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.
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 monster and a celebration of the magic of creation. Also an accomplished soft sculptor, Megan has created a mountain of stuffed replicas of trash she finds in her neighborhood. In this feature we get to know Megan and travel along as she paints a massive 55′ x 60′ installation at the prestigious IVAM Museum in Valencia, Spain.
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 released in 1974.
Parisian guerilla photographer JR aims to put a human face to the most impoverished areas of the world
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/07/street-art-jr-photography
From the slums of Kenya to the Paris banlieues, the guerilla photographer JR aims to put a human face to the most impoverished areas of the world. Just don’t ask him who he is
Pop Pluralism is the skateboarding, graffiti-tagging, sometimes bratty and rebellious younger sibling of the art shown in most Chelsea galleries.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/arts/design/07lowbrow.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Unlike Pop Art, which drew on similar sources to comment on art and culture, “for this generation, who grew up on TV, pop-culture imagery is their language,” Mr. LeVine said. “Their culture is pop culture.”
Last summer, I posted about Mark Ryden’s wonderful and inexpensive Tree Show postcard set. The follow up, “The Snow Yak Show Microportfolio,” is even more delightful in my opinion…
Shepard recently did an illustration for Colbert. It debuted on the Colbert report this week and re-airs tomorrow (Friday) on…
“As the temperature in London plummets, my thoughts turn to the homeless who have to endure below freezing conditions out on the streets,” reports Helen Soteriou. “I knew Blek Le Rat is an artist passionate about highlighting this issue, so I contacted him to ask a few questions.”
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Exclusive Interview: Blek le Rat on Homelessness | Features
Jim Denevan transforms the beaches of Northern California into expansive but ephemeral works of land art. Instead of a paintbrush, Denevan prefers a simple piece of wood or a rake.
Link: Juxtapoz Magazine – Jim Denevan Uses Beach and Desert As Canvas | Current
“WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE” directed by Daniel Askill * J. Kenneth Rothermich lives & creates in Brooklyn, NY: * Sw…
Link: http://brightstupidconfetti.blogspot.com/2009/12/baken-be-brazen-sun-buttered-be-snows.html
Lyon is a journalist, but not by the usual ’90s definition. Whether he was photographing the Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the ’60s or the guerrilla uprising in Mexico in the ’90s, his journalism is not about the surface, the sensational, the soundbite; it is imbued with his respect for the people he photographs, and with the commitment and responsibility this respect entails. Now, in his collages, Lyon has come up with an emotional kind of journalism exploring classes and cultures and the options that people are allowed. Claiming the same credibility for his personal images as for his more conventional documentary pictures, he has made some of his most political and most moving work to date.
B.N.E., a surreptitious graffiti writer, painter and “sticker,” is the focus of an exhibition sponsored by an ad agency.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/nyregion/09bne.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
The postcard-size stickers bearing the three simple black letters are affixed to mailboxes, phone booths, signs, walls, parking meters and streetlights, mostly in New York and Japan, but also in Bangkok, Prague, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur. He goes through 10,000 stickers a month. In 2006, B.N.E. so blanketed San Francisco that the city’s mayor, Gavin Newsom, offered a reward of $2,500 for information leading to his capture.
A major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/arts/design/24study.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Many of the findings — that working artists tend to work day jobs to support themselves; that more than a third don’t have adequate health insurance; that musicians and architects tend to do better than writers and painters — simply provide statistical support for what artists themselves have long known.
He is one of the most influential British artists of the past half-century and, at 72, finds he is busier than ever. On the eve of a major new retrospective, David Hockney talks about the romance of nature, the benefits of going deaf and his part in the 2
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/nov/01/david-hockney-interview-tim-adams
He is one of the most influential British artists of the past half-century and, at 72, finds he is busier than ever. On the eve of a major new retrospective, David Hockney talks about the romance of nature, the benefits of going deaf and his part in the 2012 Olympics
