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April 8, 2013

Back from Boston link-o-rama

I missed last week’s link-o-rama because I was in Boston for the Barry McGee show at the ICA Boston. So worth the trip (more on that soon), but for now here’s what I missed:

Wow. So many great murals at La Bienal de Arte Urbano in Bolivia: Erica il Cane x Bastardilla, Charquipunk, Decertor, Inti… Definitely check those out.
Hooked visited with Gaia while he prepared a new linoblock print for his upcoming London solo show.
Josh MacPhee of Just Seeds is speaking tonight in Philadelphia.
A really great community mural.
A young Canadian Instagram user was arrested for a photo she posted of a piece of street art because they thought she made the piece. Well, if I ever go to Montreal, I guess I should be careful about what I post to my Instagram.
They sold out pretty quickly so I’m sorry I didn’t get to this sooner, but Essam (the artist who did those great NYPD/drone ad disruptions) released a few prints of those posters at 1xRun last week.
Russian street artist Pasha 183 (think along the lines of Banksy or SpY) has died at the age of 28.
The fantastic artist Nychos will be showing at the equally fantastic Galo Art Gallery in Turin, Italy later this month. A great pairing.
Cre8tive YouTH*ink & Centrefuge Public Art Project are raising money through Indiegogo to work with teens to make a series of murals in NYC.

Photo courtesy of Rowdy

April 4, 2013

“Flip the Script” book release party & art show tonight at Reed Space

Flip-the-Script-Book-Release-and-art-show

Celebrating the release of Christian P. Acker’s Flip the Script, an elegant analysis of the best graffiti hand styles across the U.S., Reed Space on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is hosting a one-night art show tonight showcasing an amazing array of works by those artists featured in the book. Here’s a brief preview:

Slick

Cosbe

Photos by Lois Stavsky

March 30, 2013March 29, 2013

KAWS’ Companion sculpture and more in Philadelphia

Companion (Passing Through) at the Aldrich — Companion (Passing Through) at The Aldrich

KAWS’ 16-foot-tall sculpture Companion (Passing Through) is making a stop in Philadelphia soon thanks to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). The sculpture has already visited The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Standard Hotel in NYC, and other locations. From April 11th through May 14th, it will be on display at 30th Street Station, Philadelphia’s main train station.

Then, in October, KAWS will have two sculpture projects at PAFA. One, in a PAFA project inspired by the Fourth Plinth in London, will be a public sculpture placed outdoors atop the entrance to PAFA’s museum in Philadelphia. The other project, an exhibition of KAWS’ sculptures inside PAFA’s museum, will go on at same time.

Three KAWS projects in Philadelphia in one year, with two of them taking place outdoors. Good stuff. For more info, check out PAFA’s site.

PS, the following excerpt from PAFA’s blurb about these projects is hilarious:

The exhibition offers an exciting opportunity to engage in an artistic dialog about PAFA’s past and present, and to link the exterior of the Historic Landmark Building to the work on view inside. Placing KAWS’ sculptural works throughout PAFA’s historic galleries will further the ‘graffiti effect,’

Photo by Mike Simonds

March 28, 2013

Melbourne Monthly Madness – February 2013

Dabs Myla at Metro Gallery - Photo by Dean Sunshine — Dabs Myla at Metro Gallery – Photo by Dean Sunshine

Here’s some of the amazing stuff that happened in Melbourne last month. I’m sorry it’s so late – I am already working on the March post. Damn I am proud to post about my home town. So much goodness every month. Enjoy!

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March 23, 2013June 7, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

It’s a bit late, but it’s link-o-rama time…

CRASH painted the wall at Bowery and Houston. He is the first train painter to paint the wall since it became a curated spot a few years ago excluding the collaborative Martha Cooper 70th birthday edition of the wall (although DAZE did paint it back in the 1980’s).
A Love Letter For You, the dramatic film made around Steve Power’s mural project of the same name, is screening in Chicago this month.
Vagrant Space, AVOID pi’s new space/residency/project based in North Carolina, has a show at Tender Trap in Brooklyn next month.
S.Butterfly has photo of Horfee’s London show.
Do you hate assholes? Do you love people who act like human beings? So does Morley.
The Centre-fuge Public Art Project is trying to raise some money to expand their work.
Mumbo Sauce, a group show co-curated by Roger Gastman, opens next month at The Contemporary Wing in DC. The show includes work by BORF, Mark Jenkins and others.
Shepard Fairey has designed the official mission patch for a space mission. Yes, it’s kind of an odd collaboration and other 100 artists probably could have designed something good for this patch, but I really like Fairey’s design. Great art? I dunno. Solid design? Definitely. Hyperallergic has more examples of patches for space missions.

Photos by Ludo

March 13, 2013March 19, 2013

NYC-based artists collaborate with members of En Masse in Bushwick

Artists at work in Bushwick; Gospel with white cap — Artists at work in Bushwick

While in New York City for the Fountain Art Fair, members of the Montreal-based En Masse Collective were joined by other artists — including seven based in NYC — on a huge wall in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Seeing some of my favorite artists’ images in En Masses’s signature black and white aesthetic is quite a treat!

Never, Bishop,Gospel, Jason Batkin,, See One, Fumero, Masato Okano, Tang Wei, Dustin Spagnola and Patches Whisky — Never, Bishop, Gospel, Jason Botkin, See One, Fumero, Masato Okano, Tang Wei, Dustin Spagnola & Patch Whiskey

SinXero, Carson DeYoung, Rubin, Youth Waste and Patches Whisky — Gospel, Mas Paz, Carson DeYoung, SinXero, Bishop, Rubin, Youth Waste & Patch Whisky

Photos by Tara Murray

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

February 12, 2013

Steel Canvases: NYC Legends Gather in the Bronx

While most of us in New York were sitting in our homes fearing the snowstorm, the Bronx Documentary Center gathered some of the city’s legendary writers and documentarians for a panel. One of a series of events, Steel Canvases brought together Bio and Nicer of Tats Cru, Henry Chalfant, Eric Deal, and Crash to discuss trains. Of particular interest is the groups discussion on the proliferation of imagery and styles pre-internet. Thanks to Ricky Flores, those of us who couldn’t make it for fear of snow or not can see an edited video of the panel’s highlights.

January 12, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

Looks like the art world has gotten back on track after the holiday season. Lots of links this week.

Over at Complex.com, I wrote about the 10 (well, actually 12) street artists that I think people should be watching for in 2013.
Rae, one of the artists on that list of mine, has a solo show opening at Signal Gallery in London later this month.
Broken Fingaz are also on that same list, and it looks like they have some new work up in London.
Sten and Lex get up in an ancient church.
I’d never heard of Kraser Tres before, but damn can he paint.
And so can Sokram.
Faile are working on a huge project with the New York City Ballet. It sounds like a bit of a strange collaboration at first, but I’m excited to see the results. It seems like this has given Faile an opportunity to develop new work in a direction that they would have otherwise never gone, and the results that have been teased so far look strong.
2501 has a show opening this month in Bologna.
A lot of Rammellzee’s work is on display now at New York’s Children’s Museum of the Arts.
There’s some great work available in the Iron To Gold/Ashes To Hope benefit auction which will help to fund an artist residency program in Detroit.
Here’s a nice video of Kid Zoom at work.
I might have asked this question before, but can someone please explain the appeal of Barry McGee’s recent Brooklyn mural to me? The first of the videos here has some info about it, but I need more. McGee has previously stated his objections to painting so-call beautifying murals. The only time in recent memory that I can recall seeing anything similar to the Brooklyn mural is the one he painted a few years ago in Miami, but even that piece included a fair bit of traditional graffiti. Plus, the Brooklyn mural was painted by the billboard painting company Colossal. I’ve got no problem with artist assistants or anything like that, but the whole thing strikes me as McGee just saying “Sure, if Cadillac wants to pay me a bunch of money to license one of my images and hire someone else to paint it on a building, I’ll take that paycheck.” And hey, more power to the guy if he can get Cadillac to pay him for that, but is that all that’s going on here or am I missing something? Has McGee’s philosophy about public art changed?

Photo by Tellas

January 6, 2013January 30, 2013

Entes and Pesimo in Pamplona Alta, Peru

Last month, Entes and Pesimo participated in a grassroots project Alegrarte in Lima, Peru. This initiative stands out to me, particularly because of its focus to exist outside the city’s various arts districts. Alegrarte focused on bringing artists, such as Entes & Pesimo to decorate, revive and uplift Pamplona Alta, a shantytown in the outskirts of Lima. This is the project’s first go, and I’m hopeful that more attention will be brought to areas such as this; areas that do not have a potable water source, roads, or available long term educational opportunities.

Pamplona Alta is home to hundreds of families that settled in the mid to late 1980s, as a response to violence brought by The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), a revolutionary group known for its violence and extreme measures of political revolt. This growing township still struggles with developmental and infrastructural dilemmas; thankfully artists and various non-profit organizations aim to beautify the town in more than one way, and as a response I’m hoping to see more attention brought to larger scale problems. Art is powerful, voilà!

Photos courtesy of Entes & Pesimo