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It’s content I missed. Check it out.

• The East Gallery, a section of the Berlin Wall covered in art and still standing, was knocked down this week.
• New print available from Pixelpancho.
• Or if plush is more your thing, check out Personal Jesus by Dave the Chimp.
• Some really great murals by Run in Gambia and Senegal.
• Barry McGee has a show opening in Fort Worth this week.
• I really like the placement and scale of this piece by Liqen.
• Rap + site specific work + Jay Shells = Yes.
• Adam Cost is on the cover of the Village Voice this week.
• Gaia’s first solo show in London opens at Nelly Duff next month.

Photo by OX

“Modern Tulipa” by Ludo

Bit of a shorter link-o-rama this week. I’ve been with my parents in Colorado, trying to get some work done on my upcoming book. The hope is that Viral Art will be released for free online in mid-June. There’s still a fair bit of work left to do though. Anyway, the links…

• Don’t Fret had a show in Chicago earlier this year around the theme of internet dating. Great stuff.
• Liqen’s latest piece is a call to preserve a wildlife sanctuary in Ecuador.
• A.CE has a new print out at Station16.
• Sweet piece by 45RPM on a huge airplane. Anyone know the story here?
• Sowat painted in the historic Paris nightclub Les Bains next to a Futura piece from the mid-80′s.
• Paul Insect and Sweet Toof have been getting up around London. It looks like his time spent with Bast while in NYC recently may have influenced him a bit, as some of Paul Insect’s work is in a more naive style reminiscent of Bast or Haring that I don’t think I’ve seen from him before. Looks good.

Photo by Ludo

Liqen. Click to view large.

Well, it’s a slow week, but not completely silent. Here’s a bit of what we missed:

• Nice little Horfe.
• And then there’s this new Roti with a few of his friends combining street art and graffiti in a great way.
• Biserama is new to me, but definitely interesting.
• I don’t usually enjoy light installations (usually they’re just so corny, like thankfully temporary plop art), but these are an exception.
• Ever wondered about NYC’s mosaic light posts?
• Finally, Nosego has been brightening up Philadelphia’s walls.
• Steve Powers is a “studio gangster”.

Photo by Liqen

Ron English working on his mural at Nuart

For most of last week, I was in Stavanger, Norway for the 2012 Nuart Festival. Naturally, even though I was there in part as press, I spent very little time on my computer and didn’t do any blogging. So, expect a full post or two about Nuart later this week, but for now here’s what I missed writing about while I was away:

• SheOne always does beautiful work.
• Reed Space has an official Stay High 149 tee.
• Here’s a video with the anonymous man behind some of the best and most talked about ad disruptions of the year.
• Daniel Feral has updated his Feral Diagram of graffiti and street art.
• Swoon’s studio recently launched an online shop for selling unique prints by Swoon.
• Fame Festival opened last week.
• Liqen has painted a mural about greenwashing and sweeping things under the rug.
• Hyuro is using rugs in her work too.
• Escif’s mural “Ne travaillez jamais” (Never Work) not only looks great/hilarious but it references Situationist graffiti, so I absolutely love it. Maybe I’ll turn it into a postcard.
• Steve Powers’ and Joey Garfield’s film A Love Letter for You is now available on iTunes. It’s an interesting film well worth checking out if you like Powers.
• Greg Lamarche aka SPOne has a show opening this week at Joshua Liner Gallery.

Photo by Ian Cox

Liqen’s wall in progress

WALL\THERAPY, Rochester’s mural festival, looks like it’s going well so far. Here are a few shots of walls in progress (from Liqen, Case, How/Nosm and DALeast), plus How and Nosm’s completed mural…

Case’s wall in progress

How and Nosm at work

How and Nosm’s wall in progress

DALeast’s wall in progress

How and Nosm’s finished wall. Click to view large.

Photos by Erich Lehman

Thievin’ Stephen

WALL\THERAPY is a mural event in Rochester, NY being put together by, Dr. Ian Wilson and The Synthesis Collaborative, the same people who organized last year’s Visual Intervention. This year, artists from Rochester and around the world will be painting as part of WALL\THERAPY: Faith47, DALeast, Ben Eine, Liqen, Case, ROA, Cern, St. Monci, Mr. Prvrt, Thievin’ Stephen, How & Nosm and Siloette.

The murals will be painted July 20th-27th, so that might be a fun time to visit Rochester.

For more information about WALL\THERAPY and events surrounding the festival, check their facebook event page.

Photo by Rich Paprocki

A freight train in Atlanta

This week has been a lot of trying to get ahead on my work, because on Saturday evening I’m headed to New York City for the night. I’ll be checking out Flash at the Wooster Street Social Club. Here’s some stuff I missed covering over the last few days:

• Bast has a show opening this weekend at Lazarides’ Newcastle location. Most of the work is in a completely (almost unrecognizably) new style.
• Swoon’s installation at the ICA Boston is now on view.
• Some big walls are being painted at the CityLeaks festival in Germany.
• But none of those murals are quite as cool as Liqen’s latest.
• 555 Gallery in Detroit has finally settled their lawsuit and can display the Banksy that they stole off the streets, completely ruining the meaning of the piece.
• Escif was at Fame Festival.
• Kaws has a solo show open now in LA.
• Fab5Freddy, Lee and Futura are together in a show at Subliminal Projects this weekend.
• Ludo’s show in London is open now.
• Twist aka Barry McGee and his partner Amaze get up big in Sydney.

Photo by RJ Rushmore

Labrona and Troy Lovegates aka Other in Chile

Freshman year is almost over and soon I’ll be leaving Philadelphia for NYC and London (just for the summer though). And yet, I still have finals to study for, so I didn’t get time to write about these things…

• Matt Small’s first LA solo show opened this week.
• Juxtapoz visited Deuce 7′s studio.
• I did a little interview for my friends at Primary Flight, but Anthony Lister’s answers to the same questions are much better.
• Ricky-Lee Gordon aka Freddy Sam painting in Woodstock, South Africa.
• If you are interested in buffing or Escif, you need to hear this story.
• Herakut, Bumblebee, Case and others at LeBasse Projects.
• A fantastic project from Liqen.

Photo by Labrona