Here’s what Adam Neate has been working on recently:
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Interviews with Jonathan LeVine and Justin Giarla
There have been two very interesting interviews with gallery owners to go online in the last week.
First, Juxtapoz post a three-part profile/interview with Jonathan LeVine (of Jonathan LeVine Gallery). Here’s part one, and links to parts two and three are at the bottom of each post in the series. Before reading these, I knew that LeVine had been in the art game for a while and had to taste, but the Juxtapoz profile explains exactly how that all came together, which is pretty interesting.
And on Wednesday, The Shooting Gallery blog posted a Q&A with gallery owner Justin Giarla. Okay, yeah, that’s going to be a bit of a puff piece, but so is just about every art or music-related interview ever. With three galleries now, Justin has his own little empire in San Fransisco, but somehow he still manages to sell great art and be cool guy.
Banksy in Time Out
So Banksy is on the cover of Time Out London this week, which is pretty awesome of Time Out, and Banksy seems to be acknowledging that he has been embraced by the most gentrified segments of society, which is pretty honest of Banksy.
The real treat is inside the magazine though. Banksy has been interviewed by Ossian Ward, the editor of Time Out London’s art section. The full interview has been posted online, and here are some excerpts:
What’s this battle with Robbo and Drax all about, then?
‘I didn’t deliberately start a battle with Robbo – have you seen the size of him? In the ’90s him and Drax were infamous enough that we’d even heard about them in Bristol. The truth is I didn’t paint over a piece that said ìRobboî, I painted over a piece that said “nrkjfgrekuh”. But either way, I don’t buy into the idea a wall “belongs” to a certain writer, or anyone else for that matter.
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Can street art ever be shown in a gallery?
‘I don’t know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside. Then again, some old people get a lot of comfort from having a pet around the house.
‘It’s hard to capture the adrenaline of street painting when you’re in a nicely lit studio with the kettle on. Maybe the people who steal graffiti off walls are on to something – the edge is still there. But those people are funny – they ask me for a letter of authentication saying I painted a certain piece, but that’s basically a signed confession on headed notepaper.’
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What do you make of the financial value of your works? Do you mind people trading them like property or luxury goods?
‘My lawyer’s opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more – because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That’s his theory, but then my lawyer also believes wearing novelty cartoon ties is a good look.’
Read the rest on Time Out’s website…
Time Out have also contacted a number of street art bloggers (including Vandalog) for the locations of the best street art in London and Ian Cox has put together a selection of some of his favorite photos.
AMMAZZARNE UNO PER EDUCARNE
Amazing stop motion animation by Ericailcane
Art for charity
There seems to be so much going on right now with street art being sold or auctioned off for charity and other good causes, so I thought I’d throw a few things all together in one post. Also, how great is it that Shepard Fairey is involved in so many of these things? See it all after the jump… Continue reading “Art for charity”
Anaoana teams up with Miss Van
Anaoana has teamed up with Miss Van on some clothing and accessories. I’m not crazy about Miss Van on canvas, but her art looks fantastic when it’s printed on clothing…
You can buy the clothes online.
Via Juxtapoz
Walls and sketches from Hyuro
Thanks to Unurth for introducing me to the work of Hyuro from Spain. Hyuro paints some really qualities walls, sometimes collaborating with Escif. Here are a few of my favorites:
And one of his sketches:
Photos from Hyuro’s flickr
East Meets East
Admittedly, East Meets East might be a bit out of the way for some people, but their line-up is a solid one. I’m not really familiar with Nasimo’s work, but it looks interesting. The rest of the artists are some of London’s best. Blam and Busk are top-notch writers, Run is London’s answer to Blu or San, and kennardphillipps (Kennard in particular) have been making excellent propaganda since before Shepard Fairey had ever heard of Andre the Giant. I’m really looking forward to checking this out.
Swimming Cities fundraiser on Friday
I think that the Swimming Cities project is one of the most inspiring things to happen in the art world in recent years: a bunch of artists get together to built barely float-able rafts and travel rivers around the world. The 2010 project takes the Swimming Cities crew to the Ganges in India. To raise funds for the trip, there will be a silent auction in New York City on March 5th. Participating artists in the auction include Swoon, Imminent Disaster, Spy and Ben Wolfe.
This piece by Imminent Disaster is one of the artworks in the auction:
Jonathan LeVine Gallery 5th anniversary show
Last week was the opening of Jonathan LeVine‘s 5th anniversary group show. The full list of artists in the show is pretty staggering, but here are a few of my favorite pieces. These photos are from Arrested Motion, where you can find plenty more about the show.
Photos by Joe Russo for Arrested Motion