Tuesday, 30 November 2010
SAFEWALLS
SAFEWALLS TEASER from SAFEWALLS on Vimeo.
SAFEWALLS
Not really sure what to make of this, but Cirque Du Soleil, the once street based performance troupe turned multi billion dollar global entertainment corporation, have created "Safewalls". A series of commission based works inspired by the brand from, so far, unnamed international "street" and "low brow" artists. Had this been 1984, it may have made some sense and proved relevant. Had it been 2004, maybe a little less so.. but 2011 ? and the company being part owned by private equity investment companies..well..I guess we'll have to see the work before we pass judgement, but at first sight it seems questionable. No doubt the production values, as this pr video proves, will be far above and beyond what most of those involved in the scene can muster. Seems to be quite a risky project that could backfire. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
PS : oh yeah, almost forgot, there will be limited edition prints available.
NEW DOLK PRINTS
NEW DOLK PRINTS
Too fresh new Dolk prints from Handmadeposters set to drop tomorrow, Dec 1st. Both prints, "Pig" and "Kitty Riot" are editions of 250, cost 175 GBP and are 50 x 70cm.
From Handmadeposters
Saturday, 27 November 2010
ESCIF BOOK & BLU FILM
Just got in from a stroll around Barcelona's Las Ramblas, nice coincidence to see this drop in the mailbox..
MUROS y PAREDES
the first solo book by spanish street-artist ESCIF, presenting a selection of his best murals (and trains). 96 pages * full color * hard cover
Also available:
150 copies limited edition, signed by the artist
OUT NOW on ARTSH.it
check it here:
http://www.artsh.it/shop1/index.php/products-1.html
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OUT SOON on DVD:
* BLU 2010 *
the first complete collection of every BLU's animation
1 hour and 45 min. of videos including:
WALL PAINTED ANIMATIONS
TIME-LAPSE VIDEOS OF MANY MURALS
HAND DRAWN ANIMATIONS ON PAPER
and many previously unpublished EXTRA contents
Thursday, 25 November 2010
BANKSY PRINT "CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON"
So here's a few shots of the new Banksy works courtesy of Banksy.info. including the new "Choose your Weapon" print at bottom.
NEW BANKSY PRINT "CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON"
Sneak peak of what looks like Banksy's new print. "Choose your weapon". It's the red work you can see directly behind the chap in blue, sitting pretty under the Date farmers print and looks to be a print version of the Haring dog that appeared earlier this year.
BANKSY/MARKS & STENCILS UPDATE
MARKS & STENCILS
TONIGHT, 25TH NOVEMBER, SOHO, LONDON 1900-2200
PICTURESONWALLS
A lot of messages requesting the address.. it's now public so..
1 Berwick Street, London W1.
Open: Monday - Saturday 11am-7pm Sunday 12-5pm
Nearest tube: Oxford Circus/Leicester Square
Doors open from 11am this Friday for four weeks only.
From Channel 4 Blog ON THE TOP IMAGE.
This is the image designed to provoke, intrigue and shock people – and get them to spend money on street art – in this year’s Christmas show curated by Banksy called “Marks and Stencils” in London’s Soho. It is by a young artist called Mark Sinckler who will be doing an interview with our reporter Stephanie West for tonight’s programme about his motivations and thoughts behind the image. Obviously it is potentially offensive to some people. Others will find it thought provoking and even beautiful. It will certainly stir a debate about using such an image from a horroric tragedy like the 7/7 bombings for what is essentially a commercial project.
The pop up show is the successor to the Santa’s Ghettos that sold affordable street art in past years and opens to the public on Friday November 26th - the Sinckler image is huge and will be unveiled in the window tonight to identify the show. It also features the French street artist Dran and there will apparently be some new pieces by Banksy unveiled as well.
Source : Channel 4 Blog
Source : Marks & Stencils image
MARKS & STENCILS
Preview night tonight for Picturesonwalls DRAN show with supporting works from Banksy himself. A few teaser shots doing the rounds, scroll down. Dran's show opens to the public on Friday 26th and is titled "My Everyday life".. secret location. Marks & Stencil's previews tonight and opens to the public tomorrow, secret location. I can only guess that both two shows are one and the same. Though perhaps not..
Check out below for some more DRAN action...
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
BÄST FROM THE PAST
BÅST AT TRANSPLANT GALLERY NY 2005
Some kind soul just uploaded a great series of images to fickr from Bäst's first solo show Mas Vino in NYC. Nuart love the raw brut power behind Bäst's work. Punk Funk art at its best.
Source : Flickr
Bäst Website
Monday, 22 November 2010
NEW BANKSY
Banksy and Pictures on Walls usual annual Santa's Ghetto event is maybe just around the corner, or maybe this is part of this weeks Dran show where we heard Banksy would also be showing. Who knows. Certainly looks like a Banksy work though now doesn't it ?
Source
Sunday, 21 November 2010
BÄST & FAILE AT FACTORY FRESH EVENT
Some great shots from Brooklyn Street Arts Jaime Rojo of a surprise old school collaboration wall between Bäst and Faile for the Factory Fresh Bushwick block party held earlier this weekend. Love the shot of Futura on top of his car.
Check out more Brooklynstreetart
Featured :ESCIF
One of our favourite artists Escif has a great new website/blog.
www.streetagainst.com
More images : Escif on flickr
Saturday, 20 November 2010
FEATURED : AARON ROSE
AARON ROSE
I recently stumbled upon Aaron Rose's newish photo blog and there was something about it that immediately struck a chord. A lot of the time we can get hooked up on the "history" and sense of hierarchy that goes with this "scene", graf, street art, outsider art.. low brow, new brow.. call it what you will. But, there's something about the quality of this work, that is just truly..art. You really get the feeling that here's a guy, who could be seriously down on his luck in every imaginable way..and yet.. would still be shooting film.
Anyway.. enough of my rambling.
Check out the blog Here
Beautiful Losers Here
Aaron Rose is a film director, art show curator and writer who is a key part of the Beautiful Losers art movement, which has featured and helped notarize the work of artists such as Barry McGee, Steven "Espo" Powers, Harmony Korine and Shepard Fairey. In 2005, he published with Drago, Young Sleek and Full of Hell, where he collects over 100 artists including Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton, Thomas Campbell, Phil Frost, Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Sonic Youth, Terry Richardson.
He was co-curator of the Beautiful Losers touring art exhibit, and edited the collected art book—released by Iconoclast and Distributed Art Publishers in 2004 featuring the work and artists of the tour. The exhibition toured the world through 2009. He is also the director of the documentary film Beautiful Losers, which began its US theatrical run in 2008.
BANKSY "EXIT THROUGH .." Q&A
Banksy just uploaded this to his website. A new Q & A video with the editors of "Exit through.."
Banksy
Friday, 19 November 2010
DAVE SCHUBERT AT SHOOTING GALLERY
Some great shots of Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen and many others who were associated with San Fran and the mission school. Recommended.
Dave Schubert
Vision Is A Dream
Shooting Gallery
November 13, 2010 - December 4, 2010
This exhibit is the artist's debut show with The Shooting Gallery and will be comprised of a selection of documentary, portrait, reportague, abstract, and experimental photographs. His work is often associated with the photographic record of the Mission School and other San Francisco underground art movements.
More info here
DOLK AT BERGEN KUNSTMUSEUM
DOLK AT BERGEN ART MUSEUM
Nice to see our very own DOLK exhibiting his stencils as part of BGO1 at Bergen Kunstmuseum.
From the Press Sheet
The exhibition BGO1 is this fall’s extravaganza at Bergen Art Museum. It is backgrounded by recent years’ developments in the Bergen art scene, with more and more newly educated artists choosing to establish themselves in Bergen, studio cooperatives forming, alternative galleries taking root, new educational opportunities and new cross-disciplinary arenas.
Read More Here
Photo's from Mot Veggen, Bergen Street Art blog.
FACTORY FRESH, NOV 20TH
Something for all our Brooklyn fans and network, hope some of you can make it down for this community event. Nice feel to it and also a chance to catch the debut film "Dots" on Burning Candy crew.
Brooklyn Street Artists Paint 200 Foot Wall + Burning Candy Crew Debut Film at Block Party
• Live painting
• Calexico taco cart
• DJs
• Art for sale from participating artists
• Burning Candy's Dots film premiere
A street art iphone app is teaming up with Factory Fresh gallery in Bushwick Brooklyn to open up 200 feet of wall and turn it over to Brooklyn street artists. Chris Stain, Gaia, Skewville, Imminent Disaster and several guests artists will be tackling the project. Tek33 and Dscreet of London's Burning Candy crew will also be in town painting and premiering their film Dots.
BANKSY "EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP" OSCAR NOMINATED !
The Academy has announced its short list of 15 films that will move forward in the Best Feature Documentary category. Terrific to see Banksy's "Exit through the giftshop"amongst the nominees.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
GRAFFITI EDUCATION COMMUNITY
KIDS WITH GUNS
We rarely post about graffiti here at Nuart, not for any other reason than we're pretty ignorant about the whole thing and generally have little or nothing to do with it. However, in response to the first video which we posted up on our facebook site, we received the second one. One of the most powerful life affirming reasons we've ever seen to pick up a can.
JOSÉ PARLA & ARKITIP
PARLA AT WORK
Arkitip join forces with incase and José Parla. Not too interested in the product, but the video is cool, great to see the process behind his work.
José Parlá Sleeve
Curated by Arkitip, Produced by Incase
José Parlá is an artist who records his experiences in calligraphic and palimpsestic code. Serving as a collection of textually chronicled memories, the markings appear on backdrops that resemble the distressed surfaces he encounters. As a storyteller, Parlá presents an enigmatic narrative, translating moments that only a visual dialogue can convey.
Incidentally Arkitip's Parla issue 33 is still available Here
Check out the José Parla website here
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
NUART APPLICATION
Yesterday was the deadline for the local councils application for cultural funding. Here's a peak at what Nuart submitted. Fingers crossed it manages to convince them not to cut support in these times of austerity.
EINE & FAITH 47 IN SA
Ben Eine and Faith 47 painting for a fair trade wine company in sunny South Africa.
Sunday, 14 November 2010
THE "LANDMARK" TOUR
Just received this great little film of the traffic stopping tour that was this years Nuart "opening".
Thanks to Carl Fredrick Salicath
Music by The Low Frequency in Stereo
(Recorded live at Numusic 2010)
Saturday, 13 November 2010
ROA'S BIG BIRD
Roa's Big Bird on Hanbury Street, Brick Lane, London from Shafiur Rahman on Vimeo.
ROA
Nuart 2010 artist Roa in Shoreditch.This short film is a teaser for an upcoming documentary on Brick Lane and art. This piece was shot over 8 hours in April 2010.
More from Roa
Friday, 12 November 2010
SWOON TO BUILD HOUSE
SWOON BUILDS A HOUSE
From Nola.com
Better known by her street-art alias Swoon, Curry is a New York-based superstar renowned for her alluring large-scale drawings of mythological men and women that she sticks to public walls with school paste. Hers is a kinder, gentler form of graffiti. Swoon also is famous for the rag-tag rafts and boats built from recyclables that she and friends float from place to place as a sort of nautical performance art.
She now plans to build a house on Piety Street. If the finished structure turns out anything like the charming doll-house-sized model, it will be a towering pixie temple with a star-shaped floor plan, a zigzag wrap-around porch and pointy cupola, adorned with assorted dormers and flying filigree. The house is meant to double as a domicile for visiting artists and a sort of walk-in musical instrument complete with built-in percussion machines and electronic tone producers of some sort.
Swoon, whose work is characterized in part by its temporary nature, acknowledged that she has “personally never tried to create a permanent house, a permanent structure.” She was invited to New Orleans by Delaney Martin (director of New Orleans Airlift, an organization meant to help artists travel), and has spent six months in cahoots with kinetic artist Taylor Shepherd, architect Wayne Troyer and others to make her dreamy dream-house a reality.
As she and Shepherd laughingly explained at their warehouse studio earlier this week, the house lacks a name, a construction schedule and sufficient funding. But considering Swoon’s past triumphs, we shouldn’t be surprised to see the whimsical design someday join the Crescent City’s list of architectural marvels.
MANHOLE STREETART
MANHOLE STREETART
Seems that not all corporate involvement with Street Art has to be completely retarded.
Milan's largest Fibre Optic company Metroweb have again sponsored the production of a series of street art designed manhole covers. 20 covers from the following 5 international street artists are dotted around the city.
The London Police (UK)
Shepard Fairey (USA)
Space Invader (France)
Rendo (Italy)
Flying Fortress (Germany)
The covers will stay in place for between 1 and 2 years or until someone manages to find a way to steal them. They're forged in metal so beware of postage charges for future ebay sales.
Check out all 20 on thedonblog here
NUART 2010 IN PHOTOS
Street Art photography at its finest.
Just received this amazing series of photographs of this years Nuart works from local photographer Carl Fredrick Salicath.
Check out more of Carl's work here
Thursday, 11 November 2010
BLU IN FRANCE
Another stunning piece from Blu this time in Rennes France. The accumulated junk and consumer disposable that is man seems to have found a heart.
More on blublu.org
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