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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Faile/Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade comes to NYC

Faile and Bast have once again teamed up to put on their Deluxx Fluxx Arcade show/experience. Last time, it was in Lazarides’ Greek Street location in London. Now, the arcade has been built in New York City. The arcade opened this weekend and will be open at 158 Allen Street through May 27th. If you’re in town (and especially if you didn’t see this arcade while it was in London), I can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s quite an experience.

Arrested Motion has pictures from the arcade’s setup and Gothamist has an interview with Faile.

Photo from Arrested Motion

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New Lucy McLauchlan print

While I was always a Lucy McLauchlan fan, I’ve really come to love her work. BLK/MRKT has just released this new print, titled From Every Angle, by Lucy. It’s classic Lucy McLauchlan goodness and yet quite affordable. The print is an edition of 150 and measures 18 x 24 inches. It’s available online for just $110.

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Shepard, Banksy and Shepard

As I write this, the first images are starting to appear on Twitter from Shepard Fairey’s May Day show at Deitch. That’s not what this post is about though. More on May Day tomorrow. This is more about two random bits of news that Shepard is involved with.

Animal NY is reporting that Shepard Fairey’s mural at Bowery and Houston might actually be illegal. That would definitely be unexpected, since this is the same wall that Deitch has used three times in the last few years (but this is the first time that they have built a structure onto the wall). I wouldn’t at all be surprised if this was another prank though. This mural has been taking some abuse.

And if you read the latest issue of Time Magazine, you may notice that Shepard has written one of the profiles in their annual Time100 list of 100 influential people. Which profile has Shepard written? Banksy’s. That’s right. Banksy is one of Time’s 100 most influential people this year. You can read what Shepard has to say on Time’s website.

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News from Swoon

Some fantastic news from the world of Swoon this week.

Today is the release date of Swoon’s first monograph. The book is almost 200 pages long and features photos of Swoon’s work as well as essays by people like Jeffrey Deitch. The book will be published by Abrams and is available on their website for $35.

And the second bit of news from Swoon is her latest undertaking: The Konbit Shelter Project. Swoon has been studying architecture, and in an effort to aid the relief efforts in Haiti, she plans to work with a team of people (including artistic collaborator Ben Wolf) to build superadobe structures in Haiti this summer. These structures are amazing because they are relatively easy and cheap to build but also very strong. To raise awareness for Konbit Shelter, Swoon and her team will be building a prototype of the structures in New York City this weekend. The structure will be unveiled on May 2nd at East River Park in Brooklyn. For more information on the project read this post on Hyperallergic and check out The Konbit Shelter Project’s website.

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Time lapse video of Roa in London

I was fortunate enough to watch Roa paint The Foundry in London a few weeks ago. He had just finished this piece and had some paint left over. There was a spot around the corner where he could paint, so, naturally, he couldn’t leave without making a quick bird (this is a Babelgum video, so those reading via RSS readers may not see this video unless you visit the website):

Roa’s headed to New York City soon for his show at Factory Fresh, so be on the look out for some outdoor work there.

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Astoria Scum River Bridge

This is such an amazing project showing the power of art and activism. I could have sworn that I posted about it months ago, but now I can’t find that post. So I guess I didn’t. But if I did, sorry to be repetitive.

Posterchild and Jason Eppink built Astoria Scum River Bridge to draw attention to a 20-year-old leak in a drainage pipe in New York City. Check out the video to see what happened as a result of their project:

Astoria Scum River Bridge from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.

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Video: Escif’s Around The Wall show at POW

Escif’s solo show Around The Wall opened at Pictures on Walls in London a few weeks ago. I haven’t really mentioned it since the opening because I’ve been waiting until I could post this video. I guess the video pretty much sums up my thoughts on the show, so I won’t write too much, but I really enjoyed it and if you’re in London, it’s definitely worth checking out.

So here’s my video walk-through of the show (some people reading this post through RSS readers may have to go to vandalog.com to view this video):

Around The Wall runs until May 30th.