Deep in an undisclosed location below the streets of Paris, the Underbelly Project lives again. Since Brooklyn’s temporarily secret guerrilla art gallery saw 100 graffiti and street artists, the French edition’s crew has been downsized to ten (FUTURA, SABER, more) plus a small flock of photographers and organizers. Read more »
Tuesday afternoon, Artnet’s “Urban Scrawl: Graffiti and Street Art” week-long online auction ended, having attracted twice the traffic of its predecessors. Among the hot-ticket items and highlights: the staple bunch of Banksys and Harings, FUTURA’s Untitled for $17,250, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Cabeza for $19,550 and COPE2′s recently “appropriated” subway sign Church Av Station to Flatbush Av only (2010) sold for $2,530.
FUTURA is top dog. He’s by far one of the most talented artists/designers to take aspects of his graffiti career and tastefully turn them into a commercial success. He’s also very down to earth, smokes weed, and in the early 80s, fucked Madonna. Read more »
Behold the completed 80-foot tall mural by Os Gêmeos and Futura at P.S. 11 in Chelsea that is aesthetically pleasing, yet ideologically frightening to Alex Jones fans and other New World Order enthusiasts. From the press release: “The idea is ‘one world one voice’, no borders, no separation, just everything and everyone working together for a single cause that is a better world.” (Photo: Unurth)
Os Gêmeos x Futura Chelsea Mural Update
Artist Jay Shells swung by Chelsea last night and forwarded over some photos highlighting more of Futura’s contribution to the massive Os Gêmeos mural at P.S. 11. Stay tuned.
And it’s not to liberate their Deitch wall. The Brazilian twins are collaborating on a brand new mural in Chelsea with legendary artist Futura reports Arrested Motion. Crack photographer Liam Quigley visited P.S. 11 today and snapped shots of Os Gêmeos in action. Futura also started working on his section and we’ll be updating as progress on the public art project coordinated by AKANYC and 12ozProphet continues. (Photos: Liam Quigley/ANIMALNewYork)
‘New Yorkers’ Take Over Danish Gallery
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- Barbara Kruger
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- Todd “REAS” James
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- Futura
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- Aurel Schmidt
This past Friday, “The New Yorkers,” an exhibition of several dozen five borough based-artists opened at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. Curated by Todd James, also known as REAS, the show is self-admittedly difficult to categorize: “A common denominator for the city, the artists and the works is defiance against generalizations and predictability.” In this vain, James brings together everything from paintings to installations by artists such as FUTURA, KAWS, Barbara Kruger, Steve Powers, Aurel Schmidt, and Dash Snow. Click the images above for a selection from the online preview.
If keeping up with all the new sneakers, Japanese toys, prints, and limited edition crap out there has become unbearable welcome to Survival of the Hippest. We cool hunt-and-gather all the crap you could ever want so that you may never be on the wrong end of a scowl or inside joke when traversing the Lower East Side. Be forever prepared and tucked in:
Futura needs no introduction. The legendary image maker teams up with Maharishi and makes these limited edition prints. Maharishi online store via [Super Touch]
This one’s for the ladies. Married to the Mob and Kaws bikini. Shit is probably sold out already but we’re sure it will end up on Ebay soon enough anyway. [Married to the Mob]
Who would have ever thought? Hipster swiss army knives. [Being Hunted]
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