via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2011/03/first_look_jr_kicks_of_his_ted_wish_insi.html
Two photographers – Agence France Presse’s Roberto Schmidt and Getty Images’ Joe Raedle – have gone missing in Libya alongside AFP reporter Dave Clark
For the street artist known only as JR, the world is a canvas.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27Photograffeur-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In the bottom right-hand corner of the poster was a label, too sophisticated to be a graffiti artist’s tag but something along those lines: a Japanese-like calligraphic symbol concocted from the letters “J” and “R” above a Web address. Suddenly, amid all the fear and long-bred loathing, questions were being asked about this strange work of art. How did it come to be there? Who was, as one newspaper asked, “this kamikaze image-maker,” JR?
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”
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
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 its annual $100,000 prize for 2011 — awarded in the past to figures like Bill Clinton, Bono and the biologist E. O. Wilson — to the Parisian street artist known as J R, a shadowy figure who has made a name for himself by plastering colossal photographs in downtrodden neighborhoods around the world. The images usually extol local residents, to whom he has become a Robin Hood-like hero.
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 few.
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 urban signposts
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.
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
“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 breast of a topless unicorn mermaid. Faces decorate the pregnant belly of a pantsless man-boy.
It’s the wondrous, if not always wonderful, world of art so bad it’s good — or at least great fun to look at.
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 is definitely the book that we all wanted to make. And while the book does include some wonderful examples of street art and graffiti, it’s much, much more than that. Using the act of trespassing as a narrative thread to bring together a very disparate group of artists, we set out to find visual documentation of ephemeral acts of public art that in many cases had no known photos.
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 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 has, in the past fifteen years, garnered mainstream respectability with onslaughts of work for Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, Newsweek, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Time and countless others. Friedman has also published several entertaining books, including his two critically acclaimed collections of portraits titled Old Jewish Comedians. I spoke with Drew Friedman recently in anticipation of his new collection, an overview of those last fifteen years of mainstream respectability: Too Soon? Famous/Infamous Faces 1995-2010 from Fantagraphics Books.
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 that in photojournalism (or any of its other pseudonyms) we all photograph life in the street.
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.
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 trouble and this time community service was not an option. A source tells us he was sentenced to 11 months in jail by a Brooklyn judge this morning.
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 Heritage property.
