Andrew Schoultz is the most recent name to feature at Project Space in Los Angeles having created animpressive installation. The war zone installation is the outcome of a great way to apply his work to the very clean space, in addition take a look at the video below to get a greater insight.

Project Space / 603 North La Brea Avenue / Los Angeles / CA 90036

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Photographer Michael Kennedy documents fighters on their big day in ‘Fight Night’. Harsh, brutal, simple, yet beautiful, these portraits showcase men who make their living by their fists and their wits. A stunning series of pictures, by an immensely talented photographer.

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Opening this Friday 15th October at the Musee D’Art Moderne in Paris is a retrospective look at the work from highly regarded and collected artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. The retrospective consists of one hundred major works (paintings, drawings, objects) from many museums and private collections of American and European, can reconstruct the chronological order of the artist and to measure its importance in art and in art history beyond the 80s. The show will run through until 30th January 2011.

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Japanese artistic icon Takashi Murakami just recently opened an exhibit in France at the famed Chateau de Versailles. The dichotomy between east and west, old and new, creates an extraordinary atmosphere both culturally, aesthetically and artistically. The collection will be on display through to December 12th.

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Brands are tapping into the art space and we are noticing some pretty awesome art installations as a result. It is a precarious feat for a brand to produce art installations because it can easily go wrong and have the exact opposite of the desired effect. A branded piece of art can be viewed as too promotional, too gaudy, too imposing and an intrusion into “public space.”  However, when done right, this kind of branded experience can work wonders for a brand and achieve the desired kind of street cred. We’ve gathered some examples of  both branded and non-branded cool public (and private) art.

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Nike’s 20-meter-high, 4.75-ton Ball Man made of 5,500 Brazilian Skill Balls was a huge hit during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. It was the centerpiece of a Nike installation Carlton Mall Atrium in Johannesburg. Leicester-based Ratcliffe Fowler Design created using a 3d image of Carloz Tevez. The Man was designed so that the balls remained virtually intact and can be donated to the community after the closing of the exhibition in August.

Also at World Cup, Coca Cola took advantage of the Crate Man craze and installed 54-foot CrateFan in Johannesburg’s fan park in Newtown. It was built of 2,500 Coke bottle crates and weighed 25 tons.

At the BMW Museum in Munich, the Kinetic Sculpture of 714 metal orbs seems to float in space. The orbs hang from thin steel wires attached to individually controlled motors. The orbs animate a 7-minute “mechatronic narrative,” starting from chaotic and settling at the end into the six square-meter “flying carpet.” The installation, developed by Berlin-based ART+ COM is to be “metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art and design.”

Louis Vuitton have paired up with French artist Andre for the opening of their St. Tropez store. Commissioning the artist to create a limited edition postcard set with images capturing the essence of what makes Cote d’Azur so memorable. Limited to 30 numbered copies signed by the artist, each package contains 10 unique designs and is currently available at Louis Vuitton Saint-Tropez as well as the Paris, London, Hong Kong and Taipei flagship stores.

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The stunning elegance of Jeff Nishinaka’s paper art calls for a new definition of paper. His meticulous sculptural 3D work appears to have been created from marble or extremely fine sand or vanilla ice cream or thick foam — definitely of something other than “just” paper. The Los Angeles-born artist works mainly with white, which makes the exquisite play of light and shadow a large part of the appeal of his work.

He has a prolific career working in advertising, fashion and fine art, and also creating some larger installations. His commercial work includes commissions for fashion catalogues for Bloomingdales and Galeries Lafayette, advertising work for Visa, Coca Cola, Playboy, American Airlines, Toyota and Mattel. Even the colourful characters of Disney’s Lion King — Pumbaa, Timon, Rafiki et.al. — look absolutely stunning in Nishinaka’s white paper world (image below). If you want to see a lot of Nishinaka’s work in one place, you need to talk to his personal friend, actor Jackie Chan, the owner of the largest Nishinaka collection. -Tuija Seipell