The Underdogs project is a new venture from Vhils and a number of other (primarily Portuguese) street artists who are trying to gain more awareness for street art in Portugal. Some of the artists included in the group include Vhils and Tosco. Vhils tell Vandalog that the core of The Underdogs is a drive to …
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Art In the Streets is an upcoming book by Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose. The book, available April 12th, coincides with Deitch’s street art exhibition coming to MOCA next spring (Rose and Gastman are involved in putting the show together). While this will probably be just another nice exhibition catalog once it’s published, …
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GroundedTV has a great series of photographs from a recent visit to Toronto. Sometimes it feels like certain cities (New York, London, San Fransisco…) have multiple people who are obsessively photographing and documenting the street art and graffiti while other cities with plenty of street art don’t get nearly that much attention. There’s some great …
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This week, Eelus and other street artists are off to Gambia to for Wide Open Walls, a street art project that Eelus has curated there. I can’t wait to see what they paint. The lineup is very exciting: Eelus, Logan Hicks, Broken Crow, Lucy McLachlan, Ben Eine, Xenz and Mysterious Al. The aims behind the …
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One thing that I’ve been getting interested in lately is street are in the 1960’s-mid-1980’s. Basically, street art before Shepard Fairey. That’s why I recently visited John Fekner and Don Leicht’s studio. Perhaps the best place to learn about street art in that timespan is the book Street Art by Allan Schwartzman (and Tristan Manco …
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Before Vienna has a chance to recover from the general awesomeness of the BLK River Festival, another art exhibition with some international urban artists will be taking place in the city. Escape 2010 will be an indoor exhibition taking place from October 1st-24th in Vienna. Xoooox, Stefan Strumbel, Faith47 and a number of other urban …
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A few months ago, this was mentioned briefly in an NYTimes article, but now the first real information is starting to come out about Jeffrey Deitch’s upcoming street art show at MOCA in LA. Culture Monster has a post all about the show, Art in the Streets. I’ve been hearing a lot of great things …
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Dammit. Once again, Specter is messing with people’s heads in an awesome way. For his latest pieces, which he’s calling “sidebusts,” Specter has “collaborated” with various street artists in New York by adding on to work that they had already put up. In the case of the above sidebust of a Swoon poster, the top …
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It’s had like a million views at this point (and I’m not exaggerating) so you’ve probably seen this video already, but it’s still fun to watch. If you’re a fan, you can support the Poster Boy movement, the new Poster Boy book, The War of Art and the new street art/graffiti legal defence fund K.A.R.A.T.E. …
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Seth and I decided to drive down to San Diego on Friday to see in person all the street art that has been appearing around the city in preparation for Viva La Revolucion at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. I’ve recreated our trip in order of what we saw, which was everything that had …
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