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June 30, 2013July 3, 2013

Sunday link-o-rama

L'Atlas, Mecro and more in Paris — L’Atlas, Mecro and more in Paris

Wait! The weekend isn’t over yet. Enjoy a bit of light reading and cool photos before the work week returns:

Gylnn Judd aka Noir wrote a great op-ed in The Guardian about VAMP’s recent prison sentence and living the double-life of graffiti writer and gainfully-employed family man.
Complex.com published my list of the top 25 murals of the year so far. What do you think?
El Mac crushed it in Denmark.
Niels “Shoe” Meulman has a show coming up at White Walls in SF, and Hi Fructose had a preview.
GATS and IMP give it their all with this piece even though it’s not exactly super visible.
It was just (what would have been) George Orwell’s 110th birthday. This is a great way to celebrate.
I love how Jaz used the wall’s existing problems to make this piece even better.
Once again, there is talk of the mural ban in LA being lifted.
Sergio Gómez’s work is abstract, simple and powerful.
This is a video teaser for some of Kid Zoom’s new work. This is big, bold, and very different stuff from the young artist. Kid Zoom’s new body of work will be unveiled at his upcoming show, Suburbia, at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Ericailcane, Tellas, Crisa and Cireds came together for this great new mural in Italy.

Photo by Laser Burners

June 14, 2013June 13, 2013

Drawings for the Masses: a group show of personal sketches made public

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Drawing for the Masses is a group show of about a dozen international street showing, not just any drawings, but personal drawings and prepatory sketches that would be the blueprints for eventual murals. While a rough sketch of an existing mural may not seem that exiting, 999 Gallery assures you that these works are sometimes more precious to the artist than the public work since these were not intended for others to see. So, stop by to see see the personal work of 108, Andreco Borondo, Gaia, 2501, Guy Denning, Hitnes, Lucamaleonte, Martina Merlini, Moneyless, Ozmo and Tellas.

The show opened last night in Rome’s 999 Gallery.

January 12, 2013

Weekend link-o-rama

Looks like the art world has gotten back on track after the holiday season. Lots of links this week.

Over at Complex.com, I wrote about the 10 (well, actually 12) street artists that I think people should be watching for in 2013.
Rae, one of the artists on that list of mine, has a solo show opening at Signal Gallery in London later this month.
Broken Fingaz are also on that same list, and it looks like they have some new work up in London.
Sten and Lex get up in an ancient church.
I’d never heard of Kraser Tres before, but damn can he paint.
And so can Sokram.
Faile are working on a huge project with the New York City Ballet. It sounds like a bit of a strange collaboration at first, but I’m excited to see the results. It seems like this has given Faile an opportunity to develop new work in a direction that they would have otherwise never gone, and the results that have been teased so far look strong.
2501 has a show opening this month in Bologna.
A lot of Rammellzee’s work is on display now at New York’s Children’s Museum of the Arts.
There’s some great work available in the Iron To Gold/Ashes To Hope benefit auction which will help to fund an artist residency program in Detroit.
Here’s a nice video of Kid Zoom at work.
I might have asked this question before, but can someone please explain the appeal of Barry McGee’s recent Brooklyn mural to me? The first of the videos here has some info about it, but I need more. McGee has previously stated his objections to painting so-call beautifying murals. The only time in recent memory that I can recall seeing anything similar to the Brooklyn mural is the one he painted a few years ago in Miami, but even that piece included a fair bit of traditional graffiti. Plus, the Brooklyn mural was painted by the billboard painting company Colossal. I’ve got no problem with artist assistants or anything like that, but the whole thing strikes me as McGee just saying “Sure, if Cadillac wants to pay me a bunch of money to license one of my images and hire someone else to paint it on a building, I’ll take that paycheck.” And hey, more power to the guy if he can get Cadillac to pay him for that, but is that all that’s going on here or am I missing something? Has McGee’s philosophy about public art changed?

Photo by Tellas

April 28, 2012April 28, 2012

Katowice Street Art Festival – part 1

on off — Escif. Photo by Foto Sigma DP1S

Poland is playing host to some of the world’s most talented street artists and muralists for the Katowice Street Art Festival. From April 20th to the 29th, the festival will feature artists such as Escif, Hyuro, Mark Jenkins, Ludo, M-City, Olek, Roa, Moneyless, and many more. Here are a few of the pieces already in progress or completed. There are many more photos on the festival’s facebook page.

Fantastic piece by Olek. Courtesy of Arrested Motion.

Ludo’s piece is a massive wheatpaste that incorporates paint. It looks great, but the one worry I have for this piece is that someone will probably have to paint over the eyesore that’s left when the paper weathers and inevitably comes down.

Ludo Wojciech Nowak — Ludo. Photo by Wojciech Nowak

Hyuro in progress. Photo by Paweł Mrowiec

Tellas and Moneyless. Courtesy of Street Art News — Tellas and Moneyless. Photo by Tellas

Photos by Foto – Sigma DP1S, Wojciech Nowak, Tellas and Paweł Mrowiec, also courtesy of Arrested Motion

Via Arrested Motion and Street Art News

August 26, 2011

Coming in October: Nuart 2011

5008863764_2913926411_z — Vhils for Nuart 2010

With fall approaching (hopefully quickly after all the time I’ve been spending in 100 degree weather), another edition of Stavanger, Norway’s Nuart festival is just around the corner. This year, Nuart will break away from the murals that its become known for in favor of an event more like The Underbelly Project or Hell’s Half Acre: While there will still be some walls painted around the city, most of the festival will be indoors where artists will focus on painting directly on the walls of “seven abandoned 17x5x5 meter tunnels [and] a 50meter long access tunnel with an entrance hall equal in size to the cities largest gallery.”

And here’s this year’s artist line up… Dan Witz, David Choe, Herakut, Herbert Baglione, Escif, Hyuro, Tellas, Lucy McLauchlan, Dolk, Phlegm and Vhils.

Photo by kalevkevad