Warren remembers a joke from his youth, overheard between two 'wise guys', which referenced the Russian opera Boris Godunov. He picks up his handy Bic, jots down the joke and submits it. Wouldn't you know it: that very newspaper makes it back to the very mobster who told the joke, who also happens to be the one trying to locate (and rub out) Fred ...
May 12—June 9, 2018 NOW UP
TWISTS & TURNS solo exhibition
Jonathan LeVine Projects Jersey City, NJ (USA)
British duo Kai & Sunny present ballpoint and acrylic works presenting ''fluid decunstruction'' and ''hard-edged geometrics''. Their second with LeVine. More info.
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Dec 6—12, 2016 NOW UP
THIS IS IT solo exhibition
Nehru Centre AC Art Gallery Mumbai, India
New ballpoint pen artworks by M.I. Shaikh.
Dec 9—16, 2017 NOW UP
Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize group exhibition
Blindspot Gallery Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong (USA)
Hong Kong ballpointer Peter Ross has one piece (Fall, pictured cropped) up for a prize and up for auction to benefit the Hong Kong Justice Centre. More info.
All but the keenest viewers may have missed the many ballpoint pen cameos on screens big and small over the years. Ballpoints are regulars in Hollywood productions, and not just as set dressing...
Godunov for Bic ?
・The Family (also Malavita) 2013・Director Luc Besson
Product placement and modern moviemaking are thick as thieves, but never has ballpoint pen placement? ...
March 13—Sept 11, 2016 NOW UP
Super Natural solo exhibition
John Michael Kohler Art Center Sheboygan, WI (USA)
Slices of trees, and more, bearing Shane McAdams' genius application of ballpoint ink & resin concoctions (pictured) continue touring the US. More info.
April 14—May 27, 2018 NOW UP *extended
The BIC Collection group exposition
Le CENTQUATRE-Paris Paris, France (X)
''More than 140 works by artists from all over the world'' (Il Lee's MBL-1302 pictured) from the ''collection'' of the BIC pen company. The Ballpointer will write about the exposition and the 'collection' in upcoming editions. BicWorld.
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Pig Pen・SUB・
''To portray a wild boar in a way that no one has ever portrayed a wild boar; to make an ugly animal attractive.
Nov 23—Dec 21, 2018 NOW UP
Shifting Times solo (duo) exhibition
Stolenspace Gallery London, UK (X)
New ballpoint penworks and acrylic paintings by Kai & Sunny. ''flowing deconstructed landscapes portraying serene isolation and sharp-edged geometrics exuding speed and energy'' on display in their 5th show at the venue (pictured : Fields of Madness, slightly cropped). More info.
June 8—August 20, 2016 NOW UP
Point of Vision - Celebrating Women Artists in Fantasy and Science Fiction group exhibition
Society of Illustrators New York City
Rebecca Yanovskaya's ballpoint pen and gold leaf Funeral Rites (pictured) displayed among artwork by a number of other women illustrators. More info.
Nov 24—Dec 10, 2017 NOW UP
惡羅惡羅—ORA ORA solo exhibition
Backwoods Gallery Melbourne, Australia (USA)
Japanese ballpointer Shohei Otomo exhibits new work at his preferred outlet Down Under. More info.
Jan 18—March 31, 2018 NOW UP
Blurred Horizons group exhibition
Art Projects International New York, NY (USA)
Ballpoint elder Il Lee's BL-087 (2006, pictured) on display alongside 11 artists portraying 'Contemporary Landscapes, Real and Imagined ' using various mediums. More info.
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Nov 24—Dec 16, 2017 NOW UP
Same Line Twice 2-man exhibition
Grotto Fine Art, Ltd. Hong Kong (USA)
Hong Kong ballpointer Pongyu Wai exhibits the results of a 'Collaborative Drawing Project ' with Hung Fai (Same Line Twice 12 pictured). More info.
Sept 10—Oct 8, 2016 NOW UP
(HE)ARTBROKEN solo exhibition
Jonathan Levine gallery (Gallery l) New York, NY
New ballpoint pen drawings by Juan Francisco Casas in his first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Through Dec 31, 2018 NOW ONLINE
Drawing art competition
Art Room Gallery city, country (X)
Italian ballpointer Alberto Repetti racks up a couple of competition wins for two new ballpoint-on-cardboard works. Zoomorphic Cloud (2018, pictured cropped) won First Place in this drawing competition. Visit Art Room Gallery's website to see the full artwork and other winners' work.
July 15—21, 2018 EXTENDED > August 24
Birorama: Real and Irreal Landscapes solo exhibition
The Coningsby Gallery London, UK (Fitzrovia)
Italian ballpointer Alberto Repetti exhibiting some of his more identifiably landscape-related ballpoint pen abstracts (La Sabbia Intorno pictured, cropped). More info.
Feb 4, 2017—Jan 7, 2018 NOW UP
Closing Borders solo exhibition
Serlachius Museum, Gösta Mänttä, Finland
Finnish artist Riiko Sakkinen, cited as a 'political artist' in the exhibition promotions, includes his ballpoint & mixed-media The Least Powerful Passport (pictured) on display in an exhibition which ''studies a Europe that is barricading its borders and turning in on itself''. Long run. More info.
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May 12—June 16, 2018 NOW UP
Hong Kong Dimensions group exhibition
Blue Lotus Gallery Hong Kong
Mixed media ballpoint art by Peter Ross (pictured) in a show of work presenting ''a deeper and unique journey'' through Hong Kong ''in terms of space, time, the ultra real, the imagined, and the point where they intersect''. More info.
Feb 9—28, 2018 NOW UP
Relaunch Show group exhibition
The Underdog London, England (USA)
A ''New Website, New Artists, New Artwork '' including new work by James Mylne (CHANarchy pictured). More info.
Sept 13—Oct 27, 2018 NOW UP
IL LEE: The 90s solo exhibition
Art Projects International New York, NY (USA)
An exhibition of work by ballpoint elder IL Lee focussing on his work from the 1990s, described by the gallery as a 'critical decade' in the artist's career (pictured: Untitled 9627). More info.
April 10—30, 2018 NOW UP
Artist of the Month solo exhibition
Brickhouse Restaurant, Bar, Gallery Hong Kong (X)
A display of Peter Ross' ballpoint-&-gouache artwork (pictured, cropped) viewable for the price of a drink or dinner.
Feb 2—25, 2018 NOW UP ・EXTENDED into March
World Through the Eyes of the Artist solo exhibition
Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago Chicago, Il (USA)
Ukrainian ballpointer Andrey Poletaev's first exhibition in the USA. Greatest-hits of his photorealist works. More info.
Nov 24, 25, 26, 2017 NOW UP
Ballpoint Pen Drawing workshop
La Galeria Roja Seville, Spain (USA)
Artist Nicolas V. Sanchez conducts a three-day course in ballpoint sketching, and advanced ballpointing to achieve the kind of full-color photorealist effects (above) that have attracted admirers to his own pen portraiture. More info.
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Sept 22—Oct 27, 2018 NOW UP
Vignette solo exhibition
Haven Gallery Northport, NY (Long Island)
The first solo exhibition of Rebecca Yanovskaya's ballpoint-&-goldleaf masterpieces (Ceremonial 2 pictured, cropped) that we are aware of. More info.
Sept 22 ~ 2016 NOW UP
Grandly Grimey solo exhibition
Westbank Gallery London, England
In his first solo exhibition since 2012, James Mylne will show ''work which recontextualizes classical ideas of power that were once portrayed through art movements such as Rococo''. He announces it as his ''biggest yet''. More info.
Seascapes—Painting & Other Media art competition
Light Space & Time Gallery city, country (X)
Repetti's The Sailor's Forecast (2018, pictured cropped) won 8th Place in this competition. Visit Light Time & Space's website to see his and other winners' work.
The movie ends with the death of all pursuers and De Niro's (Fred's) clan fleeing to a new hideaway. No artistic use of the ballpoint pen in this film, but if it's Godunov for director Luc Besson we assume it's good enough for Bic・
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