Beginning in late December of 2012 and stretching into the new year, Freddy Sam brought together a group of artists known for creating art that engages their surroundings. The project, titled Acrylic Walls, is associated with his organization A Word of Art, which has been fostering contemporary art in the area through community outreach since 2009. …
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Okay Christmas and new years are over. Let’s get back to real life. Blanco uses water to freeze a poster to a wall in Mongolia. Some great new tiny work by oaKoaK and Slinkachu. NoseGo has a show at Slingluff Gallery’s new Honesdale, Pennsylvania location. If you’ve never seen Evan Roth give a talk before, …
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This piece by Waone of Interesni Kazki is called Lost Sheep and it’s in a little backstreet of Kochi, India. I know Interesni Kazki have done some huge murals and people really seem to love those, but I prefer their smaller works like this one. Their smaller pieces become a part of the environment rather …
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This past Saturday, I was in New York’s Little Italy helping to facilitate some more walls there. Thanks to Little Italy, Sambuca’s Cafe, Umberto’s Clam House, The Low Brow Artique and Montana Cans, we brought Chris and Veng of Robots Will Kill and Nosego to Little Italy for two new pieces of Christmas-themed art. It …
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Although he’s been known in France for some time, Ken Sortais aka Cony finally popped up on my radar this year for his work at Komafest. Now he has his first show on in London. Princes of Darkness is open now through January 12th at Galleries Goldstein. The gallery has released a new screenprint from …
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In NYC this past weekend for the opening of AgitPOP, a group exhibit curated by Anthony Haden-Guest, London-based artist Stik also made it to the Winter Mural Project at Bushwck Five Points. Photos by Lenny Collado and courtesy of Stik
This weekend I’ve been without solid internet access, and Caroline and I have both been knee-deep in exams and final essays for the last week, so here’s a belated link-o-rama… The New York Times has a story on Living Walls, centering on the removal of Hyuro’s mural a few months ago and now the removal …
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After meeting and developing a friendship with Roa in San Francisco earlier this year, I’ve been really looking forward to him arriving in Melbourne! I’ve always known Roa loved his animals, but have never appreciated him as much as I do until now. Roa was invited by Healsville Sanctuary to visit and meet some of their …
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Working with ink, acrylic and tea on canvas, South Africa-based artist DALeast has created a wondrous menagerie of hauntingly beautiful animals in Powder of Light, his first solo exhibit in NYC. The somewhat curious scientific titles of these pieces on exhibit at Jonathan LeVine add a material dimension to their spiritual essence. Here are a …
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Last time we saw ABCDEF he was basically painting a lot of squares and, at the time, I was not sure what “cubism” was, but if I were talking to someone who I was pretty sure also didn’t know what cubism was, I would have called it that. These more recent works look like a gallery show …
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