Ácaro is a street artist based in Monterrey, Mexico with a lot of talent and a beautiful black and white style and iconography reminiscent of Roa, Herakut, and Phlegm. Ácaro’s characters really look like they belong where they are painted, and that’s a rare but important skill for a street artist. Can’t wait to see more …
Continue reading “Introducing Ácaro”
This video by Creative Urban Industries and Rowdy features art from Rowdy, one of my favorite British street artists, animated into a short little story about crocodiles in the big city.
A note from the editor: This is a guest post by Peter Drew, a street artist originally from Adelaide, Australia. Although Adelaide’s urban art scene is the underdog to Melbourne, its larger and louder interstate cousin, recent years and new blood have seen Adelaide catching up to Melbourne’s lead. Oi You: Urban Art Festival marks …
Continue reading “Oi You Festival in Adelaide”
Last class of the school year yesterday. Now for finals. Can’t wait… Here are some distractions in case you’re in a similar boat: NoseGo has some new prints available today with Unit44. These are not giclee prints, but rather archival pigment prints, a significant step up in quality as I understand it. The fantastic ceramic …
Continue reading “Weekend link-o-rama”
Young New Yorkers is a restorative justice, arts program for 16 -17 year olds who have open criminal cases. The criminal court gives eligible defendants the option to participate in Young New Yorkers rather than do jail time, community service and have a lifelong criminal record. After our successful pilot program last year we continue …
Continue reading “Fly in the buttermilk, shoo fly shoo”
Earlier this month, I visited the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston for the opening of Barry McGee, a retrospective of McGee’s work that had come to Boston after first being shown last summer in Berkley, California at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Barry McGee is a mid-career retrospective and the most extensive museum …
Continue reading “Barry McGee at the ICA/Boston”
Damn. It’s almost May! Sorry this is so late but it’s worth the wait. March was another action packed month in Melbourne. Starting off with Baby Guerrilla‘s show in Footscray. Baby Guerrilla’s paste ups have been adorning Melbourne’s walls for a few years now, and they are some of my favourites, her gallery work was new …
Continue reading “Melbourne Monthly Madness – March”
D*Face is a cornerstone of London’s street art community, both for his own art and for the work of his StolenSpace Gallery in Shoreditch. Tim Hans met up with D*Face at his studio for the latest in our continuing series of photo-portraits of artists by Tim Hans, and I asked him a few question about …
Continue reading “Tim Hans shoots… D*face”
Sheryo and The Yok painted the above piece in New York’s Little Italy earlier this week as part of the Little Italy Street Art Project that Wayne Rada and I have been organizing there. The piece comes just a few weeks before the duo have a show walking distance away at Krause Gallery. That show, …
Continue reading “Coming soon: “Pipe Dreams” by The Yok and Sheryo”
I wish I had time for a weekend… Aryz’ show in San Fransisco looks like a hit. London street art photographer Delete is organizing three shows at Doomed Gallery in Hackney throughout May. Jace’s new work is cute as always. JR is taking over Times Square with his photobooth. Caroline already stopped by. mobstr does …
Continue reading “Weekend link-o-rama”
