On Thursday, June 25, 2009, a small group of Brazilian reporters met with the four members of the band Skank.

Rio’s Street Graphic Novelist: An Interview with Tito Na Rua
By Hrag Vartanian

A singular voice in the Brazilian street art scene, Tito Na Rua (website) has been using the streets of Rio de Janeiro as a venue for his Ze Ninguem (Joe Nobody) graphic novel, known as As Aventuras de Zé Ninguém e Cão Viralata, which he describes as “comics about the street on the street.”

Park Avenue Armory launched its first commissioned art installation with Anthropodino, a large-scale, interactive sculpture by world-renowned artist, Ernesto Neto. Using hundreds of yards of translucent material, Neto suspends a gigantic canopy from the drill hall’s latticework truss, spanning 120 feet wide and 180 feet long.