Fourthwall Project in Boston has put together a show with LNY, Radical!, Tiptoe, Nanook, The Phantom, Geoff Hargadon, Zatara and Blackmath. Each artist in Street Wall will wheatpaste their work onto the gallery walls. Although the artist line up is great, the concept is the sort of thing that could really go either way and it’s impossible to say for certain. Hopefully it works out.

Photo by Radical and flyer courtesy of Fourth Wall Project

Radical! is a young street artist based in upstate New York. This year, he’s been included in shows curated by Vandalog as well as Brooklyn Street Art as well as Living Walls Albany, but I’m pretty sure that his show opening this week at Munch Gallery is his first solo show in NYC. Upside Down Frowns will be full of entirely new work from Radical!, as well as site-specific pieces. The opening is on Friday from 7-10pm and the show runs through November 20th. Also, MaNY just uploaded a video of Radical! painting a mural a few months back.

Photo courtesy of Munch Gallery

Here’s the latest spot organized by Murals around New York/MaNY. As you can see, it’s in NoHo in NYC, right by the entrance to Bleecker Street Station. The gate on the left was painted by Radical, and the gate on the right was painted by Veng.

Here’s a timelapse of the painting process:

Radical x Veng – Lafayette / Bleecker St, NYC from MaNY Project on Vimeo.

Photos by Udom Surangsophon

Anthony Lister at Venice Beach

Brooklyn Street Art and Thinkspace Art Gallery have put together a huge group show called Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Stories. It opens next Friday, August 12th at C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice, CA (not Thinkspace). The 40+ artists (39 names, but some are duos) come from around the world, but mainly New York. There’s a great range of artists from up-and-coming guys like Radical! to legends like Futura.

Photo by Anthony Lister

Back in April, we posted about my friend Keith Schweitzer’s mural project at Coney Island with No Longer Empty. Well he isn’t done with Coney Island just yet. There have been more additions to this series of walls by OverUnder, Veng, Radical and ND’A. Here’s Radical‘s section. For photos of the rest of the wall, check out Amusing the Zillion.

Photos by Keith Schweitzer

How and Nosm. Photo by Michael Pearce

Thursday night was the opening of Up Close and Personal, and it was a pretty great (although my opinion is biased since I helped curate it). We’re open through Sunday evening, so if you’re in New York, please stop by and check it out and let me know what you think. Up Close and Personal is taking place at an apartment on the Upper West Side; it’s not the traditional setting for art, but trust me, buzz and somebody will let you in. We’re at 217 West 106th Street, Apartment 1A, New York, between Broadway and Amsterdam.

Here’s some photos from last night:

Troy Lovegates aka Other. Photo by Michael Pearce

White Cocoa. Photo by Michael Pearce

Skewville. Photo by Michael Pearce

R. Robot. Photo by Michael Pearce

Aiko. Photo by RJ Rushmore

Know Hope. Photo by RJ Rushmore

Radical. Photo by RJ Rushmore

Photos by Michael Pearce and RJ Rushmore

In two weeks, Vandalog and Murals Around New York (MANY) will be putting on a pop-up show in a New York City apartment. Up Close and Personal mostly came out of two ideas: 1. Street artists tend to work large outdoors and we wanted to challenge people to make art on a small scale and 2. We’ve all seen artwork in galleries that either would only look good in a gallery but not in a home, or is just too big to fit into a typical apartment and we wanted to see something different from that. With Up Close and Personal, the show itself is taking place in an apartment on the Upper West Side, and we have capped the size of the artwork at 30 x 30 inches, with an emphasis on going as small as possible.

I’ve worked with Keith Schweitzer and Mike Glatzer of M.A.N.Y. to curate this show, and we’re really excited with the line up that we’ve managed to put together: Aiko, Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Don Leicht, Edible Genius, Elbowtoe, Gaia, How & Nosm, Jessica Angel, John Fekner, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Mike Ballard, OverUnder, R. Robot, Radical, Retna, Skewville, Tristan Eaton, Troy Lovegates aka Other and White Cocoa.

Up Close and Personal opens May 12th from 7-9pm. We’ll also be open from 7-9pm on the 13th. Then noon-9pm and noon-7pm on the 14th and 15th respectively. Particularly on the 12th, it is possible that we’ll be shifting people in every half hour or so, since the space is a small apartment. The show is taking place at 217 West 106^th Street, Apartment 1A, New York, NY 10025 – Between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues.

Hope to see you in a couple weeks!

Chris Stain