Joshua Callaghan‘s utility box project is so much better than those obnoxious fake rock covers that towns usually buy for utility boxes. I just hope birds don’t smash into them. Check out more here.
Via Urban Prankster, psfk and today and tomorrow
Sweet Toof in Hackney Wick
Hackney Wick seems like London’s new graffiti headquarters. Hopefully I’ll be checking it out next weekend or the week after when I’ll take plenty of photos. In the mean time, Unusualimage has found a great piece by Sweet Toof and Gold Peg in Hackney Wick, so here’s a little taste of the area.
Aren’t Best Ever are Really Good?
Remember that piece last Halloween by Best Ever? It was on Leake Street, and a picture went around on the street art blogs because everybody loved it? Well, Best Ever (a collaboration between Hadley Newman and Neil Edward) has been doing some more work, and it’s just as impressive as that first piece we saw on Leake Street.
They also started a website for their work recently, which is worth bookmarking.
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Prophet Or Pro£it @ Pure Evil Gallery
An exhibition of collaborative artworks by –Juice 126Part2ismRemi/RoughSystem@ Pure Evil Gallery. 108 Leonard Street. EC2A 4RH—————-Juice 126 has recently shown at Nancy Victor, Mutate Britain and Jibbering Art in his hometown of Birmingham, Part2ism, has recently been showing in Black Rat Press, Mutate Britain and Kounter Kulture with a solo show at Urban Angel in March, Remi/Rough has recently shown at Urban Angel, Mutate Britain and 401 Contemporary in Berlin and also spoken at the Tate Modern.System has shown in Strasbourg, 401 Contemporary in Berlin and has a March solo show at Galerie Nuble in Santander in March.All artworks are one off collaborations.Don’t miss this opportunity to see us back in action together.—————–For more Info contact Pure Evil Gallery –
Looks like a really good concept for a show. Remi/Rough recently did some collaborations with Grafter which turned out really well, so I’m excited to see how his style works with these other artists.
On a related note, Part2ism has done a new piece outside Urban Angel’s Art Lounge:
Photo by mermaid 99
A Final Farewell to President Bush
About a week ago, I posted some of the best Obama street art. Now, Obama is president, and as a little farewell present to President Bush, I’ve put together the best 16 images of George Bush street art/graffiti. Oddly enough, the art depicting Bush seems to convey a different message from the art featuring Obama.
Enjoy…
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Street Art in Ghent. Where’s Ghent?
Okay so I’ll be first to admit that I’m not the best with geography or world cities, but have you ever heard of Ghent? Apparently it’s quite a bit city in the Flemish half of Belgium. In Belgium, I’ve only ever been to Brussels and Waterloo.
Well, apparently street art fans should have heard of Ghent due to the large amount of street art to be found there. Extremely dedicated street art photographer _Kriebel_ has just posted pages and pages of work from the city, so here’s a couple of highlights. Do check out the rest of his flickr photostream though. Lots of really talented Belgian street artists who don’t get enough credit.
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Coffee Cup Art
Check out this cool piece of disruptive realism in the Netherlands. I’ll be visiting the Hague in two weeks, so maybe I’ll have see some more Dutch street to post about.
Via 24 oranges
Big Suprise: NY Post Doesn’t Like Graffiti
C-Monster has a very good post up about the NY Post‘s recent comments about a wall in the city well-known for its graffiti/street art. Naturally, they are not too happy that it exists. I’ve not seen this wall in person, but based on the above photo by f.trainer, it looks like one of the city’s treasures.
Brooklyn Thinks
Really cool project going on in Brooklyn recently that combines street art and photography (and not in that annoying Robin Rhode way).
Artists Matt Adams and Katie Sokoler made thought bubbles with images inside them, taped them throughout Brooklyn, and and photographed people walking by at just the right moment. The result is pretty clever (I think).
Via Urban Prankster and Concrete Canvas
Veng, From The Street of Brooklyn and Mobile Art
I’m sort of squishing three posts into one here, but they’re all related.
1. From The Streets of Brooklyn opened this weekend at thinkspace gallery in LA. The show, curated by Ad Hoc Art’s Andrew Michael Ford, has taken a bunch of Brooklyn’s best and most prolific artists and put them all together to pretty much transport Bushwick/Williamsburg to LA. Looks like an absolutely fascinating show. Maybe something like it will come to London in the future (are you reading this Andrew?) Read a review here, check out more photos here, and go here to see thinkspace’s wrap up of the show.
2. One of the artists at From The Street of Brooklyn is Veng from Robots Will Kill. He’s being doing a few pieces lately which are a bit different, so I thought I’d post one of those. Woodcuts I think. There’s also a very nice little post on him at the Curbs & Stoops blog, a blog/gallery that I’ve just found but I really like (see item #3).
3. So basically I went to the Curbs & Stoops blog to read that post on Veng (hopefully you all have too). Then I clicked around the site a bit. Turns out, they are some pretty awesome folks. They’re all about getting art to people who normally wouldn’t have access to art. They have beautiful prints for sale at low prices, a blog that highlights some great artists, and 3 projects they are working on that sound great. The first project is Mission District Portraits. This summer, they went on the street and offered to take anybody’s picture for free. Good fun for all involved I’m sure. Then there is A Dollar For Your Story where you get paid $1 to tell a story on video to show the transformation that happens when people tell stories. Eventually, the stories will be shown online. Finally, their coolest project has to be the Mobile Art Gallery. This isn’t functioning yet, but it sounds like the best idea to come out of New York since probably ever. The Mobile Art Gallery is going to literally park wherever and sell art on a sliding scale so that anybody can afford it. Yes! Art for the people!
So that’s why today is a great day in art.
Photos from veng_rwk and Stephen_W