Entes and Pesimo sent over these latest pieces that they painted together in Buenos Aires. I first came across Entes and Pesimo earlier this year at Living Walls in Atlanta, where their work was one of the hits of the festival.
Photos by Entes
Two murals in the Canadian Arctic
Thanks to a reader who sent in these photos, we’ve found out about two murals Iqaluit, the capital city of the territory of Nunavut in Canada. They were painted by Jonathan Cruz at the NuSchool Design Agency, Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson. It’s a pleasure to see that these artists are painting such great murals in such an unexpected location.
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Weekend link-o-rama
This week the Occupy Wall Street live streams have been very effective at distracting me from Vandalog, which I’m not too upset about. The violent and suppressive eviction of Occupy Wall Street is certainly more important that the latest swindle that some art gallery is trying to pull. Nonetheless, I have been paying attention even if I haven’t been writing, so here’s what’s been going on in the street art world this week:
- AEC and WAONE aka Interesni Kazki have their first US solo show opening this weekend at Mid-City Arts in LA. Arrested Motion have a preview.
- This Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn, Todd James and Steve Powers are showing their work from their installation Street from the Art in the Streets show at MOCA in LA earlier this year. Other members of Powers’ ICY Signs studio will also be showing their work.
- Graffiti writer and notorious sticker-er BNE started a foundation for clean water projects earlier this year, and 12oz. Prophet has interviewed him about it. Great to see writers doing such admirable work.
- Hope has a flickr stream with photos that graffiti geeks (and I say that in the best possible way) absolutely have to check out.
- This show at MK2 Projects includes Shepard Fairey, Matt Small, Aiko and more.
- Here’s a new painting by Judith Supine.
- C-Monster has photos of two stencils in Tahrir Square.
- EVOL is to be the star of this year’s Pictures on Walls holiday extravaganza, and he is already in London putting up some of his signature stencil work.
- Swoon musical project in New Orleans, Dithyrambalina, is coming along. Artists involved in the collaborative installation are performing a show called The Music Box on November 19th and December 10th. Here’s a trailer, which includes some of their October 22nd performance. Beautiful work, but I’m sure it’s something that really needs to be seen in person.
- Complex has their list of the top 25 Parisian graffiti writers.
Photo by Damonabnormal
The Future Tense presents SPECTRA I
The Future Tense have another pop-up show opening soon in London: SPECTRA I. It’s the first in a 3-part series of shows with artists whose work has a particular focus on color. The highlights of part one look to be Haroshi, who makes sculptures out of skateboards, and James Marshall aka Dalek, who will be putting out a new etching at SPECTRA I. The show opens at 28 Redchurch Street in Shoreditch on November 24th and runs through December 18th.
Photos courtesy of The Future Tense
Another “art” show from Lush in Melbourne
Lush is back in Melbourne after spending so much of the summer in California, and he’s getting ready for his second show at Backwoods Gallery. Shithouse “Art” Show opens on December 6th, a nice counterpoint to the Miami Basel madness that so much of the art world (Vandalog included) will still be high off of.
Photo by Lush
Cake in Red Hook
JR solo show – Galerie Perrotin in Paris
Encrages (French “inking,” according to Google), is JR‘s latest solo show, and it looks to be a significant one. Encrages will take place at Galerie Perrotin, a top-tier gallery in Paris who have also worked with Kaws and Ivan Argote. The show opens this Saturday at 7pm, and runs through January 7th. Arrested Motion have done a studio visit with JR in anticipation of the show.
It’s great to see continued success for JR, but with every step further up the art-world ladder, more questions are of course raised as to the inherent imbalance between the subjects of his photographs and those who buy his art.
Photo courtesy of Galerie Perrotin
More messages from Morley
We haven’t posted about Morley in a while, but he’s been staying busy getting up in LA. Here are three recently posters from him that I’m loving.
Photos by Morley
Anonymous Gallery opens in Mexico City
Anonymous Gallery is launching their permanent space in Mexico City with Fresh Kills, a group show opening this weekend. The artists in this show are purported to, in an effort for renewal, reuse materials that most would consider trash, so the name Fresh Kills comes from Freshkills Park, an upcoming park project in New York to redevelop a site that used to be a landfill. As usual, Anonymous Gallery have put together an impressive group of artists for this show: Aaron Young, Agathe Snow, Barry McGee, David Ellis, Greg Lamarche, Hanna Liden, Richard Prince, Swoon and Tom Sachs. Fresh Kills opens on the 17th, this Thursday and runs through January 15th.
Ethos and Onesto in São Paulo
Alex Hornest aka Onesto and Claudio Ethos make some great collaborations. Their contrasting styles fit together like two puzzle pieces. Here are two of their latest pieces painted together in São Paulo, Brazil.
Photos by Ethos