This year’s BLK River Festival has officially begun with this crazy new wall from the master of huge walls, Blu. Of course, Blu isn’t the only artist who will be beautifying Vienna over the next few weeks. Other artists involved in the festival this year include John Fekner, DTAGNO, Know Hope, Ox, Sam3 and Brad Downey. I don’t know if I could put together a much better and more eclectic street art festival.
Photos by Scarygami
EDIT:Houston Street & Broadway: Joseph Kosuth, Text / Context, New York City, May 26–June 16, 1979. Courtesy Leo Castelli Gallery
Here we have a floating image. An amazing project but unfortunately do not know the party responsible. Can anyone help me(jordan seiler this is your cue)?
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 half of the piece was falling apart and had been partially written over, but Specter brought it back to a state that looks almost like new (in fact, I know at least one other blogger who thought that the work was entirely by Swoon). So far, Specter has done similar work on street art by Skewville, Bast and Faile. Here’s his sidebust of a Bast poster (Specter added the flag and matched it perfectly to a portion of the wheatpaste which had already been torn off):
Check out more examples of these sidebusts at The Street Spot.
Photos by Luna Park
Chris Stain sent over these images of two new walls that he painted recently in upstate New York. When he’s at the top of his game (as he definitely is in the above wall which is a collaboration with Billy Mode), Chris is one of my all-time favorite stencil artists.
Photos by Chris Stain
This stunning new piece is another by Faith47. It’s called The Hunted. Another one of Faith47’s latest walls can be found on Wooster Collective.
Photo by Faith47
Stick2Target recently had a great post that included an artist by the name of Oker putting up some posters in Porto, Portugal. I’d never heard of Oker before, so loved looking through his flickr at all the awesome pieces he’s done. Here are a few of my favorites:
Photos by Oker
I’m looking forward to what Alexandros Vasmoulakis does at Nuart, so in the meantime it’s nice to be able to share some of the other things he’s being doing lately. The piece above was commissioned by an historic concert hall in Ljubljana and painted in collaboration with Paris Koutsikos. Here they are at work:
I’ll need to ask him for a close up because I can’t see the rhinestones he mentions are on the paper. That’s a nice touch.
This second piece is located in the Dafen Painting Village and was commissioned by the Dafen Art Museum. It’s a funny place for it to be, but it’s a nice piece. Faith47, Hitnes, Sonik, Run and others also took part in this project. I’ll have to look out photos of what they did.
– Elisa
After the international book launch of Poster Boy’s The War of Art in NYC, LA, and London last weekend, one of the members of the collective got up in London and put up a few pieces that veer away from the NY based artist’s usual work. The Mary Poppins, and Nick Walker tribute, is right below the Banksy car on Brick Lane which a found the day after it was posted, and the second is on the corner of Whiston and Kingswood roads. in the Leake Street Tunnel. More photos can be seen at No Lions in England.
Photos by Steph Keller and No Lions in England
That’s right. Steve Powers’ latest project is a continuation of his A Love Letter For You project. This time, he’s painting in Syracuse. It looks like A Love Letter to Syracuse has just begun in the few days, and Steve’s crew will be painting a total of three train bridges with messages similar to those in A Love Letter For You. Unurth has more info and more photos of the bridges so far.
The other day, Gaia posted about Toronto Street Advertising Takever (TOSAT). Because this is such a cool project and I have a lot of respect for PublicAdCampaign, the event organizer, I wanted to just post a view more photos from TOSAT. For more about what exact TOSAT is, check Gaia’s post.
These pieces by Imminent Disaster, Ox and Sean Martindale were some of my favorite billboards from the event.
Photos courtesy of TOSAT and by Martin Reis
