Logan Hicks is one of those cool guys that I just plain enjoy posting about. He’s one of the nicest, hardest working and technically skilled artists I know. This video was made in conjunction with one of Scion’s art installation tours.
Logan Hicks Interview from Scion ART on Vimeo.
In central Baltimore on Franklin Street. Once the snow melts the bottom half will emerge. Had to dig at least four feet of snow in front to get it closer to the ground. More Here
Vhils has really outdone himself with this latest piece in Moscow… I wish I owned a house, if only so he could take a jackhammer to it.
Photos from Lazarides
Via Stick2Target
Hahaha, I thought I’d only have to post one thing abut Exit Through The Gift Shop today. Of course, as soon as the journalists who were at the press screening got back to their desks, news about the film and the screenings started popping up all over the web.
Esquire Magazine has the most interesting article so far:
This morning, Esquire was invited to a preview screening of Exit Through The Gift Shop, the new documentary by Banksy. It took place in a temporary cinema the street artist has built in some dank railway arches next to Waterloo train station. As you would expect from him, both the site and the movie were surprising, entertaining and just a little unsettling.
The cinema, nicknamed “The Lambeth Palace” and sold as “London’s darkest and dirtiest new cinema” (with an exception made for “Cineworld Edmonton”), is a 150-seater auditorium at the end of a series of gloomy bare-brick caverns, in which typical Banksy interventions have been placed: a cardboard Queen and Prince Phillip opening ceremonial velvet curtains to reveal a spray-painted Anarchy “A”, a bonfire of Old Master paintings going up in fabric flames, hamster cages of animatronic hot dogs, and a bar in the form of a grungy ice cream van…
Esquire also says that the film will be screening twice daily there until March 1st. I’m seeing the film later this week, so I’ll post a review in a few days.
Rodrico has some photos from the event, where they have painted a red carpet on the road and made a sort of mini-exhibition…
All photos by Rodrico
Via/pretty much the same post as Banksy Prints
@TimeOutArt has posted some camera-phone snaps from inside of the secret underground location where Banksy is screening Exit Through The Gift Shop. There was a press screening on Monday morning, @Eelus has tweeted that he has been invited to a screening on Wednesday and Pictures on Walls has 300 tickets up for grabs to screenings over the weekend. Time Out also says that next week’s issue of Time Out London will feature a Banksy-designed cover and an exclusive interview with the man himself.
That that’s today’s Banksy film update.
This historic roller by Revs and Cost has finally been buffed. Vanishing New York has the story and pics of what the wall looks like now. And actually, I’ve got to admit that I like the wall’s new look just as much as before it was buffed. The piece has really just been faded to look like the rest of the sign.
Via Streetsy
Jonathan LeVine Gallery‘s next show is going to be a very special one. It’s their 5th anniversary group show, and it opens on Saturday the 27th. The line up of artists is staggering. Highlights for me include WK-Interact, Dan Witz, Date Farmers, AJ Fosik, Calma, Shepard Fairey and Jim Houser.
Via Slam x Hype
Remember that dilapidated pub in Liverpool that sold at auction this week for £114,000? And how most people assumed that it sold for that price because there is a huge rat painted by Banksy on the outside of the pub worth at least £114,000? Turns out, the buyers plan to knock the pub down, artwork included. It’s a shame really. Sure, nobody expects street pieces to last forever, but this is a well-executed and well-preserved piece. It seems nuts that a developer would just knock it down.
The buyer said this to The Telegraph:
“I’m not a fan of modern art, I can’t say I know much about it really”
and
“All I was concerned about was getting this great building for a good price, I’m going to turn it into luxury flats.”
I’d urge somebody to start a campaign to save this piece, if only I could think of any logical way for it to be preserved (could they cover it in a layer of anti-graffiti paint?). After all, it just takes one jerk with a can of spray paint to destroy the entire thing.
