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Videos / Upcoming: Coachella Walls

Posted by sleepboy, March 31, 2014

Today, Cesar Chavez Day, the Date Farmers are officially announcing the start of an annual Coachella Walls event. Organized in honor of the labor leader and civil rights activist as well as the anonymous farm worker, the local artistic duo hope to bring attention to the poor community with this mural project. Despite the name of the Coachella music festival set to open soon, the tax revenue goes to the city of Indio with the actual city of Coachella remaining a forgotten area. Held in downtown Coachella’s historic Pueblo Viejo, the […]

Armory Week ’14: The Independent

Posted by juggernut3, March 31, 2014

Within the last five years, The Independent has established itself as one of the must-see satellites during Armory Week in New York. The small fair, which launched in 2010, has tended to present the cutting edge of contemporary art, and with emerging art being today’s hot topic, collectors made sure that they got in early to see what the event had to offer. This year’s complement of 50 international galleries did not disappoint, together displaying a strong and challenging selection of artworks across different mediums. And […]

Releases: “Style Wars” by Ernest Zacharevic

Posted by SAL, March 31, 2014

As we previously mentioned, Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic is releasing a limited edition of hand finished prints on the 3rd of April via GraffitiPrints. Several examples of these prints were exhibited at his current solo show in Barcelona (covered), with the rest is available later this week online. Based on a mural he painted recently in Singapore (covered), the Style Wars prints are split into two hand finished editions – a main edition of 55 in white and a special edition of 30, all unique in white and […]

Openings: Fuco Ueda – “Kioku No Hana (Flower Of Memory)” @ Thinkspace Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, March 31, 2014

Over the weekend, Los Angeles saw the opening of a solo show from Fuco Ueda at the Thinkspace Gallery entitled Kioku No Hana or Flower Of Memory. The Japanese artist made a trip over herself for a rare in-person appearance to the delight of her fans. The new body of work features the vibrant palette, familiar female characters, and surreal imagery that Ueda is known for as well as more renderings of the chrysanthemum flowers that often appear in her paintings. Take a look at more photos below but also stop by if you […]

Previews: “Thierry Noir – A Retrospective” @ Howard Griffin gallery, London

Posted by SAL, March 31, 2014

After recently hosting a debut solo by British street artist Phlegm (covered), Howard Griffin Gallery in London is about to present another debut exhibition by another street art legend. On April 4th, a retrospective will open from French artist Thierry Noir, one of the first artist that started painted Berlin Wall back in the 1984 with an idea “to transform it, to make it ridiculous, and ultimately to help destroy it.” Thierry moved to Berlin in the early 80s and was influenced by the strong underground […]

Streets: Faith47 (Cape Town)

Posted by SAL, March 30, 2014

Faith47 just shared this beautiful piece in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Titled You Hold No Blame For My Proud Heart, the piece is shows two swans facing each other forming a heard shaped image. In her signature manner, the South African artist used watered out paint that dripped all over the wall as well as got soaked in, making the mural become one with the surface and the building it’s painted on. The transparency of the image and the fact that the wall wasn’t cleaned or buffed before […]

Overtime: March 24 – March 30

Posted by Khoi, March 30, 2014

More stories from the week that ended March 30 (click on bolded words for more information): All about Post-Internet art and its artists. Cornelius Gurlitt will return paintings from his trove to original Jewish owners or their descendants. His legal team dismissed chief negotiator Hannes Hartung from the case. BBC provides a tour of the collection. Delaware Art Museum to sell up to four works from its collection in order to save the museum from closing. Jamie Peck responds to Terry Richardson’s response to models’ […]

Videos: Judith Supine Scales the Queensboro Bridge

Posted by SAL, March 29, 2014

We just received this exclusive video from Judith Supine‘s camp, showing some behind the scene action that took place the other night in NYC. As street art lovers already know, Supine has been known to put extra effort to place his public work in some of the most unusual places reachable. So, following his stunt from 2007, when he installed one of his pieces on Manhattan Bridge, the other night he climbed the Queensboro bridge in order to display one of his collages from the Golden Child […]

Upcoming: Yoskay Yamamoto @ Giant Robot 2

Posted by sleepboy, March 29, 2014

Coming up on May 17th, Giant Robot 2 in Los Angeles will host a new showing from Yoskay Yamamoto (interviewed). From this teaser image, some of the flowers customized with his signature facial features that we have seen here and there will be presented in abundant quantities. Taking inspiration from his job during college was delivering bouquets of flowers in Santa Barbara, the whimsical pieces will be part of no doubt a larger selection of his further explorations into sculpture. Discuss Yoskay Yamamoto here.

Previews: Tom Sachs – “American Handmade Paintings” @ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Marais)

Posted by sleepboy, March 29, 2014

Opening as we speak, the Marais location of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is hosting the reception for Tom Sachs’ new show. The title of the new works, American Handmade Paintings, speaks to the NY-based sculptor’s use of American iconography as well as the way his pieces are meticulously constructed. Highlighted in this seventh solo with the Paris showspace are two techniques often seen in the versatile artist’s practice – pyrography and marquetry – respectively, the use of fire as a drawing tool and the complex assemblages pre-painted inlaid elements. It […]