As previously mentioned, the Burning Candy crew painted an amazing mural at The Thousands last month. I spoke with Sweet Toof about that mural, so here’s that conversation and a time lapse of the mural going up:
Burning Candy paint The Thousands
The Anonymous Gallery in Miami
Here are some videos from my time in Miami. I’m just about to go to Basel (finally), but I thought I’d share some of what I’ve seen so far at The Anonymous Gallery‘s booth at SCOPE.
First, here is a tour of The Anonymous Gallery’s booth:
And here’s a bit more about that sound sculpture by David Ellis:
Black Dog Books
This week was the opening of Black Dog Books at Black Rat Projects in London. The book store is in a small room constructed in the middle of the gallery and sells everything from art books to 2nd hand fiction novels.
Looks like a fun project for the holiday season
Photos from Hookedblog
MBW is headed to NYC
I really like The Opera Gallery. The put on good shows. They put Ron English and Banksy next to old masters. Great stuff.
Well now they are doing a Mr. Brainwash show at their New York City location. Check out the website, if you dare. Not 100% sure when the show opens, but I hear it’s sometime in December, and the website says he is already in NYC, so it must be soon.
I will probably go see this show in person just to be sure, but I have no faith that it will be any good. Portraits made out of broken records sounds like something you would buy at the Sunday market. But hey, I’m just one guy with an opinion. Does anybody disagree?
Primary Flight Begins
Logan Hicks sent out this email last night:
Primary Flight begins!
It’s the eve of the official Primary Flight event and two seasoned veterans of street art took to the streets early. Around midnight Shepard Fairey and Ron English started making their mark on the neighborhood of Wynwood for the Primary Flight event.
Shepard Fairey will be doing his largest mural to date this year for Primary Flight. With a wall that is nearly 20 ft tall, and 200 ft wide, this monster wall will be finished over the next few days. During this night session he was visited by KAWS and Jose Parla who got a sneak peek of what was to come over the next few nights.
Ron English worked into the morning hours doing the prep work on his mural which will be approximately 30ft wide by 15ft tall.
These are only 2 of the nearly 80 artists that will be participating in Primary Flight.
For info visit: www.primaryflight.com
Time for some links
I did not realize that the flight from London to Miami is over 9 hours long. And today was one of those days with lots of cool stuff happening in the street art blogosphere. Here are all the things I would blog about if I wasn’t about to fall asleep:
- The Art Collectors have found a great article about preserving Barry McGee clusters.
- I love this new street piece by Armsrock.
- Stik has a solo show opening December 5th in London
- Black Rat Projects (formally Black Rat Press) have transformed a section of their gallery into a book shop
- Brooklyn artists are coming to Miami this week for BKMIA
The Answer by Hera
I’m not sure I’ve given this a proper mention on Vandalog yet. For The Thousands, Campbarbossa and I teamed up to create a special edition of The Thousands coupled with a lithograph by Hera of her sketch The Answer. The print is an edition of 100 and is of course signed by Hera. The print and book combo is available on the Campbarbossa website for £100.
One of these prints is already sitting on my desk I’m going to send it to the framers as soon as I get back from my vacation (which starts tomorrow), it turned out really well. Because it is a lithograph, it really looks exactly like a slightly scaled down version of an original Hera sketch, which are some of the best sketches in the street art scene (in my humble and clearly very biased opinion).
Always one to look for a bargain when it comes to prints, I think we kept this priced pretty reasonably. The Thousands is available for £23 from Drago, so if you were already thinking about buying a book, the print essentially costs less than £80.
Be on the look out in the next week or two for some Christmas suggestions for books and dvds that aren’t by me, but this is probably the best item to add to your holiday gift lists 😉
Once again, the book and print combo is available from Campbarbossa for £100.
Cere brightens up Valencia
I love when I see some artwork and don’t know the artist, but then I find the artist’s name months later. Once again, Unurth has helped me make that dream come true. I saw a piece from Cere when I was in Berlin this summer, and now I’ve found his flickr thanks to Unurth. Some amazing stuff.
See more on Cere’s flickr
‘RJ’s Street Art London’ on Babelgum
Recently I’ve been posting some videos here from Babelgum.com. This week was the launch of my show there, RJ’s Street Art London. About two episodes will go online each week. So far I’ve interviewed Luc Price, filmed Roa painting, given tours of The Thousands and wandered around numerous art openings in London.
You can visit RJ’s Street Art London at www.babelgum.com/rj
Oh, and thanks to Jon Hammer aka ELATE for painting the logo.
Three events in Miami that you don’t know about
There is so much going on next week in Miami, that some events are bound to be lost in the sea of parties and paintings. I’ve recently come across a few events lesser-known that have gotten me pretty interested.
1. ART BURN: The Most Combustible Art Show in the World
ART BURN, the most combustible art show in the world, will combine an international selection of original art with fire. Original works on canvas, wood and paper by a selection of more than three dozen international artists will be displayed and then flambeed in Miami on the evening of Thursday, December 3, 2009 at sunset. The exhibition/grilling, curated by NYC artist El Celso, will take place in the Wynwood Arts District, within walking distance of Miami’s lesser contemporary art fairs.
An exclusive selection of more than three dozen exceptional pieces by the hottest renowned artists and sizzling, cutting-edge newcomers will be displayed from 1pm until sundown. After the brief exhibition, all of these original works will be burned for the public’s viewing pleasure. Nothing is for sale.
Venue
TBA
Duration and opening hours
Thursday, December 3, 2009
One day only from 1pm to sunset.SPONSORS
c-monster.net
HYPERALLERGIC
BROOKLYN STREET ART
KINGSFORD® CharcoalFor the latest updates on ART BURN Miami, visit http://elcelso.com/
Artists include:
El Celso, Skewville, Darkcloud, Elbow-Toe, Royce Bannon, Gore-B, Matt Siren, Robots Will Kill, Michael DeFeo and many more…
This line up looks great. I’m especially looking forward to seeing Stephan Doitschinoff aka Calma’s piece.
Here’s the full line up:
Pedro Barbeito, Melissa Brown, Stephan Doitschinoff (aka CALMA), Doze Green, Luis Macias, Christof Mascher, Fernando Mastrangelo, Dave McDermott, Ted O’Sullivan, Jeff Soto, Christoph Steinmeyer, Ouattara Watts, Andrzej Zielinski and Kevin Zucker.
And of course, it’s at SCOPE, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find.
Juxtapoz has the info on this show:
Curated by James and Karla Murray, authors of best-selling titles Store Front-The Disappearing Face of New York, Miami Graffiti, Broken Windows and Burning New York, the exhibition will feature a selection of work from today’s top street artists. This groundbreaking exhibition, set to take place in a 4,000 square foot venue in the Midtown Arts District, will be the largest of its kind in Miami.
Exhibiting artists include: 131 Projects (Argentina), Aiko Nakagawa (Japan), Armogedon 2057 (Armenia), Billi Kid (Colombia), Crome (Miami), Cycle (NYC), David Cooper (NYC), Doze Green (NYC), Ewok One 5MH (NYC), Flip (Brazil), Ghost aka Cousin Frank (NYC), Jana Joana (Brazil), Lady Pink (Ecuador), Nina (Brazil), Shiro (Japan), Smael (Brazil), Sofia Maldonado (Puerto Rico), Suiko (Japan) and Vitché (Brazil).
Graffiti Gone Global Show Info:
Location
3252 NE 1st Avenue
Suite 101
Miami, FL 33127General Hours
Friday, December 4: 12 – 8pm
Saturday, December 5: 12 – 9pm
Sunday, December 6: 12 — 3pm