Graffiti writer Lush illustrates why graf writers hate street artists. It’s the first of a 10-part series. Vandalog …
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Artists David Young V and Eddie Colla‘s post-apocalyptic installation opens at Artworks Downtown, San Rafeal, California. Here’s a trailer by Taylor Morgan. In the video the camera slowly pans across the room and frames parts of the exhibition that highlight a broken society living off the fumes of the dead. David Young V has been hitting the San Francisco pavement for a decade now, from street art to gallery work. We recently interviewed David Young V, here. Eddie Colla is a well known …
In Tokyo, Shinjuku Creators Festa 2013 is popping off right now. The 17-day all art everywhere is an ambitious attempt to get heads poked in parts of Shinjuku that otherwise go unexplored by mainstream foot traffic. Special honored guests include poke-a-dot lady Yayoi Kusama and CG artist Yoichiro Kawauguchi. Kusama’s work is ever hypnotizing and unassumingly fascinating. Kawauguchi is a man of his times, but it took decades for the times to catch up to him. If you can read …
Conor Harrington is from Cork, Ireland. According to an Out of Site interview he found graffiti in a National Geographic; and rap through a friend’s cassette tape, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). Having grown up where graffiti was nonexistent, he was still a writer through and through until art school changed his perspective. Harrington’s paintings are a microcosm of styles that, in theory, don’t seem like they would gracefully cross-pollinate. Instead they …
Jamel Shabazz is a street photographer that captured the early days of hip-hop and Spray Can Art or what came to be known as (Graf)fiti. His incredible photos are held as evidence of the early days of hip-hop culture. His life and work are a testament to the phrase, “something from nothing.” Recently Shabazz became the subject of the recent documentary, Jamel Shabazz The Street Photographer, directed by Charlie Ahearn, the man behind the hip-hop classic movie, Wild Style. Jamel …
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