The Simpsons Street Art

Tune in on March 4th when Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf, and Robbie Conal guest stars on the iconic animated television series, The Simpsons. Guest voicing as themselves, Fairey was excited by the opportunity, commenting "part of being on ‘The Simpsons,’ is you’re being honored as a reference point in culture. But you also can’t be too sensitive about that part of culture being made fun of. There’s irony that comes with something outsider becoming insider. And they do a great job of examining that.”

Perfect Package

On newsstands February 20th Dasha Zhukova presents the second issue of Garage Magazine. Focused around the theme of relationships and sex the fashion meets art publication comes complete with condoms designed by Keith Haring, Mat Collishaw, and Sue Webster & Tim Noble! Available in every copy of Garage, you can also snag the perfectly packaged artist condoms for a limited time in the bathrooms of Le Baron during New York, London and Paris Fashion weeks.

Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld Celebrates Ouattara Watts' Vertigo

Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld hosted a celebration for the latest NYC exhibition of Cote d'Ivoire-born artist Ouattara Watts. Titled Vertigo, the show is the largest solo exhibition of Watts' work in the last five years with fifteen large-scale paintings. Integrating traditional North African painting, native emblems and everyday materials, his Citizen of the World painting is a metaphor for the artist himself as a truly global artist. Watts has a particular bond with Manhattan, as he spent his first time here with artist Basquiat in 1988. Notable art-world guests to the celebration included Carine Roitfeld, Brice Marden, Sante D’Orazio and Glenn O’Brien.

Louboutin Goes Graffiti

2012 marks the 20-year anniversary of Christian Louboutin. To mark the occasion, Neiman Marcus collaborated with street artist Galo MAKE Canote to create tribute window displays and a billboard overlooking the famous Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California. The shoe department has been taken over by this juxtaposition of glamour and grafitti.

Takashi Murakami "Ego" Exhibit @ Qatar

Beginning February 9th 2012, the Qatar Museum of Islamic Art will host a larger-than-life show featuring more than 60 works from Takashi Murakami. The dates of the pieces range from 1997 to present and feature some of his most celebrated pieces. The event marks Murakami's first solo show in the Middle East. The show is titled "Ego" because Murakami wished to have an exhibition that was "a dialogue with one's own ego."