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Mau Mau presents: Pigs Might Fly

Leaving the West Country behind, Mau Mau hits London this Thursday with the opening of his solo show, Pigs Might Fly.

Running until Sunday May 13th at Westbank Gallery, the show promises to showcase Mau Mau’s distinctive style, “a blend of rural magic and political heckling”, encompassed through a range of mediums.

From the following preview photos this looks like one not to miss. I personally can’t wait to see those fox installations up close.

Check out the rest of the preview snaps after the jump… Continue reading “Mau Mau presents: Pigs Might Fly”

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Zilda

It’s been a while since Vandalog checked in with Zilda, one of Italy most under-appreciated street artists. Here are a few things Zilda has been up to over the last six months or so.

Photos by Zilda

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Dal’s first solo show

Dal East has his first solo show coming up this week in Milan with Urban Painting Gallery. While some pay say that Dal is just another guy painting animals and maybe that’s the case, he does also have quite a cool style and some real technical skills. I am looking forward to seeing what he brings out for this show, Fever of the Worn Land. If you can get an invite from Urban Painting Gallery (urbanpainting-at-ymail-dot-com), you can check out the show on May 3rd. Otherwise just wait until the 5th when it will be at a new location and run through the 23rd.

Photos courtesy of Urban Painting Gallery

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Tristan Eaton at work in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

One of our favorite walls in Williamsburg is the one fashioned by Tristan Eaton on Fillmore Street off Roebling. For the past few days, he’s been back on Roebling bringing his stylish visual rhythms once more to NYC before leaving for the West Coast. Lenny Collado – my fellow street art and graffiti aficionado – has been busily documenting the work in progress:

And here’s a close-up of Eaton’s riveting rendition of Mickey Mouse spray-painted onto a board that will surface soon in Brooklyn:

Photos by Lenny Collado

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Filthy Luker’s giant Space Invaders game

Filthy Luker‘s latest street intervention was up last month in Manchester: A building-sized and playable game of Space Invaders using construction materials and lights. Similar projects have certainly been done elsewhere, but using the construction materials makes this one distinctly a Filthy Luker project (and easily moveable to new locations). Here’s a video of the piece coming together and in action:

If you have more examples of similar projects, please post them in the comments.

Photo by dullhunk

Via Urban Art Core

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Mr. Brainwash is being sued again

Outside of the Mr. Brainwash/Google Music event

Star of Exit Through the Gift Shop and supposed-artist Mr. Brainwash is being sued again for his use of appropriated imagery. This time it’s the estate of the photographer James Marshall (not this James Marshall) suing Mr. Brainwash over his appropriation of photographs that Marshall took of Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane and others. The works in question were part of Google Music’s launch event, which took place at Mr. Brainwash’s studio last fall, so Google is also named in the suit.

Despite the poor quality of Mr. Brainwash’s work, I have to once again defend his right to appropriate Marshall imagery. Better to allow bad art based on appropriation that not allow appropriation at all. Here are two previous posts that I’ve written on this topic relating to the last time Mr. Brainwash was sued for similar reasons.

Photo by Lord Jim

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Thank you to our sponsors

We would like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that keep us publishing, so be sure to check them out!

  • ArtPrize – Part art competition, part social experiment that awards $560,000 total in prizes; registration through May 24.
  • Pulse Art Fair – Pulse New York runs May 3–6, 2012, at The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York.
  • BAMart Silent Auction – Auction featuring over 100 artworks, with proceeds to benefit the Brooklyn Academy of Music and its programs
  • Saatchi Online – Online gallery that connects artists and art lovers directly: discover art, get discovered.
  • Dumbo Arts Festival – Brooklyn’s biggest arts event takes over Brooklyn’s waterfront with visual arts, music, and literature on 9/28-30.
  • Norte Maar – Community-building nonprofit organization with an emphasis on collaborative projects
  • UncommonGoods – Cool and unusual gifts for any occasion.
  • Adam Lindemann – Follow what the New York Observer columnist is seeing and reading at his site.
  • Storefront Bushwick – Bushwick gallery currently featuring artists Carol Salmanson and Stephen Traux
  • Unnamed Broadway Musical: The Musical! – An experimental, legally questionable restaging of an orphan-themed Broadway musical, at EFA Project Space
  • Pernod Art & Absinthe Guide – A handy mobile app that lists galleries, events and bars serving Pernod in Brooklyn
  • Artspan – Contemporary art destination and service providing totally customizable artist websites
  • FIT Art Market MA Program – The group exhibition “No Other Medicine” is now on view at NY Studio Gallery through May 19
  • “Oh hey. What’s going on?” – a project by artist Jesus Benavente
  • Art Systems – Professional art gallery, antiques and collections management software
  • Tyler Summer Painting & Sculpture Intensives – 7-week immersion program for artists interested in developing their work in a challenging and supportive environment
  • 950 Hart Gallery – The Lowbrow Society Smut! Show, a public celebration of private affairs, May 4–5.
  • Claremont Graduate University MFA – A highly focused graduate-only studio-art program

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Katowice Street Art Festival – part 1

Escif. Photo by Foto Sigma DP1S

Poland is playing host to some of the world’s most talented street artists and muralists for the Katowice Street Art Festival. From April 20th to the 29th, the festival will feature artists such as Escif, Hyuro, Mark Jenkins, Ludo, M-City, Olek, Roa, Moneyless, and many more. Here are a few of the pieces already in progress or completed. There are many more photos on the festival’s facebook page.

Fantastic piece by Olek. Courtesy of Arrested Motion.

Ludo’s piece is a massive wheatpaste that incorporates paint. It looks great, but the one worry I have for this piece is that someone will probably have to paint over the eyesore that’s left when the paper weathers and inevitably comes down.

Ludo. Photo by Wojciech Nowak
Mark Jenkins. Photo by Foto Sigma DP1S
Hyuro in progress. Photo by Paweł Mrowiec
Tellas and Moneyless. Photo by Tellas

Photos by Foto – Sigma DP1S, Wojciech Nowak, Tellas and Paweł Mrowiec, also courtesy of Arrested Motion

Via Arrested Motion and Street Art News