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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
