Thursday, 28 April 2011
COCO 144. STENCIL FROM 1971
I'd read somewhere recently about an NYC writer named COCO 144 who was using a stencil to spray his tag as far back as 1971, after a bit of research, I managed to track down an original image of his tag. COCO 144 was getting up with the likes of Topcat 126, Tracey 168, C.A.T 87 & Taki 183 as far back as the late 60's.
We all know Banksy popularised it, but there's been a lot of background chatter on when the stencil was first introduced to the culture of Street Art (oh, and how it's not REAL graffiti). Was it Blek, John Fekner maybe, Christy Rupp's rat's.. actually, it seems it was a writer from 144th and Broadway.
Ok, That's todays little history lesson over.. tune in next week to waste more time procrastinating when you should be doing something else. Including myself in that.
NEW FROM HERAKUT
From Dailydujour
German street art power duo Herakut spent the better part of Tuesday and Wednesday creating two new murals on adjacent sides of a large building on the corner of Washington and National in Culver City. Arranged by LeBasse Projects and Branded Art, the murals are part of LeBasse’s dual city Outside/In show, which began with an opening in LA last weekend and will open at the Portsmouth Museum in New Hampshire on the 12th.
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
SWEZA
Lichtraum III – an urban showcase from sweza on Vimeo.
Liking this idea from Sweza.
"LICHTRAUM 3"
It is a short Video about a light-box i installed in a public space in Kreuzberg Berlin last winter. Inside the box there is a micro Sweza-style (approx. 19mm x 9mm) behind a lens, but see for yourself...
Sweza.com
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
ESCIF, PARTIAL BUFF !
Just received this interesting mail from Escif regarding a couple of his earlier pieces that have been partially buffed, very odd.
From Escif
Hello all,
I was walking in Valencian historic center when I found some walls I´ve painted in last weeks. But I found my pieces partially covered. I don´t know who does it, but it´s strange that only sentences where buffed!
Local elections in Valencia will be next month, so I suppose that politicians are afraid that people can think a little about. Incredible that they doesn´t covered completely, because they make a clear censorship. Beautiful drawings can remain, but strange words must been buffed.
Silence contains all languages!
Monday, 25 April 2011
NEW BANKSY RAT
New Banksy in Fitzrovia, London.
"As the spraypaint on the wall says, if voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal"
1m 55s in.
Quote from activist Emma Goldman
Classic Banksy!
Source
ALEXANDROS VASMOULAKIS
Fresh piece in Athens from our friend and Nuart 10 participant Alexandros Vasmoulakis
SWOON IN LA
Beautiful new Swoon piece created for Lahoda's Free walls project in LA.
Thanks to unurth for the link.
Sunday, 24 April 2011
BANKSY'S NOT SO MILD MILD WEST
Life imitates Banksy's art in Stokes Croft Bristol, check out the "Mild Mild West" piece top right of the first image.
To understand the backstory behind this recent mini riot..check out this site
www.tescopoly.org
Mild Mild image via artofthestate. A site well worth checking out if interested in early Banksy
FREDDY SAM SA
Great Mural from Freddy Sam in CT South Africa. Some of you may know freddy as Ricky Lee Gordon the man behind the excellent www.a-word-of-art.co.za and www.writeonafrica.org. Well worth spending some time exploring both sites if you're looking to broaden your street art horizons.
Film shot by Rowen Pybus
SWOON AT MOCA
Swoon + Cat Solen from Levi's Film Workshop on Vimeo.
A Short Film Collaboration
directed by: Cat Solen
artwork by: Swoon
music: My Morning Jacket - mymorningjacket.com
Filmed at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in conjunction with the exhibition Art in the Streets -
Saturday, 23 April 2011
REVS & COST MCDONALADS
Revs and Cost ripped off by McDonalds. Just another reason to avoid the fucking place.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
DEFER. PEACE
Just received this from Defer working out of Dubai, really liking the concept where he's played with the gap between panels. Conceptual graffiti?. Heres' what Defer had to say.
"Attached is a photo of one of my most recent outdoor works here in Dubai, exploring on written graffiti inspired words, it's a commentary about the concept of PEACE specially here in the Middle East.
I played with the space in between the two panels to represent division and unrest amongst nations who have been seeking peace for a long time"
Check out more here
ART IN THE STREETS REVIEW
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Whilst we're overjoyed that the exhibition "Art in Streets" is enjoying the success it rightly deserves, we have been a little disappointed in finding little constructive critique on the "curatorship" of the show. There's been the usual, "can't do everything", "budget to consider", "size of venue" "someone had to be left out" defense of the event, but little actual discussion about why and how it is as it is. Which is why we're happy to have run across this little gem of a review from Lauren Licata.
From THE CONSTRVCT.COM
Why “Art in the Streets” Was Impressive and Why This is a Bad Thing
BY LAUREN LICATA
If you haven’t yet made it out to MOCA‘s Art in the Streets, think twice before going based off of its advertisement as a “street art retrospective.” As a whole, the exhibition lacks a clear exhibition catalog or map, exists without any sort of coherent spatial organization, and places faulty emphasis on its composition of “street art.” Its ability to impact visitors is based upon enormity and celebrity alone, capitalizing upon the recent urban art trend with little else to offer. We’ll say it up front- if you’re looking for a glowing recommendation, Shelley Leopold’s version in this week’s LA Weekly should do the trick.
While Art in the Streets does deserve recognition as perhaps the largest institutionalized display of graffiti and urban art to date and Jeffrey Deitch certainly deserves acknowledgement for the prominent names brought together under one roof, the exhibition fails to submit any sort of insightful or reflective dialogue, with the exception of a microscopic timeline and vacuous wall text. The show offers no historical context and imparts nothing at face value. Colossal names and expansive art groupings provide considerable examples of the urban movement’s visual language, but their significance goes unexplained, leaving novice viewers an assortment of historical imagery alone, and even intermediate attendees the unaided task of piecing it all together. Taken as a whole, the show embodies the “Tumblr” of museum exhibitions- a collection of pretty pictures, a vague assertion of their significance, and minimal content. Bottom line, don’t expect to leave this exhibit more knowledgeable than when you came in.
Read the full review here
MOBSTR IN LA
Mobstr in LA takes on the Buff man with a piece of solid art criticism. Complete with UK spelling.
More from mobstr here
POWERS OF KATSU
If you live in NYC and walk with your eyes open, you've seen Katsu's skull grinning at you- from fire escapes, bus stops, urinals and now rooftops. In this chunnel exclusive, Red Bucket Filmmakers Nick Poe and Alex Kalman team up with the elusive Katsu to take Charles and Ray Eames' 1977 classic "Powers of 10" from outer space to the street.
from redbucketfilms
Monday, 18 April 2011
BANKSY AT MOCA
Our friend Butterfly sent us a batch of images from the MoCA preview. Check out the full set below. I must say, I was a tad surprised how few of the core group of artists tackled the issue of the work in the context of a museum and for the main, created set designed "street scenes", maybe this was the point, but can't help feeling it's all a little "theatrical".
Banksy, irreverent as ever, seems to have been one of the few that took this on, with a sly nod to his "museums are trophy cabinets for the rich" quote, he digs out a series of "historical" stencils and earlier works and presents them in a very dry and quite mundane manner. I've read numerous reviews and blogs that seem to be missing the point and have this down as a rare "Banksy" fail.
However, one look at the main wall (top image), his main contribution to the show, an immense stained glass church window made up of tags created by local kids, and we see where he's going with this.
Street Art and Graffiti in a museum context requires your complete submission, to academia, to curatorship, to the institution and commodification in general. All bow to the authority of tradition. Art is serious, submit, and we'll show you the way.
And all this before Deitch in a post festival interview said of Graffiti writers..
Jeffrey Deitch 'If you harness your talent you can be in a museum some day...."
Nice one Banksy.
More photo's here
Sunday, 17 April 2011
JUDITH SUPINE AT NEW IMAGE
"LADYBOY", a solo show by everyone's favourite collage artist Judith Supine opened earlier in the week. So much going on at the moment it's difficult to keep up but really wanted to post on this. He produced an incredible piece for us here at Nuart and is without a doubt one of the most interesting and fascinating artists working out of this scene.
LADYBOY references the “genderqueer”. Supine describes the title’s significance as “the marriage of opposites in one person — comparable to the technique of collage, combining seemingly disparate images to reveal something that wasn’t previously apparent”. An intimate encounter by the artist with a ladyboy in Bangkok served as the stimulus for this exhibition.
Ladyboy is at New Image Art and runs until May 13
Saturday, 16 April 2011
ROA AT WHITE WALLS
ROA from Spencer Keeton Cunningham on Vimeo.
White Wall’s own Spencer Keeton Cunningham of Skate Legs Magazine compiled this video (and photos) capturing some moments of ROA’s time in San Francisco.
New Works by ROA
White Walls
April 9- May 7, 2011
Check out the work here
Friday, 15 April 2011
ART IN THE STREETS VIDEO
Just kidding..But could be right?
"Fab five freddy tells me everybody's..."
The final shot is a one-take scene of Debbie Harry dancing along the street, passing by graffiti artists, Uncle Sam, a Native American and a goat. Fab Five Freddy and graffiti artists Lee Quinones and Jean-Michel Basquiat make cameo appearances. Basquiat was hired when Grandmaster Flash did not show for the filming, though thankfully showed to perform at last years Nuart/Numusic party.. yeah. Knew we'd find a link.
Thanks to worldsbestever for making us feel old/young,(cross out the appropriate) again.
ART IN THE STREETS
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A terrific review just posted on Huffington Post from friends and fellow fans Jaime and Steve of Brooklyn Street Art here...
Head here for the full article
(photo's copyright Jaime Rojo)
THE MOCA LA "ART IN THE STREETS" LINE UP IN FULL.
ALEXIS ROSS, ANDRE, A-ONE, BANKSY, BARRY MCGEE, BEAR 167, BILL DANIEL, BILL RAY, BLADE, CHARLIE AHEARN, CHAZ BOJORQUEZ, COCO144, COST, CRAIG COSTELLO, CRAIG R. STECYK III, CRASH, DAN MURPHY, DASH SNOW, DAZE, DELTA, DEVIN FLYNN, DON LEICHT, DONDI, DRUGS, ED TEMPLETON, EINE, ERIK BRUNETTI, ESTEVAN ORIOL, FAB 5 FREDDY, FREEDOM, FUTURA, GORDON MATTA-CLARK, GUSMANO CESARETTI, HAZE, HENRY CHALFANT, HOWARD GRIBBLE, HUGH HOLLAND, INVADER, IRAK, IZ THE WIZ, JAMIE REID, JAMES PRIGOFF, JANE DICKSON, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, JOHN AHEARN, JOHN FEKNER, JON NAAR, JOSH LAZCANO, JR, KAWS, KEITH HARING, KENNY SCHARF, KIELY JENKINS, KOOR, LADY PINK, LARRY CLARK, LEE QUINONES, LOOMIT, MALCOLM MCLAREN, MARE 139, MARGARET KILGALLEN, MARK GONZALES, MARTHA COOPER, MISS VAN, MISTER CARTOON, MODE 2, NECKFACE, NOC, OS GEMEOS, PATTI ASTOR, PHASE 2, RAMMELLZEE, RETNA, REVOK, REVOLT, REVS, RISK, ROA, ROBBIE CONAL, RON ENGLISH, SABER, SHARP, SHEPARD FAIREY, SJK161, SNAKE 1, SPIKE JONZE, STELIOS, STEPHEN POWERS, STEVE GRODY, SWOON, TAKI 183, TEEN WITCH, TERRY RICHARDSON, TODD JAMES, TOXIC, TRACY 168, ZEPHYR
PETER KENNARD, ORIGINAL ART ACTIVIST
There's an awful lot of street and urban artists that owe this chap a massive debt of gratitude. The UK's original art activist, more punk than you punk, more street than the Streets and "keeping it real" long before we had the option.
Shocking, haunting and unsettling, the photomontages of Peter Kennard live long in the memory. For the past four decades Peter Kennard has consistently challenged power structures and injustice, from his anti-nuclear works of the 1980s for CND to the powerful images he created in response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here, Kennard gives TateShots a tour of his studio in Hackney, London in anticipation of the release of his upcoming book, @earth.
"I take my hat off to you Sir, @earth looks great" - Banksy
"What you hold in your hands is a harrowing X-ray of the shadow side of the world ... If there's a word that's worth a thousand pictures, itÕs @earth. " - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo
@earth is as revolutionary in form as it is in content. It is a story without words told in the universal language of photomontage, long the favoured medium of radical artists. For the past four decades Peter Kennard has consistently challenged power structures and injustice, from his anti-nuclear works of the 1980s to the powerful images he created in response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
@earth is a photo-essay in seven chapters, combining new works, made together with Tarek Salhany, with iconic images from throughout Kennard's 40-year career.
Shocking, haunting and unsettling, @earth makes a powerful statement about the current eco-crisis, the arms race and the injustices dominating today's world.
Peter Kennard was born in London in 1949. He is senior tutor in photography at the Royal College of Art and his work is in many major collections, including Tate, the V&A and the Imperial War Museum. His work has been published in numerous publications including The Guardian, The Observer, Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Scotsman, New Statesman and Time Magazine.
176 x 125 mm, 192 pp,
colour illustrations throughout
Hardback PLC with exposed greyboards
pre order yours here
HERAKUT IN RUSSIA
Whist everyone's obsessing over MOCA's "Art in Streets", some are just getting on with it. Like the fabulous Herakut, who have been creating a beautiful mural for a Children's home in snow bound Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
ART IN THE STREETS TEASER VIDEOS
Not sure if these are official or not. So much about this show I'm not sure about. Guess that should be considered a good thing. And in order to give that consideration, well, I guess we'll be booking our flights soon for a quieter period in May.
From LA Taco
NEW FROM VHILS
So much great stuff going on the moment, almost impossible to keep up. Just received news of a fresh Vhils show and this striking new piece from the BLDG gallery in Kentucky of all places.
The BLDG is pleased to announce the arrival of Vhils. Vhils will collaborate with the BLDG to produce an insanely complex limited edition print as well as new original pieces. An opening reception will be held at the BLDG on April 15, 7:00-11:00 PM at the BLDG, 30 West Pike Street, Covington, Kentucky.
Great to see it includes a residency and outreach program too.
IN RESIDENCE: “Vhils in studio at The BLDG” - April 4 through April 17, 2011
OUTREACH : Vhils and BLDG working closely with CAC in support of Public Art Project - April 7-14, 2011
REVEAL: Vhils process reveal open for public viewing at the BLDG - April 15, 2011, 7PM to 11PM
More news here
MOCA. ART IN THE STREETS. THE FIRST REVIEW
So a video has now surfaced of the Katsu hit. But apparently, according to one of our good forum chaps, it's not the best thing in the show. Check below for the first sneaked out show review.
It's been a long while since i posted anything on here but felt compelled to do so now....I have had the pleasure of seeing what has been going on inside the MOCA walls for the past many days and I gladly will go on record and say that this show is 100% HISTORIC!....As far as anything Graffiti or Street Art related there has never been such a collection of talent under one roof...EVER! While of course it's not 100% complete or inclusive I don't think it's meant to be but it does a beautiful job of telling the story of Graffiti from it's roots to current day...Kudos to Deitch and Co!.....the giant space is so jam packed with eye searing visuals it is overwhelming and will definitely warrant repeat viewings....The LA version of Mcgee ESPO REAS Street Market blows the New York classic exhibition out of the water! it's like the ultimate Disney Ride for art vandals....mind blowing detail!....The Banksy room is retarded fresh with a few new large canvases and some new re-workings of classic images...my favorite so far that I will trade my mother in for if I could is a giant Indian "No Trespassing" on wood that is fantastic! similar to the one he did in San Fran I believe but this time the Indian is standing....the man is no dummy and more than holds his own in a space full of art Kings...The Os Gemeos room is classic Os Gemeos with a few stunning stunning pieces....They have also turned the outside box office cube building into a giant double faced classic Gemeos Balaclava man that is fresh and the kicker is what they are building inside the chain link fence on top of the guys head...will not spoil it. The Basquiat that is hanging in the storefront recreation of the legendary Fun Gallery might be one of the rawest Basquiats I have ever seen and also might be one of my favorites of his that I have never seen before. all that being said I do think that Phil Frost is sadly missing from this exhibit and is a crucial link that cannot be overlooked....hopefully they will include him in the NYC version of the show...and oh yeah...can't believe that BLU is not inside the building at all?!! f**ked.....in two days history will be made!! and i urge anyone that was born between 1965 and 1995 to make a pilgrimage to this ART MECCA!!!!
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
SUSO33, FROM THE ARCHIVES
One from the archives, Suso33 Crash. This still blows me away every time I see it, from 2009.
THE BONEYARD PROJECT
THE BONEYARD PROJECT from viejas del mercado on Vimeo.
Featuring new work from Retna, Nunca and Saner.
Monday, 11 April 2011
KATSU HITS MOCA
Yeah, Katsu adds his name to the long list of artists already confirmed for next weeks Art in The Street show at MoCA
Images from complex.com
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