Those who were at Prescription Art’s Outside In show or MuTATE Britain last year probably saw Bortusk Leer’s animated film which features his classic street monsters running around live shots of London. It’s a pretty neat film and I’ve always thought it a shame that nobody else could watch it now that those shows are …
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If I were to buy one big original work by a street artist tomorrow, it would probably be something by Roa. Roa’s from Belgium, and doesn’t do that much work outside of his home country (at least not that I’ve found), but he’s just done some amazing walls in New York. Roa paints animals, usually …
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This article from The Independent should be read by anybody who has ever bought a Damien Hirst “spot” painting or even a crappy piece of street art by a Banksy rip-off stencil “artist.” Here’s a short excerpt: One of the world’s leading art dealers this week launched an astonishing attack on the contemporary art market, …
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Here’s all the info on Street Crush, a show group show opening in NYC tomorrow. Looks like it will be good fun. “Street Crush” a Brooklyn Street Art show and party, featuring brand new work by 42 street artists, 4 dazzling Street-Tart burlesque performers, and a Kissing Booth will be thrown at AlphaBeta in Greenpoint, …
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Check out this cool piece of disruptive realism in the Netherlands. I’ll be visiting the Hague in two weeks, so maybe I’ll have see some more Dutch street to post about. Via 24 oranges
Some great teaser shots of the first big show of ’09 over at Arrested Motion. “From the Street of Brooklyn” opens January 9th at LA’s Thinkspace gallery. The show is curated by Brooklyn’s Ad Hoc Art. Vandalog’s Q&A with Ad Hoc Art’s Director, Andrew Michael Ford, can be found here. They’ve gotten some of New …
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Ben Wilson paints on the streets of London. Well, not exactly. He paints on the pieces of gum that have been left on the streets of London. See more of Ben Wilson’s work here, and watch a short film about him here. Via Aref-Adib Photos by Jodi Crisp (Squirmelia)
A great new piece on Leake Street by *best ever*. Clearly some very skilled artists behind this one. Can’t wait to see more. via Beautiful Crime
Yesterday, I posted part one of this interview with Mike Snelle, owner of The Black Rat Press. Part one focused on Black Rat at the present. This half has more on street art in general, and what’s ahead for the gallery. RJ: Time and time again, art critics say that street art is a fad, …
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In 2017, I curated the We The People series for Mural Arts Philadelphia, a series of six murals by some of my favorite artists. I probably should have been writing about We The People on here regularly since July, but here’s a very belated update from Philly. Before we get into We the People, a bit of context. The …
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