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# 5 Art Gifts for Cyber Monday
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/5-art-gifts-for-cyber-monday/
- Published: 2012-11-26T21:13:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:45:45.000Z
- Description: Does Cyber Monday really exist? Who cares, but if you're like us you're looking for crazy stuff that isn't another iDevice, or scarf or mug or whatever everyone else already has. Here is our list of five items that should satisfy the most art-afflicted holiday gift junky.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, capitalism, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

Does Cyber Monday really exist? Who cares, but if you’re like us you’re looking for crazy stuff that isn’t another iDevice, or scarf or mug or whatever everyone else already has.

Here is our list of five items that should satisfy the most art-afflicted holiday gift junky.

## Balloon Dogs

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/11/balloon-dog-silver.jpg "balloon-dog-silver")](http://www.target.com/p/dog-balloon-lamp-silver-includes-cfl-bulb/-/A-14060360?ref=hyperallergic.com#prodSlot=large%5F1%5F25)

Take your pick, there’s [something for everyone](http://hyperallergic.com/16255/balloon-dogs-everywhere/) in this Jeff Koons-inspired category but our favorite is the [silver balloon dog lamp](http://www.target.com/p/dog-balloon-lamp-silver-includes-cfl-bulb/-/A-14060360?ref=hyperallergic.com#prodSlot=large%5F1%5F25) ($34.99) available at Target.

## Drugs or Art?

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/11/buy_art2-450.jpg "buy_art2-450")](http://store.printliberation.com/product/buy-art-not-cocaine?ref=hyperallergic.com)

I already bought mine for the Miami art fairs, and I think [this shirt by Print Revolution](http://store.printliberation.com/product/buy-art-not-cocaine?ref=hyperallergic.com) ($22) is the ultimate way of trolling for drugs, I mean, standing up for art!

## Art Thieves

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/11/art-thieves-400.jpg "art-thieves-400")](http://www.amazon.com/PLAYMOBIL%C2%AE-4265-Playmobil-Jewel-Thieves/dp/B0014BSHJ0?ref=hyperallergic.com)

While [this Playmobil set](http://www.amazon.com/PLAYMOBIL%C2%AE-4265-Playmobil-Jewel-Thieves/dp/B0014BSHJ0?ref=hyperallergic.com) ($10.66) is labeled “jewel thieves,” it’s not hard to imagine your art thief-in-training (I mean, the set include a painting on an easel) could be using this set as a staging group for future exploits. (h/t [@AbrahamRitchie](https://twitter.com/AbrahamRitchie/status/273110162670239744?ref=hyperallergic.com))

## Graffiti 101

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/11/51i7hewa3nl.jpg "51i7hEwa3nL")](http://www.amazon.com/Tulip-Graffiti-27702-1-Stencil-2-Tie-dye/dp/B0049G4UU2?ref=hyperallergic.com)

Why should the big kids have all the fun? Don’t you want something that will make a “big, phat statement” as it says on the box of this [graffiti starter kit](http://www.amazon.com/Tulip-Graffiti-27702-1-Stencil-2-Tie-dye/dp/B0049G4UU2?ref=hyperallergic.com) ($9.99)? After your pre-teen perfects their calligraphic stylings with this box set, then it’s only a hop, skip, and a jump away from Krink pens and Snowman markers. *Viva graffiti!* Though [not everyone](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/aaron-brothers-graffiti-kit.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) is happy with it.

## Artist-Made Christmas Ornaments

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/11/b-howland-decoration-1.jpg "B-Howland-decoration-1")](http://gallery.98bowery.com/christmas-tree-ornamentsoil-rig-with-money-bags-1980/?ref=hyperallergic.com)

Nothing says “I love Christmas” quite like a contemporary artist’s take on the holidays. While many artists have designed holiday decorations, this [pair of vintage Christmas tree ornaments](http://gallery.98bowery.com/christmas-tree-ornamentsoil-rig-with-money-bags-1980/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (1980) ($120) by artist Becky Howland brings the warm and fuzzy of the season home with images of an oil rig, money bags, and oil tankers on fire. If anti-capitalist messaging is up your alley, then check out the rest of the stuff on [98 Bowery’s great online shop](http://gallery.98bowery.com/inventory/?ref=hyperallergic.com) as well.

*Happy Cyber Shopping!*