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Comment on Who doesn’t love popsicles? by Giulia Blocal

Giulia Blocal — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:33:00 +0000

I love popsicles! 🙂

Comment on Interview with Stinkfish by Reasons To Check Out Art Everywhere You Go – SFArtsFest

Reasons To Check Out Art Everywhere You Go – SFArtsFest — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:26:13 +0000

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Comment on The Anonymous Gallery in Miami by SPECTER: Inside the Studio : Brooklyn Street Art

SPECTER: Inside the Studio : Brooklyn Street Art — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:40:16 +0000

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Comment on A Trip to Bethlehem, Also… BANKSY by Mr. William Lashley

Mr. William Lashley — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:25:00 +0000

I would like to comment on this by way of two photographs of murals that seem to me to be obviously by the same artist. One of these appears in the Fifth Wall TV video at around 5:00 in. Here is the first photo, posted by my friend Franke four days ago while visiting the Aida Palestinian refugee community. She is a professor of Political Science at Montana State University, the former chair of the Montana Human Rights Commission and a former Democratic party State Representative. She is in Israel/Palestine now where she “came to study nonviolent resistance/peace movements that work with both sides.”
The second photo is simply identified online as being a shot of a mural in the “West Bank” but it is so similar that I can’t imagine it isn’t by the same artist that created the art in Franke’s photo. Can anyone identify the artist? More to the point, why is that information seemingly less important than identifying Blu’s work?
While the video questions whether “another video ” or “another artist coming and making a big statement” is what people want, there is image after image that is anonymous (at least to me). My question is why? I went to Shankill Road in Belfast years ago and saw the Ulster Defence Force & UVF & IRA and Sinn Fein murals. They were all signed and even muralists on different sides of the political divide recognised each others work. Isn’t there a value in trying to understand these works as individual statements as well as ideological symbols? To me it humanises the struggle. So maybe what the people going to Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel might consider doing is taking a closer look at the human stories that surround the art created before Banksy, Blu etc got there or created independently of such collectable and curated artisits, and the “why” and “how” of its creation. I am not encouraging a “turf war”or getting into the questions of authenticity. I am really concerned about how the audience receives the work, not jut the relative status of the artists themselves, and how people form a conceptual gestalt from the representations.

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Comment on Dear Kitsch Street Artists… by Sharon Birch

Sharon Birch — Fri, 19 May 2017 10:43:00 +0000

So only young men can be skaters? Only people who can’t get traditional jobs can be skaters? And by extension, only young, unemployed people can be real street artists? I agree with everything stated about copying works, true appropriation, and the need for site-specificity – but the authors statements about skater dads smacks of ageism and a kind of Peter Pan worldview about who is cool enough to be jnvolved in street art.

Comment on Thank you Very Nearly Almost by northierthanthou.com

northierthanthou.com — Mon, 01 May 2017 05:59:00 +0000

Why the shut down?

Comment on When the Obvious Becomes Radical Leftist Politics by Blogs im Februar 2017 – STADTKIND

Blogs im Februar 2017 – STADTKIND — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:28:41 +0000

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Comment on The Bushwick Collective and McDonald’s Team Up to Screw Artists by Vol1

Vol1 — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:57:00 +0000

Sorry Jon Doe, but you gotta understand that this is seriously not cool. Calling joe out for misusing his artists is not trashing. The guy used the work of his artist guests without their permission to advertise for a corporate entity that some of the artists are opposed to. That is a breach of respect and honestly is a bad deed. RJ had to speak on this story. Joe seems like a nice guy, but this whole ordeal had no integrity in it.

Comment on The Bushwick Collective and McDonald’s Team Up to Screw Artists by Jon doe

Jon doe — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 15:32:00 +0000

Wow you are the biggest troll around. When the cope stuff came I knew it was inevitable but the moves you made were just wrong. Joe has his faults but you just like trashing people. I’m lost at how you could support Lisa project who truly doesn’t support New York artists and go after joe the way you did. Joe got into street art/graffiti completely accidental. Maybe he did see the potential for money early but it was a complete accident. This opposed to the culture vultures that have truly made it their “careers”. Could joe have gone about the mcdonalds documentary differently, 100%. Did it deserve a chump writer like yourself just trashing him? You’ve written about nyc art for a long time. You not from ny. You need to remember that and think about your actions.

Comment on The Bushwick Collective and McDonald’s Team Up to Screw Artists by Vol1

Vol1 — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:49:00 +0000

I’m not to sure it has anything to do with Joe being a “rich white dude”. The man has had a very difficult childhood in the area. I don’t think it’s fair to characterize him that way. No doubt he is doing something terrible teaming up with mcdonalds though.