ST’s own SHEPARD FAIREY has teamed up with his design studio STUDIO NUMBER ONE to create and release a signature T-Shirt to raise money for Haitian relief. Priced at $15 and available through CAFE PRESS, 100% of the shirt’s proceeds with benefit UNICEF, which provides direct aid to displaced Haitian children an helps reunite orphaned children with their family members.

***Please don’t forget you can contribute funds immediately to the RED CROSS by texting “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to their relief efforts in Haiti.

An earthquake of unprecedented scale has struck and devastated the tiny island nation of HAITI. Hundreds of thousands are expected dead while a similar number probably remain inured. Please reach out to the RED CROSS to donate all you can to relief efforts today…

Supertouch buddy and STAGES NYC co-conspirator JEFFREY DEITCH has announced today that he will accept MoCA’s invitation to serve as the museum’s director after the LA institution nearly went extinct due to grave financial woes in recent years (board member for life Eli Broad bailed them out, luckily). Even more shocking than that bombshell is the atomic bomb blast of a newsbreak that Jeffrey will be closing down his entire DEITCH GALLERY empire that currently ties together and dominates the entire downtown NYC art scene. “I’m just going to stop all commercial activity. The gallery will be over,” he told the LA Times.

The home to vital young talents like Aurel Schmidt, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, Rosson Crow, and Chris Johanson, the loss of the gallery will be an enormous blow to the downtown art world, a large part of which currently orbits around Deitch’s sun. Rumor has it, however, that JD is seriously considering transferring parts of the business to some of his partners & employees.

The biggest source of contention over Deitch’s appointment, however, lies with the fact that he is an art dealer (with a large personal art collection) running an art museum who could conceivably use his position to better his own financial standings. Deitch told the LA Times, “Lots of people are going to be concerned and looking, and all their comments are important. What I hope is I’ll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction — an art dealer running a museum … I have to exercise good judgment and be appropriate,” he said. “Would I arrange an exhibition that features a major work I’m thinking of selling? Absolutely not, because that’s not appropriate.”

Listen to Jeffrey Deitch’s NPR interview HERE.

Read the entire LA Times article HERE.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR people. After taking a brief hiatus from the interwebs, SUPERTOUCH is back in black for 2010. Big stuff ahead & a total site relaunch coming in February with expanded content and a total re-skin. It’s good to be back and stay tuned to Supertouchart.com

Taking LANCE ARMSTRONG’s coveted TREK art bikes to the streets today was Parisian couture culture spot COLETTE, where a trio of Tex’s 2009 race bikes customized by KENNY SCHARF (Giro d’Italia), KAWS (the Milan-Sanremo “Widowmaker” collarbone breaker), and SHEPARD FAIREY (Giro d’Italia) went on display in the shop’s front window. Set up to draw heat in advance of their debut at Lance’s Supertouch-curated art show “STAGES,” which opens this Thursday, July 16th at GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN, the go-fast machines were accompanied by examples of NIKE’s must-have “Greatest Hits” NSW shoes by FUTURA, MISTER CARTOON, and SoMe that were produced in LIVESTRONG’s trademark yellow colorway with 100% of profits going to benefit The Lance Armstrong Foundation/Livestrong. The bikes will join the “STAGES” show for its debut opening on Thursday and will later be joined on July 26th by Lance’s trio of Tour de France art bikes by MARC NEWSON, YOSHITOMO NARA, and, for the Tour finale, DAMIEN HIRST. Keep an eye on ST for more exclusive coverage of “STAGES” as the opening draws near and sneek peek looks at Lance’s next round of TDF bikes including an in-depth look at Hirst’s two-wheeled masterpiece…

Continuing his tradition of riding art bikes throughout his 2009 racing schedule to bring awareness to his forthcoming “STAGES” anti-cancer art show, ST buddy LANCE ARMSTRONG jumped out of the starting gate at this year’s TOUR DE FRANCE on a new prototype TREK TTX time trial bike (currently the most technologically advanced ride on the planet) customized by none other than design legend MARC NEWSON. Featuring a badass all-flat black paintjob with glossy yellow details, including a stroboscopic pattern on the rear disc wheel that pulses when spinning, the bike is a to-die-for addition to the quiver. Following up with a blazing time at yesterday’s Team Time Trial that pushed him into second place, we can’t help but think the bike must’ve had something to do with it. Sorry Lance, this year it IS about the bike. Stay tuned for sneek peeks at Lance’s upcoming ST-curated art bikes by YOSHITOMO NARA and DAMIEN HIRST coming soon.

As an added bonus all of Lance’s 2009 art bikes will be auctioned off by SOTHEBY’S on October 2nd at the VIP gala opening reception for “Stages” at the Park Avenue Armory with all proceeds going to benefit LIVESTRONG.

Lance photos by ST buddy LIZ KREUTZ

Thought we were gone for good, eh? No such luck…

After some heavy world travel and a busy month putting together LANCE ARMSTRONG’s epic art show “STAGES” set to debut on July 17th during the TOUR DE FRANCE, we’re back on the blog and ready to drop some serious sneek peeks at the art bikes and fine art our incredible roster of over 20 artists including ED RUSCHA, DAMIEN HIRST, RICHARD PRINCE, CAI GUO-QIANG, CATHERINE OPIE, KAWS, ERIC WHITE, RAYMOND PETTIBON, ROSSON CROW, YOSHITOMO NARA, KENNY SCHARF, and SHEPARD FAIREY has created in homage to the man in yellow’s return to the sport to spread his anti-cancer message worldwide. Keep it fixed here for the daily dose of ST you’ve been craving for the last 30. We’ll make it up to you…