Weekend link-o-rama

November 12th, 2010 | By | 4 Comments »

A lot of events have been happening this week, most likely so that everyone can make a last minute push in shows and such before the holidays. Then we have nothing to write about. Gotta love when a whole industry shuts down for a month or so.

Blu (photo vua Nuart)

Anyways, so here is what has been going on:

  • Tonight is the opening of the London Miles Gallery “The Idol Hours”. The show is a group show that gives artists like Luke Chueh, Travis Lampe and Scott Young the opportunity to portray artworks from the art canon in a modern sense
  • Factory Fresh will be hosting a Block Part in Brooklyn Nov. 20th with a live mural painting from Gai, Imminent Disaster, Chris Stain and Skewville. The Burning Candy Crew will also be showing new portions of their ongoing documentary Dots
  • New Blu piece in France popped up recently. Such detail as usual
  • Remi/Rough has been busy in England lately. He has a new print released, designed the decor of the new Wahaca Soho eatery, and put up a nice piece in Birmingham with time lapse video
  • Finally, A Barry McGee retrospective will take place in 2012 in Berkeley, California in conjunction with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The two organizations were awarded a $100,000 grant by the Andy Warhol Foundation to put on the show
  • Unusual Image has some great photos of the Best Ever show that took place at Blackall Studios last night
  • Stolenspace will play host to the second solo show by Ronzo entitled “Crackney’s Finest.” The show will open Nov. 19th

No related posts.


Category: Art News | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
  • http://blog.vandalog.com RJ

    Hey, I just got an email from Stephanie. She’s not going to be near a computer for 24 hours or so, so I she wanted me to respond to Chimp’s comment (presumably she saw the comment before leaving her house and then emailed me from a phone. I don’t know).

    So here’s some clarification from Stephanie:
    I meant the industry that sells street art, like you said the galleries and the museums. They tend to take a break around this time of year.

    But more importantly it was also a shout out to an artist I spoke with who says in the winter he stops being a street artist, because he hates the cold. Something that a number of street artists do (and many will admit to). So I guess my sarcasm went too far and wasn’t understood. But I did not mean any disrespect and I do not think actual street art is an inudstry, the industry is the buying and selling of street artists who create sellable art.

  • http://blog.vandalog.com RJ

    Maybe the Sotheby’s Institute is poisoning Stephanie’s head with dollar signs… But yeah street art does kind of shut down in the winter, or at least slow down a lot. People don’t like the cold. That said, I think Roa’s mural from like 2 years ago at Factory Fresh was painting during a blizzard.

  • Chimp

    “Gotta love when a whole industry shuts down for a month or so”

    INDUSTRY!?!?!

    Is that what “street art” is to you? A fucking INDUSTRY!?!?!?

    Just because the GALLERIES and certain artists PUBLIC RELATIONS TEAMS won’t be working, it doesn’t mean that artists that work in the street won’t be out there creating new stuff.

    Maybe you should spend more time in the streets discovering art for yourself, rather than existing on a diet of press releases, spin, and bullshit sold to you.

    There will ALWAYS be things to write about if you keep your eyes open.

  • 4444

    Don’t waste your time Chimp. I gave up on this lot ages ago. They’re the children of Thatcher and Reagan, so for them everything is reduced to the status of a commodity. They’ve been indoctrinated to think that way from birth, along with millions of others. No amount of blog comments can break that lifetime of mental conditioning. Just let them get on with their dull commercial merry-go-round.