Images of the Week 04.29.12

It’s all hot chicks and fast space shuttles this week on BSA’s Images of the Week as Street Art duo Faile’s new surprise mini-show ties both themes together quite powerfully. In a sudden burst of sexy serendipity the streets have been popping up with Street Art depictions of poised and purty dames and Faile’s quickie [...]

Shots from LALA Opening – LA Freewalls Moves Inside

LALA Gallery in downtown Los Angeles had a well attended inaugural show last week to realize physically something that had up to this point been a dream for Street Art fan and champion Daniel LaHoda. With names like How & Nosm, Cryptik, Cern, Shepard Fairey, and Dan Witz among others on display (and in the [...]

Fun Friday 04.27.12

1. Urban Legends Auction (LA) 2. “Ordinary People” in Brooklyn 3. Group GRAFF at Dorian Gray (NY) 4. Katowice Street Art Festival (VIDEO) 5. “HYPNOGOGIA” – ROA (VIDEO) 6.”Obey The Giant” Movie Kickstarter Urban Legends Auction (LA) Friday night >> URBAN LEGENDS: Celebrating 45 Years of Public Art Around the World is an art exhibition and an auction taking place at the [...]

Faile “La Casa de los Azulejos” in Williamsburg

With a nod to collage, appropriation, and possibly the colonial era craft guilds of Mexico, Street Artists Faile just added a nice touch of talavera to the formerly tough turf of Williamsburg in North Brooklyn. With the façade of the house completed just a few days ago by Patrick and Patrick and some helpers, the [...]

Kosbe: Under the Radar and in the Studio

Why One Brooklyn Stick Up Kid is Worth Watching Sometimes on the street you get an inkling of the future. It could be an overheard excerpt from a cell-phone conversation about a club show the night before, or the color and texture of woman’s blouse as it flutters around her while she reads on a park [...]

RETNA “Time Traveler” on The Mexican Coast (VIDEO)

From Viejas del Mercado, Medvin Sobio and Brian Tsukomoto produced a new video trailer on the occasion of Retna’s new show “Time Traveler” at Art Careyes Mexico in Costa Careyes, Mexico next week. Video still from Retna’s show “Time Traveler” (© Medvin Sobio and Brian Tsukomoto) With a blazing soundtrack of Hotel California by French group The [...]

LA + Auckland Honor Askew One, Graffiti and Street Artist

It’s not often that a major city gives a spotlight to a graffiti / Street Artist and issues a formal proclamation about it, but that is exactly what happened Saturday in Los Angeles. AskewOne, a native of one of LA’s sister cities, Auckland, New Zealand , was honored by the City as his new mural [...]

Images of the Week 04.22.12

Our weekly interview with the street takes us to Poland, LA, Sweden, Wall Street, and dirty old Brooklyn with pieces by Bishop 203, Dan Witz, Gilf!, Hellbent, Ludo, The Metropolitan Etiquette Authority, Olek, Screwtape, and Shai Dahan. Ludo in Katowice, Poland. (photo © Ludo) Ludo in Katowice, Poland. (photo © Ludo) Olek in Katowice, Poland. (photo © Olek) Olek in [...]

Isaac Cordal In Barcelona : His Miniature People in the Gallery

A grand opening for Street Art sculptor Isaac Cordel in Barcelona last week brought people in to personally inspect the miniature concrete actors he creates. RAS Gallery housed the latest collection of works presented by SUBEN and curated by Maximiliano Ruiz. A varied group of folks gathered to the call of Street Art and free beer [...]

Fun Friday 04.20.12

1. ROA at StolenSpace “Hypnagogia” (London) 2. Katowice Street Art Festival 4/20-29 (Poland) 3. LALA Gallery Inauguration Saturday (Los Angeles) 4. Herakut “Loving the Exiled” at 941 Geary (San Francisco) 5. Marsea Gives You the “High Five!” at New Image Art Saturday (LA) 6. Erica Il Cane “Una Vita Violenta” at Fifty24MX Gallery (Mexico City) 7. Brett Amory “Waiting 101″ at [...]

EVOL “Repeat Offender” in Manhattan

Berlin-based Street Artist Evol is now having his first solo gallery show in the US at New York’s Jonathan LeVine in Chelsea and it is an uncommon opportunity to see his ingenious mind up close. As many artists working on the street know, it is possible to imagine a world in the mottled scarred façade [...]

Various and Gould Perform “Guest Work” on the Street in Istanbul

The German Street Art Duo and “Berlistanbul” A cobalt blue streak sweeps through a narrow street in Istanbul as Various and Gould don fluorescent orange work vests and push brooms with a purpose. The lunchtime crowd gathers a few steps back and to the sides to witness a remarkable cloud of ultra-marine pigment forming a wake [...]

Jeice2′s Lone Wolf in the Alley

After businesses are closed and respectable families are inside their homes gathered around their electronic devices, you are skulking through the streets in search of adventure. Wait, what was that? You turn back for a second to look through an opening you just passed. At the end of the cobblestone path the glowing eyes of [...]

Kraftwerk At MoMA

Stylized Leaders of the Computerized Electronic Revolution at MoMA First as D.I.Y. experimenters and visionaries, then leaders in a nearly empty field, then as inspiring catalysts for man-machine marriage, Kraftwerk paved the way for millions of musicians, programmers, DJs, rappers, and fans to integrate a mechanized electronic precision into the modern musical oeuvre. At a time [...]