I rarely walk along the blocks on and off Avenues A,B,C, and D between Houston and 14th Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side/East Village aka Alphabet City. But I did earlier today, and discovered works by some of my favorite artists, along with some alluring legal walls. Here’s a sampling:

By Veng

By Dain

Rae Installation (photo taken at night; I will revisit in daylight)

By Jonathan Matas

by Gary Fernandez

Photos by Lois Stavsky

For Woodward Gallery‘s first show of 2012, they’ve brought in Royce Bannon as their first guest curator. His show, Rather Unique, will bring together a group of artists including Cassius Fowler, Celso, Chris RWK, Darkcloud, Veng, Infinity and NoseGo. Rather Unique opens on January 7th from 6-8pm and runs through February 19th.

A wall in Munich

Sorry this is coming a day late, but Thanksgiving and related activities took priority. Here’s what I missed posting about this week:

• Roa and Resto collaborated on this wall in the Netherlands.
• Peter Bengtsen has written some thoughts on a controversial Boris Hoppek product.
• Invader has a solo show opening at Lazarides’ The Outsiders next week. It will include Invader-shaped waffles.
• Dabs and Myla have designed a toy.
• James Marshall aka Dalek recently had a show at Womb Gallery in Oklahoma City. Arrested Motion has photos and there’s a behind-the-scenes video as well.
• On December 9th, Mighty Tanaka in Brooklyn has a group show opening with Robots Will Kill and other artists that they crew have selected.

Photo by Luna Park

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

Leon Reid IV public art proposal

Town & Country is a group show opening next week at 320 Studios in NYC. It’s curated by my friend Keith Schweitzer at M.A.N.Y, Samson Contompasis from The Marketplace Gallery and others. Almost 2 dozen artists are in this show, including Leon Reid IV, Veng, White Cocoa, Olek and Chris Stain. Town & Country will only be open for 3 days (June 28th-30th), but it should be a pretty great three days. The opening is on the 28th from 6pm-midnight.

Photo courtesy of Keith Schweitzer

Skewville at the Bushwick Art Park

Last weekend, Factory Fresh hosted another 1-day iteration of their Bushwick Art Park with new murals by Veng, Bast and Skewville and sculptures by Leon Reid IV, Specter, Skewville, Infinity and others. Above is a photo of Skewville’s mural. Right next to is Bast’s mural. The Street Spot has photos of Veng’s mural and the sculptures.

Photo by astrodub

Veng and OverUnder have finished their mural on some Coney Island construction hoardings (organized by Keith Schweitzer for No Longer Empty). Luna Park has photos over at The Street Spot.

Photo by Luna Park

Veng, OverUnder and Chris

This mural in NYC is a collaboration between Veng, OverUnder, Chris, Peeta and Never. First half is above. Second half is below.

Peeta, Chris and Never

Photos by Luna Park

Organized by Keith Schweitzer for No Longer Empty, Sponsored by the Coney Island Development Corporation, a new mural by OverUnder, Veng and Belgian artist Ephameron is underway on Coney Island’s famed Surf Avenue.

Photos by Samantha Sabatino

Veng in NYC

Well, I’m just gonna brag for a second. Haverford College just got way cooler. M1 from Dead Prez is doing a residency here. Gonna go see him perform tonight in our tiny music venue. And yes, I am aware of the apparent hypocrisy of being a white male at a private educational institution and getting excited to see M1 perform. Anyway. Back to the art.

• This group show in Oakland, CA which includes Deuce 7 looks pretty cool.
• Over on the Vandalog tumblr, Steph posted about the album art that Ron English has made for Chris Brown. I’ve got to agree with her, it’s pretty bad. Maybe Ron was too busy curating this show of South Park themed art, which sounds like it could go either way.
• Loving this photo by Jake Dobkin of a mural by Anthony Lister.
• Here’s a video from the opening of the Street Art Pop Up Store in LA.
• I’m starting to really like Linelinedot.
• Next week, Londoners can pick up some free paintings at Mutate Britain.
• I love it when a street art or graffiti ethos goes digital.
• Some interesting Chinese graffiti in this online zine.
• Colbert sold that portrait of himself that Shepard Fairey and others “made into art” at Philips de Pury and the video is hilarious.
• Slick has done the best artwork to support Japan that I’ve seen so far.
• Zevs made a t-shirt. Not sure if I love or hate it.
• You may have seen this new piece by OverUnder around other blogs, but you definitely should check out his blog to read the full story.

Photo by Luna Park