Yoshitomo Nara Statues in New York City

In conjunction with his exhibition at the Asia Society, artist Yoshitomo Nara gifted the street of New York City with a pair of 12-foot-high fiberglass dogs, who will remain in place until the beginning of 2011. The sculptures can be found in the Upper East Side – one across from the Asia Society’s entrance, the other in front of the Park Avenue Armory.The second image is Yoshitomo Nara, Maquette of White Ghost. (2010) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery.

Artist's gallery - http://www.stephenfriedman.com/#/artists/yoshitomo-nara/artwork

Artist: Carl Warner - Foodscapes

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A peapod boat sails away from a land made of bread and potatoes, over a sea of salmon

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Coralscape: an underwater scene with coral made of broccoli, tropical fish made of various fruits and vegetables, and a pineapple island

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Autumn Flakes: an autumnal landscape made enirely out of breakfast cereals

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Bread and cheese: an edible landscape

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Parmesan cliffs with sweet potato boulders and cress and savoy cabbage foliage under a red cabbage sky

Picture: CARL WARNER

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He spends a lot of time staring at vegetables in supermarkets, which can make him seem a little odd. However, finding the right shaped broccoli to use for a tree is an all-important task

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Fishscape: with rocks made of oyster shells and crab claws, boats made of marrows and asparagus, and a shining, slivery, slippery sea of fish

Picture: CARL WARNER

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A landscape pr0duced for Sacla

Picture: CARL WARNER

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Garlicshire: a village for lovers of garlic and cabbage

Picture: CARL WARNER

Artist: Feng Zhengjie - Happy Couples

ROMANTIC TRIP NO.16

By Feng Zhengjie

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 109.5 by 109.5cm.; 42 3/4 by 42 3/4 in.

Medium: oil on canvas

ROMANTIC TRIP NO.10

By Feng Zhengjie

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 80x100 cm

Medium: Oil on canvas

Creation Date: 1997

ROMANTIC TRIP NO.13

By Feng Zhengjie

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 150 by 110cm. (alt: 59 by 43 3/8 in.)

Medium: oil on canvas

BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM

By Feng Zhengjie

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 100×80cm

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Creation Date: 1997

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/feng_zhengjie.htm

Artist: Feng Zhengjie

LE PAPILLON AMOUREUX

By Feng Zhengjie

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 73 3/4 by 74 7/8 in. 187 by 190.3 cm.

Medium: oil on canvas

LE PAPILLON AMOUREUX NO.14

By Feng Zhengjie

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 129.5 by 110cm.; 51 by 43 3/8 in.

Medium: oil on canvas

Feng Zhengjie (born 1968, Sichuan Province, China) is an artist based in Beijing. Originally a high-school and college art teacher in Sichuan, he came to Beijing in 1995.

His best-known work is his Portrait of China series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits, in a red/turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes (his signature style). Critics view his work as a critique of contemporary consumer society. His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is based on the red and green of traditional Chinese New Year art, the colours made "more acid, a representation of the flashy, commercial nature of modern China".

Zhengjie has exhibited internationally in many shows including Dialogue With Asia at Vika Gallery in Oslo, the 2002 Korea Contemporary Art Festival in Seoul, China Femmes de Chine at Veronique Maxe Gallery in Paris, Primary Colors at the Singapore Art Museum in Singapore and New Perspectives in Chinese Painting at Marella Gallery in Milan.

He is represented by Goedhuis Contemporary in London, New York and Beijing, and by Willem Kerseboom Gallery in Amsterdam.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/feng_zhengjie.htm

Artist: Zhang Xiaogang - Bloodline works

BLOODLINE: BIG FAMILY NO.1

By Zhang Xiaogang

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 150 by 179 cm.; 59 by 70 1/2 in.

Medium: oil on canvas

BLOODLINE SERIES: BIG FAMILY

By Zhang Xiaogang

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm

Medium: Oil on canvas

Creation Date: 1998

BLOODLINE - BIG FAMILY (TWO PIECES)

By Zhang Xiaogang

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 64×80cm(each)

Medium: Print on Paper

Creation Date: 2006

Edition number: 33 from an edition of 99

BIG FAMILY

By Zhang Xiaogang

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 33½ x 39¼ in. (85.1 x 99.7 cm.)

[MY BIG FAMILY]

By Zhang Xiaogang

Artwork Description

Dimensions: L. 22½ x 28 1/8 in. (571 x 715 mm.)

A BIG FAMILY SERIES

By Zhang Xiaogang

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 90 x 70 1/8in. (229 x 179cm.)

A BIG FAMILY SERIES NO. 16

By Zhang Xiaogang

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 78¾ x 98½ in. (200 x 250 cm.)

Zhang was born in the city of Kunming in China's Yunnan province in 1958. He came of age during the 1960s and 70s political upheavals known as the Cultural Revolution, which exerted a certain influence on his painting. In 1982, he graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in the city of Chongqing in Sichuan province, then joined a young group of young avant-garde painters who came to prominence during the 1980s. Like Wang Guangyi, Xu Beihong and Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang belongs to the best-selling contemporary Chinese artists and is a favorite of foreign collectors.

Western painters including Richter, Picasso and Dali are influences. Zhang said: "I read in a book once a few words by British experimental artist Eduardo Paolozzi, which were very influential for me: 'a person can very easily have the right idea, but choose the wrong means to express it. Or he can have the right means, but lack a clear idea.'" Zhang also cites his discovery of photos of his mother as a young, attractive woman as a key inspiration for the Bloodline series.

Artist: Yoshitomo Nara

TEAR DROPS

Artwork Description

Dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm. (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in).

Medium: Graphite and coloured pencil on paper.

Creation Date: 2002

LEBEN SCHAUM (LIVE FOAM)

Dimensions: 4 x 8 5/8 in. (10.2 x 21.9 cm).

Medium: Graphite and colored pencil on paper envelope.

Creation Date: 2002

(I) ABANDONED PUPPY

Artwork Description

Dimensions: each: 12½ x 9½in. (32 x 24cm.)

(I) UNTITLED

Artwork Description

Dimensions: each: 28¾ x 20¼in. (73.2 x 51.9cm.)

Artist: Salvador Dali - Flordali

Salvador Dali

Fruits troués, from Flordali (Les Fruits) (M. & L. 349)
lithograph with drypoint in colours, 1969-1970, from the set of twelve, on hand-made Auvergne, signed in pencil, inscribed Epreuve d'artiste (an artist's proof from the separate suite aside from the portfolio edition of 35), published by Werbungs- und Commerz Union Anstalt, Vaduz, with wide margins, a crease at the lower right sheet edge and a thin vertical line of discolouration in the lower right margin, otherwise in good condition.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo dəˈɫi]), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Artist: Jen Lobo

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http://www.gelaskins.com/artists/Jen_Lobo

Artist: Ray Caesar

Roundabout (2006)

14 x 14 inches
EDITION OF 1

Varnished Ultrachrome on Panel

Silent Partner (2009)

30 x 40
EDITION OF 20

http://www.raycaesar.com/

Georges Melies - A trip to the moon (1902)

Hello Kitty on Tour

Sanrio’s mobile pop-up tour launched this month in San Francisco, with fans dismissing stormy weather to shop the special 50^th Anniversary items and meet-and-greet with iconic characters like Hello Kitty and others interacting and mingling together for the first time in Sanrio character history. Special items can be seen here.

Sanrio mobile pop-up tour can be found next in these cities:

Thurs 10.28 Portland/Pioneer Courthouse Square

Sat 10.30–Sun 10.31 Seattle/Seattle Center

Thurs 11.04 Sacramento/Westfield Downtown Plaza

Sat 11.06 San Diego/University Town Center

Sun 11.07 Tustin/District at Tustin Legacy

Thurs 11.11 LA/Small Gift LA event

Sat 11.13–Sun 11.14 Las Vegas/Town Square Center

Tues 11.16 Tempe/Mill Avenue

Fri 11.19 Austin/location TBD

Sun 11.21 New Orleans/Riverwalk

Sat 11.26–Mon 11.28 Atlanta/Atlantic Station

Thurs 12.02–Sun 12.05 Miami/Small Gift Miami event

Fri 12.10 NYC / location TBD