Banksy in Hollywood

Famed UK street artist, Banksy, has struck Hollywood this last month with a few new pieces. His film “Exit Througth the Gift Shop” has been nominated for an Oscar which may explain his presence in the sunshine state. Check out his latest...

Red Bull Project: Street Art

A collaborative collection of sites from Google street view showcasing street art all over the globe. Good in, play around in the virtual world, see some Street Art, see some graffiti. If you live or work or play near a piece of work and you don't see it on the map you can submit it yourself! Go there now and help build the worlds largest art collection!

Freedom Tunnel Reclaimed W/Street Art

ya'll remember dark days? Well that shanty town was evicted and the tunnel has been reclaimed but the residents left some fantastic art! Who wants to go exploring in this Moses Monstrosity this weekend?!

Filmed and cut by Carlito Brigante

fyi: check out this blog crustypunks for interesting biopics of various street travelers...

Concrete meets Evol

Video documentation of an installation done in dresden, germany, 2009. Painted in a 10x8m hole in the ground on the abandoned slaughterhouse area in dresden, probably the former foundation of a huge boiler plant to derive soap from rendered beef fat or other utilization of carcass. However, even 15 years after closing down, it still smells nauseating. The main slaughterhouse complex was built 1906 by Hans Erlwein, Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Slaughterhouse Five" also takes place there and Caspar David Friedrich painted that area in 1832.
artwork: EVOL
filming/editing: Bianca Schemel
music: sickerman

METROPOLIS ART PRIZE ENTRY 2009

AoC: Ghostvillage

The Ghostvillage Project was created over 3 days on the west coast of Scotland. 6 artists - Timid, Remi/Rough, System, Stormie Mills, Juice 126, Derm - were given free reign to paint in an abandoned 1970s village. Working together on huge collaborative walls and individually in hidden nooks and crannies all over the site the artists realised long held dreams and were inspired by the bleakness and remoteness of the site. Drawing on the history of the village the artists' stated intent on completion of the project was to populate the ghostvillage with the art and characters that it deserved.

via the streets of Fort Green

[Via Wooster Collective]

More Faces on More Public Places

The Parisian artist JR works with portrait photos which he puts up on walls, bridge pillars or gates. You may have remembered the buzz centered around his work focusing on women living in the slums of Kibera, Kenya. Through the special aesthetics of his photos and the sometimes gigantic formats in which he brings the faces to the city, he directly challenges advertisement posters and gigantic banners in a visual way. The human element is powerful in his work. His newest project takes him to Rio de Janeiro... enjoy!

NYC Street Advertising Takeover

Jordan Seiler's incredibly ambitious "New York Street Advertising Takeover" became a reality yesterday, when over 120 illegal billboards throughout the city were white washed by dozens of volunteers.

NYSAT was organized as a reaction to the hundreds of billboards that are not registered with the city, and therefore are illegal. While illegal, these violations are not being prosecuted by the City of New York, allowing the billboard companies to garner huge profits by cluttering our outdoor space with intrusive and ugly ads.

After the illegal spots were white washed, late in the day yesterday over eighty artists transformed these spaces into personal pieces of art. YES!! take that MR. MAN!

Are you Board?

In Thai, Buamai translates to ‘are you bored?’ The very interesting web page was created by Michael Paul Young with the intention to become a massive image library (in due time) that would eventually kill time when anyone is bored. It is full of images or digital art, wtf pics, artistic photography among plenty of other funny and wacky stuff. For now, the people posting images on Buamai is a closed collective, but it is very likely that they will open the flood gates in the future. And if you have an iphone... "there's an app for that"... So, if you are ever bored, click away!

Happy Easter

Oh No Mr. Chocolate Bunny!

Click the pic on the left for three ways of melting a chocolate hare from artists Sander Plug and Lernert Engelberts. or click HARE for an interview about their inspiration.







Some Easter themed Street Art from ABOVE...



Some music from Emmy the Great- "Easter Parade"


Happy Easter

Fresh Stuff Frm Nomade in Los Angeles

More Here...

Gritty realism brought to the Streets of NYC

If you asked the NYC based artist Dan Witz to describe himself he will provide a quick and consise answer. "I am a painter, and live and work in NYC. In the 80s I was also a musician and involved in the downtown art-punk scene. I live in Brooklyn now and split my time between making gallery paintings and street art". Born and Raised in the sububs of Chicago and moved to NYC in 78 to pursue studies at Cooper Union art school. In 83, motivated by the surging graffiti scene, Witz painted 40 discreet hummingbirds in lower Manhattan.

"Birds of Manhattan"- West Side Highway near Chambers St. 1979

The Hoodys came from a dark period in the early nineties. Drugs, HIV, poverty/despair/danger were like a pall of doom over the lower east side. The grim reaper hoody posters were inspired by plague attitudes from the middle ages and deer x-ing signs--the way the hi way department puts up those yellow diamond with black deer silhouettes as warning signs.

"Hoody"- Clinton st. btw. Broome and Delancey. N.Y.C. 1994.

Here is an exerpt from an recent interview where Witz talks about the popularity of street art:

"most art's been locked down. Museums and galleries are gated communities. There's cool stuff going on there but, in the age of the easy-access internet, it's just too ghetto-ized, too difficult and intimidating for the larger public to find. I think another reason why street art is so popular these days, besides the obvious easy attention and alt.fame thing, is that since it's not for sale, it can't be owned, it's not tainted, it's an alternative to Art and Culture that's become just another commodity. That gives it authenticity, credibility to anyone who's had to grow up soul-starved in the consumer wasteland. So goodbye monolithic record companies and pretentious art magazines; put your band on Myspace and stick your art up on a lamp post."

Below is an exerpt from a documentary "In Plain View"

Go to his site and check out his most recent painting series, in which Witz's portrait figures are transfixed by the beams of their cellphones and suggestive of what possible intimacies are radiated at moment in the night.
Enjoy.

All Images courtesy of Dan Witz

"Peek-A-Boo Jesus" Draws A Crowd

The other day, the New England based artist Maki105 placed "Peek-A-Boo Jesus" on the side of a video store in New Bedford, MA...

Yesterday, this story ran in the Boston papers:

[Image via Boston Herald]

This is crazy... once again, amazed at the powerful effect well placed street art can be...

Fresh Walls

Shit im digging, some photos of walls painted in Valencia by artist Escif...













































Check out his flickr photostream... there is more really neat stuff there...

On the streets

Fresh Stuff From Ludo In Paris: "The Boombapaver"

Pantone colour 137c

Goldsmith's college art student Sam Spenser created the work. Titled "Bloom" can be seen in an oak tree outside the Wapping Project. The instillation looks like these umbrellas were blown out of their owners' hands and into a tree. Positioned wide open, they are attached to the ends of the branches, and look sorta like freshly bloomed flowers. Read more here...

Image courtesy of growin' Up photostream

Bit Art

SPACE INVADER #763


Music by Jawad Bennissi

Check out more at its website...
Or here for another vid...

Ludo on the UTubz

Live action Ludo...how exciting!!

Lightwriting/ Airgraffiti

A collective of like-minded graffiti artists known together as Lightfaktor based in Cologne, Germany, comprises the talents of $ehvermögen, JIAR and 10X (real names Marcel Panne, David Lüpschen and Tim Fehske). The trio collaborated and developed the artform they refer to as “lightwriting”. With “lightwriting” they are able to get the best from photography, painting, graffiti and stop-motion film-making techniques. By combining all these elements together in their work they can go new ways and realize creative ideas in a fresh way.

Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionist, Rene Gagnon

Rene Gagnon, either he is the man who was immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's famous World War II photograph, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima or hes the man described as creating abstract expressionist graffiti. Lucky you, the Gagnon refered to in this post is not the first. Youtube carries a bunch of videos about the dude, but here's one where Gagnon reflects on his process and creative catharsis. Below are a couple images of his most recent work seen around the streets. He has a solo show of similar work titled "HOOD", at the Narrows Center for the Arts, in Fall River, MA. Enjoy.





He's got a bunch of studio work as well as street art. Check out more of his stuff here.

All Images courtesy of Rene Gagnon Fine Art