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Tag: street art
Hrag Vartanian on Brooklyn’s street art
In The Brooklyn Rail, Hrag writes that street artists are rebellious lawbreakers exerting their right to public space, but on the other hand they are […]
Brick Banksy on eBay
BBC News reports that online bidding for a wall painted on by graffiti artist Banksy has closed with a final bid of �208,100. However, neither […]
Art gallery project, mistaken for gang graffiti, removed by cleaning crew
“James Cauty – The Rize and Fall of the Portslade Massif,” Ink_d gallery, Brighton, England. Through Nov. 3. In The Argus, Ben Parsons reports: “Following […]
Seattle graffiti gang 3A: artists or assholes?
Jesse Edwards, leader of the 3A graffiti gang, has been profiled in both Seattle Magazine and the Seattle Post-Intelligncer. Some see him as a lovable […]
Street art and mural news
Note to emerging artists, upstart galleries and other publicity seekers: street art and mural projects always generate more media coverage than gallery shows, although not […]
Preserving the Berlin Wall puts murals at risk
Adam Williams at Reuters: “Politicians and artists urged Berlin’s authorities on Monday to let them rebuild the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall before […]
Muralists at work in Baghdad
Stephen Farrell in the NYTimes reports: “Dead blocks, they call them, the most visible legacy of the latest war in a city with a long […]
Pioneering modernist Helen Lundeberg’s WPA mural restored
The History of Transportation Mural Works Project Administration (WPA) Arts project, completed in 1940 and designed by Helen Lundeberg. Located in the Art Park at […]
Warhol vs. Banksy: celebrity, satire and voyeurism
“Warhol Vs Banksy,” The Hospital, London. Through Sept. 1. Louise Jury in the Evening Standard reports: “Duncan Cargill, The Hospital’s creative director, said: ‘Implicitly, Warhol […]
The tale of the street art Splasher
In NY Magazine, Sam Anderson chronicles the ongoing hunt for the Splasher, the radical, young�and possibly lovelorn�conceptual-Marxist street-art supervillain: “Here at the beginning, then, why […]
A Brit�s view of street artist Banksy
Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones: �Banksy has achieved something original, something uniquely of our time: found a visual style for self-congratulatory smugness and given a […]
Activist artists protest the relentless commercialization of street art
Colin Moynihan reports on the splashers’ manifesto in the NYTimes: “In a series of essays and in text that appeared under the headline ‘Interview With […]
David Gonzalez and the rights of graffiti muralists
“Privacy might seem like an odd desire for these professional graffiti muralists whose works adorn everything from bodegas and medical vans to playgrounds and public […]
New Kings of Scotland: Ugandan artists’ pothole happening
In their first street festival, Ugandan Artists from Kampala filled in and painted some of the city’s biggest potholes. Read more.
