“Occupying” the Museum of Sex, 20 artists “who have pushed notions of propriety into provocation on the street” — or, their stuff has lots of tits, many dicks — have brought their work inside, most notably the William Thomas Porter and Andrew H. Shirley “Fuck Bike #001.” It’s been to Basel. It’s been in a lot of places. It’s a sculptural, bike-hybrid system of pedals, chains, tires and a prosthetic phallus that does what you think it does. Watch the NSFW video. Read more »
Over the weekend, Beverly Hills officials removed this hideous Ron Paul “spray-paint stencil on wood” that was taped to a statue on Rodeo Drive, trying to be the next Shepard Fairey “Hope” poster. The nauseating Warhol silk-screen fake has already been plastered on the Republican candidate’s blog. There’s another dozen out there, according to the “huge supporters” behind the stencil, but the city officials aren’t too happy. Read more »
“Sneak Preview” of Mr. Brainwash’s Art Show 2011
The very hyped Mr. Brainwash show opens tomorrow at 1pm at his huge warehouse/studio on La Brea and Lexington in Los Angeles. Last night, 300 people lined up for a preview, but here are some images from a few hours ago. Your exclusive ANIMAL walk-through… and no crowds. Just lots and lots of crap upon crap. And then even more crap. Consider it community service. Read more »
If graffiti writers are going put out a video about destroying street art, shouldn’t they, um, destroy said street art? Read more »
There is something special about this fantastic Nefelejcs Project painted by the Budapest-based group Merge Invisible. They are righteous retaliations against the symptomatic destruction of Hungary’s historical houses and their replacement with ugly, new, cheap, badly built buildings: They paint orphaned brick firewalls once anchored to the razed building with “x-ray” images of its past life — floors, rooms, people. Bravo, really! But the other special thing is a style similarity any Chris Ware fan would notice: the particular minimal outline design, the rounded stick-figuresque characters, the very concept architectural X-rays… Coincidence? Perchance, but a credit would have been nice.
Madrid’s light art crew Luzinterruptus has unleashed 75 mock surveillance cameras to intimidate the street posters of campaigning politicians to protest “the markets, loaded with unlimited power” that overthrow ” legitimate governments, imposing in their place a race of technocrats of suspect past.” Right. What they said, but boy, we could surely have used this little herd to stage an opposition protest to the NYPD’s super-surveillance network. Line ‘em up in the subway like a citizen army for a little cameras vs. cameras insurrectionist intervention? (Photos: Gustavo Sanabria/Luzinterruptus)
The art world version of ‘Magic‘ is set to begin in Miami starting any minute and street artists have been busy preparing, like this person who embellished one of Shepard Fairey’s signature OBEY pieces on Collins Avenue. Is it a statement about his wealth or a critique of his piss-poor attempt at supporting Occupy Wall Street? Who knows, either way it’s funny. (Photo: Paul Reubens)
Jay Shells, purveyor of etiquette signs parodying both the MTA and the DOT got sick and tired of the bland plywood wall surrounding a stagnant construction site in his West Village neighborhood so he decided to do something about it. On Friday, he broke out some spray paint and began painting a block long mural on the corner of 8th Avenue between West 13th and Horatio Streets, without permission. Read more »
Madrid’s art crew Luzinterruptus had staged this modest intervention Without Pollution, At Least for a While to celebrate the first of their city’s rainfall which helped to temporarily rinse out their industrially poisoned air. They would like to remind you that “Madrid blatantly violates European legislation on air quality” and those in power do not care. So, so many glowing little boots took an upside down jaunt in the grassy meadows and hills of Parque del Oeste. Kudos on a delightful light art protest and its fifty little kicks into the face of this big issue.
Artist Hangs a “Banker” in Miami
Internationally travled street artist ABOVE has outfitted a mannequin in classic yuppie attire, bagged his head and hung him above his Occupy Wall Street-themed mural in Wynwood, Miami. There he sways, briefcase dribbling dollar bills, over I-95, inscribed below with “Give a Wall St. banker enough rope and he will hang himself.” Grizzly. Looks more like an execution than a suicide, we’d say. Is there any way to make this more disturbing? Yes. Fox News has cropped the context out for you, because “This Is NOT Art … It Is Sick.” Obviously, it cannot be both.
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