All cans, in a vacant office building in Virginia.
– Gaia
New from Cept, and the politics of graffiti removal
Cept has put this piece up recently. It looks great, but that’s not really the whole story. It was painted on top of a classic Cept. Why paint over the old piece? Turns out that the council demanded that the owners of the wall remove the graffiti because there had been complaints about it. Instead of paying the £5000 to clean the wall, they just had Cept paint something new there. Graffoto has the whole story, along with other examples of Hackney council’s inconsistent and often absurd graffiti removal policy.
(more) Kaws in Madrid
Yesterday Kaws posted some pictures on his blog of his artwork being unpacked for his solo show in Madrid. And now Guillotine has some proper photos from the opening as well as pictures of Kaws’ piece at the ARCO Madrid art fair.
Here’s the solo show:
And I’m serious. That’s pretty much the show. It looks like there were three canvases and a small chum sculpture. But hey, they’re huge and cool if you like Kaws (I love the red one), so maybe that’s okay.
And here’s his piece at ARCO:
The pieces in his solo show are interesting, but to me, this one is just Kaws’ attempt at being Barry McGee: A cluster of canvases that combine simple geometric shapes with trademark characters. Though to be fair, the far right section with half of Spongebob’s face looks awesome.
Lots more pictures on Guillotine (here for the solo show and here for ARCO), which is where these pictures are all from.
Sickboy in Bristol
Sickboy‘s been in Bristol lately for the Bristol version of his Logopop show (Guillotine has some photos). Of course, he’s also painted a few pieces outside as well. These two pieces are a bit different from his usual street work, but I like them.
Via UK Street Art
Photos from Sickboy’s blog
Elfo in Italy
I would love to stumble across this piece by Elfo in person…
The latest from TrustoCorp
TrustoCorp is back with some new signs in Manhattan. These guys are great, I just hope they don’t try and go into the gallery.
Children of the Grave by Dondi
One of my all time favorite pieces of subway graffiti is Children of The Grave Part 2 by Dondi:
Martha Cooper has just posted on this photo, along with photos of Children of The Grave parts 1 and 3, on her blog. These pieces are legendary.
MAGRELA in São Paulo
The latest from Ethos
Claudio Ethos has sent me some pics of his latest works in São Paulo, Brazil. The detail and technique on these are pretty damn impressive.
And this one is a collaboration with Alex Hornest aka Onesto:
