Draw The Line, the mural festival in Campobasso (Italy), finished up recently. Here are the final two murals for the festival. The above wall is by Sten and Lex, and Erica Il Cane’s is below.

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Photos courtesy of Draw The Line

Erica Il Cane has a show, We Were Living in the Woods, opening in San Fransisco next Thursday at FIFTY24SF. Should be an interesting show. I go back and forth on Erica Il Cane’s art, but when I see his watercolors in person, I tend to fall in love with it all over again. Here’s a teaser:

Photos courtesy of FIFTY24SF

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It’s been a crazy week in London. Moniker and all that. But here’s what has been going on with street art elsewhere:

• Okay, so I will mention one thing about Moniker: Graffoto seems to be the first to post a review, and what a review it is. Doubtless, Vandalog will be posting something in the coming days, but in the mean time, check out Graffoto to see all that Moniker goodness.
• Mudwig is part of the Meta Snout show opening today at High Roller Society in London.
• NYC graffiti legend Cost collaborated with the folks at Supreme on some t-shirts. They are available online now.
• Erica il Cane and Lucy McLauchlan painted a huge wall in Lisbon.
• JR is getting up at the Shanghai Biennale.
• Bumblebee’s first solo show looks really great. Way better than I had expected.
• I’ve tried twice to see Word To Mother’s solo show at Stolenspace, but they always seem to be closed when I am near the gallery. Photos look great though and I’ve only heard good things.
• Microbo is part of a two-man 2-person show at Galo Art Gallery.
• Old-school graffiti writer Duster UA has a solo show coming up in December at London Miles Gallery. Tickets are on sale now for a special event at the gallery during the show.

Photo by unusualimage

I really like Ericailcane’s new murals for Fame Fest. He always does some of the best work there, in my opinion. See his 2009 walls here (my favorite) and here.

If you want to see more, I’ve posted some more photos of these new walls, plus a video of him working in Studiocromie, on tasj.

- Elisa

Images via Fame Fest.

M-City

Stavanger’s Nuart festival is well under way right now with some huge walls finished or in progress. This year’s Nuart is called The “Landmark” Series, and artists are not taking the challenge lightly. While in Stavanger last year, I thought that the city had been pretty transformed by street art, but now things are getting bigger than ever. A few weeks ago, Elisa posted here about Dotmasters’ Toy piece, but that’s just the start of what’s been going on.

Vhils in progress

EVOL didn't actually go huge, but he made a bunch of these (check out the Know Hope tag that was already on the box)

Alexandros Vasmoulakis

And I mentioned this piece by Blu and Ericailcane a while back, but didn’t actually post photos, so here are some photos of it:

Photos by kalevkevad

Been in NYC for the last few days. Besides being busy, it seems like the hotel I was at still hadn’t quite figured out the concept of wifi extending to all rooms in the hotel… So now I’ve got a lot of stories to post about. Here’s what I missed while I was away, though you may have read about it elsewhere:

• I’ve actually been meaning to post about this for a while. Ken Harman from Arrested Motion and the Hi-Fructose Blog, just curated one of the better group shows I’ve seen. Some artists of particular note would be Emory Douglas (a major influence on Shepard Fairey and important propaganda-maker in his own right), Dabs, Myla, Mike Shine and Monica Canilao. A Decade With No Name is open on Saturdays and Sundays through September 12th at 54 Washington St. Oakland, CA. My Love For You Is A Stampede of Horses has photos of Monica’s installation, and Spoke has photos of everything else and is where you can purchase the artwork.
• Papergirl NY is bringing Germany’s Papergirl concept to the USA. Basically, artists get together to distribute a bunch of free art to members of the public by riding around on bikes. Their YouTube video shows what happens in a bit more detail. Papergirl NY events are taking place in New York City this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday they will be at the DUMBO Arts Center, and then Papergirl will move to The Armory where you can find them Friday through Sunday.
• Mobstr hasn’t been around forever, but his humor can already rival Banksy.
• Blu and Ericailcane are in Stavanger for Nuart, and their wall is one of Blu’s boldest political statements yet (after all, Stavanger is an oil-funded city, and oil money from taxes pretty much funds Nuart). Nice stuff.
• I’m loving Shepard Fairey’s portrait of Johnny Ramone at Signal Gallery’s Beyond Punk show.
• Graffiti in New Orleans after Katrina.
• Luzinterruptus has made some “urban nests.”
• I’m hoping to post some more about this in the coming days, but Jordan Seiler as written on his blog about his experiences at Living Walls.
• Once5 aka Jeffrey Pena has a solo show coming up at My Addiction Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. Pena has a nice timelapse on YouTube of him putting up a large paper-cut in Brooklyn.

So that’s it for now, but I should be back to daily posts now.

Rovina (Italian for ‘ruin’), an installation from Ericailcane, has just opened at the POP UP! Festival in Ancona, Italy. Rovina takes place in an abandoned building, certainly reminiscent of Ericailcane’s work inside FAME Festival‘s abandoned monastery. In addition to painting the walls, this show also includes sculpture. For years, Ericailcane has been making beautiful stop-motion animations with sculptures and there were some simple ceramic pieces at FAME Festival last year, but I think this may be the first time that Ericailcane has put such complex sculptures into a show (but I’m not expert on Ericailcane, so I could be mistaken on this). As nice as the wallpaintings are, the sculptures are definitely my favorite part of this show. Just wish I could see it in person and walk around, it’s hard to get a real feel for the space from a few photos. Nonetheless, here are a few more photos:

This show is part of the 3rd edition of the POP UP! Festival. The festival has just opened with Rovina and will run through September 5th with a number of other events. There are three highlights: On July 30th, Blu will be previewing his latest animation; throughout August, a number of streets artists will be painting fishing boat hulls; on September 5th, the painted fishing boats will head back into the water. And it sounds like at least Blu will also be painting some a wall or two in Ancona.

Photo courtesy of the POP UP! Festival

Ericailcane and a bunch of other amazing street artists are currently painting at Breakin’ The Wall in Wrocław. Just has plenty of photos from the event on his blog. It’s well worth checking out.

Photo by Just

A few weeks ago, I had the chance to speak with Will Barras while Dem, Ericailcane and him were doing some live painting for Original Cultures in London:

Ericailcane has a new website! Check it out now – he’s uploaded lots of great photos of his drawings, murals, installations, videos and more!

- Elisa