I’m absolutely loving these new pieces by Ludo, especially the simple ad disruption.
Photos by Ludo
New wall by Reka in Fitzroy, Melbourne
Old but fantastic work from Isaac Cordal
Isaac Cordal sent over these photos of a project, called Cement Bleak, that he did in London back in 2009. He sculpted portraits onto colanders, which look cool on their own, but also cast beautiful shadows.
Photos by Isaac Cordal
Missed connections
I Wish I Said Hello is a project that plays with the missed connections section of Craigslist and turns those missed connections into stickers that are then put up in the spot where the missed connection happened. Lisa Park and Adria Navarro have started the program in New York City, but they hope that others will pick up the idea and place the stickers around the world. Very sweet idea. Here are a few of the first I Wish I Said Hello stickers.
Photos courtesy of I Wish I Said Hello
Gaia mural in DC
This mural by Gaia, Dusk of H Street, was recently commissioned by Smith Commons. The piece is a rehashing of one of Gaia’s early oil paintings. Gaia says “The interior of the chest is an Albert Bierstadt landscape painting of Yosemite referencing American manifest destiny and western expansion. The virgin terrain is contrasted with an old vacant building on H street which is a historically divested neighborhood currently undergoing a massive transition.”
Photos by Gaia
ND’A, OverUnder, Chris and Veng, RWK Busy off the Bowery
Earlier today — on this Memorial Day weekend — some of our favorite artists were busy over on East 4th Street off the Bowery. Tara Murray, a former student — who has become as addicted to street art as I am — caught up with them as they were finishing. Here are a few images from this latest MaNY Project with FABnyc under the direction of the indefatigable Keith Schweitzer:
Photos by Tara Murray
Weekend link-o-rama
Lots of news to share this week and I’m late with this post, so let’s get on with it…
- This year’s FAME Festival lineup is online.
- Nina Pandolfo has a show coming up this week at Lazarides’ Rathbone Place location. Despite Nina’s talent, it’s unfortunately difficult to shake the knowledge that she is married to Otavio Pandolfo of Os Gemeos and make comparisons to Os Gemeos’ work.
- Some great new prints and t-shirts from Horfe.
- Stick2Target has photos of some great new walls by Vhils.
- Let’s all go make parks.
- Thinkspace Gallery currently has a charity show running to benefit Born Free USA.
- Street Art Is Dead used to be a blog that mostly complained about the bullshit involved in street art. Now there’s a newish blog with that name that indiscriminately posts photos of street art despite quality.
- James Marshall aka Dalek has brought his Space Monkey character back in his work after years of interesting artistic development.
- Animal New York’s analysis of JR’s latest mural in New York seems pretty spot on… “Let’s agree that it is not an vicious affront to the eyes, but it’s not ‘absolutely genius’ either.”
- Banksy updated his website. A couple of really nice new pieces, both indoors and outdoors.
- Carmichael Gallery have a show that just opened with Yue Minjun, Mark Jenkins and Aakash Nihalani.
- The Duke Spirit used Kid Acne’s Stabby Women film series footage and used a version reedited by Dscreet (who also directed Stabby Women initially) for their latest music.
Photo by Don’t Fret
Introducing Awer
Like Roja Roma, the latest artist that I’ve come across and am loving this week is someone I found through Street Art News (they may post 1000000 things a day, but there are some gems in there that you might otherwise miss). Awer is an Italian artist based sort-of near the location of FAME Festival and with a style a bit like Never2501. Here are a few of his more recent pieces:
Photos by Awer
Baltimore besides Open Walls Baltimore
While Caroline and I visited Baltimore with the goal of seeing Open Walls Baltimore, but we also got a bit of a taste for the larger street art and graffiti scene there, including a lot of work that has been done without permission. We even went out with a few local writers (Avoid, Fisho and Mountain) to watch them paint. Here are some of my favorite pieces that we came across in Baltimore that are not murals, including a few of photos have been posted on Vandalog previously.
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New from Escif
I almost wrote “this new wall by Escif is his best so far this year.” Then I went back to check and was reminded that Escif has been doing consistently great walls all year, so it would be unwise to say that this is his best. But still, it’s at least another interesting mural by Escif. This one is in Melilla, Spain/Morocco.
Photos by Escif