Carlo McCormack in collaboration with Wooster Collective’s Marc and Sara Schiller, Trespass; A history of uncommissioned public art (Cologne: Taschen, 2010) ISBN978-3-8365-0964-0 Urban Interventions; Personal projects in public spaces, Robert Klanten and Matthias Hübner, eds. (Berlin: Gestalten Verlag, 2010) ISBN 978-3-89955-291-1 Both of these large, profusely-illustrated books address the same general phenomenon: artists’ uninvited interventions [...]
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Work Smarter, Not Harder [an interview w/Evan Roth]
Evan Roth is a prolific producer whose activities take on many different forms, including teaching, collaborating, engineering, collecting gifs, analyzing graffiti, enriching the public domain, developing tools of empowerment and raising awareness of issues pertaining to the open-web and free speech. His work is most comfortable where the interests of activists, artists, and general web [...]
LONG STORIES FOR PERM 2011
Public art program of PERMM (Perm museum of modern art) in cooperationwith the Ministry of Culture of Permsky Krai region, citygovermment of Perm inviting street artists, visual artists, designers, architects,illustrators, graffiti artists to particip…
4th Annual Digital Graffiti Festival at Alys Beach
The 4th Annual Digital Graffiti Festival at Alys Beach will be held Saturday, June 11, 2011, and this year, digital artists will compete for over $10,000 in cash prizes.Festival organizers are now calling for submissions from artists around the wor…
Bonniers Konsthall : Gardar Eide Einarsson’s Power Has a Fragrance
Bonniers Konsthall
16 February–12 June 2011
Gardar Eide Einarsson’s work is characterised by borrowing elements from art historical as well as contemporary sources such as graffiti and skateboard culture. Fragments and forms from the Internet, sticky labels, fanzines, graffiti and art-historical icons become signs and messages on canvas or directly on the wall, rendered in paint or ordinary felt-tip pen.
At last the buff has a point
Seems the Toasters have been very busy in London town of late. An all too common sight in some areas are the grey, white and black blobs of paint that the graffiti removal teams leave behind when obliterating graffiti and street art. They like to …
Art on the street
It’s been a while since the last post on this blog so this is an extended one based on a lengthy walk around London last Friday looking for art actually on the street.
Is Street Art in London dead? Well, no. You just have to look a bit harder tha…
Blacklight Dinner at Smile Gallery
After savoring some of the best Thai food I have had in a long time in Smile’s downstairs café, I headed upstairs to their gallery. The small but well utilized space is currently hosting Bangkok and Blacklight. The show combines urban, graffiti style artists from the Trenton area with a well renowned contemporary artist from [...]
12 Days to Xmas
A group show featuring more than 40 of the world’s most loved & loathed contemporary urban artists. Featuring a real mix of styles – stencils, fine art, sculpture, canvas, prints, video & graffiti.
And all this in possibly the most interest…
"SHAFT" BY DOZE GREEN & DAVID ELLIS
FIFTY24SF Books: “Shaft” by Doze Green & David Ellis – Two of the most influential graffiti turned fine artists active today, New York City residents Doze Green and David Ellis fuse the true meaning of hip-hop with contemporary art styles to crea…
We like – Samuel Francois
With graffiti as a start, Samuel Francois kept the basic notion of “decoration” in his work.
Using a lot of different supports and inspired by shapes and colors from the textile industry and architecture, Samuel keeps bringing us new experimentations a…
L’Atlas present COSMIC GRAFFITI
Studio 55
Espace Beaurepaire, Paris
January 7 – January 27, 2008
Download the press release here (in French)
more information
Niels Buschke The Buff, Vicious Gallery
Soloshow by Niels Buschke at Vicious Gallery
The gallery address is:
Vicious Gallery
Kleine Freiheit 46
22767 Hamburg
Germany
OPENING 26TH JANUARY
Niels Buschke
Born and raised 1974 in Hamburg.
In 1987 he started doing Graffiti which accompanie…
Weapon of Choice, Live Graffiti Night
Live Painting by
Mr Jago & Inkie
Twizzy & Chris Lucas
(Arunproductions)
Wascal,
Sir Loin,
Betamax,
Benone
12th of febuary 2008
9pm-3am every 2nd tuesday of the month.
@ mr wolfs
£3 all night!
sponsored by www.theurbanshop.co.uk + www.won…
Classic KAWS video from 1997
thanks to JetSet Graffiti
http://www.jetsetgraffiti.com/
Urban Art: Novos Ares
Cena7 and Emol
The graffiti artists are increasingly breaking barriers and prejudices about this art that in despite of being ephemeral has consolidated as a leading contemporary.
Through the use of different colors, shapes and features unusual in…
Tom’s Gallery 101ers graffiti exhibition
101ers graffiti exhibition
group show:
Artists: dr-ren, the krah, fors, kai1 and eon.
new paintings with free hand and stencil spray paint on walls and any material we can find..
installations with sculpture and also you can get limited edition scre…
"trimassa collective show"
Choque Cultural shows the urban art of brazilian’s south city of Porto Alegre, through its most illustrious representatives.
From graffiti to tattoos, comics and illustration, most of these talents have already been shown in the gallery and have, as a…
RCF1 @ Speerstra Gallery
For over 15 years, Rcf1 stays loyal to his unconventional Graffiti aesthetic. The originality of his work comes with no doubt from his Alternative Rock background, from an interest for the cultures of the transgression, but also from a great sensibil…