Well I’m on my way back to Philadelphia this weekend. I can’t wait to get there and back into the swing of things. Random comment about Philly: If anyone knows of any photographers who are actively documenting street art and graffiti there, please let me know. Anyway, here’s what we missed this week: KAWS/OriginalFake have …
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tasj vol ii – issue iv is now out – thanks to everyone who picked up a copy at our opening last Saturday and/or has signed up to receive it in the mail for free – we recently got a ton of new subscribers. You can get a deeper sense of the contents of this …
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Katsu and Avone aka Destroy & Rebuild have a show on now at PowerHouse Arena in Brooklyn. To promote the show, they took over a number of phone booth advertisements in NYC. In the past, I’ve been known to criticize street artists for putting of posters promoting gallery shows when they could be doing street …
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becca, an LA street artist who has been getting up since the late 1980’s, has just launched a website. When I first started seeing becca’s art online, I didn’t really care for it. It’s not the sort of thing I would normally be drawn to. But after a few people mentioned her art to me, …
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Well I’ve been back in London for about a week now, and I am beginning to understand why people think it’s so grey. When you live here, you get used to it, but wow I’ve only been away for a few months and already I think the constant greyness is annoying. Still, it’s good to …
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Can Banksy die? I’ve got no doubt that the man who was writing the name Banksy on Bristol’s walls in the 1990’s can and will, at some point, die. That’s not what I’m wondering though. Keith Haring has been dead for more than 20 years, but you can still buy new products with his imagery. …
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Considering a majority of Street Art exists in the shadow of neglect and finds its most receptive canvas on the facades owned by slum lords, I thought it would be pertinent to share this piece in particular. “Shapolsky et al., Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System as of May 1,1971” was an exhibition …
This piece by Paul Richard next to a large Dolk mural in NYC is awesome. Paul is one of NYC’s underrated street artists. And check back tomorrow for a story that makes the sign pretty timely (if you can’t wait that long, it starts here). Photo by Becki_Fuller
One of my favorite artists, and maybe the most under-appreciated artist from the first wave of street art, is John Fekner. These 10 artworks are some of favorites from Fekner and his collaborator Don Leicht. They were made between 1980 and 1993. Fekner is probably best-known for the the text he stencils outdoors in New …
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Zezão, one of my favorite Brazilian street artists and one of the artists who I think best embodies the ethos of street art, was detained on Tuesday by police for painting in São Paulo. He was painting a spot that he has painted multiple times before, but he did not have permission. There isn’t much …
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