I don’t think it gets much better than this: Troy Lovegates aka Other and Stinkfish have a show together coming up at New York’s Brooklynite Gallery. For all the talk these days about the end of street art due to rampant commercialism and Johnny-come-latelies, these two artists buck the trend and show that true energy …
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Had about 4 days away from a computer and it’s taken me nearly as long to catch up on emails. This post should help to finish that task. Here’s what I missed while I was away: Aiko has a show at Pure Evil Gallery opening today. It’s called Unstoppable Waves, which was the name of …
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Thursday night was the opening of Up Close and Personal, and it was a pretty great (although my opinion is biased since I helped curate it). We’re open through Sunday evening, so if you’re in New York, please stop by and check it out and let me know what you think. Up Close and Personal …
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Freshman year is almost over and soon I’ll be leaving Philadelphia for NYC and London (just for the summer though). And yet, I still have finals to study for, so I didn’t get time to write about these things… Matt Small’s first LA solo show opened this week. Juxtapoz visited Deuce 7’s studio. I did …
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In two weeks, Vandalog and Murals Around New York (MANY) will be putting on a pop-up show in a New York City apartment. Up Close and Personal mostly came out of two ideas: 1. Street artists tend to work large outdoors and we wanted to challenge people to make art on a small scale and …
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The latest exhibit at Show & Tell Gallery is Good Folk, a group show celebrating the gallery’s 2nd anniversary. Here’s the line up: Swoon, Monica Canilao, Jeremiah Maddock, Derek Mehaffey aka Troy Lovegates aka Other, Labrona and Troy Dugas. It’s an impressive line up of folk-art influenced art. Good Folks opened this week and runs …
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Other aka Troy Lovegates is in Buenos Aires and I’m loving these new street pieces from him. Sometimes it can be better to go small with great placement and resist the temptation to paint something huge at the first big wall available. Photos by Troy Lovegates
After procrastinating and procrastinating about writing this post, I missed Hanukkah and Eid, so I guess this is a gift guide for Christmas. Sorry for the delay. Here are a few street art related products that have come out in the last year or so that I think are pretty cool. If you’re looking for …
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As you may have seen mentioned on my Twitter, I’ve been working with a few artists that I admire to make a series of t-shirts. Today, the first three in a line of Vandalog t-shirts are available online. All three are designs are artworks by people that I admire. These aren’t your standard artist collaborations …
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See more of Other’s work on his flickr.
