 
Massive Attack’s album cover art joins a Gay Times ‘freedom’ advert and a 16th century painting of Venus as the newest poster deemed inappropriate for public visual consumption by the Transport for London. While the latter two were just too sexy/gay, the latest offender is too much graffiti-like, hence banned to tidy it up for the droll Tube ride. Read more »
A teacher in London was fined for putting up posters of her missing cat Fluffy around her neighborhood. The penalty amounted to a little over $115 for violating “Section 43 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act, which polices fly-posting and graffiti” according to the Telegraph. Read more »
I assume this sand portrait near London’s South Bank is a memorial to the great Dr. Martin Luther King. Either that…or someone is a huge Lionel Richie fan.
Photo: Martin Artman
Despite working with letters, graffiti writers were never known for their grammatical skills, but only this rumor that was posted along with a photo of a train in London spray painted with the words “Kill Kanksy” can help explain what must be a misspelling of the wealthy street artist’s name: “[B]efore the painters could finish off the circles in the B the cleaner clocked them from the train and then they had to run from security out of the yard in the snow…”
Photo: jonbeedesign
In support of their latest London show, Lazarides Gallery filmed the artists preparing and putting up work for the gallery and surrounding streets. In this clip, street artist Space Invader shows off his street-stamping sneakers and cement smearing techniques for putting up one of his arcade-inspired mosaics. Read more »
One of Banksy’s latest London pieces has been painted over, continuing the public tradition of embellishing his work with spray cans, paint rollers, saws and other methods of destruction. The semi-elusive street artist recently sprayed over a 25-year-old ROBBO piece along Regent’s Canal in Camden, using the graffiti as the backdrop to his stencil of a worker papering the grey wall with vandalism. Not surprisingly, ROBBO returned on Christmas Day, not to bomb over Banksy completely, but to carefully convert the wall into a self-tribute with the worker painting a “KING ROBBO” piece in black and silver. |Graffoto| Read more »
London’s University of the Arts picked a particularly good show as their Arts Gallery’s last. Mike Ballard, also known as CEPT, created an all encompassing installation, painting his “flamboyant vision of art history” in bold black and white across the walls, floor and ceiling. Considering the gallery will be torn down after the show to make way a train line, it’s fitting that Ballard gave it his graphically immersive show, “The All of Everything,” as a final sendoff.
“The All of Everything,” December 10 – Demolition, The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts, London
Banksy has offered up some new work for London street art preservationists to fight over. Not long after last illicit piece was cut down and spirited away by hopeful collectors, the elusive artist has painted four works along Regent’s Canal in Camden that include a dapperly dressed rat, a boy fishing for sloppy tags, and the waterlogged declaration, “I don’t believe in global warming.” Banksy also appropriated a decades old ROBBO piece for another painting which manages to wipe out some 80’s-era graffiti and ugly grey buffs all at once.
Photos by Romanywg
Street artist Roa painted up a peculiar piece in London recently. From one direction, the work depicts a preposterously large white rabbit, which sheds its skin to reveal some bloody innards when viewed from the other side. The Belgian artist put up the lenticular piece in Shoreditch, where it was snared by photographer Romanywg. Read more »
“Twin Towers of Trash,” a rubbish tribute to the World Trade Center, has been painted in London as part of a “Christmas special” art exhibition. Working under his alternate moniker Bagsy, street artist Dotmasters created the piece featuring seagulls crashing into two stacks of Tesco-brand garbage bags. On view at Mutate Britain’s “One Foot in the Grove” show, this may be one 9/11 painting that vandals won’t touch, unless they’re willing to hop the pond.
Photo by Dotmasters via @fi5e
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