The above photo was taken earlier today. The home was a squat in downtown Madrid and the wall is by 3ttman and Remed.
Photo by Miss Kaliansky
Holiday link-o-rama
Here’s what went on while I’ve been spending time with family, which I hope is what lots of you have been doing this week as well:
- WK Interact has been getting up in Paris. Arrested Motion has all the photos you need.
- Remed has painted a huge wall in Kiev.
- Bomit is running a poll for Sticker Artist of The Year. You can vote online. The final results will be posted on the 31st.
- Artinfo has an interview with JR.
- 12oz has an interview with Cost and Andrew H. Shirley about the Cost newspaper box which was stolen, put on Ebay and eventually recovered.
- Hyperallergic and Don’t Panic have interview with Voina, the group of activists artists in Russia that Banksy supported with his most recent print release.
- Toasters have a film coming out next year. I’m not sure I need to see 90 minutes of Toasters, but the trailer looks cool.
- This essay on the origins of street art is an interest read.
- Like cities around the world, Atlanta is increasing efforts to buff graffiti. At first, their proposal sounds like the city is at least trying to avoid removing “good” street art and “good” graffiti, but a. that’s hypocritical and b. Atlanta residents only have until January 17th to come up with a list of pieces that they don’t want the city to remove. That’s not nearly enough time, and any “good” graffiti painted after January 17th, is also at risk of being buffed. The city seems to be trying to please both sides here, and that’s just not going to work. If you live in Atlanta, help figure out which walls you want saved before it is too late.
- There are a few updates on the MOCA/Blu debacle: iGreen responded to the events by putting up some posters, Hyperallergic has a number of updates (including Henry Chalfant’s thoughts on the situation, which I agree with), Marc and Sara Schiller have written an insightful post on Wooster Collective about the difficulties of museums working with street art and some of their thoughts on these events at MOCA and Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films writes on The Huffington Post that MOCA’s removal of the mural disrespects actually veterans.
Photo by WK Interact
Weekend link-o-rama
Well, I was expecting to see my family today, but snow in London have half of them stuck there. Luckily, snow where I am in Colorado is keeping me busy. Too busy to post very much unfortunately. Here’s what I’ve been missing:
- Roadsworth is Lisbon. Definitely check this out.
- Todd Seelie took some great photos of Monica Canilao and Saelee Oh making a beautiful installation in Detroit.
- M-City killed it in Miami even though his stencils arrived days after he did.
- While I didn’t care for Banksy’s latest print release at all, he did give the proceeds (almost £100,000 in total) to a great cause.
- Yellow Pants‘ first show, at Montana’s gallery in Lisbon, looks fabulous. With art from Remed, Zosen, Maya Hayuk and others, how could it go wrong?
- I’m way late on this, but Ron English made some shirts with Hurley earlier this year.
- Sometimes Mint and Serf (who work together as Mirf) do some interesting things. Other times that say crazy things. In an interview with Brooklyn Street Art, Mint said this “So back in April I designed the original Mirf poster and put a bunch of them in Russia. It was one of the first times I’ve seen graffiti being put up on the street but with wheat paste.” While he’s not taking credit for inventing wheatpasting for graffiti, he’s definitely taking too much credit for something that isn’t particularly innovative in 2010.
- DabsMyla and Greg Simpkins teamed up for this great mural in LA.
- World War Won’s new logo for Hackney would be a perfect way to spice up their image a bit.
- Postermat, the latest show at The Hole in NYC, sounds like it will either be awesome or really really terrible. If you go, let me know what you think.
More murals in Miami
Some more of my favorite new murals in Miami, again mostly with Primary Flight. For more, check out my other Miami mural posts. Most of these photos are by Jeremiah Garcia for Ice Cream Man, which is an awesome project all about free ice cream. They have lots more photos on Ice Cream Man.
Photos by Becki_Fuller, Luna Park and Jeremiah Garcia.
Random link-o-rama
I’ve been out of the loop and stuck in libraries lately (and then in Miami for the weekend), and that’s led to me miss posting about a lot of things. I’ve got some catching up to do, so here’s the start of that:
- EPOS 257 built a fence in a public square in Prague. A. It reminds me of Richard Sera’s amazing Tilted Arc and B. Seems like a great way to screw with the local bureaucratic government. I guess there’s the important question left though of if the public actually thought about anything when looking at the work. I’m hoping that some did, but perhaps it was too nondescript to provoke much thought.
- Cost’s newspaper box (mentioned recently) was stolen from the street and ended up on eBay. The winning bidder paid over $4,000!
- The first show from YellowPants Gallery will open in Lisbon this week with a great lineup including Maya Hayuk and Remed. More info here.
- If you’re feeling the recession, you’ve got to check out this artwork by Patrick Martinez.
- Evan Roth gets clever with the TSA full-body scanners.
- SF’s Ratio 3 Gallery will be holding a solo show of Margaret Kilgallen’s work in March.
- Ending on a very sad note, Brooklyn Street Art has received word from Faust that his friend and fellow graffiti writer Sure has died while serving the USA in Afghanistan.
Photo by euniyah