It’s the biggest art show in Japan. The ninth annual Art Fair Tokyo is returning to The Tokyo International Forum on March seventh through the ninth. 145 galleries from Japan and overseas are scheduled to participate in what will hopefully be a lot more interesting than its past shows. AFT has a reputation for having either a “multiple personality” for the kind of art presented at the three day event or, a lack of focus for what their platform is …
Month: February 2014
If you discovered graffiti in the 80’s or early 90’s it’s mostly credited to this lady, famed photographer and hip-hop culture historian Martha Cooper. She stuck to the artist’s G code (always stay curious) and it paid off. When white America thought these poor brown kids were just destroying public property, Cooper saw young disenfranchised artists and urban dwellers who had built their own universe out of nothing. Aside from photographer and film maker Henry Chalfant (Wild Style, 1983), co-author …
Finally it’s official “official”, on April 15, 2014 Pharoahe Monch is dropping P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), a follow up to his acclaimed 2011 album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades). It was suppose to drop in late 2012 as an EP, but the tracklisting says otherwise. It’s seventeen shots to the dome. Monch is the truth. This man been talking about global warming since the early 90’s (“Releasing Hypnotical Gases”). As one half of the pioneering Queens duo Organized Konfusion, his playful cadences and innovative …
Os Gêmeos (pronounced OSE ZHEM-e-os) meaning “The Twins” in Portuguese, are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, identical twins hailing from São Paulo, Brazil. OG have been doing graffiti and catching fame for a minute. Known for their yellow characters and Brazilian folkloric paintings, OG has painted everywhere. They’re from the 80’s when hip-hop was in its infancy, yet still managing to spread around the globe, “We knew hip hop culture in 1985. We live in a district where hip-hop culture was very strong in its …
Red Bull has become a savior for unknown creatives around the world. They’ve helped a lot of artists develop their craft and get their work exposed to a much wider audience. Unlike their music events, their switching things up with The Red Bull House of Art, a three month intensive program. The first one was established in Brazil in ’10 and the second was in ’12 in Detroit. It’s pretty dope. It doesn’t exclude any medium. The three month cycles …
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