It’s been a while since I’ve posted about Klone‘s work in Tel Aviv, but Unurth recently posted a few of Klone’s recent pieces and they are looking good and very different from what he was doing last year.
Photo by Klone
Original Banksy stolen from Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper is claiming that a Banksy painting titled In The Future Everyone Will Be Anonymous For 15 Minutes and worth about £150,000 was stolen from him by his ex-wife. But that’s not all she is accused of stealing. All told, art stolen from Hopper is estimated to be worth about £1,000,000. More on Telegraph.co.uk.
Shep is looking for walls in NYC
Do you own some property in New York City? Do you like Shepard Fairey’s artwork (of course you do)? Shepard Fairey is looking for legal wall that he can paste on in April to help promote his May Day solo show at Deitch Projects. This is a pretty unique and awesome opportunity (and hey, if you don’t like what Shepard does, just rip it down), so if you have a wall, I urge you to get in touch with OBEY. More details on the OBEY website.
Via Arrested Motion
Banksy in Bristol tops exhibitions in 08/09
The Art Newspaper reports that Banksy versus The Bristol Museum was one of the world’s top 30 most-visited exhibitions in 2008/2009, averaging nearly 4000 visitors a day. More on BBC News.
Alex Young solo show in London
I know where I’ll be this Thursday night. The London opening of choice has to be Alex Young‘s solo show with London Miles Gallery. The show’s opening will be on April first at a pop up venue (47 Mowlem Street) in East London, but will move and reopen at London Miles Gallery on April 5th. Also, the opening lasts until 10pm, so that’s a nice touch.
Via Hookedblog
Broken Crow in Austin for SXSW
Just caught wind of these amazing Broken Crow murals in Austin that they did during SXSW. Props to the Street Spot for the documentation. Be sure to check out their new prints that they are releasing with the lion images http://www.brokencrow.com/blog/7-new-prints
A taste of Bue
Somehow, I’ve neglected to ever mention Bue on here before. He’s a street artist who works a lot in Belgium and paints some fun characters. Here are two of his paintings:
Photos by oemebamo
Some Os Gêmeos news
There are two cool things about Os Gêmeos to share today.
For the hard-core fans of the twins, 12oz Prophet has this video of Os Gêmeos, Raven and Sonik from back in 1997. You’ve got to love the commitment of risking a car crash just to put up a sticker properly. You can read more on the story behind this clip at 12oz Prophet.
12ozProphet Presents… Found Footage: 1997 Brazil Graffiti with Os Gemeos, Raven & Sonik from 12ozprophet on Vimeo.
And for some reason, the Wall Street Journal seems to be really interested street art this month. A few weeks ago, they printed a story about the Banksy and Robbo issue, and this week they have something about Os Gemêos.
From the WSJ:
The 100-foot-tall man painted on the side of a building here in the old downtown looks vaguely familiar, with features reminiscent of the migrants who flock to this city from Brazil’s vast hinterlands.
But his bright yellow skin and matchstick limbs, clothed in threadbare trousers and a psychedelic shirt, stamp him instantly as something else: a character from the dreamlike world of local street artists Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo.
The 35-year-old identical twins, who call themselves Os Gêmeos (twins, in Portuguese), started out two decades ago as graffiti artists in Cambuci, the poor, working-class neighborhood where they grew up and still work. Today they are the toast of the international street-art scene, with murals on walls and exhibitions in galleries in cities across the world.
“The success is very gratifying, but we do this primarily for ourselves,” says Gustavo in the brothers’ cluttered office overlooking their studio.
Read the rest of the article at the WSJ online, and send a link to all your friends because it just might turn them into Os Gêmeos fans.
D*face designs for Christina Aguilera
D*face, London’s king of stickering and billboard taker-overs, has designed the album cover for Christina Aguilera’s upcoming album, Bionic. Not that I’m about to go and buy the album, but the cover certainly looks great. D*face is a great designer, which I believe was his job before he went into art.
How did this happen? Aguilera has been a collector of D*face’s artwork for years.
Via Hooked
London art-world weirdness
Most of the time, despite all the politics and whatnot, people in the street art world seem to get along. But there have been two incidences in London recently that have shocked me a bit.
First is what is currently happened to Jon Hammer (aka Elate). Jon believes that for a past few months he has been stalked and intimidated by people who presumably don’t like him and his artwork for whatever reason. This has even gone so far as somebody putting a virus on Jon’s computer and attempting to break into his home. The full story can be found on his blog.
And at the Pure Evil Gallery, two artworks were bought using stolen credit cards. One was by Herakut and the other by Pure Evil. Images of the artwork and more information can be found at Crack For Your Eyes.