Next week at Stella Dore is the opening of Kid Acne’s first London solo show. I’m a big fan of Kid Acne’s work, so I’ll definitely be there. From Stella Dore: Part exhibition, part installation, the show will be a concoction of iconography and imagery inspired by Freemasonry, Demonology and Paganism. ‘Smoke and Mirrors‘ opens …
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From the guys at Black Rat Press: This is a friend of a friend if anyone feels to donate would be amazing. Help Bring Holli Home Bay Area artist Holli Hawthorne recently traveled to India to visit her boyfriend and was involved in a horrible motorcycle accident last Tuesday when a motorcycle in front of …
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Tox, one of London’s best known writers, is actually releasing a screenprint. For years, Tox has written his tag along with the current year throughout London. He’s so notorious that he’s even made it into an exhibit at the transport museum and this Banksy canvas. So this screenprint of TOX09 is an edition of 75, …
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I don’t really know what to say about “The Treatment Rooms” besides “Wow!” A team of artists, led by Carrie, have been decorating her house in mosiacs for the past decade. The art looks great, and the message behind the work is touching. One of the walls is dedicated to Luis Ramirez, Carrie’s pen pal …
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Two really enjoyable street art videos hit the blogosphere today. The first is from Pure Evil. He’s been in Brazil for a show, and it looks like he’s having a great time checking out the street art there. Some really cool work by extremely talented artists, most of whom I’ve never heard of. C00l Pure …
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UPDATE – 11:48pm February 4th: The Huffington Post has an article which says the AP is accusing Shepard Fairey of stealing one of their photographs for his Obama posters. Shepard Fairey admits he used their image and is claiming fair use. Even though I may wish Shepard Fairey would properly credit sources, I’m also a …
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Yesterday The Gothamist reported that Posterboy was arrested on Friday night. Jim Kiernan, who was supposed to be photographing Posterboy on Friday, has been kind enough to give us his take on what happened. The back story is that I started as a writer way back in the day. I dropped that a long time …
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I’ve got to be honest. I spent about 40 minutes today at the Mark Rothko exhibit at the Tate Modern. I also spent 2-3 hours wandering around East London showing my parents’ friends some street art. You know what I liked more? The street art. I like plenty of non street art artwork. The other …
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I’m sort of squishing three posts into one here, but they’re all related. 1. From The Streets of Brooklyn opened this weekend at thinkspace gallery in LA. The show, curated by Ad Hoc Art’s Andrew Michael Ford, has taken a bunch of Brooklyn’s best and most prolific artists and put them all together to pretty …
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If you took Gaia to a high school drawing contest he might place first or second, but put his efforts on the street and it becomes worth half as much as a real Swoon. It may be a testament to street artist Swoon’s influence and popularity, that an influenced artist can find a ravenous audience …
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