Between two projects launching at Creative Time and preparations underway for two major personal projects (more on one of those in just a moment), Vandalog has been pretty quiet lately. Taking a step back has allowed me to get excited about all the good things happening in street art, graffiti, and public art over the …
Continue reading “Weekend link-o-rama”
Editor’s note: This guest post is by Peter Bengtsen, one of just a handful of academics worldwide whose research focuses on street art, and I highly recommend his book The Street Art World. – RJ Back in March 2016, Vandalog published a post that questions why anyone would want to learn the identity of Banksy. In …
Continue reading “Clickbait: The cash, flaws and ethics of “revealing” Banksy”
Fancy spray paint with a dozen different caps. Professional photographers. Scissor lifts. Street art doesn’t have to be so complicated. Just take Dave the Chimp. His little characters, “human beans” as he calls them, are generally simple and small figures, but because they’re site-specific, they’re more surprising than most bombastic murals. Dave’s beans respond to …
Continue reading “Dave the Chimp’s surprising “human beans””
Just in time for the summer street art rush, Reed Bmore visited installed a few of his trademark wire and mesh sculptures in Brooklyn. As usual, he’s hung the sculptures from electrical wires. Would love to see more artists taking a page out of Reed Bmore’s book and finding new spots to install their work. …
Continue reading “Under the wire: Reed Bmore in Brooklyn”
Dr. D‘s latest project, a collaboration with Disobedient Films, takes his ad busting beyond billboards. Sly TV, a parody of the British satellite TV company Sky (a part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire), is perhaps most visible as a series of wheatpastes in East London. Sly TV has its own website, and Sly’s ad campaign …
Continue reading “S̶k̶y̶ ̶T̶V̶Sly TV by Dr. D and Disobedient Films”
Gotta love 722 – 481 BC, Faith47‘s new piece in Manchester. The mural is part of the Cities of Hope project, which is inviting street artists to address a variety of social justice issues on Manchester’s walls, and to connect with local organizations while they are in town painting. Faith47’s mural celebrates LGBT rights. I’m …
Continue reading “Faith47 mixes paints, lights, and rights in Manchester”
Iranian street artist FRZ has a simple and beautiful truth for the world, written on a wall in Tehran: We are all immigrants and refugees. If only we could get that through our heads, things might be a lot simpler. Photo by FRZ
Another fantastic piece by mobstr. Context is king. First of all, how did he install this piece? But also, what a great spot for it! And of course, it doesn’t hurt that the little alleyway it’s on is just off of the heart of Brick Lane, one of the busiest roads in London for street …
Continue reading “Hanging with mobstr”
Wow. Ekosystem, probably my favorite European street art blog, drew my attention to this piece on the beaches of Northern France. Réflechir was made by placing pieces of mirror onto a “blockhaus,” a common remnant of World War II. Naturally, the piece is meant as a memorial. The piece was created anonymously, but the artist …
Continue reading “Something to reflect on in France”
A few weeks ago now, Melbourne was host for the first time to the internationally renowned Meeting of Styles events. Meeting of Styles Melbourne 2016 saw around 300 artists paint all of Melbourne’s legal laneways over four days – as well as a couple of secret spots in and around the city. This was the …
Continue reading “Meeting of Styles Melbourne 2016”
