I’ve really been enjoying these pieces by Nemo around London. Big and small, Nemo is always fun.
Photos by HowAboutNo!, Claudelondon, Alex Ellison and Unusualimage
Nemo gets up in London
JR hits Bowery&Houston in NYC
Earlier this week, JR got up at the historic mural spot on Bowery and Houston in New York City, most recently painted by Kenny Scharf. This photo is of DJ Two Bears, a man JR photographed at the Standing Rock Nation Native American reservation. Martha Cooper took this photo and has shots of the entire process on her blog.
Photo by Martha Cooper
Lorenzo Masnah brings DISASTERS to FUSE
Disasters is the theme of a collaged mural currently underway in the hallway of the FUSE Gallery in the East Village. 26-year-old Lorenzo Masnah has been collecting, enlarging and painting over and on newspaper and magazine images of global disasters, tragedies and human rights violations for years. His politically-infused work has been published in zines and books and exhibited in a variety of gallery and alternative setting in New York City, LA and in his native Bogota, where, along with Stinkfish, he is a founding member of the APC (Animal Planet Collective). Lorenzo’s newest work will be the subject of an exhibit at FUSE Gallery next year. In the meantime, this mural is definitely worth checking out – if you’re anywhere in the vicinity of 93 2nd Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets in NYC’s East Village.
Miss Kaliansky captures 3ttman and friends
Ron English around London
Ron English is in London and he’s been putting up a couple of posters. These thought bubbles are pretty cool, but I’ve seen a number of them getting ripped down already. Speaking Ron last night at the opening of his show at Lazarides, he was looking to get some paint, so maybe there are more pieces that were done today. I guess we will see soon.
Photos by RJ Rushmore
Weekend link-o-rama
This week the link-o-rama is coming from Steph’s room, where I’ve been staying. After all, got that beautiful baby boy to take care of… Here’s what’s been going on elsewhere in street art this week:
- Margaret Kilgallen’s show at Ratio 3 is open.
- Faile are releasing some gold prints at their print show in LA (opening tonight). Because gold = awesome. Or something like that.
- Cyop and Kaf painting for FAME Festival. And they now have a book.
- Definitely check out this video of Anthony Lister, Mymo and others in Berlin.
- Loving this portrait of a certain clown named Ronald by Zoltron.
- ABOVE has a book coming out later this year.
- This war memorial in Bulgaria has been taken over by superheroes.
- Mathieu Tremblin is interesting as always.
- West Berlin Gallery is showing some photos by Brenna.
- A nice interview with Stik.
Photo by Peter Fuss
Big news day link-o-rama
Normally I’d like to avoid doing a link-o-rama post in the middle of the week, but there have been a number of big stories to break in the last 24 hours or so, and since I’m in the middle of moving house, there’s no way I was going to be able to otherwise cover them in a timely manner. So here we go…
- The artist Ai Weiwei has been released on bail from a Chinese prison, but one of his friends that the Chinese also detained has still not been heard from.
- Banksy has reacted to Tox’s conviction for graffiti (and likely prison sentence) with this piece of street art in Camden. Banksy’s old pal Ben Eine testified on Tox’s behalf at the trial, claiming that just about anyone could be imitating Tox’s tags and pieces because they are so simple, and that the man on trial may have been the victim of imitators rather than still being a graffiti writer, as the prosecutors argued. The prosecutor also told the jury that Tox “is no Banksy. He doesn’t have the artistic skills, so he has to get his tag up as much as possible.” Banksy has actually referenced Tox in his work before. Not all that surprisingly, the Banksy piece is already being covered in plexiglass to protect it (UPDATE: actually it’s been boarded up). To my knowledge, no one has ever covered a Tox tag in plexiglass, although perhaps now they should…
- Liu Bolin, aka that artist who paints himself into landscapes and photographs himself sort of disappearing, has collaborated with Kenny Scharf on his latest piece at Kenny’s mural in NYC. Wooster Collective has that story.
- Although Art in the Streets was supposed to move from MOCA in LA to the Brooklyn Museum next year, the Brooklyn museum has cancelled their iteration of the street art and graffiti show. They cite financial difficulties, but the show is set to break attendance records in LA, so that’s probably some BS to cover their asses. The show has already caused controversy in NYC, and there is speculation that the cancellation is due to political pressure and fears about that controversy. Hopefully a museum with some balls will pick up the show and it will still make it to NYC.
- That controversy in NYC about Art in the Streets cited this article which has been floating around for a while about why the show is so evil. Saber has just written the best response to that article that I’ve read so far.
Photo by Mark J P
From the South Bronx to Havana, Cuba
Cekis had mentioned to me that he was painting up in the Bronx, and I expected to find him at work on a wall. But when we got up there today, he and Chilean graffiti muralist Dasic Fernandez were painting a bus. Dasic explained that the bus is one of about 35 that will be will be transporting food and medical supplies to Cuba. They will travel next to Canada and eventually be transferred to a boat in Mexico that will bring them to Havana.
Sam3 – different states
Sam3 painted this billboard in Murcia, Spain twice recently. First, he painted the above piece, titled Estado de bienestar, Welfare state. As you can see in the photograph below, he then repainted the same spot. This time he called it Estado de flacidez, which you can probably translate for yourself.
Photos by Sam3
A very special alley in Melbourne, Australia
A note from RJ: This is Luke’s first guest post on Vandalog. He will be helping us cover street art and graffiti in Melbourne, Australia.
This is an amazing little alleyway in Melbourne. Check out some of the local and international talent. (There’s so much goodness down there so apologies to anyone that I’ve missed.. Next time..)
Whilst it’s not as famous as some other Melbourne streets, it’s by far my favourite. No surprise why this is, this alley is the entrance to the famous ‘Blender Studios‘ http://www.theblenderstudios.com/ (Have a read on their site, Blender is an instrumental part of the history of Melbourne’s vibrant street art scene).
Ok, Here we go:
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