Category: Art and Photography

Great street design and a piece of social and political history too – these extremely limited edition prints of original Paris 1968 street posters are well worth a look.

They are available to coincide with the Hayward Gallery’s May 68: Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion exhibition, which celebrates the artwork that inspired the social uprising in May 1968.

The Hayward Gallery is selling a limited edition book containing hand screen printed reproductions of 40 original May 68 posters, but the Keep Calm Gallery has a limited number of printer’s proofs of each design, available individually as hand-pulled screen prints on recycled paper. Less than 10 of each one and each selling for around £30 per print. Get them while you can.

Find out more at the Keep Calm Gallery

Here’s a tip for you – if you want some cool art on your wall for not a lot of cash, hunt around for some of the posters advertising the Munich Olympics in 1972.

The organisers cleverly approached the pick of contemporary artists of the era to produce interesting artwork for the games, using the posters in shops, on bus stops – just about anywhere really. If you want a comparison, think Banksy doing posters for the London Olympics right now.

Read more

Niki De Saint Phalle came to prominence in the 1960s, a rare woman in the male dominated art world in Paris. She has often been overlooked and not taken seriously but the Tate Liverpool is currently showing an exhibition of her work.

If you can’t make it to Liverpool in the next few weeks, you can console yourself with a selection of Niki De Saint Phalle products that are available to buy from the Tate Online Shop.

Representations of womanhood feature heavily in her work, in particular in her “Nanas”, brightly colour female forms and these have been translated into designs on t-shirts, notebooks and fridge magnets. Prices range from £2.50 for a small notebook up to £25 for adult t-shirts.

See the complete range on the Tate website.

Just on sale is another gem or a print from Shag – Apolline.

This cool mid-century-inspired piece of artwork is a 14-colour serigraph, sized at 21.5 x 27.5 inches, limited and numbered to 200 and of course, signed by the man himself. Just on sale and sure to sell out quickly, it retails for $250 (around £125).

And if you are a fan of Shag, he will be the first person featured in our new quick interviews section of Retro To Go – watch for it in the coming weeks. If you have more ideas for people to interview, leave a comment or drop us a line.

More about the Shag print at the Shagmart website