Posts Tagged ‘Street Art’
May 9, 2013, 7:41 am
The Miami-based street artist Lebo (real name David Lebatard) created a jazz-inspired mural titled “Bee-Bop Into Outer Space” in downtown Hollywood, the city where he grew up — which is nestled between between Miami and Fort Lauderdale — last summer, but now local officials and residents are up in arms because the artist allegedly deviated from the city-approved rendering and created a work that looks too much like graffiti. “We don’t want it to start looking like a ghetto over there,” Patricia Asseff, Hollywood’s City Commissioner, told the Miami Herald. “There are many people not happy with the direction we are taking down there.” (more…)
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May 6, 2013, 8:50 am
The French, Brooklyn-based street artist JR visited Rikers Island recently, not because his prolific pasting of photo murals got him in trouble with the NYPD, but to create a series of site-specific pieces using photographs of the infamous maximum security prison’s inmates. “I wish no one jail time,” JR wrote on Instagram. “Spending time there talking with the inmates, they make you realize price of freedom. The young kids I met were all in search of inspiration, anything that can break the routine of their day. I asked them what en eye on their wall would change ? The one who helped us pasting it says he never had the chance to see or experience the power of art. And by pasting these few strips of paper on the wall he just felt part of something and that was enough for him.” (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, JR, News, prison art, Rikers Island, Street Art
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May 3, 2013, 8:52 am
Several street artists have been commissioned to create artworks in Facebook offices in the past — including David Choe in Silicon Valley and Aakash Nihalani in New York — but Jeff Jacobson’s commission for the conference room in the social network’s Seattle office was slightly different. He was asked by Facebook engineer Philip Su to customize a hot tub for the glass-walled room, with its sweeping views of Puget Sound and the Space Needle. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Facebook, Jeff Jacobson, News, Street Art
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April 29, 2013, 8:13 am
Plans for the lot in Long Island City currently occupied by New York’s foremost street art space, 5Pointz, are coming into focus — last summer its longtime owner announced that the outdoor graffiti gallery would be demolished by late 2013 to make way for a pair of apartment buildings over 40 stories tall — and will include spaces for studios, galleries, and walls for street art, DNAinfo reports. (more…)
Tags: 5Pointz, Benjamin Sutton, gentrification, graffiti, News, Real Estate, Street Art
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April 23, 2013, 8:51 am
“Just spent 20 hours in 2 Brooklyn jails for this,” Kenny Scharf wrote on Facebook when posting the above image of one of his signature graffiti pieces on Saturday. The street artist-turned-gallery star was arrested on Friday night, Art Sucks reports, for spray-painting the small snake graffiti on private property in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, graffiti, Kenny Scharf, News, NYPD, Street Art
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April 5, 2013, 5:01 pm
Brooklyn-based artist Aakash Nihalani, who we’re preemptively dubbing the Sol LeWitt of street art, recently closed his latest solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery and turned a painting from that exhibition, “Portal 1,” into one of his trademark tape installations on the wall of Lower East Side boutique Rag & Bone (at the corner of Elizabeth and Houston streets) which hosts rotating street art projects. (more…)
Tags: Aakash Nihalani, Benjamin Sutton, Lower East Side, Murals, News, Public Art, Rag & Bone, Street Art
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April 4, 2013, 4:19 pm
The Russian street artist Pasha P183, known for his irreverent and playful murals and public artworks incorporating elements of the built environment and dubbed “Russia’s Banksy,” has died in Moscow at age 29 under unknown circumstances. The Teatralnoye Delo theater company, which had recently commissioned him to create the backdrop for its production of a musical titled “Todd,” told the AP that the artist had died on Monday, but gave no additional information. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, News, obituary, Pasha P183, Street Art
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April 3, 2013, 3:14 pm
By way of thanking their fans and promoting their upcoming show at LeBasse Projects, “The Future is Blight,” which opens next week, the shadowy New York-based street art collective TrustoCorp has teamed with Shepard Fairey to create a series of limited edition “Trusto Cereal” boxes, with “Obey Falvor” (detail above, in full below). The blue-hued boxes, which feature both Fairey’s trademark Andre the Giant image and a retro-flavored TrustoCorp rendering of the late wrestler, will be appearing at select Los Angeles grocery stores later this week. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, LeBasse Projects, News, Shepard Fairey, Street Art, TrustoCorp
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April 2, 2013, 2:18 pm
If we’re to believe his Tumblr, and his gallerist Benjamin Krause, the street artist and celebrity punditry propagator Hanksy was in Washington, D.C. yesterday to attend President Barack Obama’s Easter Egg Roll at the White House, on whose closely guarded grounds the the master tagger managed to plant a series of pun-filled Easter eggs. Improbable though the surreptitious street art egg drops may seem — particularly given that news of them first hatched on April Fool’s Day — the photographic proof is fairly convincing. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Easter, Hanksy, Michelle Obama, News, Street Art, White House
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April 2, 2013, 8:13 am
In preparation for last night’s opening of “F.A.T. GOLD,” the Lindsay Howard-curated survey of the Free Art and Technology Lab’s (F.A.T. Lab) first years at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, street artist KATSU spent part of yesterday afternoon spraying the façade of the West 21st Street building with gold paint using his trademark fire extinguisher hack. Yesterday afternoon, you may recall, was also quite windy and some of the paint blew onto the façade of Eyebeam’s neighbor, Paula Cooper Gallery, precipitating the appearance of an unhappy gallery representative who was none too happy with the accidental paint job, an encounter that was captured on video (embedded below). (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Eyebeam, Free Art and Technology Lab, graffiti, KATSU, Lindsay Howard, News, Paula Cooper Gallery, Street Art
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