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August 29, 2017

Aliens Welcome

Been slow on updating Vandalog lately, and I’m realizing it’s because I’ve spent so much of this year focused on curating and project management, and that’s meant that writing has taken a backseat. Still, sometimes I come across something great that doesn’t need much additional commentary.

Today, that was this piece by Rub Kandy and Andrea Nolè, which you can find in Potenza, Italy. Aliens are welcome became immigrants are welcome. Aliens are welcome because sometimes it feels like my country is so messed up right now that it couldn’t possibly get any worse with aliens in charge (although I guess that’s the sort of logic that got us into this mess…). Aliens are welcome because if you’re gonna write something on a wall, it might as well be a greeting to a stranger. Aliens are welcome because why not.

Photo courtesy of Rub Kandy

July 28, 2012

Weekend link-o-rama

I’m off for a few days of traveling. Expect lots of pictures. Here’s what we missed on Vandalog this week:

Endless Canvas has organized a show of murals in an old factory in the Bay Area. They are using Kickstarter to get the show off the ground, and could use some help.
These abstract pieces by 1010 and Bemie are pretty great.
And more abstract work by Cron.
The zine and print from Lush’s London show are now available online.
Saber and Revok have shows opening Saturday evening at Known Gallery.
A stellar new print from WK Interact is available at Jonathan Levine Gallery.
The ATG crew will be showing at Stolenspace Gallery in August.
Arrested Motion has a preview of the upcoming Barry McGee retrospective.
Keep an eye on 12ozProphet’s Instagram for behind-the-scenes photos of the upcoming Os Gemeos show at the ICA Boston, opening next week.
Some beautiful new work from MOMO in Spain and Rome.
Something a bit different from Pixelpancho in Russia.

Photo by Rub Kandy

June 20, 2012June 19, 2012

Rub Kandy’s “Spiral”

Here is Rub Kandy‘s latest piece,Spiral. He made it last month in Rome.

Photos courtesy of Rub Kandy

February 26, 2012

Weekend link-o-rama

It’s still technically the weekend for a few hours, so writing this is the perfect procrastination tool before I get down to doing homework. Hopefully you can take advantage of these links in a similar fashion:

Phlegm has a new print available. Quite a beauty.
A Love Letter For You, a film related to Steve Powers‘ project of the same name but also not the standard documentary you might expect, will be released soon. Here’s the trailer.
It’s definitely NSFW but also definitely worth checking out: F*CK ART at the Museum of Sex.
I’m guessing Vandalog will cover this in more detail with a full post and not just this tiny mention, but here are a boatload of shots from Os Gemeos’ show in LA.
Unurth happened to post cool optical illusion pieces this week by e1000ink and Rub Kandy.
Few things I’d rather see on a truck than a horse by Reminisce.
High Rise Murals is sort of a new project from Monorex. It organizes all of their murals (read: massive painted outdoor advertisements) under one banner. They launched High Rise Murals in two ways: By having INSA paint a mural and painting a massive Coca-Cola advertisement over some great graffiti. After someone very publicly shamed them, High Rise Murals selectively buffed the advertisement to make it look intentional and not about the massive tag (HW stands for the location of the advertisement, Hackney Wick). Over Twitter, Monorex said that they “are now in phase 2, re commissioning wall with artists.” This phase is also known as phase oh crap, we really screwed the pooch on this one and it’s time to backpedal. Monorex claim that phase two was always the plan, but I don’t see any reason to believe that. Artists need to get paid and painting advertisements can be a lucrative way to do that, but I think we can all agree that painting over graffiti and street art to replace it with advertising is not cool. Let’s hope High Rise Murals have learned from this experience and stop going over murals and art with advertisements.

Photo by Jade