been going into thrift stores and secretly sewing poems inside clothes. Awesome.

Via Booooooom

Artist Liu Bolin is exhibiting in NYC this week.  The opening will be tomorrow (Wednesday, June 29th) at Eli Klein Fine Art in Soho.

His photos are moving very quickly– I’m told the supermarket series (shown at top) are already sold out.

The Wall Street Journal has a story about Liu’s upcoming exhibition.

I’m happy to report that I’ll be in London to see the Takashi Murakami exhibit open at the Gagosian Gallery! It runs from June 28th through August 5th, 2011.  New work, new sculptures, new dreams manifested.

Check out this year’s installment of Matt W. Moore’s annual monochrome painting series : Micro & Macro Mandalas. The 5 prints are 12″x12″ and each is signed/numbered/shrink-wrapped and shipped flat. $115 for the set, free shipping!

These are fantastic. Whatever you do to the world you do to yourself by the Advertising Without Borders group.

Fantastic idea by Austrian artist Valentin Ruhry. It’s made up of 5,000 rocker switches you would normally see on surge protectors or power strips. As Gizmodo says, it’s like a giant light bright for adults…

It’s being shown now at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City.

Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present. It’s Dear Photograph– and it’s totally beautiful.

Do you hate having to write artist statements (or find reading them to be funny sometimes)? This is awesome.

Each month Etsy features a new designer who they let takeover their Twitter background with an original design. They then do a Q&A with the artist and make the design available as a free desktop and mobile download. This month they are featuring beach ball typography by Aubrey Stalnaker.

With 1.3 Million Twitter followers, this could really move the needle for an up and coming artist!