Category: Art & Design
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Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From JR in Shanghai
Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From JR in Shanghai via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/11/fresh_stuff_from_jr_in_shanghai.html In a move that is likely to impact photographers, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he will ask his government to review the country’s copyright law to allow for the “greater use of copyright material without the owner’s permission”
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Russian criminal tattoos: breaking the code | The Guardian
Russian criminal tattoos: breaking the code Soviet prisoners had a secret language – tattoos. Will Hodgkinson deciphers the hidden meaning of skulls, cats, grins and swastikas via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/26/russian-criminal-tattoos Soviet prisoners had a secret language – tattoos. Will Hodgkinson deciphers the hidden meaning of skulls, cats, grins and swastikas
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TED Prize Goes to J R, Who Gives Slums a Human Face – NYTimes.com
Award to Artist Who Gives Slums a Human Face The TED prize for 2011 will go to J R, who plasters colossal photos in downtrodden neighborhoods around the world. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/arts/design/20ted.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss the TED conference, the California lecture series named for its roots in technology, entertainment and design, said on Tuesday that it planned to give…
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Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From ABOVE in Paris
Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From ABOVE in Paris via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/10/fresh_stuff_from_above_in_paris.html I sat for a while considering if I should describe this piece and the multi-layered meanings depicted in the painting?! The stencil and symbolism in the painting take on some heavy current topics of social, political, and racial issues just to name a…
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TrustoCorp exhibition in LA, Oct. 23-24, 2010 – Boing Boing
TrustoCorp exhibition in LA, Oct. 23-24, 2010 TrustoCorp (known for making signs and bolting them to urban signposts — see here and here) has a show at 1988 Gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 23 and Sunday Oct. 24. TrustoCorp exhib… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/18/trustocorp-exhibitio.html TrustoCorp (known for making signs and bolting them to…
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Vandalog » The Making of Crunchy
Ronzo’s Crunchy the Credit Monster stands as a symbol of the recession overlooking the now gentrified Great Eastern Street… Recently, Ronzo and company released a video finally explaining the making of the adorable sculpture. Link: Vandalog » The Making of Crunchy
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Wooster Collective: panoptICONS – An Introduction
Wooster Collective: panoptICONS – An Introduction via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/09/panopticons_an_introduction.html camera birds – city birds with cameras instead of heads – were placed throughout the city centre of Utrecht where they feed on the presence of people
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Museum of Bad Art, a Celebration of the LowBrow – NYTimes.com
Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame) “Bad art” — rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops — has become a genre in itself, with its own fans. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/arts/design/03badart.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss A BLUE woman and her red daughter smile with the hungry mouths of zombie maniacs. The hand of a Bigfoot grazes the…
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Wooster Collective: TRESPASS: A HISTORY OF UNCOMMISSIONED URBAN ART
Wooster Collective: TRESPASS: A HISTORY OF UNCOMMISSIONED URBAN ART Is Coming To Stores This Month via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/08/trespass_a_history_of_uncommissioned_urb.html We’re thrilled to announce that in just a few weeks time, after three years of development, TRESPASS: A HISTORY OF UNCOMMISSIONED URBAN ART will finally hit stores around the world. We couldn’t be happier as TRESPASS…
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Wooster Collective: Alec Monopoly – An Introduction
Link: Wooster Collective: Alec Monopoly – An Introduction
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An interview with Drew Friedman – WFMU
An interview with Drew Friedman Drew Friedman is not just one of America’s most well-known and widely respected illustrators, but his work is arguably the most identifiable. Having worked for counterculture bibles over the years like National Lampoon, RAW, Screw, SPY and Mad, Friedman h via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/08/an-interview-with-drew-friedman.html Drew Friedman is…
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Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Princess Hijab
Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Princess Hijab via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/08/fresh_stuff_from_princess_hijab_2.html Henri Cartier-Bresson… Garry Winogrand… Helen Levitt… Robert Frank… André Kértész… William Klein… Jacques Henri Lartigue… Marc Riboud… Raymond Depardon… Elliot Erwitt… Joel Meyerowitz… I started this list as I thought of who all the great street photographers might be. But I stopped early, realizing…
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Wooster Collective: Robbie Conal's Guerrilla Postering Guide
via: Wooster Collective: Robbie Conal’s Guerrilla Postering Guide
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Banksy does Detroit – Boing Boing
Banksy does Detroit The recently-applied work of street artist Banksy at an abandoned Packard auto plant in Detroit, Michigan. A local gallery promptly dug up and relocated the wall to their space, sparking controvers… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/20/banksy-does-detroit.html Apparently BP is no more adept at doctoring photos than it is at plugging deep-sea oil leaks.
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Area Grandmother Comes Forward As 'Banksy'
Link: Area Grandmother Comes Forward As ‘Banksy’ – America’s Finest News Source
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Poster Boy Sentenced To 11 Months In Jail — ANIMAL
Poster Boy Sentenced To 11 Months In Jail – ANIMAL The subway ad altering artist known as Poster Boy is in lots of trouble and this time community service was not an option. A source tells us he was via ANIMAL: http://animalnewyork.com/2010/05/poster-boy-sentenced-to-11-months-in-jail/ The subway ad altering artist known as Poster Boy is in lots of…
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Little People – a tiny street art project: Relics
The above image is one of 12 that are part of a new show that opens Saturday 1st May at Belsay Hall, Northumberland, UK. The show is titled Extraordinary Measures and features work by Ron Mueck, Tessa Farmer, Mat Collishaw and many others – all scattered around the gardens and buildings of Belsay, an English…
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Megan Whitmarsh – The Creative Lives
Megan Whitmarsh Feature from TheCreativeLives on Vimeo. Megan Whitmarsh is a very unique artist from Highland Park, CA who uses thread to create complex tableaux of characters in epic scenes of both fantasy and social anxiety. Drawing inspiration from 1980’s American pop culture and her intricate imagination, Megan’s canvas’ show a sympathy toward the misunderstood…
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Wooster Collective Interviews Legendary Photographer Jon Naar on Faith of Graffiti
Wooster Collective: Wooster Collective Interviews Legendary Photographer Jon Naar on Faith of Graffiti via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/03/_to_celebrate_wooster_special.html To celebrate Wooster Special Edition of the 35th Anniversary Edition of the Faith of Graffiti we sat down with legendary photographer John Naar and artist Snake I to better understand the impact of the book when it was…