I don’t know how I’ve neglected to mention this before now. Tomorrow night is the opening of Conor Harrington’s solo show, Headless Heroes, at Lazarides Rathbone. I’ve seen some images from the show and there are a few pieces that have caught my eye, but I’m curious what I’ll think after seeing everything in person.
Headless Heroes runs from October 30th until November 26th. Expect some photos posted after the opening.
Juxtapoz have put together a stunning line up for their online charity art auction. Over 100 artists including Swoon, Ron English, Josh Keyes, Anthony Lister and Mudwig. The bidding starts today and runs until November 20th on Charitybuzz.com.
And the whole thing is of course a charity auction:
Proceeds from “The Big Payback” auction will support the goal of purchasing five homes and employing local Detroit contractors, electricians, plumbers, and carpenters to perform the renovations. Selected artists will also be invited to participate in the remodeling. The event aims to raise the consciousness of both the problems of people disenfranchised by the nation’s economic crisis, as well as encourage a sense of community in the art world and inspire people to effect positive social change in their own communities.
Here’s my take on this year’s MuTate Britain: Correction: I’ve got a video about MuTate coming up on Babelgum soon, and when I saw this on the Babelgum site, I thought this was it. I only saw the title, because the computer I was blogging from wasn’t working well and wouldn’t show me the video. 20 hours later, I’ve gone back to check out the video, and turns out this isn’t the one I made. Still a very cool video though.
NYSAT2 struck the streets of New York yesterday morning, whitewashing over 100 illegal street level billboard advertisements and adorning them with work from various artists. Despite intense NPA harassment and a major police crackdown that resulted in a few arrests, it seems that every artist had the chance to at least get their work up for a few hours. Unfortunately, NPA made a tremendous effort to reclaim all of their space so I think it is safe to say that nothing has lasted into this morning. But fear not, the whole process was documented so incredibly well that it was staggering. Here is the flickr account from last year! http://www.flickr.com/photos/37774782@N05
For a more detailed account of the activities yesterday, check out the New York Times article that ran in the paper today in the New York Region section written by reporter COLIN MOYNIHAN who I had the pleasure of rolling with most of the day. And of course http://www.publicadcampaign.com/ will be releasing more in depth coverage and documentation.
Here are the pieces that I hit up yesterday with ClownSoldier. We ended up taking two billboards and concluded the route with a revisit to a classic spot in Chelsea that I haven’t put work up at in a minute. Was super nice to be back in New York for a couple days but now back to school
There are street artists who are really just unskilled designers with nothing better to do at night, there are street artists who are good within this small genre of art, there are great street artists who make some interesting pieces indoors, and then there is Os Gêmeos. These Brazilian twins are without a doubt two of the most talented artists in Brazil (or anywhere I can think of for that matter) today. A few days ago they had a show called Vertigem open at the Museu da FAAP in São Paulo, Brazil. This might be the best art I’ve seen all year; it’s definitely up their with Swoon in Venice and Banksy versus The Bristol Museum. Here are some images:
Photos by Lost.art.br
I know I just mentioned Logan Hicks yesterday, but I’ve been looking at a lot of stencil work lately and realized that when it comes down to it, there are three kings of using stencils, and Logan is one of them. The three categories that I’ve come up with for stenciling are impact, beauty and technical ability. So this is the first of a three part series looking at the best artist in each of those categories. Logan has perfected and pushed the technical side of stenciling further than almost anybody else, and most of the other artists out there using 15 or more layers of stencils to create a photo-realistic image were inspired by Logan.
Aakash Nihalani and Know Hope just got back from the Blk River Festival in Vienna. Here’s a cool time lapse of one of their collabs. More work from Aakash below, including a playful addition to a classic Banksy image (photo by Yvonne Kaufman), plus a close up of the piece you see in the video.
Thursday night was the opening of Green Day’s The Art of Rock at StolenSpace Gallery. It would have been easy for Green Day to put together a street art show full of random artists that street art fans would hate but Green Day fans would like because it has the Green Day name on it. Instead, The Art of Rock was curated by Logan Hicks and he got some really talented artists involved.
My personal favorite was this piece by Chris Stain, one of his best I think:
And I think you really have to see Logan Hick’s laser etched pieces in person, but this shot should give you some idea. The background is laser etched.
Each piece in the show (other than Logan’s portraits) is based on the lyrics from a song off of Green Day’s latest album.
If you ever liked Green Day, you need to check out this show. The lineup is solid, the art is great and the connection to music is different.
Photos by S.Butterfly
A great piece by Run.
