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SHONA MCANDREWS Papier-Mâché Realities

McAndrew’s sculptures give freedom to female representation. She’s created a space that unbinds itself from the pursuit of unrealistic standards and expectations to meet a media standard of image. First Image: Norah, 2017, papier-mache, wood, aluminum wire, acrylic, and fabric

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Philadelphia Navy Yard Sea Monster (2018)

Titled Sea Monsters HERE, the 2018 installation popped seemingly overnight at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The installation was created by world-renowned artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas. Curated and organized by Group X.

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Untitled (after Charles Howard Hodges)

Ewa Juszkiewicz (born 1984 in Gdansk, Poland) is an award-winning polish artist, predominantly famous for her paintings. She focuses on reinterpreting classic, historic female portraits so that the figures’ heads are replaced by fungi, flowers, bugs, intricate draperies or other surprising, yet disturbing forms. The faceless women are her signature.

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Chris Labrooy - Cut and Shut

Cut & Shut is a moving image homage to some classic VW icons. Design and Production: Chris Labrooy

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Jean Luc Cornec - Telephone Sheep

Art Crushing on Jean Luc Cornec who combined playful elements and objects to create ‘Telephone Sheep 🐑’ and has since found his art taking on new meaning everything it’s exhibited. 

“At first sight the grey telephones – today out of use – don’t have anything to do with the head of a sheep. I cannot say when and how the association came up to me – it only works in the combination of the telephone with the cables as wool, the earphones as feet and the individualistic expressions of the different sheep. Even if I was afraid of a too humorous aspect of my first idea I continued shaping it and in the end, I was surprised when during the artistic process new options raised: I had for example never thought that the ringing of the phones reminded of the “baa” of the sheep. 

When Dolly was born in 1996, the work was charged with another meaning – in some way the work has been “reloaded” on different levels. It became a comment on the relation between original and copy. When I realized that the film “Blade Runner“ was based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?“ by Philipp K. Dick, the installation became in some way the materialization of the ecological question. With the background of the NSA scandal, the accent is put on communication and interconnectedness...” 

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“She Likes Me, She Likes Me Not,” 2018 

by WhisBe 

Now showing at CastleFitzJohn Gallery, NYC.

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Tree Art

Russian artist Eugenia Dudnikova paints beautiful acrylic images into hollowed out sections of trees. 

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Somewhere in Moscow, you can stumble upon recessed hollows of trees where artist Dudnikova Eugene conjured bewitching paintings – it’s a weird, wonderful version of street art we can happily get into.

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Today’s ArtCrush – Alex Gardner

The anonymous charcoal interlaced bodies posed against warm pastel tones run through my mind long after I’ve taken them in. Gardner’s figurative paintings play with movement and space, letting you in on tiny moments of their intimate atmospheres. 

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“OH, YEAH!” Philly Street Artist Kid Hazo Fools Around With the Kool-Aid Man

We're loving Kid Hazo's parody of the Kool-Aid Man's infamous inability to use doors.

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15,226 OF YOU CANT BE WRONG

We posted Suzanna Scott (@suzanna_scott) ‘Coin Cunt’ project as part of our THINGS WE LOVE series and you showed us how much YOU loved it by liking and reblogging it 15, 226 times.

As the editor of HAHA, I had the opportunity to include these purses in a show I curated. If you guys have been dreaming of owning one, the day has come--> you can add one to your art collection by clicking this link.

(kisslock coin purses, turned inside out, folded and stitched to resemble a vulva).

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CHARLES CLARY 

We’re really digging Charles Clary’s new work.  These little oddities are hand-cut paper and hand-colored photos in found frames set to become a bit of morbid perkiness for any proper parlor. 

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THINGS WE LOVE

Baby Doll by Ellen Greene  (Hand painted vintage gloves)

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DEEMED A CANVAS - A Group Exhibition

So excited to announce to you guys that HAHA MAG (High on Art, Heavy on Antics) has collaborated with Paradigm Gallery + Studio for "Deemed a Canvas", a group exhibition on view January 26 – February 17, 2018.

"Deemed a Canvas" channels storytelling through a range of artistic mediums. We curate a show featuring curators who take a light-hearted look at what happens when artists break away from the starkness of white ground to explore surface with unexpected materials and unconventional methods. Artists Kaplan Bunce, Danielle Clough, Ellen Greene, My Dog Sighs, Bunnie Reiss, Brooks Salzwedel, Suzanna Scott, Ruby Silvious, and Jasjyot Singh Hans use their skills and love of art to develop unique narratives.

If you’re in Philly, swing by, check out the art and say hi!  We’d love to meet our Tumblr crowd.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, January 26th • 5:30pm - 10:00pm * * * * * EXHIBITION HOURS Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays • 12:00pm – 6:00pm And 7 days a week by appointment: [email protected] / [phone] LOCATION Paradigm Gallery + Studio / 746 S. 4th Street, 1st Floor / Philadelphia, PA 19147

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JUST KIDS X FELIPE PATONE 

Just Kids Official aided in the development, curation, and production of the first ever solar-powered mural in a beautiful collaboration with the artist, Felipe Patone. It debuted during the Life Is Beautiful festival— this public art project has now become a landmark of downtown Las Vegas and completely transformed the communities relationship with the area, which had remained obscure and neglected for decades. 

📷: courtesy of @justkidsofficial

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The Exhibition You Shouldn’t Miss

ITEMS: Is Fashion Modern? 

@ MoMA through January 28th, 2018

Let’s start off with the first shocker; this is MoMA’s first exhibition on fashion and design in 73 years– BOY did they deliver the goods (pun intended).

Items: Is Fashion Modern? explores the present, past—and sometimes the future—of 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a substantial impact on the world.

What the curators got right is knowing that while inclusivity is essential, so is getting the story right.  The show featured items with histories gave an intensive broad view of the times (Zoot Suit Riots?!), and it dug into the microcosms within urban communities. Chameleons like Door Knocker earrings, Dapper Dan Jackets, Hooded Sweatshirt, the Red Bandana, and the Plain White Tee stood in the spotlight– sans a homogenized version of their backgrounds they could genuinely travel in the truths of where they originated and what varied meanings they have assumed over the years.

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Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait @ MoMA

French artist and celebrated sculptor, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) had her first real retrospective, at the Museum of Modern Art at the age of seventy-one. Bourgeois worked well into her nineties, leaving behind a body of work spanning over 70 years of her past and present self.

The prize of the show sits in the museum’s Marron Atrium – Spider, one of the series of Cells that Bourgeois created over the last two decades of her career, and the only one of Bourgeois’ sixty-two Cells that brings together the Spider and cell structure. 

Nearly 15ft tall, the steel spider sculpture crouches over a Cell, the door of its caged barrier between the interior world of Bourgeois and viewer, left slightly ajar. A chair adorned with unraveling tapestry sits inside; worn, slightly less vivid tapestry drapes sections of the cage lending to connotations of restoring, and repairing oneself through art.

Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait runs at MoMA September 24, 2017–January 28, 2018

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Spencer Finch’s ‘Bamboo Grove’

50 Fluorescent lights, fixtures, filters 21x 120cm, 18x 90 cm, 11x 60cm | 21x 4', 18 x 3', 11x 2'   Overall dim. installed approx. 340 x 280 cm | 11' 1/5'' in x 9' 1/4'' SF/LI 62 Courtesy Galerie Nordenhake Berlin/Stockholm

Photo: HAHA MAG | Miami Art Basel 2017