Love this interview with Min. He tells the story of how he and Quik were in the train yards decades ago painting and they almost got busted by the police:
Min Rtw – From the up coming Henry Chalfant Archive Dvd project from Carl Weston on Vimeo.
Via Hurt You Bad
This looks like a really cool film. New Brow: The Rise of Underground Art is a documentary about the new brow/low brow/pop surrealism/graffiti art/street art/enjoyed-by-Juxtapoz art movements. The film made the rounds at film festivals in the states, and now next month is the UK premiere, thanks to London Miles Gallery.
The press release:
London Miles Gallery is proud to host the premiere UK screening of Contemporary Art documentary, New Brow – The rise of Underground Art, a feature film presented by Humble Pictures in association with The Shooting Gallery from San Francisco, California. The documentary features some of today’s most influential and groundbreaking artists from the New Contemporary Art movement, such as Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Silvia Ji, Gary Baseman, Shag and many more, who speak openly and enlighteningly about the growing art movement and its origins. The documentary not only includes first-hand accounts from an impressive list of pioneering artists, but also showcases the important galleries and collectors who adopted, and continue to drive the New Contemporary Art movement today.
New Brow has been the official selection of the San Francisco Film festival, Rader Hamburg Film Festival, The Tulsa United Film Festival, The Hot Springs Film Festival and the Golden State Film Festival. New Brow premiered at the 2009 Golden State Film Festival where it received the second largest attendance behind a special screening of Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back. It has been screened in cities across America and has made its way to Europe, Australia and now to London this February.
London Miles will be screening New Brow on Saturday the 20th of February at 4:00pm and the 27th February at 2:00pm and 5:30pm. Tickets are £8.00 and the film will be shown in the Project Room in Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Rd, London, W10 5JJ. Please purchase advance tickets at www.londonmiles.com, or reserve by email to info@londonmiles.com.
And the trailer:
New Brow Trailer 1 from New Brow on Vimeo.
A couple of ago, I posted some pictures of Doze Green’s latest solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NYC. I hate to be too repetitive, but today I found this nice video tour of the show which offers some insights in the work.
Years of rumors have finally proven true, Banksy has made a movie and it’s being released this Spring. The film is called Exit Through The Gift Shop. Here’s the official trailer:
And the official website is banksyfilm.com.
Check out the latest giant stencil project from Broken Crow:
Broken Crow Stencil Mural – 1 Day Time lapse – Lion Man from The BFC on Vimeo.
Kaws recently spoke with talk@playground and made a series of video interviews in conjunction with Pharrell. Here’s one of the videos:
The rest, all with Pharrell, can be seen on talk@playground.
Babelgum has yet another street art/graffiti documentary streaming online now. Inside Outside is streaming in full on their site and features artists like Swoon, Zevs and KR. I’m not a Zevs fan myself, so I think they focus a bit too much on him, but overall it’s a great film and well worth a watch (especially since it’s free).
Here’s a clip of KR from the film:
You can watch Inside Outside on Babelgum
Gaia and NohJColey just completed this mural for Espeis Outside in New York City. I for one am loving this double-animal thing that Gaia has been doing lately, and although Gaia and NohJ aren’t an obvious duo to collaborate with each other, the result is surely interesting. Here’s a film of them wheatpasting the mural:
The mural was organized by BrooklynStreetArt, and they have a short interview with the duo on their blog.
Yes, Babelgum still has plenty of videos to post from the fairs in Miami. The latest is of Jeff Soto working on his wall for Primary Flight:
Babelgum just released a short video shot by Radar Twenty-One about Aakash Nihalani. I like to watch videos in which artists step back and talk about their work and as much of this footage, which follows Aakash through New York and films him at work on the street, is interspersed with his thoughtful commentary, I enjoyed this one.
Aakash is in LA right now prepping for his upcoming show here at Carmichael Gallery – it’s going to be a fun week leading up to the opening!
– Elisa
