Listen Carefully by Quincy Sutton Wack Friday and Cyborg Monday are behind us. The leftover turkey has been divided and conquered. December’s darkening days cometh. But Thumbtack Press refuses to let 2011′s autumn holiday fanaticism fade into the distance like some kind of forgotten horseman. Thumbtack Press will not be out-saled! So, for you, [...]
California midway through the last century was and is metanymic of modernity. You can just say, “Oh man, that chair is so 1950s California” and everybody will know the general aesthetic you’re referencing. LACMA, in their current exhibition California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way,” is digging deep into that modernist aesthetic by reviewing [...]
1. Bruce Davidson reflects on his famous NY Subway photos. Buy the book. 2. Obviously a million Art Basel Miami Beach things are flying around. Here’s Hi-Fructose’s first dispatch, and the bests and worsts from Art Info. 3. Looking for a solid way to waste 4 minutes of your life? Ok, well here‘s a collection of [...]
Tinkerbell never ran out of fairy dust, and Thumbtack Press will never run out of new art. Ok yeah it’s a stretch whatever just go with it because with or without crappy analogies it’s artists like Ken Wong that make TTP’s collection one that is CONSTANTLY growing. Ken has added a handful of new prints to the [...]
The Thumbtack Kickback works like this: every month we give away a print from our collection. Entering is as simple as following Thumbtack Press on Twitter and then clicking here to tweet the giveaway. Boom. We’ll randomly pick a winning tweeter on December 30, and s/he can pick any one of the four prints above. Entries [...]
Like a colony of fuzzy lil bunny rabbits who make art, the collection over at the TTP store is constantly growing. One of the newest pieces is Mark Frauenfelder’s Flower, Daughter of Googam (above). Mark is a prolific writer, artist, and cultural tastemaker whose impact as co-founder of Boing Boing you already know, even [...]
