If you’re going to paste something, it might as well cover the floor of an empty, ancient, 160-foot long open air pool in Paris, right? French Los Angeles-based artist Mambo honors the 83-year-old pool complex that has been closed and swimming in graffiti since 1989 and will be destroyed this year with a giant, giant pasted collage. Read more »
Ah, France – what a place! Who could be mad at a country where healthcare costs nearly nothing, wine is included with almost every meal, and beautiful women strip down to their petite culottes in legendary institutions like the Musée d’Orsay? Read more »
Since the ’90s, people have been kissing the tomb of Oscar Wilde and scrawling him love letters in red. It’s been a “cult pastime” at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Today, the restored monument was unveiled, its “graffiti” and lipsticked peck trails freshly scrubbed. A glass barrier “will surround it to prevent the kissers from causing further damage.” Aw? Read more »
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 »
In this latest stretch of the high-end fashion imagination, we see supermodel Magdalena Frackowiak playing the part of a bougie bag-lady, lazing about on heaps of cardboard and flattened out Hermès bags. Shot by Giampaolo Sgura for Magazine Antidote, the editorial features a dirt-covered Frackowiak squatting all over Paris – furs, feathers, and quilted Chanel in tow. Aw boo-hoo! Looks like someone just got divorced from their hedge-fund hubby, sans prenup!
French street artist/mosaic menace Invader recreated an iconic photo of REVS and COST for his solo show in La Générale, Paris. The sale of the artwork will benefit the production a new documentary about the two NYC graffiti legends. Read more »
Musée d’Art Moderne is hosting a retrospective of Larry Clark’s career of filming Kids giving each other AIDS and photographing bored teens junky-ing around. The Parisian exhibition earned itself an X rating which means that legally, kids under 18 can’t come, but they can console themselves with wine in private.
The Internet has ruined the Parisian catacomb subculture. Deeper down, it was mostly oddballs and the eccentric tourist, street punks and bored rich partying together between stacked skulls and subterranean graffiti. Now that any teen dork can download a map and wobble on down, just like Paris above, the underground city has become touristy. Read more »
Last night, a crafty super-thief lifted a record-large loot of museum art with an estimated worth of $600 million. UPDATE: NOT! CCTV captured a “heavily disguised, burly figure” leaping through a broken window of the Paris Museum of Modern Art. Read more »
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