The environmentalist blog TreeHugger recently posted a list of their top 5 “environmental artists.” Props to TreeHugger for putting Banksy at number 5 and then John Fekner at number 3. They put together a nice slideshow of some of their favorite work from Fekner, something I’ll eventually do here as well. Photo by John Fekner
Last week in London was crazy-busy, but I’m glad I took a few minutes to get over to Pictures on Walls for the launch show of Tristan Manco’s new book Street Sketchbook: Journeys. To be honest, I haven’t read the book yet. I still have a few pages left in Street/Studio and then I’ve still …
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Logan Hicks sent over some photos from Wide Open Walls, the painting trip that he is on right now in Gambia. Logan, Eelus, Mysterious Al, Broken Crow and other artists are visiting small villages right now and painting walls there in an effort to improve the towns and increase tourism. Juxtapoz, Brooklyn Street Art and …
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The nice thing about street art is that, for 99% of the people who look at it (the people who see it on the street and not on blogs like this one), there’s not market consideration about “how much is that worth?” or anything like that. But then there’s the 1% of us (the people …
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Way back at the beginning of August, I mentioned that the Moniker International Art Fair would be starting in London this year as a street art alternative to Frieze. Basically, some of the world’s top urban, street and low-brow art galleries have been brought together and will be exhibiting under one roof from October 14th-17th …
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Yes, it’s true that I’ve been posting a lot about outdoor street art festivals over the past few days, but I’ve got just one more to write about (plus more news in the coming days about BLK River of course)… Infart in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. I don’t know much about this festival except that …
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Stavanger’s Nuart festival is well under way right now with some huge walls finished or in progress. This year’s Nuart is called The “Landmark” Series, and artists are not taking the challenge lightly. While in Stavanger last year, I thought that the city had been pretty transformed by street art, but now things are getting …
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It looks like Taschen is about to publish the first street art book to seriously compete with Cedar Lewisohn’s Street Art. Ignoring an irrelevant cover image, Cedar’s book provided an overview of street art’s history and considered the art with the same level of seriousness that you might see in a book on Renaissance art. …
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Jordan Seiler, organizer of the infamous NYSAT and bane to the advertising world, has just released the site to TOSAT, the Toronto Street Advertising Takeover Project. Attacking both street level back lit sites and elevated billboards, the project included more than 60 international artists whose work replaced over 90 ads. As always, these projects that …
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I love this wall Dotmasters recently painted at Nuart. It’s not easy to be cute without getting lame and cutesy. – Elisa PS If you haven’t seen the tower Blu and Ericailcane painted for the festival, check out the photos on Unurth. Then keep an eye out for updates on the Nuart twitter and blog …
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