Os Gêmeos (who by the way recently launched a website) have an exhibition at Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon opening on Monday May 17th. I’m sure it will be mindblowingly fantastic. Target posted this short video teaser for the show on his blog:
Target really has been the one with all the info about this show, so I’m sure he’ll also be the first with photos on Tuesday. Keep an eye on his blog for those updates.
Check out this set of signs from Trustocorp:
On a related note, Trustocorp had a show at Brooklyn Brothers Gallery in NYC last month. It could have been disastrous. To be honest, I kind of expected it to be. Turns out, I was wrong. Looks like it wasn’t bad at all and Trustocorp didn’t just hang their street signs on a gallery’s white walls (though they did do some of that). Here’s one photo from the show:
(note the map of the locations where TrustoCorp signs appeared in NYC)
Photos by Trustocorp
Name Tagging, Martha Cooper’s latest book, launches on Saturday at the OBEY pop-up store in New York. This book is the result of nearly a decade of Cooper photographing tags on stickers around the world. I’ll definitely be getting a copy of Name Tagging. And the OBEY store closes for good on Sunday, so that’s another reason to stop by.
It looks like things are starting to come together for this year’s FAME Festival. The latest artists to stop by are the duo Cyop e Kaf. I’ve never heard of these two, but Angelo (FAME’s organizer) says that they are the biggest street artists in Naples, Italy. It looks like they’ve done quite a few great pieces at FAME, and while in town, they also made a print for Studiocromie which will be released soon.
Photos from FAME. More photos on the FAME Festival blog
MOMO‘s latest project, Public Art in Private Spaces, looks awesome. MOMO is one of those artists that I like some times and other times I’m completely indifferent too. But he’s also one of the artists most-loved by the people whose tastes I trust. So I’m probably wrong about sometimes being indifferent to MOMO. It’s entirely possible that he’s a genius and I just don’t always see it. This project is one of my favorite this that he’s done though. MOMO went to Key West and painted murals inside people’s homes for free.
MOMO describes Public Art in Private Spaces like this:
An experiment to take “Public Art” deeper; right into peoples homes and intimate spaces.
I was curious to try creating artwork for a sampling of “the public” for free and with no obligations, like I’d do in the street, but more directly. I really don’t know the public I’m working for when I make things anonymously, and often the idea of public becomes mythic and hazy. This seemed like a way to learn what different people thought of my work, and to experience some pressure from the close contact.
Urban/Street/Outdoor/Public Art not urban street or outdoors, just very public.
And he made this video documenting the project (so far):
Public Art in Private Spaces from MOMO on Vimeo.
Photo from MOMO
Flood Tide is an upcoming film that was made during Swoon’s Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea. It stars members of the bands Dark, Dark, Dark and Fall Harbor. Flood Tide isn’t a documentary, but rather a fictional story that just happens to have been filmed during the Swimming Cities project. The film is almost done, but they need another $10,000 to finish the editing and start distribution. That’s why they’ve started a page on Kickstarter asking people to pledge enough money to get the film made. If they can raise $10,000 in donations by July 20th, the film will get finished, and if not, all the pledged money will be returned. Of course, there are also some rewards for those who help out. I pledged $30, so I’ll get access to a members-only website, tickets to some film screenings in NYC and a digital download of the film when it is finished. Go to Flood Tide‘s Kickstarter page to learn more.
It was recently pointed out that I had somehow forgotten to mention that you can now buy issue 11 of Very Nearly Almost on their website. The reason it’s odd that I’ve gotten to mention this is that, besides being a great magazine as always, this issue actually has a fair bit to do with Vandalog. There is an interview with Vandalog blogger Gaia and with Case by me. There’s also interviews with people like Mike Giant, Insa and Ruedione (whose book Backflashes is out soon). And at just £4.00 for 100 pages of art goodness, VNA is a fantastic value for an art magazine or book.
Roa’s show at Factory Fresh opens on Friday evening, and he’s just made this short video teaser:
Bast has updated his website with some new artwork. These are some of my favorite pieces I’ve seen by Bast recently.
This looks like it could be a print or an original. Not sure which, but it’s my favorite of this bunch:
Bast’s website doesn’t say if these works are for sale or for a future show or anything. He just posted the images.
There’s also this new print called Ghost Town. It’s an edition of 4 and was available for $600, but they’ve all sold out already:
Via Hooked and Feed Your Wall
Photos from Bast
Loving this piece by Sr. Marmota on Fashion Street in London. Works especially well with all the old faded pieces behind it.
Photo by Sr. Marmota
