The Sex Lives of Animals opens tomorrow at the Museum of Sex in New York.

Time Out New York explains it thoroughly.

So let’s say your girlfriends mom has been hearing all about this ‘Urban Art’ from publications like Time and whatnot.  She knows your hip to it and she wants a piece of the action. What do you do? You buy her this print above by Blek Le Rat, fit for moms, soccer moms and whomever else stays in the confines of prudishness.  It also comes in three other colorways.

French artist JR keeps amazing me with his street work. I have done some poaching and created a small little worldwide visual essay to support my amazement.  Photo credits at the end

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This is a moment of ‘Why didn’t I think of this?’  Proving as always, the best ideas are the simplest.

Read about it all at Animal

I always love peeking at art collection installations, and stumbled upon an amazing one the other day. Leah over at More Ways to Waste Time has a virtual tour of the home of San Francisco art collectors Donald and Philip. Their collection includes pieces by Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, David Huffman and Christina Empedocles. It’s like a photo essay mash-up ripped from the pages of Dwell and Artforum … be prepared to drool.

Click here to check out it out

The Tate Modern has announced a new development in the plan for its new wing. World-renowned Swiss Architectural firm, Herzog & de Meuron, has designed the new plan for the extension, called Tate Modern 2 (TM2). Read More about it at art observed.

Seriously, this is one of the creepiest friggin videos I have ever seen. WTF? Really? Great work.

There is also a book which you can read about on Supertouch

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery hosts a BYO brown bag lunch discussion this Wed. July 23, 12 – 1p with Bay Area artist Tiffany Bozic and her husband Jack Dumbacher, Curator of Birds and Mammals at the California Academy of Sciences.

Tiffany and Jack will talk about their shared interests in adventure travel, strange animals, and unique intersections between art, politics and nature. Gallery Director and curator Meg Shiffler will moderate this sure to be lively discussion.

The SFAC gallery is located at 401 Van Ness Avenue (Veterans Building), San Francisco

If you are just learning about Shepard Fairey’s work and want to build a collection of it, your best bet is this auction on ebay. 20 prints, fairly rare, almost all of them worthwhile acquisitions. I have to say that I kind of enjoy imagining this type of block sale, it really feels like a commodity.

Nick Veasey

via, hurtyoubad

We brought you the Vader Project back in 2007 . Here’s an update, 13 Japanese artists join the original Vader Project and premiere their customized helmets in a stunning exhibition for Star Wars Celebration Japan. Via the [star wars blog]

Japanese artist include:

Bounty Hunter
Chino
Dehara
Devil Robots
Gargamel
Itokin Park
Mad Barbarians
Mori Chack
RealxHead
Secret Base
T9G
Touma
Usugrow
Yoko d’Holbachie

SWOON keeps the streets beautiful and hipsters in trance.  (photo by crobertwilliamson)

After a media blitz over the past week, Banksy adds this note above to his website.

Damien Hirst has been rumored to be collaborating with luxe cell phone brand.

“Not everyone can own a diamond encrusted skull, but everyone wants a piece of Damien Hirst’s aesthetic. The star artist is rumored to be collaborating on a project with Vertu, purveyor of wildly expensive luxe handcrafted mobile phones with jeweled buttons and other uber-pricey details.”

Read More here via art observed

A huge Barry McGee bite coming out of Kiev.

via, ekosystem

Kathy Grayson interviews Evan Gruzis for Fecal Face

Tomorrow night

This is a very cool poster design for Sean Cassidy and Cody Hudson’s new show at New Image Art Gallery that opens this Saturday.