Update: You can buy The Phantom’s first print is now available from Morelworks.com for $125.00 I couldn’t help but laugh when RJ emailed me about posting about street artist The Phantom. Just like him my first thought was “Isn’t this the guy that created that Rage Against the Machine cover for “The Battle of Los …
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This should be good. Spoke Art‘s next show open’s this week at Lopo Gallery in San Fransisco and it has a few of my favorite underrated West Coast artists. Foremost among those is, of course, Emory Douglas, one of Shepard Fairey’s biggest inspirations and a great artist in his own right. I’m reading two different …
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On November 25, the next installment of Nixon’s Art Mosh will hit London at Arnold Circus by Liverpool Street. Taking place around the world, Art Mosh continues to display and support some of the best up and coming art and music. This time around artists featured include: Richie Culver, Alexander James, Bose Collins, Andreas Muller, …
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In light of the recent bill board takeover projects curated and organized by Jordan Seiler that we have covered in the past, I would like to a couple different billboard projects by Alfredo Jaar. With Why (2008) Jaar was granted access to various billboards run by clear channel, and rather than provide an alternative to …
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Especially after my post last month about graffiti moving onto the web, I’m loving Dead Drops, an effort to bring peer-to-peer file sharing offline and onto our city streets. Check out this video explaining the concept: Dead Drops ‘How to’ – NYC from aram bartholl on Vimeo. Via Animal NY
Overall, Street/Studio 2.0 at the Irvine Contemporary was a tremendous success with a lively turnout to both the panel discussion at the Phillips Collection and the subsequent gallery opening. Opening night was split between two locations, the main gallery space featuring Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Jose Parla, Rostarr, and Judith Supine and the Montserrat House a …
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I recently had the immense pleasure to speak at the Phillips Collection in DC on a panel with three figures who I have always looked up to since beginning a street practice, Chris Mendoza, David Ellis and Romon Kimin Yang. The conversation was opened and framed by curator Klaus Ottmann with a passage by Wittgenstein …
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Next week is going to be a difficult one for art fans in LA. On the one hand, Roa has a solo show opening with Thinkspace (but not at their usual space, which would make things easy because Thinkspace and Carmichael Gallery are practically next door as I understand it). And on the other, Carmichael …
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This Friday, the Irvine Contemporary will be presenting its second exhibition of multidisciplinary street art entitled Street/Studio 2.0 featuring Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Jose Parla, Chris Mendoza, David Ellis, James Marshall, Rostarr and myself. It is a compelling collection of figuration and abstraction all generated from, but not limited to, a studio practice that is informed …
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This summer, I sat in a massive pitch-black room and muttered “Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit…” over and over again. I couldn’t stop repeating “Holy shit” for maybe for five minutes. I’d been anticipating this moment for nearly a year. I was somewhere underneath New York City. I was waiting to be …
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