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Video: Remi/Rough x Jaybo @ Projectroom (Berlin)

Posted by sleepboy, January 2, 2010

Remi/Rough, who recently participated in the Ghost Village Project and Jaybo, who we last saw showing at the Signal Gallery got together to do a little live painting session in Berlin. Working in the Projectroom (looks like same place where Herakut live painted), the two artists collaborated on two pieces, switching between each one multiple times, and then donating them to charity.

Video: Ghost Village Project (Completed)

Posted by sleepboy, January 1, 2010

Remember when we first told you about the Ghost Village Project in October of last year? Now comes the completed video of the massive project. Agents of Change asked the question – what do we do with a eyesore of an abandoned village originally built for 500 workers 33 years ago on the west coast of Scotland – workers who never showed up? Turn it into an art gallery basically – add characters that can live there to replace the ones that should have been […]

Video: (R)Evolution of Urban Art @ Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Posted by sleepboy, January 1, 2010

The Warrington Museum & Art Gallery is holding an exhibition until March 13th highlighting some “Urban Art” from artists like Banksy, Blek le Rat, Gavin Turk, Adam Neate (interviewed), David Choe, Faile (featured), Lorraine Robbins, Antony Micallef (interviewed), Ron English (featured), José Parlá, Elbow-Toe (interviewed), Sam Taylor-Wood, Candice Tripp (interviewed), Swoon (interviewed) and Takashi Murakami – um, yes… Murakami. We believe the pieces are part of a private collection that also exhibited at the Stoke-on-Trent Potteries Museum & Art Gallery earlier this year.

Images of Unrest

Posted by sleepboy, December 29, 2009

After perusing some of the goings-on in Iran this morning, we coincidentally came across a couple of images that reminded us of the unrest we have been seeing over there. The first is from Escif, an artist from Spain that we saw on the excellent Unurth site (also see their interview with him here). And, the second is a drawing from Armsrock (seen after the jump), whom we interviewed recently.

Update: Herakut

Posted by juggernut3, December 27, 2009

After a busy year trekking around the world, the dynamic duo of Herakut (interviewed) has been heads down working on another series of works. Our friend Frankie from Camp Barbossa did a little “drive-by” of their studio and sent us some images for a little sneak peak. More after the jump.

Streets: Banksy Vs. Robbo

Posted by sleepboy, December 25, 2009

So… It seems that one of the pieces Banksy put up last week has a back story that most didn’t know about. Apparently, he stenciled over a 1985 piece by Robbo and other writers who were some of the pioneers of graf in London in the mid 80s. This has caused a pretty strong outrage among some old school graffiti writers and it looks like Robbo has gone back to paint over the piece, cleverly incorporating Banksy’s piece just like Banksy incorporated his. More images […]

Happy Holidays from the AM Crew!

Posted by sleepboy, December 25, 2009

Discuss C215 here.

Openings: “Multi-Plane Show” @ Corey Helford

Posted by marcus, December 25, 2009

AM dropped by Corey Helford Gallery’s Multi-Plane Show opening (previewed) to see how the finished pieces turned out. The gallery came up with the show’s “Multi-Plane” theme by borrowing the idea from past animation techniques where scenes were created using multiple cell layers. As we mentioned in our preview, each of the featured artists were given a kit of different transparent panes to work on that are overlaid on top of each other to give the final painting more depth and richness. Take a look […]

Behind the Scenes: Saber x Modern Multiples – Flag Print

Posted by sleepboy, December 24, 2009

Many of you may remember the video that Saber produced for the “Organizing For America’s Health Care Reform Video Challenge” (if not, take a look after the jump). Although he was demonized by some of the media for “defacing” the American flag, anyone with a little common sense would see his painting as an “interpretation of the American flag being overwhelmed by the language of his personal struggle with our country’s system of medical care.” Battling epilepsy himself, the graffiti artist felt he had to […]

Video: Banksy Camden Walkthrough

Posted by sleepboy, December 24, 2009

By now, most of you have seen the four new Banksy pieces that went up last weekend in north London. Art of the State recently posted up a quick video walkthrough that takes your past all the stencils which gives you a nice perspective into the locations that the Bristol Bomber chose for each piece. Discuss Banksy here.