Peter Fuss

I wish I had time for a weekend…

• Aryz’ show in San Fransisco looks like a hit.
• London street art photographer Delete is organizing three shows at Doomed Gallery in Hackney throughout May.
• Jace’s new work is cute as always.
• JR is taking over Times Square with his photobooth. Caroline already stopped by.
• mobstr does it again. Perfect placement.
• Leon Reid IV wants to remind you just how much that college degree is really worth.
• Nychos is killing it in Turin.
• New billboard takeover by the California Department of Corrections.

Photo by Peter Fuss

Rowdy and Gold Peg in Leeds

I missed last week’s link-o-rama because I was in Boston for the Barry McGee show at the ICA Boston. So worth the trip (more on that soon), but for now here’s what I missed:

• Wow. So many great murals at La Bienal de Arte Urbano in Bolivia: Erica il Cane x Bastardilla, Charquipunk, Decertor, Inti… Definitely check those out.
• Hooked visited with Gaia while he prepared a new linoblock print for his upcoming London solo show.
• Josh MacPhee of Just Seeds is speaking tonight in Philadelphia.
• A really great community mural.
• A young Canadian Instagram user was arrested for a photo she posted of a piece of street art because they thought she made the piece. Well, if I ever go to Montreal, I guess I should be careful about what I post to my Instagram.
• They sold out pretty quickly so I’m sorry I didn’t get to this sooner, but Essam (the artist who did those great NYPD/drone ad disruptions) released a few prints of those posters at 1xRun last week.
• Russian street artist Pasha 183 (think along the lines of Banksy or SpY) has died at the age of 28.
• The fantastic artist Nychos will be showing at the equally fantastic Galo Art Gallery in Turin, Italy later this month. A great pairing.
• Cre8tive YouTH*ink & Centrefuge Public Art Project are raising money through Indiegogo to work with teens to make a series of murals in NYC.

Photo courtesy of Rowdy

As I tweeted the other day, my mind is kinda stuck on how much I wish the Parra show at Jonathan Levine Gallery opened today and not on Saturday so that I could go see it. So while I’ve been distracted by that point, here’s some of what I almost missed this week:

• KATSU’s April Fools prank is a bit early, but still pretty funny.
• The Outsiders / Lazarides has some really nice prints by Ron English. They are variations on his Figment image, aka Andy Warhol wig and a skull.
• Barry McGee, Chris Johanson and Laurie Reid are showing together at City College and SF starting today.
• Here’s a new piece from the always-interesting 0331c, but if you don’t know 0331c’s work, here’s an introduction.
• Nice video of Eine updating one of his walls in London from saying PRO PRO PRO to PROTAGONIST. Interesting comment about street art being a thing that “looked like it would offer what graffiti promised but didn’t deliver.”
• Nychos x Jeff Soto = Yes!
• New work from Isaac Cordal.
• Woah. Nice work from How and Nosm in San Fransisco.
• Jonathan Jones is up to his old tricks of dissing Banksy to get more hits for his column, and I’m biting. He writes, “Banksy, as an artist, stops existing when there is no news about him.” Even if that is the case, is that the end of the world? Does that relegate Banksy to “art-lite”? No. Banksy is one of the most talked-about artists in the world. I would bet that the same criticism was leveled against Warhol, who I believe Jones likes. Banksy’s manipulation of the media, playing it like a damn violin sometimes, is some of his greatest artwork of all. He manipulates the media to spread a message. The best example of this was probably him going to Bethlehem to paint on the separation wall because he knew that the media would cover it. He was able to play the media to draw attention to an issue that he felt strongly about. Banksy’s paintings are sometimes great and sometimes not. But his ability to make people fascinated with him and his paintings is just as much of an art, and that shouldn’t discredit him.

Photo by Luna Park

Kid Acne at Village Underground in London

Sorry for the late link-o-rama. Caroline came to visit on Thursday, so I’ve been trying to stay offline.

• I love these simply-sprayed but clever one-liners by MTO.
• Alexandros Vasmoulakis has a show open now at LeBasse Projects in LA, and it looks really really nice.
• The brilliant and massively under-appreciated Peter Kennard has a solo show this month at UpperPlayground’s Mexico City Gallery Fifty24MX.
• San Franciscans are lucky that two Brits, Sickboy and Word To Mother, have solo shows going on there now. Sickboy is at Shooting Gallery and Word To Mother is at the affiliated White Walls Gallery.
• Apparently Zilda and Ro have been collaborating for some time, but I think this is the first I’ve heard of it and the result is fantastic.
• It’s already sold out, but I really like this recent Nychos print from 1xRun.
• Half of La Pandilla just painted a mural in LA.
• Australian street artist CDH is thinking about the preservation of street art in a responsible manner and trying to get the effort going in Australia. Definitely an interesting, and controversial, read.

Photo by HowAboutNo!

NEKST. Photo by C-Monster.net

So much news this week, but first and foremost is the untimely death of NEKST, a globally respected writer.

• I love trains like this with messages instead of names.
• But I love how 0331c uses extinguishers even more.
• Here’s a porcelain sculpture by Horfe.
• VNA has released a sticker pack with stickers by D*Face, Invader, Kid Zoom, Nychos and others.
• Great wheatpaste by Cannon in Oakland.
• Kathy Grayson defends Jeffrey Deitch, and Shepard Fairey backs her up. I’ve got to agree. He’s been getting a lot of shit for what he’s been up to as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and I’m sure Kathy’s right that he’s not always the easiest guy to get along with, she’s also entirely right that he’s also put on good shows at MOCA and attendance has gone up because Deitch isn’t willing to be as elitist about as others in the art community would like him to be.
• ZEVS hit this massive iPad ad in NYC.
• Brooklyn Street Art has a great post about Overunder’s artist residency in Reno, specifically ND’A's time there.

Photo by C-Monster.net

This video has some great behind the scenes interview with the artists from this year’s See No Evil event, which took place in Bristol in August. The festival featured walls by SheOne, M-City, Pixelpancho, Mark Bode, Nychos, Flying Fortress and many others.

Mural by Eduardo Kobra. Photo by Lord Jim.

Let’s do this:

• A Kidult interview on Hypebeast. Has he entered the belly of the beast in order to subvert it from within or has he always been at home there?
• New Yorkers will be getting their first auction dedicated to work by street artists and graffiti writers later this year.
• Neckface has two prints which went on sale last night online and at New Image Art. The show at New Image Art is still running.
• Nychos is in London.
• Ben Valentine asks “What Does Meaningful Engagement with Public Art Look Like?”
• NoseGo, Joe Iurato, LNY and others are in a show at Jinxed in Philadelphia opening Saturday night.
• Phibs and Anthony Lister collaborated on a wall in Sydney.
• Did you know that there’s a giant, colorful and fantastic mural at CERN?
• Sven Davis, the UK director of Arrested Motion, has curated a massive show opening in Portland this September.
• Here’s a video of Phlegm painting during his recent visit to NYC.
• Eine was recently painting in Vienna.

Photo by Lord Jim

Nychos has two prints available right now at 1xRun. The prints are different colorways of an image called Ghetto Bird. The blue Ghetto Bird is an edition of 15 and available for $100. The tan version is an edition of 40 and is available for $50. 1xRun’s prints are only available for a limited amount of time, even when they don’t sell out, so you’ve only got about a week to pick up one of these Nychos prints before they go into 1xRun’s archives.

Via Very Nearly Almost

Photos courtesy of 1xRun

Hef

Weird and wondrous characters continue to make their way onto the streets of Bushwick. Here are a few I came upon today:

Never

Nychos

The Yok

Photos by Lois Stavsky

Nychos

Great work from Nychos and Shue at Inoperable Gallery‘s Shutterland project in Vienna.

Via 12ozProphet

Photo courtesy of Inoperable Gallery