Next Tuesday the London Art Fair opens, and the world is watching. Bloomberg, Animal New York, The Art Collectors Blog, Artbleat, and others have all been talking about Black Rat Press’ print release Tuesday evening at the private opening: Nick Walker’s latest “Morning After Series” print. this one feature’s New York city and the Empire …
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Beautiful Crime brought Iranian artist A1one to my attention the other day, and I’ve been spending a good deal of time looking through his flickr. Adam at BC likes him “because it’s raw, effective comment.” As for me, I just think his work is extremely varied, and that that’s something that isn’t always true of …
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Great news for all the street art print lovers reading this: Mike Marcus and the Street Art London flickr group are organizing a 12 week charity print raffle starting this week. Each Saturday, a different artist will volunteer a work and suggest a charity which the proceeds will go to. A photograph of this work …
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Christmas is only days away, and I know I’ve still got shopping to do. If you’re like me and you’ve got street art fans that you’ve still got to buy gifts for, look no futher. 1. The Elms Lesters Book – £175: Elms Lesters has released this giant book just in time for Christmas. They’ve …
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Update: Check out the other posts in this series here. Unless you live in a strange world where time does not exist, we’re coming to the end of 2008. As my contribution to street art’s end-of-year/Christmas/Hanukkah/winter solstice activities, I’ve organized a series of posts which will run from tomorrow until the end of the year. …
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I went on a street art walk through Shoreditch today with gofindit.net, which is an campaign for the new Ford KA. The website isn’t really about the KA though, it’s meant to be about how you can discover new things by just opening your eyes and looking around. While I’m not the biggest fan of …
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And the Street Art Awards go to… JR (for his work in Sao Paulo) in Street Art and Matt Small (for his for painting “Paul”) in Urban Art Congratulations to the winners, every artist involved, and Rough Trade East and Auction Saboteur. It was a great night.
The Street Art Awards are tonight at Rough Trade East, and today they’ve been featured in The Independent. Below is an except, but check the full article, along with profiles of Guy Denning, Case, Matt Small, SPQR and others, here. Street artists paint on the street, graffiti writers tag on walls and urban artists paint …
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So BBC’s show Blast has a bunch of videos up with street artists like Faile and Pure Evil. My favorite of them is the Matt Small interview, which is below. Check out the rest of the interviews here. via Wooster Collective
The Street Art Awards (organized by Auction Saboteur) are this Thursday at Rough Trade East. The event sounds like it will be a fun time, and there’s a bunch of great looking work in the charity raffle. The awards are sure to be packed, as they’ve gotten coverage in The Observer today. It’s a great …
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