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In what is quite a refreshing acceptance of pop culture as art, the prominent auction house Christie’s recently featured many modern toys by such artists as Tilt, Mist, Kozik, Joe Ledbetter, Tristan, Sucklord and Kidrobot founder Paul Budnitz.

Some truly spectacular work was put in by artist Blu as he has created this beautiful sequence using graffiti and stop action animation. The mind fairly boggles.

Finally, we get an up-close look at one of the most ridiculous new tattoos to the NBA. And that’s saying a lot.

The Alexandria, Virginia art gallery Art Whino is set to launch a show called Texas MADE: Spotlight on 10 Emerging Texas Artists. Much of the art is graffiti-based or -inspired and really showcases some of the more talented stuff that’s coming from the Lone Star State. I encourage anyone in the area to swing through to see how us Texans are capable of more than is stereotypically represented. Showcased artists include CUTTHROAT, DARK, DUAL, Justin French, DMISE, PixieLife, stncl.07, ENKS, Scotch! and Dave Lowell.

Thanks to Bobby S over at the Kitsune Noir blog, desktops around the world will now be more stylish as they launch The Desktop Wallpaper Project today. Each Wednesday you can mosey on over the +KN blog and pick up a new wallpaper from one of the most talented artists practicing today — all free. Today’s contributions come from Tim Biskup, Mcbess and IMAKETHINGS. Each wallpaper is available in a variety of sizes, including custom versions for iPhones and PSPs. Enjoy!

Saw these this morning on the Illseed Blog —>> THE BARACK OBAMA AIR FORCE 1 [via Illseed Blog]…

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Also available hi-res here.

This amazing video is the coolest use I’ve seen yet of the trend of light graffiti that has been in vogue over the past year or so.  The creators of this great video have published an amazing instructable of how they did it here, which they parlayed into a $15,000 laser engraver in a contest from the folks over at Instructables.…

Robert Williams, founder of Juxtapoz magazine, will have this piece in an exhibtion entitled Pop Subversion, which opens February 8 a Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn. Details here. Oil…

The Streetsy flickr group has posted their list of their most popular street art pieces from the past calendar year.  The above photo comes from the photostream of Jake Dobkin, who also runs the tremendous web site Streetsy.com.  Enjoy and Happy New Year!…

In honor of the holidays we bring this exceptional photo up from the archives of The N. Period. If Santa Claus was created as an image for Christmas, and Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, then how on earth does it make sense that Santa would be present at…