Viral Art is an online book about the intersection between street art, graffiti and the internet. Written and arranged by RJ Rushmore, the ebook explores the internet’s long shadow casted over contemporary artists gaining exposure. Rushmore’s releasing it here. In a recent interview with Graffuturism he said he’s “frustrated by the lack of scholarly material out there about street art and graffiti.” Although I love his popular site Vandalog, I’m still weighing in on his perspective. He raises some interesting …
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Russell Simmons tried to promote “Horrorcore” as a new Hip Hop sub-genre in the 90s, here with his group The Flatlinerz. They put out an album called U.S.A (Under Satan’s Authority). At the time of this promotion, their had already existed other groups who touch on dark, violent, nihilistic subject matters. For example you had the Geto Boys, Kool Keith, Esham, Dre Dog (Andre Nickatina), Brotha Lynch Hung, Tech N9ne, Bone Thugs n Harmony, The Gravediggaz (RZA and Prince Paul side project), …
Legendary writer Mode2 recently opened an exhibition at Le-Fix Gallery. He made all the art for the show on site. The pieces range from sketches to paintings. He gets down on his usual study of the black female anatomy. Other pieces reflect his days of writing as a graf head. Back in the day the chatter around the way was that he was a militant black man, famous for his scenes of black characters, but called racist when he refused …
The dance music brothers of Disclosure are putting out a remix album of their highly acclaimed debut Settle (2013). DJ Premier reworked the song “Latch” and the result is nothing less than what you’d expect from Premo. …
Jeffrey Bruton, an active participant in the San Francisco art community, known for his high quality screen prints and owner of the t-shirt and art storefront, The Loin, is giving up space for pop-ups. Located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, his spot is perfect for not only seeing and buying all kinds of art, but for meeting artists from all over. You never know who’ll walk in. Details are up at Storefront. …
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