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"Inside The Codex the Art of Cosmogramma" and the art of Leigh Mccloskey.

Photography: Flying Lotus and Theo Jemison
Editing: StrangeLoop

The Creators Project Meets Muti Randolph from Creators Project on Vimeo.

Not many compare to the innovation, thinking and executuion of Muti. He is the worlds premier audio visual artist. His work and portfolio speak for itself. Swing by the Creators Project to learn more about all the artists involved. See more video of Muti on Vimeo.

In 1984 Steve Powers started climbing rooftops in his neighborhood and painting his alias ESPO as a dues paying member of the ICY graffiti club. 25 years later he returned home to Philadelphia in the summer of 2009 to write a love letter across the same rooftops facing the Market-Frankford line. The letter, meant for one, with meaning for all, encompasses 50 walls on a 20 block stretch of market street. Drawing input, inspiration, and work from the community Powers created a letter to and from west Philly. This unprecedented public art project was a collaboration of Powers, The Mural Arts Program, and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. It required 1200 cans of spray paint, 800 gallons of bucket paint, and the skilled hands of 20 of the finest spray painters in America, who Powers put into the legendary ICY club.

“A Love Letter For You – Brick Valentines On The Philly Skyline” documents the art and the neighborhood that inspired this ambitious public art project.

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Netherlands artist Ashkan Honarvar’s juxtapositions will have you feeling like a cannibal with a sweet tooth. Check out more here

While walking the streets of NY recently, I stumbled upon the Lever House in which I’ve seen other amazing installations and low and behold – who has an installation currently – Barbara Kruger. A inspiration of mine, a graphic designer who made the leap into the fine art world that has somehow kept her composure and overall typographic aesthetic of a designer. This installation should NOT be missed.

This new work is an immersive installation that transforms the iconic Lever Lobby into a textual array that zigzags between declaration and doubt, between threat and tenderness. It s the in-between that inserts itself into the brilliantly edged heart of architectural modernism and speaks of the space between the event and the everyday. Kruger s installation addresses the stroller and the task driven, and suggests the complicated terrain of this site, a piling on of power, ambition, pleasure, laughter, contempt and the finality of it all. As she has stated: “I think what I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience . I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.”

The Lever House Collection