Continuing the work that Pawn Works, 25th Ward Alderman Danny Solis (who is paying for these murals), The National Museum of Mexican Art, and the Chicago Urban Art Society have been bringing to Chicago, Gaia and Roa both recently painted in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Gaia painted a piece called Quetzalcoatl and the Stork, about …
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Earlier this week, I hosted a movie night at The Wren’s Nest in Atlanta for the Living Walls Conference. Living Walls asked me to put together a list of some short films to show, and I ended up with 27. A few people have asked me to post those films online to share with friends …
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Over two days, artist ND’A was invited to paint a tall narrow space nestled between Nick Walker and Jay Shells at Bushwick 5 Points. At the crossroads where St Nicholas, Troutman, and Scott meet, Joe Ficalora has created a street art oasis. While his family have owned the buildings for years, Joe has taken it …
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This year’s Living Walls Conference has begun and the team are posting daily updates to Vimeo. Here are the first three days. I’ll be arriving in Atlanta for the conference in less than 24 hours. Please join me on Wednesday night for an evening of short films and Friday evening for a panel about gender …
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Damon Landry and I recently took a trip to Haverford College so that he could photograph some of the street art and murals there. Here are some of my favorite photos that Damon took during our visit. More after the jump…
Caroline and I are out in Colorado this week with my family, so art is coming second, but luckily it looks like it’s been a slow week. Here’s what I almost missed… An interesting essay about street art and MOCA’s Art in the Streets show (although far from perfect and obvious a little late). Sam3 …
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Note from RJ: We at Vandalog are excited to publish Tristan Manco‘s first post on the site, hopefully the first of many. Tristan is one of contemporary street art’s greatest champions and most-distinguished writers. Tristan curated by iterations of Cans Festival, worked at Pictures on Walls for half a decade, has written or in some …
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MOMO is a personal favorite artist of mine, and so I think he is also quite underrated. Maybe this video will help change that. It’s certainly one of the more interesting video interviews I’ve seen with a street artist. Via Ekosystem
I recently came across the work of Xuan Alyfe for the first time. He seem to fit nicely somewhere between MOMO and Interesni Kazki or Os Gemeos. Alyfe’s work is the sort of thing that only seems familiar when compared to some of the great alternative street artists or great non-street artists like Miro. It’s …
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It’s a mega link-o-rama this week because I’ve been traveling from last Saturday until Thursday morning. Here’s a video of Morley’s show at Lazarides Newcastle. When I first saw Morley’s work about a year and a half ago, I thought it was hilarious and touching. Now though, while I appreciate that he has tried to …
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