Festivals – Page 17 – Vandalog

October 7, 2011November 29, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

4645091802_58e461ec4f_z — Portrait of Steve Jobs in France

This weekend I’ll be in Boston. If you have any ideas for what I should get up to, leave a comment. I’ll definitely be checking out Swoon’s installation at the ICA Boston. Here’s what’s been going on in street art while I’ve been locked in my room studying all week:

Steve Powers aka ESPO designed some beer cozies for The World’s Best Ever. They’re pretty okay, but should your beer cozy really be more than pretty okay? I would honestly feel a bit weird of my beer cozy had some brilliant high-brow design on it. Much more impressive is the latest in Powers’ Love Letter series.
Philips de Pury and MTV had a charity auction for MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation, with particularly nice work by Shepard Fairey and Faile.
Stik’s latest solo show just opened in London.
Some beautiful pieces by Sam3 in Porto, Portugal.
AvoidPi designed the latest cover of Showpaper.
Blu’s latest mural is in Greece.
A nice booth for Joshua Liner Galler at Pulse in LA.
Mr. Brainwash has a show opening soon in LA, but it’s going to be full of other people’s art. Anyone can submit work to be wheatpasted around the exhibition. On the one hand, yay, artists can benefit from Mr. Brainwash’s stupid fame and hype. On the other hand, I guess Mr. Brainwash has acknowledged that he doesn’t have any ideas for art, so he’s just openly benefiting from the art of others to further his own art career. So it’s mutually beneficial, except that individual artists submitting work will gain a lot less from this arrangement than Mr. Brainwash will gain overall.

Photo by Abode of Chaos

September 30, 2011September 30, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

9_img9890 — Life-side wheatpasted photograph by Erik Berglin

Expect next week’s link-o-rama to be a big one. It’s mid-term week at school. Speaking of school, I’m organizing an artist residency for young artists at my college. If you are between 18 and 24 and could use $350 to do something creative, I hope you’ll consider applying for the Haverford College Undergraduate Artist Residency. Here’s what has been going on this week off Vandalog:

The Wall Street Journal followed Jeffrey Deitch around during the final day of Art in the Streets, so now you can see what a day in the life of Jeffrey Deitch is like.
Adam Neate has a show of new work opening next week at Elms Lesters in London.
Also in London next week is the rescheduled Meeting of Styles, organized by End of the Line.
Great photos of great walls in Paris.
e1000ink has some nice minimal geometric street art.
Maybe the coolest and best piece from Living Walls Albany is this tile mosaic mural by Overunder.
Brad Downey and Akay are at it again in Vienna.
Some nice murals at the Galeria Urban Forms festival in Poland.
Remember that beautiful Barry McGee piece in Sydney that we mentioned two weeks ago? That wall of tags? Turns out he wasn’t supposed to paint that, so it’s getting removed. He was meant to, and did, paint another wall, but not the wall that he tagged. Officially, this was an honest mistake and an unfortunate case of confusion on McGee’s part, but if you had a cherry picker or a scissor lift and some extra paint, how would you spend your nights?

Photo by Erik Berglin

September 24, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

6169453877_506aaa4769_z — Sam3 in France

This week it seems like I’ve been appearing elsewhere on the web as much as here on the blog. I’ve been more active than usual on Vandalog’s tumblr, which I’ve finally getting a feel for; I was interviewed by Brian Sherwin over at FineArtViews; and I wrote a post for my friend at Hyperallergic about advertisers utilizing the style of Liu Bolin to sell stuff. Here’s what didn’t make it to Vandalog:

Revok called out Fab 5 Freddy for appropriating (or in Revok’s words “stealing”) letters from other artists including Sever and using them in his own work. You can read Revok’s post here, and hopefully I’ll have some thoughts about it in a post on Vandalog over the weekend. A commenter on Vandalog actually noted that Fred was doing this about two months ago.
New York Magazine published an article, and not a particularly brief one, all about a painting that is supposedly by Jean-Michel Basquiat but was denied by his estate’s authentication committee. Well, while the writer of the article tries to get readers to sympathize with going through a potentially daunting and certainly not transparent authentication process, there was really no point for the whole thing: The painting is clearly by Phil Frost, something that the article doesn’t mention at all. So, umm… good work. Thanks to Known Gallery for pointing this all out.
Nunca, Titifreak, Invader and more at this show in Paris.
Retna painted a mural in Miami.
Here’s some images of Bast’s show in Newcastle.
The New York Times went with graffiti writer Freedom back to The Freedom Tunnel where he used to paint and took some photos.
A street art / mystery investigation documentary film thing. Looks kinda cool except that they are trying to “out” an artist, so I’m not sure I’m 100% cool with that.

Photo by Sam3

September 19, 2011September 19, 2011

A taste of Living Walls Albany

brooklyn-street-art-roa-jaime-rojo-living-walls-albany-09-11-web-1 — Roa

Brooklyn Street Art have been up in Albany for Living Walls Albany. These are some of my favorite photos so far, but check out way more images here and here.

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-jaime-rojo-living-walls-albany-09-11-web — How and Nosm

brooklyn-street-art-gaia-jaime-rojo-living-walls-albany-09-11-web — Gaia

brooklyn-street-art-overunder-jaime-rojo-living-walls-albany-09-11-web-1 — Overunder

Photos by Jaime Rojo

September 16, 2011September 16, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

6153621232_60cd092d78_z — A freight train in Atlanta

This week has been a lot of trying to get ahead on my work, because on Saturday evening I’m headed to New York City for the night. I’ll be checking out Flash at the Wooster Street Social Club. Here’s some stuff I missed covering over the last few days:

Bast has a show opening this weekend at Lazarides’ Newcastle location. Most of the work is in a completely (almost unrecognizably) new style.
Swoon’s installation at the ICA Boston is now on view.
Some big walls are being painted at the CityLeaks festival in Germany.
But none of those murals are quite as cool as Liqen’s latest.
555 Gallery in Detroit has finally settled their lawsuit and can display the Banksy that they stole off the streets, completely ruining the meaning of the piece.
Escif was at Fame Festival.
Kaws has a solo show open now in LA.
Fab5Freddy, Lee and Futura are together in a show at Subliminal Projects this weekend.
Ludo’s show in London is open now.
Twist aka Barry McGee and his partner Amaze get up big in Sydney.

Photo by RJ Rushmore

September 12, 2011September 15, 2011

Living Walls Albany is Taking Off

After a fabulous summer in Atlanta, Living Walls is migrating up north to Albany, NY and has finally been kicking off. Brooklyn Street Art has been providing some great coverage of the work going up around the city prior to the event from Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Nanook, Overunder, White Cocoa and myself. Here are a couple glimpses of the progress being made.

Photos by Andrew Franciosa and Samson Contompasis

September 10, 2011September 9, 2011

More from Draw the Line

A while back, I posted about some murals at Draw the Line Festival in Campobasso, Italy. Well that was just the start. Here’s some more from the long lineup of artists painting at the festival. These murals are by Etnik, Truly, Dado and Sera.

Photos courtesy of Draw the Line

September 10, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

Snyder, a tribute to Kase2 (RIP) by Krush, Dame and Evol and other pieces

You know what’s really nice? Sleep. Hence, this weekend is a blessing. For now, life is school school school and more school. Hopefully there’s still a trip to NYC in my near future though… Here’s what has been going on around the internet and on the street:

OverUnder and Chris Stain have gotten things started at Living Walls Albany. OverUnder’s portrait looks kinda like an Ethos piece, but it still looks cool. And Chris’ tribute to the 9/11 first responders was painted on wood and has just been moved to the New York State Museum.
WK Interact collaborated with NY firefighters on a mural in Brooklyn.
This 9/11 related piece by Zevs has caused a bit of a stir. Definitely one of most controversial 9/11 related artworks I’ve seen.
JR’s Inside Out project has made it to Israel and Palestine.
Some promising new for Leon Reid IV‘s latest project.
Amanda Marie, the latest artist to show at Andenken in Amsterdam, isn’t a street artist, but she does stencils that I’m loving. (heads up, the link is a pdf)
Ema has a solo show that opened tonight at Glasgow’s Redcoat Gallery.
Banksy has donated a sculpture to The Bristol Museum.
A few years ago, there was a castled painted in Scotland by some of Brazil’s best street artists: Nina, Nunca and Os Gêmeos. It was supposed to be temporary, but the owners of the castle want to keep it.
Maybe my favorite thing I’ve ever seen from Jaybo.
Risk and Retna painted a mural in Santa Monica, CA, but now the city wants to fine the building owners $5,000 a day until the mural is removed.
Brad Downey and Akay collaborate at FAME Festival.
Jim Carrey and Shia LaBeouf are both trying to do some street art. Yep, the guy from Ace Ventura and a Disney Channel star are now technically street artists. Melrse&Fairfax says, “Interesting how street art seems to be more and more an exciting ‘escape’ for celebrities.” I’d like to replace interesting with some other word or words…

Photo by Snyder

August 30, 2011January 23, 2013

Even more from Living Walls

6067227577_c5dc758167_z — Ever and Freddy Sam. Photo by nickmickolas

In what is likely the second-t0-last post of murals from Living Walls in Atlanta, here’s work by Ever, Freddy Sam, Never, Gawd, Labrona, OverUnder, LNY, Sharktoof, Feral Child, Entes and Pesimo.

feralchildpanorama — Feral Child. Photo by Feral Child

6067830518_6108b4cb80_z — Labrona, Overunder and Gawd. Photo by nickmickolas

6067767736_fdac6c0dd8_z — Entes and Pesimo. Photo by nickmickolas

6067298545_5370f18510_z — Never. Photo by nickmickolas

6067255433_0d82d88698_z — LNY. Photo by nickmickolas

Photos by Greg Mike, Feral Child and nickmickolas

August 26, 2011

Coming in October: Nuart 2011

5008863764_2913926411_z — Vhils for Nuart 2010

With fall approaching (hopefully quickly after all the time I’ve been spending in 100 degree weather), another edition of Stavanger, Norway’s Nuart festival is just around the corner. This year, Nuart will break away from the murals that its become known for in favor of an event more like The Underbelly Project or Hell’s Half Acre: While there will still be some walls painted around the city, most of the festival will be indoors where artists will focus on painting directly on the walls of “seven abandoned 17x5x5 meter tunnels [and] a 50meter long access tunnel with an entrance hall equal in size to the cities largest gallery.”

And here’s this year’s artist line up… Dan Witz, David Choe, Herakut, Herbert Baglione, Escif, Hyuro, Tellas, Lucy McLauchlan, Dolk, Phlegm and Vhils.

Photo by kalevkevad