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June 11, 2011

Weekend link-o-rama

5794359149_f7e820cd6b_z — "Circus" ad disruption in Philadelphia by Sorry

Wow, last week went by quickly. And Steph moved in with me today, temporarily. Should be a crazy few weeks. Here’s what I’ve been meaning to write about:

JR’s show at Centre Pompidou is open.
Ludo’s got a new sculpture for sale.
Faile’s new print with Paper Monster could have been great, but I think they picked such a weak image to work with. Oh well. I’m sure there will be more and better Faile prints in the future.
The remnants of a historic Cost/Revs piece can now be seen up close from a newly opened section of the Highline in NYC.
Banksy is sponsoring Art in the Streets at MOCA in LA so that visits are free every Monday from 11-5 through the rest of the show’s run.
A large Kaws sculpture moved from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum to The Standard Hotel in NYC. And there’s this new video interview with Kaws too.
New from Phlegm.
Lois posted some photos, but here’s even more from Logan Hicks’ show at Opera Gallery.
I’ve never heard of Anton Steenbock, but I want to see more like this.
Glen E. Friedman has won his lawsuit against Mr. Brainwash for using Friedman’s iconic photograph of Run DMC. I still say I’d rather have seen MBW win this case. Not because I think MBW’s work based on that photo looked good, but because I’d rather see more room for artists to re-appropriate content and less restrictions on copyrighted material. What MBW did to Friedman’s photograph was transformative. The original photo is a great photo and an iconic one. What MBW did was make it look totally silly. And that should be covered by fair use, for the benefit of better artists.

Photo by Carolinecaldwell

May 15, 2011October 3, 2012

Photos of the Week

Here are just some of the week’s best works Vandalog has come across on the Interwebz:

Screen shot 2011-05-15 at 14.18.35 — Blu & Erica Il Cane in Bologne

Screen shot 2011-05-15 at 14.22.05 — Phlegm in Sheffield

Screen shot 2011-05-15 at 14.21.01 — Sten & Lex in Denmark for Walk This Way Festival

Photos courtesy of Blu, Phlegm and Walk This Way Festival

March 15, 2011

Phlegm’s latest abandoned site

Phlegm just sent this over from the latest abandoned site he is working at. More soon. Also, check out this other cool mural by Phlegm on Unurth.

Photo by Phlegm

March 4, 2011October 19, 2012

This week was exam week, so that means that the majority of my time was split equally between studying and procrastinating with my roommates on N64 and that this week’s link-o-rama is a bit longer than usual:

Miss Van did a studio visit for Hi Fructose.
Roa, Phelgm and Robots have an installation going on outside of London through March 6th.
Yes for more street art in Zambia and volunteering!
A perfect example of how street art can brighten up a community (unless there’s backlash for trying to make the site of a car crash look nice, like the backlash when artists painted the separation wall in Palestine).
Another example.
Michael De Feo has his first London solo show opening next week.
MOMO put up a piece in London, but I think the documentation is more interesting than the end result.
Reader has a new zine out. It is devoted to art on postal labels.
And now even Mr. Brainwash’s street art is getting protected with plexiglass…
Insurgency Inc is doing some hilarious stuff in LA. These posters relating to Banksy are some of my favorites.
Also, I’ve been posting a lot of photos on my flickr lately of stickers in Philadelphia.

Photo by RJ Rushmore

February 3, 2011February 3, 2011

Roa, ROBOTS and Phlegm

4826763791_00d361506e_z — Phlegm. Photo by SheffTim

This should be a fun event. ROBOTS, makers of large wooden street art sculptures, have put together a show with Roa and Phlegm for later this month in South London. Black/Light will include new murals and installations from the artists, plus live music and films. The show runs from the evening of February 24th through March 6th in the Bussey Building in Peckham Rye.

4009251490_c720427e6b_z — Roa. Photo by Vandalog

Photos by SheffTim and Vandalog

December 21, 2010

New walls and a book from Phlegm

Phlegm has a few new walls up around Sheffield. Above is one of them and Unurth has photos of some others.

Additionally, Hooked has the details on a zine of his work that Phlegm has put together. The short version is that it looks really cool and is available online for just £3.00:

Photos courtesy of Phlegm

November 20, 2010

Weekend link-o-rama

5191114280_19696cb0e3_z — Sticker by Hieronymus

Wow. It’s actually Friday night already? This week went by really fast. I think I’ve been sleeping too much. Well, while I was sleeping, these things nearly slipped me by:

A film is being made about The Underbelly Project, and they are looking for reactions from the public. This Sunday, New Yorkers get have their reactions (positive or negative) on film. More info on the film’s website. I’ve been interviewed for this a couple of times, and I can’t wait to see the finished film.
Shepard Fairey is guest-editing the latest issue of PAPER Magazine. Great price for an art/culture magazine by the way: I just realized that a two-year subscription to PAPER Magazine is $15! Juxtapoz costs more than that per year just for a digital subscription (more issues per year though)!
Graffoto are raving about Mantis‘ solo show in Hackney Wick. Honestly, I saw a few photos in the preview and thought something along the lines of “What? These are paintings and they aren’t funny or clever and they aren’t amazing. This isn’t what I love about Mantis at all!” Well I stand corrected. While I still think a lot of the paintings are pretty unappealing, there are some great drawings and even a nice painting or two. The man can draw!
Jordan Seiler is playing a game with outdoor advertising companies in NYC and Philadelphia.
Kid Acne has a solo show in London open now.
A Basquiat was defaced in Paris. Kyle Chayka asks if it really even matters?
Political graffiti in Afghanistan is pretty interesting.
People have been tagging up Barry McGee’s wall of tags in New York. Not writers, but just regular people. As beautiful as that wall was when it was first painted, I love that more people are writing on it. I guess the existence of the tags and a while background is sort of inviting average people to interact.
I really enjoyed this interview with Phlegm.
Arrested Motion has photos from Best Ever’s London solo show.
Swoon is building at musical house in New Orleans.
This street art/graffiti film festival event in Spain looks pretty interesting.
There’s a new interview with me online at $200 Art Collecting, a blog with one of the best concepts I’ve heard in a long time: buy great art for $200 or less.

The week’s not up yet though, and I’ve committed to doing at least one useful thing before it is: Tomorrow I’m going to try using my kitchen for the first time since going to university. Wish me luck…

Photo by LoisInWonderland

July 31, 2010July 31, 2010

Everyone’s talking about Phlegm

I’m a bit slow posting about these pieces by Phlegm, a Sheffield-based artist whom I had not heard of until about a day ago. One day shouldn’t be too long of a delay, but Phlegm’s work is spreading through the internet with lightening speed.

RomanyWG, one of the UK’s top street art and graffiti photographers, has only just posted a few pictures on his flickr of Phlegm’s murals. Of course, because Phlegm is a talented artist that not many people have heard of, Unurth was the first blog to post RomanyWG’s photos. Unurth always seem to be ahead of the curve when it comes finding talented and relatively unknown artists from around the world. Not long after that, Jake posted about Phlegm over at Streetsy.

And now it’s my turn. So, if you haven’t already, have a look at this guy. Phlegm is, at the very least, pretty technically talented, and you can be sure that if he were based in New York or London, this wouldn’t be the first time you’d have seen his paintings.

Photos by RomanyWG