Author: RJ Rushmore

RJ Rushmore has been involved in contemporary art as a writer, curator, photographer, arts administrator, and fan since 2008. With a focus on street art, graffiti, and public art, RJ facilitates and promotes catalytic and ambitious art outdoors, in galleries, and online. He founded the street art blog Vandalog and has worked at The L.I.S.A. Project NYC, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and Creative Time. Currently, RJ is Co-Curator of Art in Ad Places.
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Anthony Lister inside and outside around London

Anthony Lister and Haculla. Photo by Pure Evil

Australia’s Anthony Lister is in London right now to launch his latest series of prints at Picture On Walls. Like Dran’s recent release at POW, these prints are actually 100 fairly customized prints. On each print of this Fan Boy series, Lister has painted a different design on the main character’s t-shirt. Here are a few examples:

The POW website describes these prints as “basically halfway between an original painting and a silk screen print,” which is cool. Lister has always been super-prolific, so this format probably works well for him. Of course, POW also describe the prints as “Very desirable,” but I think that’s just a little joke to provoke another certain street art blog.

The Fan Boy prints will be launched this Thursday evening at Pictures on Walls in London from 6-9pm. The show will also include new paintings and stickers.

While in town, Lister has been getting up around London, including the above collaboration with Haculla and something with Very Nearly Almost. I’ve also spotted some new stickers that just say “Lister”.

Photos by Pure Evil and courtesy of Pictures on Walls

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Malarky and Billy at High Roller Society

Malarky

Last week, Billy and Malarky opened their first show together, Summer Breeze, at East London’s High Roller Society. Their colorful and cartoonish styles are anything but standard for Londoners doing street art. Maybe they fit in with some of the present and former Burning Candy crew members (they have collaborated with Sweet Toof outdoors), but there’s definitely a lot less of a graffiti vibe from these two. Summer Breeze is the first time I’ve seen either Malarky or Billy’s indoor work, and I really enjoyed it, particuarly Malarky’s paintings. The whole show looks like something I’d expect to see in California, rather than London.

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Malarky and Billy
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Malarky

Summer Breeze is open now at High Roller Society through July 3rd.

Photos by RJ Rushmore

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Graffuturism show in Scotland

Kofie

Redcoat Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland has a show opening on July 1st called Rudimentary Perfection. This show will be the first show specifically focused on “graffuturism,” a style of modern graffiti promoted by the Graffuturism blog. If you’ve ever felt that graffiti is at a bit of a standstill (rack spray paint, write name, repeat), graffuturism may be the sort of post-graffiti that you’ve been waiting for. Rudimentary Perfection includes She One, Duncan Jago, Jaybo Monk, Matt W. Moore, Augustine Kofie, Nawer, Morten Andersen, Poesia, Derm, and Mark Lyken. These artists have a modern take on graffiti, often most closely associated with Futura’s abstract work, if you need to tie it to traditional graffiti.

Photo courtesy of Graffuturism

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Swoon installation at New Orleans Museum of Art

Last week, a new installation by Swoon appeared in the great hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art. NOMA has had a Banksy piece on display, but I think this is the first artwork that the museum has commissioned by a street artist. The installation is called Thalassa after the Greek goddess of the sea. Thalassa will be on display through September 25th. Check out more photos on Arrested Motion and flickr.

Photos by josh.brasted

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Weekend link-o-rama

A.Bot

If you’ll notice that there were a good number of posts on Vandalog this week, you’ll notice the opposite thing next week. With family in town visiting and moving in with some friends and starting the couch-hopping segment of my summer in just a few days, things are rather busy. And so is the art world. Here’s what I have been reading this week:

Photo by Get.off.My.Spaceship!

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El Tono around the world

Baoting, Hainan, China

El Tono has been traveling around a lot this year. Here’s some of what he has been up to in China, Poland and Vietnam…

Yangshuo, Guangxi, China
Warsaw, Poland for Updates
Outside of Hanoi, Vietnam

For more photos and information about each of these trips, check out El Tono’s blog posts about China, Poland and Vietnam.