FOOL’S GOLD

The sightings and tweets are official: Dust La Rock is out in LA this weekend for the opening of Installation 6 at the Scion Space, where they “challenged 10 artists to create non-narrative video installations that will eventually transform five unique exhibitions around the country.” Dusty’s animated short “Occult Of Personality” is featured in the project, and is pretty killer if we do say so ourselves.

The opening reception is tonight (1/23) and Dust and all the other artists will be in attendance - go and check it out before it moves on to future locations in Austin, Wichita, Minneapolis and Brooklyn. (more…)

The Scion Space will soon be hosting Installation 6, where they “challenged 10 artists to create non-narrative video installations that will eventually transform five unique exhibitions around the country.” One of these artists is none other than our esteemed art director Dust La Rock, whose animated short “Occult Of Personality” is featured in the project.

The opening reception is January 23rd in Los Angeles (Culver City to be specific) and Dust and all the other artists will be in attendance - go and check it out before it moves on to future locations in Austin, Wichita, Minneapolis and Brooklyn. (more…)

Just because we’re celebrating our 2nd birthday at CMJ in NYC this week doesn’t mean the rest of the globe has to feel left out! Namely Calgary, where the Giant 45 crew will be presenting the last public exhibition of Dust La Rock’s Best Of The Beast art show (all prints, no canvas).

It kicks off with an opening at the store on Wednesday, followed by a party at Hi-Fi Club on Thursday featuring our homies Smalltown DJs and Wax Romeo - it’s the ten year anniversary of their Hai Karate night (which has hosted many a FG artist through the years) so it’s sure to be a blow out! Stay tuned for more DLR art news very soon…

Peep the new issue of XLR8R (”Funkstep!”) for a great lil interview with our esteemed art director Dust La Rock, featuring a bunch of FG sleeves, personal artwork from Best Of The Beast and beyond, and those anecdotes y’all folks love so much. Grab it on a newstand near you or download the free PDF and flip to page 46.

Centerfoldin! For the second month in a row, the FG fam is featured in the pages of XXL. This time around, Dust La Rock was asked to lend some of his signature magic to the mag’s Eye Candy spread on Laura Dore, the video model from Kanye and Jeezy’s “Amazing” video. Check the other pages after the jump and see the art full-size at a newstand near you. (more…)

This past weekend the FG fam loaded up our hovercraft and sped down to Norfolk, VA for the opening of Dust La Rock’s “Best Of The Beast” show at Commonwealth’s flagship store. Dust’s pieces looked as stunning as the tattooed mamis at the party, Nick Catchdubs provided nuff tunes (including hidden Fam-Lay gems and a gang of FG exclusives that Virginia was first to ever hear live), and we were greeted by a team of Hampton Roads’ finest, including Chad Hugo of Neptunes / N*E*R*D fame. Check out pics from the night from Commonwealth and Flash You’re Famous - we’ll be linking up more as we get them, though unfortunately no pics exist of the donk exhibition outside 7-11 later that night, or the epic Bojangles meal the following morning.

The opening also marked the debut of Commonwealth’s limited edition Best Of The Beast tee, a Hell’s Satans-worthy garment that you can purchase online while they last. More C’mon x FG collabs coming soon, as well as further graphic awesomeness from the man, the mystery, The Duster.

This Saturday (tomorrow!) we’re proud to present Dust La Rock’s “Best Of The Beast” show at Commonwealth in Norfolk VA (FYI, this is the Virginia Commonwealth, not the DC store. Don’t worry DC, we love you too and will be there soon!)

Nick Catchdubs will be providing the tunes, and we’ll be debuting a devilishly exclusive Dust La Rock x Commonwealth “Best Of The Beast” t-shirt. Limited quantities of the shirt will be available on the Commonwealth webstore next week. Out-of-towners can also purchase actual art pieces from the show on Dust La Rock’s gallery site.

So you saw the pics from Dust La Rock’s gallery show Best Of The Beast (hailed everywhere from MTV News and the Village Voice to Diddy’s Twitter) and wished you could have been in the building? Or purchase some of those mindbending museum-quality prints for your own wall? We got you!

The entire BOTB collection is now up on the DLR website, where collectors can purchase pieces from this extremely limited run of signed and numbered Giclée prints beautifully printed on archival paper and canvas. Don’t miss out on the debut collection from our favorite artist in the world (we’re biased, but it’s true!)

If that’s not enough, Dust is taking Best Of The Beast mobile, with an installation this month at Commonwealth in Norfolk, VA. The opening party is July 11th, featuring a DJ set from Nick Catchdubs, Fool’s Gold giveaways, and the release of an exclusive Dust La Rock x Commonwealth t-shirt. Check the flyer after the jump, we’ll see you there! (more…)

Fool’s Gold loves Claw Money and you should too! Check Claw at her first solo show “Spray It, Don’t Say It” tonight from 7-10 pm at Eastern District- 43 Bogart St. Brooklyn, NY 11206 RSVP: info@eastern-district.com

Last Thursday’s “Best Of The Beast” opening was the place to be, as a couple hundred of our best friends and fam came out for Fool’s Gold art director Dust La Rock’s debut solo show. Queen Majesty, Vin Sol, Nick Catchdubs and Dave1 spun the tunes, Red Stripe and Vitamin Water provided refreshments, Fader debuted their new issue, Worship Worthy made sure everything ran smoothly and a literal who’s who of NYC’s creative community brought infinite good vibes to celebrate one of their own.

Check out these full photo galleries from Ian Meyer, Nicky Digital, Driven By Boredom (who also shot the event for Village Voice, Village Slum (a bunch more on Flickr too), as well as some recaps at Street Level, Hypebeast, RCRD LBL and Herald De Paris. Dust, Trizzy and Catch filmed a MTV News interview which should be up shortly, and in the meantime you can check some video of the show from Bongoboy along with A-Trak’s Flipcam Q&As with Haze and Sammy Bananas (along with some of our photo gallery favorites) after the jump. (more…)