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Con Artist Gallery presents SLAP: Adhesives and Egos, a DIY Sticker Exhibition

Opening this evening at 8pm in Con Artist’s space at 119 Ludlow Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is  SLAP: Adhesives and Egos, a DIY Sticker Exhibition, featuring dozens of hand-made stickers.  I love the way street art and graffiti meet here in this seamless mix of styles and sensibilities. The exhibit continues through April 3rd …

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Banksy street piece auction update (also, Banksy not arrested)

Update 1: Wet Dog, another Banksy street piece which was up sale in the same auction as Slave Labour, was also withdrawn at the last minute. Wet Dog was recently shown in the controversial Banksy: Out of Context show in Miami last December, where it was reported that the piece was not for sale. Update 2: …

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Nether brings “Crumbling Cities” to Weldon Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn

I love the way Nether’s graceful portraits of everyday folks — pasted onto abandoned and decaying spaces in his native Baltimore — interact with their surroundings.  His current exhibit Crumbling Cities at Weldon Arts provides a wonderful glimpse into the world that Nether has created in Baltimore and in his travels.  Here are a few more …

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Weird, kinda funny, maybe awesome: the art of Don’t Fret.

This year, Chicago-based street artist Don’t Fret made it down to Miami for Art Basel and the surrounding street art and graffiti free-for-all. Here are a few of his pieces from down there. Don’t Fret is funny, but not the kind of witty, buzz icon, media satire type of humor that I’m accustomed to seeing …

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SMoA brings guerilla curating to the streets of London

The Street Museum of Art has launched its second venture in “guerilla curating” in London’s artsy district of Shoreditch. Like their first exhibition, it’s basically a self-guided street art tour with museum-like wall labels. The exhibition’s title, “Beyond Banksy: Not another gift shop“, is likely a tongue and cheek reference to the commercial attention that street …

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Paolo Cirio is either a horrible person or a great conceptual artist

Paolo Cirio is a self-described sculptor of data, or what many others would consider a hacker. On his personal website there is a list of “Key Facts” which are essentially a resume of scams, web disruptions and media subversions that include things like “hacked and stole digital books from Amazon.com and redistributed them for free. …

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