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March 13, 2013March 12, 2013

Why Lush’s latest show was one-night-only…

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Earlier this month, Lush had a one-night solo show at Backwoods Gallery outside of Melbourne. He sent over these photos and a video, where it becomes progressively more clear why the show only lasted one night…

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March 12, 2013March 13, 2013

Web hosting craziness link-o-rama

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For the last week or so until today, we’ve been in the process changing Vandalog’s web hosts. No need to get into the technical details, but now the site should run more smoothly and with less downtime. Unfortunately it means that we haven’t been able to write anything new on the site since that process began (everything that’s gone online was pre-scheduled). So this is a mega-link-o-rama combining the usual weekend link-o-rama content with stuff that I could have written about last week even if I’d had the time.

Martha Cooper turned 70 this weekend, and the graffiti community came together at Bowery and Houston to give her a giant surprise birthday present (pictured above). How and Nosm told Cooper that they were planning to repaint their piece at Bowery and Houston and told her to come by at noon on Saturday, but they didn’t tell her how they were going to have to piece repainted. They brought together a bunch of new and old graffiti legends and painted a giant blockbuster tribute to Cooper. BSA has plenty more great photos of the piece in progress and a perfect shot of Cooper reacting to seeing the mural.
WK Interact’s pop-up show in NYC is absolutely fantastic, a must-see show. Think it this way: This show, as I understand it, is a retrospective but it’s made up of the work that WK had in his studio, not work borrowed or on the secondary market from collectors, so this is a lot of unsold work. And yet, the show is still one of the strongest I’ve seen from any artist in quite a while, and the work holds up just fine next to anything else by WK. Even the work that has been sitting in the WK’s studio for a few years is just masterpiece after masterpiece. Good stuff.
I love this t-shirt designed by Snoeman for Carnage (Snoeman is the zine’s featured artist in their latest issue).
Sick new Dabs and Myla mural in Melbourne.
Mr. Brainwash has lost another lawsuit by a photographer upset with MBW’s appropriation. Basically, it boils down to MBW’s work being too similar to the original photograph, with no original contributions to the work by MBW.
Aiko’s installation at the Japan Society in NYC is beautiful. Can’t wait to see it in person.
Sounds like Logan Hick’s show in LA was a big hit. Here are photos of the finished and installed work.
Some crazy walls from Abik.
This year’s OFFSET lectures in Dublin will include JR and Faile.
NYC has some amazing graffiti on trucks.
A quick Overunder tag.
Os Gemeos talk about their show at the ICA Boston and their massive mural there from last summer (if you can spot me in the video, you have eagle eyes by the way).
It appears that Phil Frost hit a massive billboard in LA, and then the billboard was stolen. But the whole thing seems like a shady PR scam for Ace Gallery. Melrose&Fairfax has the full story, but one point they don’t make is that Ace Gallery has a history of controversy, so that makes me even more doubtful that this billboard and its theft are real. Also, let’s face it, there’s a good chance that the billboard is illegal anyway since this was in LA, so who cares if the ad was stolen off of the billboard?
Is this new David de la Mano piece a comment on the removal of Hyuro’s Atlanta mural?

Photo by Luna Park

March 8, 2013March 1, 2013

A.CE at Maxwell Colette in Chicago

I’m excited to see that London’s A.CE is having a solo show at Maxwell Colette in Chicago this month. A.CE has been putting up posters in London since before I began looking at street art, and I’ve always enjoyed his work. There’s no denying that there are some similarities to Bast, but I compare him to Bast rather any number of other artists along those lines in part because we all know Bast is talented and I think A.CE is too.

Planet of the A.CE opens March 16th and runs through April 20th.

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Photos courtesy of A.CE

March 7, 2013March 1, 2013

Drobczyk in Poland

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Wow. Came across the Polish street artist Drobczyk thanks to Ekosystem (still one of the best places on the web for finding new street artists). Most of Drobczyk’s work is in Katowice, Poland. I love the folk-art aesthetic mixed with contemporary imagery.

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March 7, 2013March 1, 2013

Galerie F says “Don’t Sweat It”

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Chicago’s Galerie F has a group show opening tomorrow and it looks really fun. Don’t Sweat It is curated by Luke Pelletier and features work by The Yok, Sheryo, and many more artists.

As you can see from the video teaser below, the premise show is pretty straightforward: It features artists to draw cool stuff well.

March 6, 2013March 1, 2013

Todd James at Lazarides

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Todd James‘ latest solo show opens this week at Lazarides Rathbone Place in London. The show, World Domination, will of course have some new works on canvas and paper, but the really exciting bit is that it will include a recreation of The Vandal’s Bedroom, part of James’ contribution to Street at Art in the Streets at the LA MOCA in 2011 (Street was a collaboration between James, Stephen Powers, and Barry McGee).

World Domination runs March 6th through April 11th.

Photo courtesy of Lazarides Gallery

March 5, 2013March 3, 2013

Mathieu Connery aka 500m

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As usual, Labrona knows what’s up in Canada and now he’s introduced me to yet another interesting Canadian street artist: Mathieu Connery aka 500m. Continue reading “Mathieu Connery aka 500m”

March 4, 2013March 3, 2013

Logan Hicks solo show coming up in LA

Stenciling master Logan Hicks has a solo show this week at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Thin Veils And Heavy Anchors opens on March 8th and only runs through March 10th, so mark it down on your calendars and don’t let this show pass you by. With this show, Hicks has continued to work with a combination of etching and stenciling, but he’s the work is on a massive scale that I don’t think I’ve seen from Hicks in quite a few years, and it looks like the combination of a stenciled layer beneath the etched architectural components (which I believe is new) has really helped to make the etched bits more aesthetically interesting (or perhaps just more apparent in photographs). I wish I could see this show in person, but I’ll settle for everyone I know in LA going there instead. So please go check out Thin Veils and Heavy Anchors at LACE.

The show opens on March 8th from 6:30-10pm.

Also, the LA Weekly is doing a print giveaway with Hicks. Enter here.

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March 3, 2013March 1, 2013

Horfee solo show coming up with Topsafe London

Parisian graffiti king and PAL crew member Horfee‘s first London solo show, Horfee’s Imaginarium, opens later this month with Topsafe London at 4 Wilkes Street E1 6QF in Shoreditch. Horfee is one of the world’s most interesting and celebrated active graffiti writers, and he’s got a very promising gallery career developing. Horfee’s mad cartoons have a rare crossover appeal such that they can be appreciated by those familiar with his graffiti and the fine art world too.

Horfee’s Imaginarium opens March 14th (5-9pm) and runs through March 23rd. Email horfe @ topsafelondon .com to RSVP for the opening.

I can’t wait to see more from this show, but Topsafe London has sent over quite a healthy preview. More after the jump…

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March 2, 2013March 1, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

As I’ve been gearing up for midterms, I’ve missed posting some great outdoor work (and other things) this week.

Does the buffman have a sense of humor or did mobstr do this himself?
Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, & Laurie Reid showing together in SF.
You may have seen the video of Margaret Kilgallen on Art21 before, but here’s some previously unseen footage of her and Barry McGee from that shoot.
I love this piece by Disk.
And also this one by the highly underrated Ludvig.
There’s a fundraiser to benefit Essam, the artist who was beyond those brilliant drone strike posters and then subsequently arrested, taking place later this month.
Graffiti geeks will love this tattoo flash.
Jack Murray aka Panik ATG has written a must-read post about some historic London graffiti on The Foundry being covered by a street-art-emulating ad for Microsoft’s Surface. Hopefully somebody once again uses that surface for something creative very soon.
Ron English has a new colorway of his Temper Tot art toy for sale exclusively on his website.
I’m not quite sure what has happened here. First, an artist who goes by the name Edwin painted this piece in Hackney Wick. Now, it looks like this. It seems to me that Sweet Toof went up and added his teeth to the piece as a subtle diss to Edwin for ripping off Lenny The High Roller, the character that Sweet Toof and Cyclops used to paint back when their Burning Candy crew really dominated Hackney Wick. Yes, lots of street artists paint skulls and graffiti writers paint skulls, but the similarities here, particularly the eyes and given the location, are too much to ignore as mere coincidence. Also, this might be a stretch, but the hands in Edwin’s piece kinda look like Gold Peg’s hands (who also painted with Burning Candy in Hackney Wick and elsewhere).
This film about M. Chat is screening in Philadelphia next week at the Slought Foundation. Strange thing though. The description of the film actually never gives the name of the artist, but M. Chat has a Wikipedia article and a Twitter account and shows work in galleries. Additionally, the Slought Foundation has posted downloadable templates of M. Chat’s work for people to customize and put up on their own. I called up the Slought Foundation and was told that Thoma Vuille, the man who it seems was behind M. Chat, is not involved in the show, although the man I spoke with suggested that the M. Chat logo may have been painted by a collective rather than just one man (like The Toasters collective with one logo and multiple members). So, is this appropriation of an unexplained urban mystery or theft an artist’s creation? I’m not one for strict copyright laws, but it does seem to me like the moral thing to do here would be to at least give some credit to Vuille aka M. Chat rather than pretend that the cat is still a complete mystery.

Photo by Carnagenyc