New York street artist Imminent Disaster recently did an interview with Commandax, and I have to say it’s 10x more detailed and better than 99% of interviews with street artists. Anybody who likes Imminent Disaster should read it, and if you don’t know who she is, you’ll probably like her by the end of the interview.
My favorite little factoid from the interview: Imminent Disaster once played Janet in The Rocky Horror Show.
Via Sour Harvest
Photos by C-Monster and dumbonyc
Remember that piece last Halloween by Best Ever? It was on Leake Street, and a picture went around on the street art blogs because everybody loved it? Well, Best Ever (a collaboration between Hadley Newman and Neil Edward) has been doing some more work, and it’s just as impressive as that first piece we saw on Leake Street.
They also started a website for their work recently, which is worth bookmarking.
More images after the jump… Continue reading “Aren’t Best Ever are Really Good?”
Everybody’s been talking about how the recession is going to destroy every part of our economy, and yeah, it probably will, but it’s not all bad new… street art might actually get a boost in the long run thanks to this economic downturn.
Here are three possible advantages for street art in this recession:
1. The not very talented artists who have found their way into galleries are going to be put in their place.
So many people have been buying street art either for the name of the artist, or just because it is street art. This year, some collectors are concerned that even great artists won’t sell much work. People have stopped buying for name or genre recognition. Collectors are buying those “special pieces” that they feel are particularly great. At the end of this recession, there are going to be a lot fewer crap street artists because their work is going to stop selling. Nobody wants to buy a piece any more just because the Sotheby’s catalog describes it as “stencil and spray paint on found wood.” Continue reading “3 Reasons A Recession Is Good For Street Art”
An exhibition of collaborative artworks by –Juice 126Part2ismRemi/RoughSystem@ Pure Evil Gallery. 108 Leonard Street. EC2A 4RH—————-Juice 126 has recently shown at Nancy Victor, Mutate Britain and Jibbering Art in his hometown of Birmingham, Part2ism, has recently been showing in Black Rat Press, Mutate Britain and Kounter Kulture with a solo show at Urban Angel in March, Remi/Rough has recently shown at Urban Angel, Mutate Britain and 401 Contemporary in Berlin and also spoken at the Tate Modern.System has shown in Strasbourg, 401 Contemporary in Berlin and has a March solo show at Galerie Nuble in Santander in March.All artworks are one off collaborations.Don’t miss this opportunity to see us back in action together.—————–For more Info contact Pure Evil Gallery –
On a related note, Part2ism has done a new piece outside Urban Angel’s Art Lounge:
Photo by mermaid 99
This is probably the best interview I’ve seen with Shepard Fairey about his Obama poster. Boing Boing does a great job. Well worth watching because they discuss the concern I originally had with the image, which I think many people shared: THIS IS SHEPARD FAIREY AKA OBEY DOING A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IMAGE!
Via Boing Boing and hustler of culture
About a week ago, I posted some of the best Obama street art. Now, Obama is president, and as a little farewell present to President Bush, I’ve put together the best 16 images of George Bush street art/graffiti. Oddly enough, the art depicting Bush seems to convey a different message from the art featuring Obama.
Enjoy…
Continue reading “A Final Farewell to President Bush”
A few new videos with Posterboy have popped up recently. I’ve featured Posterboy on Vandalog before, but for those who don’t know, Posterboy is a New York artist who goes through the subway system ripping up advertising and creating mashups of the ads to change around the message. Recently, he’s also branched out into just ripping billboards down and collaborations with aakash nihalani.
via Wooster Collective and Beautiful Crime
Also, check out Public Ad Campaign for similar shenanigans.
This is one show that I’m pretty excited about, but won’t be seeing in person. Know Hope is one of my favorite up-and-coming artists, and last week saw the opening of his second ever solo show. Ad Hoc Art in New York has Know Hope in their new Project Room space.
The show, “The Insecurities of Time”, features lots of new work from Know Hope, including and installation and some smaller pieces at pretty low prices.
Photos by Reid Harris Cooper
See more of the show at Arrested Motion
Work is for sale online on Ad Hoc Art’s website
Okay so I’ll be first to admit that I’m not the best with geography or world cities, but have you ever heard of Ghent? Apparently it’s quite a bit city in the Flemish half of Belgium. In Belgium, I’ve only ever been to Brussels and Waterloo.
Well, apparently street art fans should have heard of Ghent due to the large amount of street art to be found there. Extremely dedicated street art photographer _Kriebel_ has just posted pages and pages of work from the city, so here’s a couple of highlights. Do check out the rest of his flickr photostream though. Lots of really talented Belgian street artists who don’t get enough credit.
Continue reading “Street Art in Ghent. Where’s Ghent?”
So I’ve got a couple things to catch up posting on, so here’s my street art news post about all the cool stuff going on in street art and some of the awesome postings in the street art blogosphere.
1. Shepard Fairey was on The Colbert Report! Watch the video over at Hustler of Culture
2. Beautiful Crime and FarkFK are dropping canvases today througout London
3. Luna Park has written a nice piece on the recent “From The Streets of Brooklyn” show for Shift
4. StolenSpace Gallery has a show opening January 29th with the king of dissruptive realism: Brad Downey
5. Wooster Collective has suggestions for 6 people for art lover to follow on twitter (but don’t forget to follow Vandalog too)
