Last week, a new installation by Swoon appeared in the great hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art. NOMA has had a Banksy piece on display, but I think this is the first artwork that the museum has commissioned by a street artist. The installation is called Thalassa after the Greek goddess of the …
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Last weekend, Factory Fresh hosted another 1-day iteration of their Bushwick Art Park with new murals by Veng, Bast and Skewville and sculptures by Leon Reid IV, Specter, Skewville, Infinity and others. Above is a photo of Skewville’s mural. Right next to is Bast’s mural. The Street Spot has photos of Veng’s mural and the …
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On now around Portsmouth, New Hampshire and at the Portsmouth Museum of Art is Street aka Museum, a show of indoor and outdoor work by street artists curated by Beau Basse from LeBasse Projects. The line up is Bumblebee, Herakut, Shark Toof, Alexandros Vasmoulakis and Case aka Andreas von Chrzanowski. The show is open now …
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If you haven’t made it out to LA to see Art in the Streets, you need to check out this video of Barry McGee, Steve Powers and Todd James’ Street installation there: Street, 2011 from MOCA on Vimeo.
I’m a fan of Chor Boogie’s artwork– its blazing colors and visual rhythms. Although his style is a bit gimmicky, it works for me. Seeing his work on the streets is always a treat. I stopped by Mallick Williams & Co at 150 11th Avenue in Chelsea to check out its current show Spectrum before it closes tomorrow, …
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From June 9th-14, the guys at Circleculture Gallery will put on a traveling exhibit starting in Hamburg entitled The Urban Artist. Featuring works by American and European artists, the show will highlight the stylings of contemporary urban artists bringing their art indoors today. The line-up includes: Jaybo Monk, Aaron Rose, Christian Awe, Anton Unai, XOOOOX, …
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Thomas Buildmore and Scott Chasse have once again brought together some of my favorite urban artists from NYC, Boston and Philly. This time their canvas is the Fowler Arts Collective at 67 West Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Collaborating with Scott and Thomas in creating a huge playful, somewhat irreverent, black and white mural are: Morgan Thomas …
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Monotremu is an artist collective in Romania. Here are some great custom street signs that they’ve put up. Photos by Monotremu
Kenny Scharf will be at MOCA this weekend as part of the Levi’s Film Workshop video series at Art in the Streets for a Q&A about Kenny Scharf: More, Newer, Better, Nower, Funner, a short film that Malia Scharf and Nathan Meier have made a short film about Kenny. The film will also be premiering …
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Retna has begun his mural at the Pasadena Museum of California Art for their Street Cred show that I posted about earlier. It’s looking good so far… Photos courtesy of the Pasadena Museum of California Art
