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BBC Street Art Documentary

BBC World Service has an audio-documentary out on street art. Of course, it’s an AUDIO description about a VISUAL medium, so there’s that problem, but I’ve just listened to part one, and it’s quite good (given you can’t see anything that they’re talking about). The program heavily features Elbow-toe, but also also includes interviews with random members of the public, and even people the people who buff graffiti in New York.

More info on the two-part series here, and you can download part one here (part two goes online tomorrow I believe).

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Pictures on Walls Party

Today Pictures on Walls announced two things.

1. The new Bansky print

And something that doesn’t require hitting F5 every two seconds…

2. The (first annual) Pictures on Walls party!

Looks like a fun time. Hope to see you all there (if we can get in).

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Sickboy’s Stay Free Show Photos

Just got some great photos of Sickboy’s upcoming Stay Free show. I posted about the show yesterday. It opens December 3rd, and one visitor will win an installation piece from the show worth £20,000.

In my first post on the Stay Free show, I said I was curious to see how well Sickboy’s work would carry over from rubbish skips and old buildings to gallery walls and living rooms. I think these photos provide some strong evidence that Sickboy is not going to have any problems transitioning into gallery work.

Photography by www.andrepenteado.com
Photography by www.andrepenteado.com
Photography by www.andrepenteado.com
Photography by www.andrepenteado.com

More photos after the jump…

Continue reading “Sickboy’s Stay Free Show Photos”

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Sickboy and The Awesome Factory

As I mentioned the other day, Sickboy has a solo show coming up called Stay Free. It opens on December 3rd at The Tramshed in Shoreditch and runs until the 10th.

Okay, so it’s a solo show by a London street artist. What’s the big deal? Well a. Sickboy doesn’t do that much gallery work, and b. the show is inspired by Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. What that means is that 1000 visitors to the show will be given golden keys, and the visitor with the winning key will get “inherit” the a large installation piece from the show. Essentially, one lucky visitor will be given a £20,000 piece of art.

Stay Free will have an entirely new body of work from Sickboy. There will be both prints and originals for sale and, of course, the installation piece.

Street art seems to be in a really giving mood lately. First, Adam Neate’s giveaway, now Sickboy, and on December 4th, The Street Art Awards is raffling off a bunch of pieces on record sleaves. ‘Tis the season I suppose. Can I say that before Thanksgiving?

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Andrew From Ad Hoc

In front of Ad Hoc Art. Photo from adhocart.org

When art fans in New York are looking for cutting edge art, they need look no further than Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn. Ad Hoc Art shows some of the best new street art and “low brow” art for not too much money. Their upcoming show, The Brooklyn Block Party, has work from 11 lino-block cutting artists including Swoon, Imminent Disaster, Elbowtoe, Judith Supine, and Gaia, and their new project room has upcoming shows from some of my favorite artists, C215 and Know Hope.

Ad Hoc Art is also the home of Peripheral Media Projects, probably two the most anti-authoritarian street artists working today.

Andrew Michael Ford is the director at Ad Hoc Art, and he’s been kind enough to answer a few questions about the gallery. Continue reading “Andrew From Ad Hoc”

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More on Moss

Last week I posted about “moss graffiti” and how it is made. It looks like the movement’s foremost artist, Mosstika, has been making quite a splash recently. Both Beautiful Crime and Wooster Collective also have posts on Mosstika today.

Beautiful Crime points out that Mosstika is a great example of Disruptive Realism, a term coined by David Hoffer. According to Hoffer, “Disruptive Realism is an expression presented in an everyday context that disrupts peoples perceptions about different things.”

And of course, Wooster Collective’s Q&A with Mosstika is well worth reading.

Below is another photo of Mosstika’s unique work from tedina. More photos here.

Grey Cattle by Mosstika. Photo by tedina
Grey Cattle by Mosstika. Photo by tedina