Vantagepoint Radio

Possibly more than any other guest on VantagePoint to date, Mark Lyken epitomizes the connection that visual art and music can and very often do have. As an accomplished artist in both fields Lyken b…

Take everything you know about graffiti and street art dudes and throw that right out the window.

This guys approach is unlike anything you’ve seen before. At first glance it appears that he absol…

it’s 3:00pm on a tuesday afternoon at a crowded train station in Berlin. A young lady tucks her newspaper under her arm as her train pulls into the station to take her home. From the corner of her ey…

Now a days in the art world it can seem as though marketing and a strong (social) media game are just as important as artistic vision and talent. It can also sometimes seem that those who run the sce…

Here on VantagePoint we like to have fun and few shows were more fun to record than this one. A bottle of Jameson , a room full of beers, and our very first ever live studio audience surely set the t…

Any close observer of the work of German artists BASE23 can easily see the connection between the boxy geometric characters that he paints and the 70′s era Japanese toys and robots that he’s been obs…

To step into the studio of TWOONE is to step into the reality that some artists are simply able to shine in multiple mediums and make it look easy. Painting, sculpture, murals, etchings… there’s very…

At well over 6 feet tall and built like a MACK truck, when he enters the room, he’s hard to miss. Covered in tattoos and sporting a thick Hastings accent, it’s easy to jump to the assumption that thi…

Around the globe he’s known as JAZ but to his friends and family in his native Argentina his name is Franco. Regardless of what you might know him by, there’s a good chance that some of his work has …

Early in his “working class” upbringing in one of East Berlin’s more challenging neighborhoods, LAKE hit the streets and started what would become a lifelong painting career that has already spanned …

Thinkspace Gallery first opened it’s doors in 2005 and quickly became a force to recon with in the Los Angeles contemporary art scene. In the past decade the gallery, run by husband and wife duo Andr…

Any good investment advisor will tell you that the safest and smartest way to invest in your future is to have a diverse portfolio. If this is also true in the art game then Buff Monster has a bright…

Christian Rothenhagen is a master of illustration and the man behind DeerBLN (pronounced ‘Deer Berlin’). With an incredible eye for architecture and the metropolitan spaces in which we live, Rothenha…

Buff Diss is a leading name in the street art scene and a pioneer of the relatively new surge of artists using tape as their medium. JB and Tom sit down with him this week and find out how he stumble…