Remember wandering off from your mom in the store as a kid? That's how we felt this past weekend at the Summer Street Arts Festival, only it was the other way around after artist and event coordinator skeez181 grabbed our notepad, scribbled on it a bit, then left us alone in a two-story warehouse of artists and jewelry makers.
We weren't surprised or offended by skeez181's hasty exit; an event that included music, performance art, a puppet show, a fashion show, a live scree...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, April 10, 2012,
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Urban art from NYC street artist Ghost.
Image: YLE
The work of graffiti artist Ghost is on display for the first time in Finland. A street art pioneer who got started in New York’s gritty subway tunnels, Ghost’s pieces are now thriving above ground—most recently at a Helsinki gallery.
Ghost’s “Then and now” exhibit opens Friday at the MAKE YOUR MARK gallery housed at the old Suvilahti power plant.
Since moving from trains to gallery walls, Ghost's aerosol art has attracted collectors...
Graffiti is a common site in the neighborhood around the Access Art Gallery in Denver – not inside, hanging on the walls – but scribbled, pasted or painted on nearly every dumpster and wall for blocks.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 6, 2012,
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Take a trip to NYC and catch two free Armory Arts Week events curated by our very own Frank Gerard Godlewski (a.k.a. Frank GG)
The first, Tribeca Loft Perspective(March 8, from 4-9 pm/March 9 − 11 open from 2-6 pm) offers a rare glimpse at a surviving TriBeCa arts artelier with a visit to a loft exhibit and a short video screening of “TriBeCa: Looking at the Gentrification from the Artist’s Perspective.” The documentary in progress focuses on the evolution of the predominantly artist...
Dunk the Junk founder Dr. Kevin Strong is pictured with one of the original murals by graffiti artist Mike Rich and his team to create original murals that may be seen for the last time Sunday afternoon, March 11 at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport.
ROCKPORT — Graffiti artist Mike Rich and Dr. Kevin Strong will present Spray Therapy, a discussion and illustrate...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, December 5, 2011,
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Subway graffiti pioneers Bama, Clyde, MICO and curator Frank Godlewski pose in front of a collective piece to be shown at the FiveMyles Gallery in Prospect Heights opening Dec. 9.
BY COLIN MIXSON
for The Brooklyn Paper
From subway walls to gallery walls.Five graffiti legends are reliving the 1970s — sans the vandalism, police and barbed-wire fences — with a new show at the FiveMyles Gallery in Prospect Heights.
“These guys are a handful of the very few original writers who wrote on trains,...
The Richard Hambleton retrospective at Phillips de Pury & Company is only on view through Tuesday. But there's still plenty of historic graffiti around town to cast your eye over. With the help of graffiti aficionada Katherine Lorimer (who snaps shots of street art as Luna Park), WNYC has created a tour of five of the coolest and oldest pieces of graffiti around town. Scroll down to see our picks and check out a map of the spots here.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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By Latoya Newman
INLSA
Durban 05092011 Some of the artwork up for" Follow Your Art"Exibition being held at the Collective Gallery.PictureMarilyn Bernard
A MILESTONE on the local arts scene was reached on Monday when Follow Your Art – a unique contemporary street culture exhibition – was launched at a local gallery.
The Collective, an art gallery above Ike’s book store in Florida Road (below the Argyle Road intersection), is alive with an array of artistic offerings, from graffiti art to mi...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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The new American fine art of graffiti comes alive with spoken word and an inspired crowd. The colors were vibrant and the sounds were uplifting as artists created visually appealing works that only a spray can medium could produce.
These performance and visual arts came together at Trenton’s annual Jersey Fresh Jam 2011, hosted by Vicious Styles Crew, on Saturday, August 20th. The show, held at the Terracycle, features graffiti artists from around the nation, while hip hop artists perform...
A work (upper left hand corner) by French street artist Space Invader is on display at the 'Art In The Streets' exhibtion inside the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles on April 21, 2011.
The Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday that graffiti art helped it break attendance records.
The museum logged more than 200,000 visitors for "Art in the Streets" during its four-month run. The survey of the ...
Is graffiti unsightly? Certainly not to the more than 60 artists who gathered, spray paint in hand, for the FUA Krew BBoy BBQ last week in the heart of Rochester, North Clinton near Clifford Avenue.
The graffiti artists were joined by break dancers, emcees, and DJs for hundreds of community members to enjoy. FUA Krew, an international graffiti crew with local members, hosted the seventh annual event, which has spread to Philadelphia and Europe.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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Lizzy Himmel, B'klyn Museum/AP/AP
Thirty-five artists, inspired by Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, pictured in 1985, will be featured at the "Manifest: a Conjuration of Radiance," exhibit Museum of African American Cinema.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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Rowena Hamiltion at the Kid Acne exhibtion being held at the Millennium Gallery
Published on Monday 1 August 2011 00:12
SHEFFIELD’S most famous graffiti artist has returned to the city where he made his name for an exhibition of his creations featuring everything from pencil sketches and giant murals to vinyl sculptures of ghosts.
Kid Acne is putting on the free show at the Millennium Galleries on Arundel Gate, and is also taking part in a class and talk giving an insight into how he produces ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 29, 2011,
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Imminent Disaster in DUMBO (Gothamist/ Jake Dobkin)
Yesterday we learned that the Brooklyn Museum was cancelling plans to host "Art In The Streets," a graffiti and street art-themed exhibition currently at LA's Museum of Contemporary Design. The Museum says their reasons are purely economic, though the show had already raised some ire before it even opened, and has been tied to a spike in graffiti-related arrests in LA. We spoke to some prominent street artists and gallerists here about their ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 29, 2011,
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(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop pioneer and legendary graffiti artist Fab Five Freddy will launch a solo exhibit of his artwork on canvas at Gallery 151 in New York City this week.
On June 8th, Gallery 151 and Fab Five Freddy will present the New York debut of New York:New Work, a series of mixed media works on canvas.
The new series is described as an abstract exploration of Fab Five Freddy's graffitiexperience in the early in the 1970s and 1980s in New York.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, April 27, 2011,
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Not everyone in Los Angeles is headed to Coachella this weekend. Last night in West Hollywood, MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch, Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quiñones, and Shepard Fairey held court at Soho House to give members and art fans a sneak peek at a buzzy new exhibition, “Art in the Streets.”
The show purports to be “the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art,” and from the preview last night, it looks like a winner, especially when you consider the rise of street...
The Brooklyn artist, better known asKAWS, may have left his native Jersey City after high school, leaving only his name on brick walls behind, but he return...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 2, 2011,
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WRITTEN BY ART GALLERY PR THURSDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2011 12:18
Zevs, Liquidated CBS, Liquitex on canvas, 48 inches square, New York 2010. Image courtesy of De Buck Gallery.
NEW YORK – De Buck Gallery has announced its grand-opening show, which will run from Feb. 24 through April 7, will feature the French graffiti artist Zevs (pronounced “Zeus). Titled “Liquidated Version,” the show’s theme interweaves unconventional street art methods, with a pointed critique on high finance. Zevs artw...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, February 6, 2011,
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Gallery assistant Alison Brind looks at Banksy's screen print 'Virgin Mary', part of the touring exhibition at The Civic, Barnsley. Pictures: Chris Lawton.
Published Date: 01 February 2011
By Martin Slack
Reclusive graffiti artist Banksy is among a group of painters who are represented in a new exhibition which recently opened in Barnsley.
The show, called Street Art: Contemporary Prints from the V&A, is a touring exhibition which organisers say aims to bring modern work off the street and into ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, January 31, 2011,
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From left to right: Mister Batlow, Terry Eckersley and Mark Hill advertisement
THE relaunch of a dedicated centre for young people has been labelled a “huge success” after guests flocked to a special ceremony last week.
The Woking Ypod invited celebrities, youngsters and town dignitaries to its Chobham Road base on Thursday (January 20) to promote a range of new classes now on offer.
Music producer and songwriter Mark Hill - who was one half of chart duo Artful Dodger - performed exclusive tr...
A graffiti artist visited Fernie last weekend to demonstrate his ideas of what public art should be.
The Calgary artist, David Brunning, or “TheKidBelo,” came to Fernie to teach a workshop called Graffiti – Public Art: Personal Space, at The Arts Sta...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, December 6, 2010,
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November 26, 2010 | 10:17am
Mid-City Arts, the street-art gallery attached to a spray paint supply store that brought us last year's big tagger-gone-legit debut show by Chaka, has gone the same route with another artist who grabbed the public's attention before being grabbed by the authorities. The show is "Rick Ordonez: Kitty Litter."
Ordonez made his name in graffiti circles as Atlas -- the tag he used for many years festooning the city with large, ornate graphic illustrations. But early thi...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 2, 2010,
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September 1, 2010 | 4:16pm
"Machete," the grindhouse homage starring Danny Trejo, is the type of
movie designed to appeal to connoisseurs of the low-brow, the vulgar
and the cheerfully obscene. So when it came time to hire an artist to
create poster artwork for the movie, it only made sense to seek out a
rebel artist with unimpeachable street cred.
David Choe, the L.A.-based graffiti artist, was recently hired to
create a poster for "Machete," which opens this week i...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 16, 2010,
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The young men and women who covered walls with graffiti art
yesterday had no concerns about police shutting down their
party -- the event was part of a legal celebration hosted
annually by TerraCycle, the Trenton-based company that
converts biodegradable waste into high-yield fertilizer.
Between New York Avenue and Hillside Avenue,
TerraCycle's factory has become a go-to place for local
graffiti artists.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,
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LEWISTON—The Lewiston Art Festival starts later this week and will be
bigger than ever, as it plays host to not only some of the best artwork
of 175 professional and student artists from 13 states, but also
introduces a new attraction within the festival—Ribfest.
Now in
its 44th year, the annual event sponsored by the Lewiston Council on the
Arts runs from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Saturday and Sunday on Center
Street.
It’s a competitive art festival, which includes work in
eight categ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010,
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Graffiti NYC: Artists of the Third Rail features photographs, works on
paper, paintings, sculptures, murals and live presentations by Martha
Cooper, John Naar, Richard Hambleton, Snake1, Noc167, Jamestop,
Stayhigh149, PNUT, Cap1, Tracy168, Futura2000, Dondi, Keith Haring,
Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Phetus, among other legends of the third rail.
Benrimon
Contemporary is pleased to announce a group exhibition that
demonstrates the trajectory of the history of graffiti in New Yor...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010,
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FOR THE JERSEY JOURNAL
It was 97 degrees in Ridgefield, Conn. Sunday afternoon
when friends of KAWS arrived at the Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum.
They disembarked a bus chartered by the artist - Jersey
City native Brian Donnelly - waving pink and green fans in
the shape of his iconic skull design. Marching down the hot
pavement of a parking lot already at capacity, the
artist's acquaintances entered galleries packed with
dedicated fans armed with vinyl toys, stuffed animals and
unblemis...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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Coming off the Turnpike only to brake
in the crawl of Holland Tunnel traffic, there's little entertainment in
the concrete valley of billboards and storage centers.
Stare
long enough and you'll start to notice the faded graffiti tagged
along the top floors of some surrounding factories, like the crude white
letters spelling KAWS on two sides of a rooftop at
13th and Coles.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
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by Mandy Richardson May 27 - June 2, 2010
Mark your calendars,
folks, because it’s about to go down NYC style in the only place that
matters: C to the mutherflippin’ Bridge, yo! It’s time to prepare
yourself for a night of graffiti, hip hop, drum n' bass, and topless
hotties, because on Friday, June 4, Spun Turtle Productions and
Mandyland Promotions are bringing you the First Annual Street Dreams
Graffiti Art Show.
This much...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
More than 50 aerosol artists from Germany, Spain and all around the
country came to San Antonio to be part of the Clogged Caps 6 live art
graffiti festival Saturday at The Yard, 525 San Pedro Ave.
The event was sponsored by Red Bull energy drink and German Montana spray paint.
Supher, a graffiti artist, who paid for a street closure permit, organized and coordi...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
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When is it legal to graffiti walls? When it's part of school study,
which happens to be at Lorain County Community College. For a look at
this urban art form, check out "Above and Beyond 2: Art and
Installation by Eight Graffiti Artists" at the Beth K. Stocker Art
Gallery in the Stocker Center at the college.
Bob Peck has
curated the show, which looks at graffiti-inspired themes via fine arts
and a large-scale collaborative installation.
Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 2, 2009,
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Monday, 28 September 2009 09:46
SOME
of the top graffiti artists from across Europe are heading to Limerick
on October 3, and plan to paint the town ‘red’. Organisers of
Limerick’s first international graffiti jam expect a carnival
atmosphere at the festival in Steamboat Quay,
The JUST WRITING MY NAME festival will welcome 23 professional graffiti artists to the banks of the Shannon.
Local artist and musician Nick Bromfield, told the Limerick Post
what to expect: “We’ll be kic...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 31, 2009,
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MELBOURNE
will be a blank canvas for global graffiti artists when they descend on
the city in January for a $250,000 street-art festival.
The
legal Don't Ban the Can event will see graffiti artists from New York
and Tokyo come to Melbourne to showcase their work in events at suburbs
from Frankston to Footscray.
Organisers can't guarantee invitees haven't been convicted of
vandalism at home, but say this event will encourage legal work rather
than vandalism.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, July 13, 2009,
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Saudi graffiti artist wins first prize of SR15,000
By Mohammed Al-Kinani
JEDDAH – A child who used to express his feelings and hidden talent by
scratching images on walls and buildings and then running away has, as
a young man, metamorphosed into a responsible, award-winning graffiti
artist. Mohammed Kamel, a 21-year-old Saudi, who, for the second
year, won the SR15,000 first prize at the Graffiti Art Competition,
which concluded here at La Promenade II on Al-Tahliya Street at the
w...
SOME
of the top graffiti artists from across Europe are heading to Limerick
on October 3, and plan to paint the town ‘red’. Organisers of
Limerick’s first international graffiti jam expect a carnival
atmosphere at the festival in Steamboat Quay,
