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November 12, 2012

Book Review – Land of Sunshine

Land Of Sunshine-Cover-Small — Land Of Sunshine Cover

Apart from the artwork itself, another of my favourite things to collect is books about street art and graffiti. Yes the internet is a great way to capture and preserve the artworks as they quickly disappear, but there’s something about holding a book in your hands, the quality of the photographs and colors of the works feel different on paper.

I’m really excited about this book! Land of Sunshine is Dean Sunshine‘s first book. Dean is Melbourne’s resident paintspotter. He’s always where the action is, tirelessly capturing the best of Melbourne’s graffiti and street art scene (in fact I bumped into him just the other day in Hosier Lane). Dean’s photo blog Land of Sunshine is well known to anyone into Melbourne graffiti and street art.

The book features the work of over 100 artists and also focuses in on some of Dean’s favourites: Adnate, Be Free, CDH, Deb, Drab, Heesco, Kaff-eine, Makatron, Phoenix the street artist, Slicer, Suki, and Urban Cake Lady.

The book will be available at General Pants stores Australia wide and at NGV bookstore at fed square. Also available via Land of Sunshine from mid November for local and international shipping. Here’s a couple of shots from the book.

Urban Cake Lady media release — Urban Cake Lady

AWOL media release — AWOL – Adnate, Slicer and Itch

All photos courtesy of Dean Sunshine

November 11, 2012November 7, 2012

Mostly Malarky

7732025996_d8390ef5b1_z — Malarky in London. Photo by Hookedblog.

It’s been quite a while since we’ve looked at what Malarky‘s up to, so here are a few walls of colorful characters from him and friends over the past year…

calmdown 2 — Malarky in Zagreb, Croatia. Photo courtesy of Malarky.

7732025762_74c7f9b4f8_z — Malarky in London. Photo by Hookedblog.

8161618893_c46d8b1c39_z — Malarky and Lucas in London. Photo by HookedBlog.

7273456440_070e774f0f_z — Malarky in London. Photo by HookedBlog.

6918577924_4893106d8b_z — Malarky in London. Photo by HookedBlog.

Malarky, 45RPM, and Richt in Bristol. Photo courtesy of Malarky.

Photos by HookedBlog and courtesy of Malarky

November 10, 2012November 7, 2012

A London solo show from Lucas Price

Lucas Price, perhaps best-known as Cyclops of the Burning Candy crew, has a show opening next month in London at Rove Gallery in Hoxton. T E A M Atlas will include new oil paintings and drawings from Price. For some sense of what Price does indoors, here are some photos from his 2009 solo show in London, although obviously that’s not particularly recent work.

T E A M Atlas opens December 6th at 6pm and runs through December 21st.

November 9, 2012November 18, 2012

The Art of Comedy “Art Crawl” Saturday at noon

Come by NYC’s Little Italy tomorrow (Saturday the 10th) at noon for some food and street art at The Art of Comedy Art Crawl. We’ll be meeting at Caffe Roma on Mulberry and Broome and walking down to Sambuca’s Cafe by Mulberry and Canal. In between, we’ll be checking out all of the spots that gilf!, Hanksy, and Ron English recently painted along Mulberry as part of The New York Comedy Festival‘s art component, The Art of Comedy. Jim Gaffigan will be there to check out Hanksy’s piece depicting Jim at Mulberry and Grand, and Ron English will be putting a few finishing touches on his 30-foot-tall mural.

The event is free and open to anyone, but you can RSVP on Facebook.

Photo by Rhiannon Platt

November 9, 2012November 14, 2012

Elian in Córdoba, Argentina

Argentinian artist Elian created a mural using existing textures, histories and colors; while adding a hint of his own geometrical flair. It’s a smaller piece, but it catches the eye and chronicles the state of a wall once used for advertisements and recreation of political ideologies.

Elian was part of Peruvian street art festival Latir Latino in March.

Photo courtesy of Elian

November 9, 2012November 11, 2012

A Sonni video

Sonni is an artist from Argentina who is probably best-known in the rest of the world for the boom box piece he painted in Miami a couple of years back for Primary Flight, shown above. For some more insight into this artist who is painting some of the cutest and most fun murals around, check out this video:

Photo by ohhector

November 8, 2012November 13, 2012

Hanksy Wraps Up “The Art of Comedy” with a Collab

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, both gilf! and Hanksy returned to Little Italy to find parts of their walls for The Art of Comedy damaged and in need for repair. Pieces of the artist’s wheatpaste had been ripped in the storm and another artist had also added some work of their own to the street artist’s wheatpastes. Wedged between two of the final pieces in the panel, a stick figure girl had been draw in peach chalk on the wall beside the word “poop.”

Through the magic of Twitter, Hanksy confirmed that comedian Jim Gaffigan had in fact taken a stroll in the neighborhood past the wall recently. When paying a visit, his children decided to try their hand at some of their own childstyle street art.

Before the artist began buffing the wall I took a picture of the character that Gaffigan’s kids collaborative work next to Hanksy. Working from this photograph, Hanksy recreated the young artist’s drawing on mural, this time making it permanent through spray paint. The stencil is intended to be given to his daughter with the note “for the world’s youngest street artist.”

In addition to repairing existing walls, Hanksy also comepleted the final piece in his series for the New York Comedy Festival. Taking the imagery back to its roots, the artist chose to stencil an “OG Hanksy Rat” between two Italian restaurants. With handwriting similar to that of Gaffigan’s daughter, Hanksy doused the freshly primed space with red paint, bringing a more literal meaning to the saying “caught red handed.”

Photos by Rhiannon Platt

November 8, 2012

“The Return of Lencho” to premiere at Manhattan’s Quad Cinema

Stinkfish-street-art-mural-in-the-return-of-Lencho — Stinkfish in still from “The Return of Lencho,” image courtesy of Occularis Films

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to see a special preview of The Return of Lencho, the first full-length film written and directed by four-time Emmy Award winning producer Mario Rosales. I’ve been, since, haunted by its vivid portrayal of the ruthless brutality directed against street artists and youth in Rosales’s native Guatemala. Featuring the artwork of Stinkfish, Bastardilla, Aeon and Soft, The Return of Lencho opens tomorrow evening for a one-week run at Manhattan’s Quad Cinema. Mario Rosales will be there to answer questions following tomorrow’s and Saturday’s 7:50pm show and Sunday’s 5pm show.

November 8, 2012November 7, 2012

Jade practices good placement

Jade is known for, for lack of a better term, mural-sized murals. With this piece though, he’s gone a different route an is instead practicing good placement, sizing his mural as was appropriate to point out a feature in the wall.