Monday, 31 January 2011
TEAM ROBBO V'S BANKSY
TEAM ROBBO SOUTH AFRICA from Team Robbo SA on Vimeo.
Ok, now this is a very classy use of "Exit Through the Giftshop"
Sunday, 30 January 2011
ELOQUENT VANDALS SCREENING & COMP
ELOQUENT VANDALS & COMPETITION & GIVEAWAYS
BROOKLYNITE TV PRESENTS
"ELOQUENT VANDALS"
A NUART DOCUMENTARY
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Monday, January 31, 5PM (NY), 10PM (UK) 11PM (NORWAY)
STREAMING LIVE
VIEWING LINK
Tune in and chat LIVE with NuART during the screening. Pay close attention because the next day the folks at Brooklyn Street Art will be having a contest in which they will be giving away FREE copies of the film, NuShit Skatedecks, limited edition T-Shirts and NuArt sticker packs all for answering very simple trivia questions.
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"ELOQUENT VANDALS"
Running time : 27 mins
Shot on location during Norway's Nuart Festival in 2008, Eloquent Vandals features candid interviews and work from some of the worlds leading street artists including Blek Le Rat, Graffiti Research Lab, Dface, Herakut, Nick Walker, Know Hope, Jimmy Cauty, Zeus, Chris Stain, Wordtomother, Sten & Lex, Dotmasters, Dolk & Pøbel.
Shot and Directed by Martin Hawkes
Produced by Nuart/Saft films
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CATCH UP WITH DETAILS ON THE COMPETITION AND GIVEAWAYS ON BROOKLYNSTREETART
Funky graphics courtesy Brooklynstreetart, thanks chaps.
Friday, 28 January 2011
HOW TO SELL A BANKSY
Though they may be laughing since the Oscar nomination, you just know everyone involved in this project is a first class c**k. The only surprise here, is that the otherwise excellent Howie B soundtracked it.
Next, how we tried to sell our grandmother...
From the film makers
There is only one rule: There are no rules. That's entertainment. Everyone is an opportunist to some degree, and if you are the guy trying to sell a Banksy, you might as well make a documentary. And if you want to intellectualize it ""HOW TO SELL A BANKSY" raises questions of ownership, authentication and the true value of art itself," says the filmmaker
howtosellabanksy
Thursday, 27 January 2011
BEN EINE. A SHORT PROFILE.
Nice little feature profile on everyone's favourite Fontaholic street artist Ben Eine. Below that is a piece Ben created for us here at Nuart back in 07.
Profile Shot by Abbie Brandon
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
NEW FROM FUTURA
NYC graffiti legend FUTURA just released a series of prints through Futura Laboratories, featuring FUTURA’s iconic character on top of Leonardo Da Vinci prints. Slamxhype notes, ‘Prices and sizes of the prints vary from 257mm/301mm/ 21mm to 515mm/603mm/42mm in size and $268 to $535 in cost.”
Buy them here.
From : www.thecitrusreport.com
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
BANKSY AT AUCTION. FEB 16 & 17
Acrylic and spraypaint in artists frame
Titled Banksy 09 on Reverse
59.4 x 68.9 cm
Estimate £12000-£18000
Tagged and dated 2000
Acrylic and Spraypaint
Numbered 2/10 on overlap
42 x 47cm
Estimate £18000-£25000
Tagged on right hand side
Acrylic and Spraypaint on canvas
61 x 50cm. Unique
Estimate £20000-£30000
stenciled 'BANKSY' (on the turnover edge);
Titled 'If Only You Enjoyed Sex As Much As You Enjoy Furniture Shopping' (when backlit)
spray enamel and emulsion on canvas
29 7/8 x 29 7/8in. (76 x 76cm.)
Executed in 2006
BANKSY WORKS AT SOTHEBY AND CHRISTIES DAY SALE FEB 16 AND 17TH
Be interesting to see what these works reach so soon after Banksy's Oscar nomination. Can imagine whoever consigned them are very happy right now. Top three are from the Sotheby day sale on the 16th and bottom one with Christies the following day.
BANKSY. OSCAR NOMINATION
YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP
Congratulations to Banksy and team for the Oscar Nomination. Pretty incredible achievement all things considered. If you haven't yet seen the film, we highly recommend you do.
It's currently available to download on itunes for USA customers. Otherwise check the films link below.
Banksyfilm
Monday, 24 January 2011
NEW , JAMES JEAN PRINT
JAMES JEAN PRINT
One of our favourite non street but still resolutely underground artists has a new print for sale. Beautiful new James Jean print online now. Limited edition of 50. $200.
More info here
ADW STENCIL
We never get bored of a good quality "Smash the system" stencil, especially when it comes with the perfect soundtrack.
In this time-lapse footage ADW pieces together ‘Step up to the Plate’ in the ‘Good Food Gallery’.where the Dublin based artist held a mini solo exhibition in October 2010. To keep up to date with ADW in 2011 visit ADWart.com
From Irish Street Art
Saturday, 22 January 2011
SWOON DEBUT SHOW IN AUSTRALIA
METRO GALLERY VICTORIA AUSTRALIA
SWOON
Opening night Feburary 16th 2011, 6.30pm - 8.30pm.
Swoon will be in attendence.
This is Swoon's first solo exhibition in Australia.
Looks like the work is already online and for sale.
Swoon has been working on the streets of New York City for over 10 years, creating large scale paste-ups of the every day inhabitants of the Big Apple. She uses traditional print making techniques to reproduce these beautiful images at life size before hitting the streets to create her own unique, narrative driven cityscape. Swoon also ensures that each piece she creates is inherently unique by physically cutting details into her works, this process of subtraction allows the pieces to take on a life of their own on the street because the textures and tones of the surface they are pasted on then become integral to the construction of the work themselves. While the method of her work is indebted to both traditional craftsmanship and classic painterly technique, her execution is entirely modern. It is this method of incorporating both age old techniques and contemporary graffiti practice that makes her work so compelling, not to mention highly sought after. She has contributed work to MOMA, Art Basel Miami, and the Brooklyn museum.
JOSÉ PARLA TORONTO
Exclusive: Interview with José Parlá in Toronto
From Ministry of Artistic Affairs
Friday, January 21, 2011
On January 20, 2011, a gala party was held in downtown Toronto for José Parlá to celebrate the reveal of two massive public art murals he painted as a commission for Concord CityPlace. The Ministry of Artistic Affairs caught up with the artist while he was in town and offers the following exclusive interview.
FULL INTERVIEW HERE
Thursday, 20 January 2011
KAWS LIGHTBULBS !
KAWS LIGHTBULB FOR THE STANDARD HOTEL.
It's rare that we post up "product" related to street and urban art, and vinyl toys for that matter. However, this couldn't go without comment. No doubt it will have it's "selling out" detractors, but that would be missing the point of just how genius we think this is. A truly brilliant concept that for us, transcends most "urban" product that has gone before it.
Re-inventing the lightbulb ! No mean feat and shows just how ubiquitous the XX has become.
These could quite easily have been a one off stand alone conceptual art piece that would have slotted into numerous high end art exhibitions, the fact they're an affordable consumable object of desire in a limited edition of 1000 only add's to their relevance. Move over Haring and Koons.
PRESS RELEASE
The Standard's series of artist editions continues with Brooklyn-based artist, KAWS. This is a limited, but non-numbered edition of 1,000 sets that contain 3 bulbs each, of one bulb in each color: red, purple and green.
The 3 watt bulbs have a warm low glow. Dimensions of each globe is about 4.75" x 2.25" and they screw into any standard incandescent fixture. We love how they look on a light string using multiple sets. The bulbs are individually boxed with a KAWS and The Standard sticker and then wrapped again in an outer box that holds all three, also co-branded.
From Kaws
“I love The Standard and the different projects they have been doing” shares KAWS, “when invited to create something I wanted to redesign something basic that could be found in every hotel room in the world so we decided to make a light bulb.”
Available from Standard Hotels from today
FUTURA & 12OZPROPHET
FUTURA X 12OZPROPHET TRAILER from ALSO KNOWN AS on Vimeo.
See the full feature here
12ozprophet.com & futura2000.com
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
BANKSY SKETCHES
A LITTLE PIECE OF BANKSY HISTORY
An interesting little find from one of the chaps over on Bansy.info following a discussion about Banksy 1st Edition "Wall & Piece" books with dust Jacket. Discussion led to an antiquarian bookshop where the book was on sale at £1000. Not only that, a further search led to these original sketches available for an astonishing £125000. Wishful thinking methinks.
Five original spraypaint paintings on paper. One with extensive hand drawn amendments by the artist. These are the actual paintings made by the artist in the process of producing his most famous prints which were later published by Pictures On Walls. “Love is in The Air” measures 13 x 19.5 inches and is black spraypaint on irregular shaped white gloss paper. “Bombing Middle England” is present without the bomb section and measures 15.5 x 16 inches, black spraypaint on irregular shaped white gloss paper. “Weston Super Mare” consists of three pieces and is present in two states, the first measuring 16 x 19 inches is the man sat on the bench, black spraypaint on irregular white gloss paper and with the cane cut out. This is heavily worked by the artist in black pen and whiteout to add definition. The second state is the now amended image of the man on the bench, without the cane cut out. Black spraypaint of irregular shaped white gloss paper measuring 19.5 x 12.5 inches. The third piece is the saw portion. Black spraypaint on white irregular shaped gloss paper measuring 12 x 23 inches. As is essential with all BANKSY work, full documented provenance and of course Pest Control certification is included. A highly important group of original paintings documenting the artist’s transition from street based guerilla artist to gallery sensation. The artist considered these paintings so important he requested them for his highly acclaimed Bristol Museum Exhibition in 2009.
Source : jakak. Banksy Forum
FELICE VARINI
Thanks to Unurth for reminding us about Felice Varini who has been creating these incredible works since the late 70's.
More here
Sunday, 16 January 2011
MTN COLORS AT PRIMARY FLIGHT
Montana Colors North America, in conjunction with Primary Flight, proudly presents Art Basel 2010 showcasing legendary artists Bam, Estria, Vogue, Neon, Chor Boogie, Apex, Jase, & Rime crushing Miami.
Shot entirely on location, MTN Colors held the largest wall at Art Basel 2010 and brought together some of the West Coasts finest to show everyone how the West does it. All cans used are original Montana Colors cans.
Credits:
Music
Be There by Unkle
The Runaway By Unkle
Filmed & Edited by
Philip Velasco
Additional Footage by
Marco Svizzero
Copyright 2010 MTN Colors
NEW BANKSY IN CAMDEN LONDON
NEW BANKSY
What looks to be a fresh piece from Banksy went up overnight in Camden lock, site of the much discussed Robbo V's Banksy feud.
Perhaps a response to Robbo's little interview with Sabotage Times earlier this week.
Out of the Graffiti "Fishbowl"world and into the larger world of fine art, which, at first glance may look like paradise, but has the same boundaries. Or, more likely, out of the fishbowl , bounce off the canvas and flop around on the floor until dead. Not sure which is the best analogy really. Maybe stick to the fishbowl ?
Note : This is not as yet confirmed as a Banksy piece.
Saturday, 15 January 2011
NEW BÄST WORKS
Description: On raw archival paper printed in tar
Hand printed by Bast
Individually hand cut estimate size 31" x 23"
Edition size: 8
Dimensions:
31x23 (in inches)
$450.00
Title: Popeye
Description: Spray paint on painted archival paper.
Hand printed by Bast
Individually hand cut estimate size 38" x 27"
Edition size: 4
Dimensions:
38x27 (in inches)
$450.00
Title: The Nose
Edition size: 8
Description: Red Plastisol with red sand on painted archival paper
Individually hand cut so estimate size: 33 x 23
Dimensions:
33x23 (in inches)
$450.00
bastny.com
Friday, 14 January 2011
KAWS, PASSING THROUGH
KAWS
Companion (Passing Through)
January 30 through June 5, 2011
Back by popular demand, Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, a.k.a KAWS, returns to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in January with the largest incarnation to date of his endearing Companion character.
The sixteen-feet-tall Companion (Passing Through) is on view in the Museum’s sculpture garden through June 5, 2011.
Although KAWS enjoys great popularity worldwide for his graphic, industrial and product design, including limited toy editions and streetwear fashion, sketches, drawings, paintings, murals, and sculptures, and his work has been exhibited in many countries, his Aldrich exhibition in 2010, which spurred record attendance, was his first in a museum setting.
KAWS introduced the famous Companion in 1999. The seven and three-quarter inch limited edition toy featured the signature KAWS inflated skull and crossbones, with a skinny-legged Mickey Mouse body. KAWS chose Mickey Mouse after a search for the most recognizable and international character in the cartoon world to “take down.” Since then, the Companion has grown in scale. The towering Companion (Passing Through) presents the iconic figure sitting down with both gloved hands covering its face.
Aldrich Art Museum
CHARMING BAKER SHOOTING UP
Just wanted to write the headline really, far too handsome, too charming, too talented..the title of this post looks ahead to Mr Baker's tragic involvement with smack and his subsequent downfall following the horrific and much discussed shooting accident of 2013.
Check out the wonderful work of Charming Baker here
NEW FROM BANKSY
A few updates on Banksy's website I hadn't seen including the full Simpsons storyboard.
Website
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
STREETOSPHERE, NEW URBAN ART SERIES
Teaser "Streetosphere" - Episode 1 : Paris from Sterenn Films on Vimeo.
Teaser of the documentary serie "Streetosphere".
“The first episode will take place in Paris. After that, many cities will be discovered in Europe. Each episode is 26 minutes long. We Discover the city with people who use the urban space to make insolite actions. We want to have a poetic approach in a dynamic program.” (Sterenn Films)
Production : La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse
Realisation : Tanguy Malibert & Quentin Largouët
Monday, 10 January 2011
RAINBOW WARRIOR
ILLEGAL RAINBOWS
In Albuquerque, New Mexico a street artist known as Rainbow Warrior has been creating a bit of a stir. He/she pours paint from the tops of buildings to create dripping rainbows down the sides of the bland brick exteriors. While some Albuquerque residents are not amused by these spectral shenanigans, others are rallying behind Rainbow Warrior and showing their support. There’s even a Rainbow Warrior fan page on Facebook. Personally, I think this is really great.
And if rainbow graffiti is your thing, then check out this interview with Rainbow Warrior from Alibi.
From cmybacon.com
BANKSY AT URBAN ART AUCTION
Bonham's Urban Art auction kicks off tomorrow Jan 11th. Some interesting though not great Banksy originals listed alongside a host of the usual suspects. Not a great deal on offer and would have preferred to see these works in decent contemporary art auction rarher than this generic "Urban Art" slot.
Check the catalogue here
From the Financial Times
The elusive Banksy remains the most bankable name in urban art and works by him carry the two highest estimates in the sale. “Save or Delete Jungle Book” from 2001 was commissioned by Greenpeace for the environmental group’s campaign against illegal logging and features bound and blindfolded characters from Walt Disney’s Jungle Book being confronted by a hooded axeman against a backdrop of decimated woodland. Copyright issues prevented Greenpeace from using the image and Banksy eventually gave it away to the person who is now selling it – for an anticipated £60,000-£80,000. Another of his works, “Portrait of an Artist” from 1998, is estimated at £50,000-£70,000 while Banksy screenprints are on offer from £2,500. A taste of true graffiti art is provided by part of a backdrop for one of the Clash’s “Combat Rock” gigs in 1983, painted by US-born Futura 2000 as the band performed. The untitled piece is estimated at £15,000-£20,000, while Greg Miller’s pop art-inspired “Phantom Lady” is on offer at £6,000-£8,000. Among the best pieces, however, is “Shark” by DNTT (aka Tony D’Amico). While lacking the immediacy of true street art, the 12ft steel, copper and glass predator is every bit as menacing as the real thing. Snap it up for £8,000-£12,000.
FAILE & BÄST FROM BSA
NEW STREET WORK FROM FAILE & BÄST.
See the full set here : Brooklynstreetart
Photo courtesy Jaime Rojo
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