DIY art with a difference – Kees Goudzwaard

Artist Kees Goudzwaard, from The Netherlands, makes oil paintings with a hand-crafted, collaged look.

the digital museum – léo caillard

The traditional museum seems a bit out of touch, don’t it?

illustrated illusions – cesar del valle

These hyper-real drawings by Columbian illustrator Cesar del Valle appear to jump off the page.

coat hangers and collage – david mach

Coat-hanger crucifixes, a matchstick Jesus and Satan, and kitsch collages of biblical scenes form this audacious and intense exhibition of the Scottish Turner-nominated artist David Mach at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre (David Mach: Precious Light, ends 16 October).

colour maps – ingrid calame

Making an art out of the ground we walk on, American artist Ingrid Calame produces beautifully abstract drawings and paintings with such meticulousness.

metropolitan dystopia – ed ruscha

Currently on show at LA’s Hammer Museum is Ed Ruscha: On the Road (until 2 October), an exhibition that amalgamates photography, paintings, and drawings with language in a documentation of America’s changing cultural landscape.

joan miró – the things dreams are made of?

Miró: The Ladder of Escape is currently on show at the Tate Modern (ends 11 September).

stripes here, there, and everywhere – daniel buren

There seems to be no stopping Daniel Buren, an artist whose 50 year career has been characterized by one thing, and one thing only: stripes.

around the biennale in 72 hours – christoph niemann

Can’t make it to this year’s Venice Biennale? Illustrator, graphic designer and New York Times blogger extraordinaire Christoph Niemann has it covered, with these fantastically satirical pencil sketches that capture the Biennale from an American point of view – the queues, madness, and even the […]