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Photo by Luna Park

For the last week or so until today, we’ve been in the process changing Vandalog’s web hosts. No need to get into the technical details, but now the site should run more smoothly and with less downtime. Unfortunately it means that we haven’t been able to write anything new on the site since that process began (everything that’s gone online was pre-scheduled). So this is a mega-link-o-rama combining the usual weekend link-o-rama content with stuff that I could have written about last week even if I’d had the time.

• Martha Cooper turned 70 this weekend, and the graffiti community came together at Bowery and Houston to give her a giant surprise birthday present (pictured above). How and Nosm told Cooper that they were planning to repaint their piece at Bowery and Houston and told her to come by at noon on Saturday, but they didn’t tell her how they were going to have to piece repainted. They brought together a bunch of new and old graffiti legends and painted a giant blockbuster tribute to Cooper. BSA has plenty more great photos of the piece in progress and a perfect shot of Cooper reacting to seeing the mural.
• WK Interact’s pop-up show in NYC is absolutely fantastic, a must-see show. Think it this way: This show, as I understand it, is a retrospective but it’s made up of the work that WK had in his studio, not work borrowed or on the secondary market from collectors, so this is a lot of unsold work. And yet, the show is still one of the strongest I’ve seen from any artist in quite a while, and the work holds up just fine next to anything else by WK. Even the work that has been sitting in the WK’s studio for a few years is just masterpiece after masterpiece. Good stuff.
• I love this t-shirt designed by Snoeman for Carnage (Snoeman is the zine’s featured artist in their latest issue).
• Sick new Dabs and Myla mural in Melbourne.
• Mr. Brainwash has lost another lawsuit by a photographer upset with MBW’s appropriation. Basically, it boils down to MBW’s work being too similar to the original photograph, with no original contributions to the work by MBW.
• Aiko’s installation at the Japan Society in NYC is beautiful. Can’t wait to see it in person.
• Sounds like Logan Hick’s show in LA was a big hit. Here are photos of the finished and installed work.
• Some crazy walls from Abik.
• This year’s OFFSET lectures in Dublin will include JR and Faile.
• NYC has some amazing graffiti on trucks.
• A quick Overunder tag.
• Os Gemeos talk about their show at the ICA Boston and their massive mural there from last summer (if you can spot me in the video, you have eagle eyes by the way).
• It appears that Phil Frost hit a massive billboard in LA, and then the billboard was stolen. But the whole thing seems like a shady PR scam for Ace Gallery. Melrose&Fairfax has the full story, but one point they don’t make is that Ace Gallery has a history of controversy, so that makes me even more doubtful that this billboard and its theft are real. Also, let’s face it, there’s a good chance that the billboard is illegal anyway since this was in LA, so who cares if the ad was stolen off of the billboard?
• Is this new David de la Mano piece a comment on the removal of Hyuro’s Atlanta mural?

Photo by Luna Park

Ron English’s mural on Mulberry Street

Last week we announced The Art of Comedy, a series of art installations and murals with The New York Comedy Festival that Wayne Rada and I curated. The Art of Comedy also coincided with solo shows by all three of the artists involved: Ron English, gilf!, and Hanksy. Due to Hurricane Sandy, both the official unveiling of the murals that these artists have painted in Little Italy and their solo show openings have been delayed by a week. So, here’s what the calendar looks like now for The Art of Comedy and those gallery shows:

• November 7th-11th: The Art of Comedy installations by Ron English, Hanksy, and gilf! are up in lounge inside of the comedy club Carolines on Broadway.
• November 8th 5-9pm: gilf!’s show at Galerie Swanström (136 Sullivan Street, 3rd Floor) will have an opening.
• November 8th 6-9pm: Ron English’s show, Crucial Fiction, opens at Opera Gallery NYC (115 Spring St).
• November 8th 6-9pm: Hanksy’s show, Young Puns 2 – Now With More Pun, opens at Krause Gallery (149 Orchard Street).
• November 10th at noon: The Art of Comedy Art Crawl starts at Caffe Roma on Mulberry and Broome streets and continues down Mulberry towards Canal Street as we check out Little Italy’s latest murals.

Also, in the past week, we’ve had interviews by Rhiannon Platt with gilf! and Hanksy, and Rhiannon also took some photos of Hanksy working on two of his three murals.

Photo by Wayne Rada

We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out!

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• Guggenheim - Stillspotting nyc is a multidisciplinary project that takes the museum’s Architecture and Urban Studies programming out into the streets of the city’s five boroughs.
• Asia Society Museum - Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao represents the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the United States.
• Creative Time - Creative Time Reports features Artists’ analysis of pressing news and events from around the world.
• Association of Public Art - Open Air, an interactive art installation that allows participants’ voices to transform the night sky over Philadelphia’s historic Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
• Curator’s Office - Progressive contemporary micro-gallery and curatorial service bureau for offsite projects and exhibitions in Washington, DC.
• Art Miami -  Miami’s premier anchor fair, showcases the best in modern and contemporary art from more than 100 international art galleries. December 4-9, 2012
• Pacific Northwest College of Art  - For over 100 years, PNCA has served as a creative hub for artists and designers with an educational philosophy that emphasizes individualized curricula, independent inquiry and cross-disciplinary exchange.
• NYU Steinhardt - Graduate art programs in Studio Art, Art Education, Art Therapy, Visual Culture: Costume Studies, and Visual Arts Administration.
• International Center of Photography -  The ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies offers a curriculum of professional and studio practice, critical study, and Resident Artist Projects.
• School of Visual Arts - Molecular Cuisine: The Politics of Taste is an interdisciplinary conference investigating the importance of taste from the perspectives of the culinary arts, sociology, art history and theory, anthropology, as well as the cognitive, material and biological sciences.
• artnet Auctions - Shepard Fairey: The Giant in Society and Politics, a special sale of over 30 rare prints by renowned Street artist Shepard Fairey.

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• Mixed Greens - In the current exhibition, Night For Day, Joseph Smolinsky uses drawing and sculpture to explore subtle shifts of light, time, space, and climate.
• Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival - Annual event featuring artists and publishers, lectures, exhibits and events.
• School of Visual Arts - The MA in Critical Theory and the Arts is an intensive yearlong study of the problems and questions of making art today.
• New York Academy of Sciences – Science and the Seven Deadly Sins - A vice – ridden series of events featuring scientists, authors, urban planners and many more.
• Tim Roseborough - The Art Rap EP by D. Skilling
• Pernod Absinthe - The Art & Absinthe Guide to Brooklyn – mobile interaction with the thriving arts community of Brooklyn, NY.
• Art Systems – Professional art gallery, antiques and collections management software
• TheBowerbirds - brings together a collection of art from various Asian artists and makes them available to everyone as art prints

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Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard at Vandalog to produce content both for the blog and for the other sites that we post on around the web, and so it seems worth mentioning just what those other sites art. So, where else besides Vandalog.com can you find Vandalog content?

• Most recently, we started up a page for Vandalog on Google+. We’ll also probably be taking part in some Hangouts on Google+ soon.
• A bunch of us are on Twitter.
• RJ is on Instagram.
• RJ is also still on Flickr.
• There’s the Facebook fan page.
• And finally, the Tumblr.

All of those pages have some amount of overlap between one another and the blog as well, but there’s also original content on each platform that you’ll only come across there.

Photo by k6martini

We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out!

• Art Southampton – The Premiere International Contemporary & Modern Art Fair in the Hamptons, July 26th – 30th
• Asia Society Museum - Current exhibition of ink paintings by Wu Guanzhong, considered one of the most important Chinese artists of the twentieth century, April 24th – August 5th

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We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out!

• Brooklyn Museum- GO is a community-curated open studio project. Artists across Brooklyn will open their studio doors, so that you can decide who will be featured in a group show at the Brooklyn Museum
• International Center of Photography - The ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies offers a curriculum of professional and studio practice, critical study, and Resident Artist Projects
• Art Southampton – The Premiere International Contemporary & Modern Art Fair in the Hamptons, July 26-30
• Corey Helford Gallery - Motion: The Art of Movement, a major group exhibition open through June 30

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