UPDATE: Please also read this new post about how the below artwork was removed by Ace Gallery. Two things by Banksy, separated by thousands of miles, have disappeared in the last 24 hours. First, Los Angeles is abuzz with the news that Banksy’s stencil of a guard and Jeff Koons-style dog has been removed from …
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D*face, London’s king of stickering and billboard taker-overs, has designed the album cover for Christina Aguilera’s upcoming album, Bionic. Not that I’m about to go and buy the album, but the cover certainly looks great. D*face is a great designer, which I believe was his job before he went into art. How did this happen? …
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Note from RJ: The following is a guest post by Jordan Seiler of Pubic Ad Campaign. The opinions are entirely his own, but I did ask him to write this post. I was asking myself the same questions that Jordan has considered, and I knew that he could provide a more intelligent analysis of the …
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According to Amazon.com, Poster Boy has a book coming out next month. Poster Boy: The War of Art should be released on March 2nd. Here’s Amazon’s description of the book: His cut and slash mash-ups of subway platform billboards only exist in New York City, but Poster Boy’s artful and funny appropriations of advertising have …
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This new piece by Deuce Seven just blows me away. It’s on a billboard in San Fransisco. Make sure to view it large by clicking on the image.
Now that all of the court cases have been dropped, Jordan has sent out the official link to the NYSAT billboard takeover project. http://www.publicadcampaign.com/nysat/ The gallery section of the site reveals the tremendous scope of the whitewashing and artmaking, all of which lasted no more than a couple hours. and speaking of cash4… and of course …
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This Thursday, LA is in for a treat: The opening of Mark Jenkins’ solo show Meaning Is Overrated at the Carmichael Gallery. In January 2010, Carmichael Gallery presents Meaning Is Overrated, a solo exhibition of new hyper realistic conceptual works and site-specific installation pieces by Mark Jenkins that reconsider the aesthetic and practical qualities of …
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NYSAT2 struck the streets of New York yesterday morning, whitewashing over 100 illegal street level billboard advertisements and adorning them with work from various artists. Despite intense NPA harassment and a major police crackdown that resulted in a few arrests, it seems that every artist had the chance to at least get their work …
UK Street Art has a pretty lengthy interview with Poster Boy. Good to know since I was worried the guy had just disappeared and stopped the Poster Boy project. Here’s an excerpt: How did Poster Boy come about? Why did you start cutting-up posters and did you ever think it would turn into the phenomenon …
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…And so do billboards when Sam3 gets to them! See more work in a similar vein here.
