Swoon in New York City

A day late, but here’s the link-o-rama. Let’s just say it feels like I’ve been competing, exactly one year on, with Ben Eine for the title of having had the strangest week. Here’s what I’ve missed:

• The NYTimes has an article about Taki183, an update of sorts on their article from that original article from 40 years ago I guess.
• A video and images from that show of graffuturism in Glasgow.
• Kid Acne’s museum show in Sheffield has opened and Arrested Motion interviewed the artist.
• Don’t Panic interviewed Pablo Delgado.
• Insa’s just done a new Gif-itti animation.
• Lots of updates from FAME Festival: Boris Hoppek, Erica Il Cane, Blu and Aryz.
• And if you need more Italian political street art, you can check out the latest short film from Six Oranges.
• Shok-1 painted a mural in China, but now the government wants it removed.
• Vhils is getting up in LA.
• A politician in Bristol wants to find a way to protect (extremely valuable) street art. I’m not saying I oppose the idea, but the article does read exactly what something I’d expect to find in The Onion.

Photo by Sabeth718

I know Vandalog doesn’t usually post about non-street art shows, but the latest at London Miles Gallery off Brick Lane piqued my interest. The show is entitled Guilty Pleasures & Modern Vices, which artists will depict a modern version of the Seven Deadly Sins. The line-up consists of mostly pop surrealists and contemporary modern figurative painters, but among them is INSA. As a fan of his colorful abstracts and hyper realistic portraiture, I am looking forward to see what piece he submits. I’m thinking desire or voyeurism for his theme?

ARGH LHR in London

Well I’m on my way back to Philadelphia this weekend. I can’t wait to get there and back into the swing of things. Random comment about Philly: If anyone knows of any photographers who are actively documenting street art and graffiti there, please let me know. Anyway, here’s what we missed this week:

• KAWS/OriginalFake have posted images of their latest line of t-shirts. A few cool (but of course expensive as hell) designs.
• Brooklyn Street Art visited Swoon’s studio and interviewed here. And there are some big events going on at Swoon’s Konbit Shelter project in Haiti.
• SheOne had a show open in Munich this week.
• One more reason to dislike Worcester, MA: The city is forcing property owners to buff a tasteful mural that the property owners like.
• It looks like Urban Outfitters have blatantly ripped off a street artist’s design about the annoyingness of hipsters and turned it into a shirt to sell to hipsters. Hrag at Hyperallergic has some analysis, and although I don’t agree with a lot of what he says in that post, he’s always interesting.
• Shepard Fairey and Mark Mothersbaugh, the frontman for Devo, are having a show together at Subliminal Projects. It opens next week. Shepard might have some interesting work, but from what I’ve seen of Mothersbaugh’s art… Well he’s a really good musician.
• Insa has a number of prints available at Squarity. Insa fanatics will probably love them, but otherwise, they’re nothing particularly new.
• Another group is protesting Jeffrey Deitch.

Photo by nolionsinengland

Check out what Insa has been up to in LA. Collabs with Revok and Kid Zoom:

The Kid Zoom/Insa wall is part of the LA Freewalls Project, who have been organizing a lot of murals in LA lately.

Animations by Insa via his blog (Kid Zoom post and Revok post)

Fool’s Gold European Tour and Exhibition from Pigeon Promotions on Vimeo.

Here’s a new little video from Insa documenting his recent tour around Europe.

The mural piece at 2.26 is pretty rad!

In anticipation of INSA and Inkie’s European summer exhibit, Fools Gold, Dj Kokoro has made a very special mix tape especially for this upcoming event.

Bristol legend Inkie and London graffiti fetishist INSA will be traveling across Europe, painting murals in London, Brussels and Berlin, finally arriving in Warsaw to hang their first ever collaborative exhibition of paintings and limited edition prints. Tights and Leggings will be the official afterparty of the Fool’s Gold launch party in Warsaw on June 11th.

DJ Kokoro has many different beats in his bag, mainly focusing on various style of dubstep, going through UK-garage, grime and reggae, while also playing dubplates from his own ‘Neo Tokyo Bass’ crew. Based where the name suggests, the NTB ‘push pure vibes of their origin through the filter of dubstep beat science’.

Download Tights & Leggings Mix vol.3 HERE

Very Nearly Almost‘s 11th issue hits shelves this month, and so next week they’ve got a launch party for the magazine. Should be good fun. This issue’s cover artist is the UK’s INSA, and other artists from around the world are featured inside. In fact, make sure to pick up this issue of magazine because it’s where you can read an interview that I did with Case earlier this year. Plus they’ve got the legendary Mike Giant, the super-cool photographer Ruedione and one of my personal favorite artists, Gaia. Hope to see you at the launch.

And speaking of Ruedione, Acclaim Magazine has just posted an interview that Ruedieone did with Revok just moments before Revok’s infamous arrest in Australia.

The Very Nearly Almost blog posted this (slightly NSFW) videos of Insa painting. Looks like it has something to do with the soon-to-be-released VNA issue 11.

INSA and VNA from Make Some Tea on Vimeo.

This looks to be an interesting show at Blackall Studios on Thursday. For now I’ve come across some cool previews of the work by Insa and David Walker:

Insa

David Walker

Lately, it seems like Insa has been getting up in London every weekend. Here’s some of his recent work. Man Insa loves feet.

Photo by unusualimage

Photo from Insa

Photo by unusualimage

Insa at Meeting of Styles. Photo by unusualimage

Photo from Insa