CAFAM Granny Squared is a public art project that brought together 500 crocheters from 25 countries who made 14,000 granny squares to transform the facade of Los Angeles' Craft and Folk Art Museum and make a statement about craft, art and institutional identity."

photos of the making of ascention(screened at cannes short film corner), goin ape( rape rvenge film funded by c.al.. q.), road movie, and solstice moon- films by toly ak, a collaboration with photographer nicholas e. w. syracuse and a bonuse scenario-reversal of fortune. cover photo n. syracuse

Graffiti made from cake icing, man-made clouds floating indoors, a luminous moon resting on water. Collected here are dozens of jaw-dropping artworks-site-specific installations, extraordinary sculptures and groundbreaking interventions in public spaces-that reveal the exciting things that happen when contemporary artists play with the idea of place. Unexpected Art showcases the wonderfully experimental work of more than 50 innovative artists from around the world in galleries of their most astonishing artworks. An unusual package with three different-coloured page edges complements the art inside and makes this tour of the world's most mind-blowing artwork a beautiful and thoughtprovoking gift for anyone interested in the next cool thing.

Art, for Seerveld, belongs to the very infrastructure of a good society, in the same way that a country's economy, transportation system, or media network do: "With a vital artistic infrastructure priming its inhabitants' imaginativity, a society can dress its wounds and be able to clothe and mitigate what otherwise might become naked technocratic deeds." Redemptive Art in Society, introduced by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, addresses the need for Christian public artistry and ways in which Christians can be stewards of art.

Bogota Street Art is the first in a series that the passionate urban art documentarian, Jacqueline Hadel, is offering to the world. This quaint book features exciting and poetic visual images from Bogota, Colombia collected over four months in 2012.

When the term "Hip Hop" is mentioned, most people think "rap music." But Hip Hop culture is more than Rap music. Hip Hop is made up of five "elements" and Graffiti writing is one of those five elements of Hip Hop culture. This is will teach children of all ages about the origins and growth of Graffiti writing in the United States.

Banksy's NYC Residency was the first of its kind; he was going to attempt to put a piece a day on the streets of New York. Jacqueline Hadel was there for all of it and on October 7th, she took a picture that was used by Banksy on his official website. Here's a book with original photographs and anecdotes describing the residency from the perspective of a photographer, writer, and more than anything, a fan.

Ami (short for Amitai, ahh-mee-tie) Plasse is a super-prolific NYC native artist who compiled a collection of almost 2000 drawings of the moments and characters he encountered on his daily subway ride between Brooklyn and Manhattan from 2007-2011. The best are in this volume of Ami Underground.