Earlier this month the notoriously unknown Banksy (assuming this is his website) announced, Better Out Than In, an exhibition where he treats New York City like his own out door museum. It’s a month long artist in residency. Recently he’s been hitting up the boroughs with fresh styles. To stay true to the concept, he numbers each painting and he puts a toll free phone number next to it where you can call and get some cynical insight about a specific …
Author: Tracy Jones
By 6th and Market Street in downtown San Francisco, the Brazilian art team Os Gemeos and legendary artist Mark Bode painted these ill characters. The bottom figure, Cheech Wizard was created by Mark’s father, Vaughn Bode. In the crack is wack 80’s, writers used Vaughn Bode’s characters everywhere. You had to know how to paint, let alone draw, at least “a” Bode character. Photos by Os Gemeos.com Juxtapoz …
The spark that let the Civil Rights Movement rolls around San Francisco followed by a film crew in 1963. The documentary Take This Hammer first broadcasted in 1964. Writer James Baldwin’s freestyle rhetoric lights firestorms. Check it here. The American Dream and the American Negro By JAMES BALDWIN I find myself, not for the first time, in the position of a kind of Jeremiah. It would seem to me that the question before the house is a proposition horribly loaded, that one’s response to …
My interview with Japanese artist Ikeda Manabu is in the newest print issue of Hi-Fructose, Vol. 29. According to their site, “this issue features a beautiful cover by the amazing Eric Fortune and a very special 16 page Sketchbook insert byFemke Hiemstra, featuring beautiful reproductions of her graphite work. This issue also includes an extensive feature on instilation/street artist Olek, the hyper detailed works ofIkeda Manubu, new paintings from Jennybird Alcantara, Japanese artist Hikari Shimoda, painter Kehinde Wiley, the book sculptures of Georgia Russell, the ink …