Spent some time today checking out the catolog for the February 24th urban art auction at Bonhams in London. A few people have noted the extremely high number of Banksy lots (22 of 78) and dismissed this auction, but I’ve found a few potential deals to be had. If you’ve got the money to spend …
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From The Brick Lane Gallery: CHEER UP YOU ROTTERS 5th – 16th February 2009 Private View Thursday 5th February, 6-9pm Artists BORTUSK LEER and FIVE FOUR are united for the first time by Brick Lane Gallery to fill the space with the cheeky day-glo madness of their street-art inspired works and chaotic colourful lifestyles for what promises …
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Neckface recently put up a huge mural outside of LA clothing store Barracuda. Some very impressive work. Photos from, and via SuperTouch
An exhibition of collaborative artworks by – Juice 126 Part2ism Remi/Rough System @ Pure Evil Gallery. 108 Leonard Street. EC2A 4RH —————- Juice 126 has recently shown at Nancy Victor, Mutate Britain and Jibbering Art in his hometown of Birmingham, Part2ism, has recently been showing in Black Rat Press, Mutate Britain and Kounter Kulture with …
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It is long overdue that I cover Aakash Nilhalani on Vandalog. He’s been doing some really intersting work in New York for a while now. Similar to Ellis G, Nilhalani doesn’t do anything destructive or particularly technically challenging (then again, I’m quite bad at geometry, so maybe I’m wrong), but he does create something simple …
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Congress just doesn’t care, do they? Via Hrag Vartanian (my new favorite blog) and Streetsy Photo by Jake Dobkin.
One of my favorite artists, Asbestos, had a show that opened last week in Belfast. It sounds like a really great show. Here’s some info on the show from Asbestos plus photos. I’ll post the video once it’s online. If you haven’t already read it, check out this profile/interview I did with Asbestos. Everybody still …
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Came across this little piece by Barry McGEe today on Redchurch Street, but I’d never noticed it before. To see it in person for yourself, you can check out Streetartlocator.com where I’ve geotagged the piece. Anybody know how old it is? Can’t imagine it’s even remotely new. Sorry for the poor quality pic, it was …
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Last week I posted about “moss graffiti” and how it is made. It looks like the movement’s foremost artist, Mosstika, has been making quite a splash recently. Both Beautiful Crime and Wooster Collective also have posts on Mosstika today. Beautiful Crime points out that Mosstika is a great example of Disruptive Realism, a term coined …
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Gaia‘s just sent me some new info and photos for his previously mentioned Uroboros Project. Uroboros Project is a collaborative effort between artists Rachel Lowing and Gaia. Spawned from a mutual interest in articulating the inexorably intertwined relationship between people and nature, we examine the act of consumption and its implications on contemporary life. The …
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