Austin Yarnbomber Magda Syeg Decorates Hong Kong Shopping Mall
The acknowledged mother of yarnbombing, Magda Sayeg has hit Hong Kong’s most crowded shopping center, Langham Place Shopping Mall in Mongkok. The commissioned piece is a yarn encrusted faux streetscape, titled I Knit MK@Langham Place, unravels on September 3.
Biggest Open House in Texas: Explore UT to Again Feature Temporary Art Project
UT’s Blanton Museum has commissioned alum Jules Buck Jones to create a temporary outdoor installation in the museum’s Faulkner Plaza for the annual Explore UT event, set for March 3, when thousands of young visitors tour the campus. This is the Blanton’s second outdoor commission, it follows the much-loved Knitted Wonderland by Austin resident and [...]
Outsourced and Upmarket, Sayeg Continues to Cover the World with Yarn (and Newspaper Clippings)
Austin artist Magda Sayeg’s back in the news- the Wall Street Journal profiles the former Houston yarn-bomber turned global celebrity in a short piece in today’s paper. Sayeg’s meteoric rise serves as a case study in a new art-career paradigm: gain notoriety doing something novel and nonthreatening, then sell it to commercial clients looking for [...]
Knitta, Please: My Girl Crush on Magda Sayeg
In any new issue of Texas Monthly, the first item I turn to is “Object Lesson,” Kristie Ramirez’s regular piece on the trinkets and baubles that notable Texans keep on their personal furniture. What clutter will we find on Jaap van Zweden’s piano? How fussy are the contents of Dean Fearing’s shoe closet? That sort [...]
Austin’s Sayeg Cashes in on Tsunami of Knitta Graffiti Fame: Warez Announced
This just in from PR firm Giant Noise: “Sunglass Hut, the premier shopping location for high quality fashion and performance sunglasses, is pleased to announce the fourth annual Sunglass Hut Artist Series Collection, featuring one-of-a-kind designs by renowned public artist and mother of knit grafitti, Magda Sayeg, a.k.a. KNITTA. Starting today the limited edition collection [...]
Knitta Magda Sayeg’s global yarnbombing trend in NY Times
Knitted public art, sanctioned or unsanctioned, got a shout out in the NY Times Thursday. The piece credits Magda Sayeg, owner of Raye boutique in Houston with the knit-graffiti idea, which, from the first, was an incredible media magnet. Sayeg is now in Austin, knitting big projects for corporations like Etsy!
Yarnbombing takes over the world
The Yarn Dawgz, an all-male knitting collective, have an installation at San Antonio’s Pearl Brewery. The Dawgz are Billy Muñoz & Dino Foxx, both young Latino artists. Two knitters (and bloggers) Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain, who live in Vancouver, Canada published Yarn Bombing: The Art of Knit Graffiti in the fall of 2009. In [...]