Old School KAWS
Rare footage of KAWS tearing it up on the streets of NYC and Tokyo in 1997. This is his first bus-stop in NYC, a bunch of pieces in Tokyo, along with some great commentary by fellow artist Ron English.
Via: Nizmlab.com
01 May 09 / Art / No Comments / Zachary Hayes
Banksy Busy In London
Some fresh new banksy piecies have popped up in London. Check out the rest here!
03 Mar 09 / Art / No Comments / Zachary Hayes
More on the Shepard Fairey Arrest
The guys over at the Wooster Collective take a closer look at the recent arrest of Shepard Fairey.
For those who know Shepard Fairey, the news of his arrest in Boston, on the eve of his opening at the ICA, came as a big surprise. We were surprised because for well over a week while Shepard was preparing the exhibition, the biggest show of his life, he was the talk of the town. Shepard was everywhere, from the front page of the arts section of the Boston Globe to a highly publicized [...]
10 Feb 09 / Art / No Comments / Zachary Hayes
WTF? “How to Be an Art Vandal”
I kid you not, Gawker.com has an article up right now entitled “How to Be an Art Vandal”, posted with the above video. … I can’t even bring myself to make fun of this, its that bad.
January 29th I taught a class for some art students on media activism. By actually producing a piece in front of them I hope to give them both the tools and the confidence to be able to go out and re-imagine the public environment they live in on their own terms.
Next I’m sure Martha Stewart [...]
08 Feb 09 / Art / No Comments / Zachary Hayes
Poster Boy Arrested
It’s been a bad week for street artists. Just today we got the news of Shepard Fairey getting arrested in Boston, and a few days before that it was Poster Boy getting picked up in SoHo.
The so called “New York answer to Banksy”, Poster Boy was arrested by police at an art exhibition in SoHo. Poster Boy, whose identity had been shrouded in secrecy to evade the NYPD, was picked up by plain clothes policemen after his presence at the event was brazenly advertised on a flyer (apparently not the [...]
08 Feb 09 / Art / No Comments / Zachary Hayes
Shepard Fairey Arrested In Boston
I swear I’m going to have to give Shepard Fairey his own category soon if he doesn’t stay out of the damn headlines. But all joking aside, this probably isn’t how he wanted to end up in the newspapers today. Probably gives him back a little OG street cred though… 0_o
BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue “Hope” posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said Saturday.
Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to [...]
07 Feb 09 / Art, Campaigns / 1 Comment / Zachary Hayes
Abraham Obama Trailer
RON ENGLISH was a busy man this election season, canvassing the US plastering copies of his graphically disturbing “Abraham Obama” hybrid portrait on city walls across the expanse of this great country. On hand to capture it all was director KEVIN CHAPADOS whose created the documentary film “Abraham Obama” to chronicle Ronnie’s great political journey including run-ins with like-minded counter culturalists Morgan Spurlock, The Date Farmers, Shepard Fairey, Jack Medicine, David Choe, Sam Flores, and DJ Z-Trip along the way. The film [...]
06 Feb 09 / Art / No Comments / Zachary Hayes
Artist Spotlight: Alexandros Vasmoulakis
Alexandros Vasmoulakis is a very fascinating Greek artist I recently came across.
The revolution begins from within. Deviating Greece’s political inanity Alexandros Vasmoulakis introduces his individuals, as he refers to his figures, in a massive, dark and white, melting party. “Individual means indivisible”, says Vasmoulakis, “any singular thing, the basic unit, subject or object, the one who suffers or the one who hurts, a bachelor or the couple among strangers, any specific object in a collection”. Yet individuals interweave in front of Vasmoulakis’s eyes in an unforeseen way.
His present work culls from faces and sentiments. Wide-open colorful eyes, shattered bodies, at [...]
