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Streets: Libya

Posted by sleepboy, October 26, 2011

With the death of Muammar Gaddafi and the fall of his repressive regime, there apparently has been a predictable surge in creative energy in Libya. Some of this has been seen in the increased graffiti and street art murals across the county, much of it political and decked out in red, green, and black – the colors of the new Libyan flag. More inspiring images after the jump via Upperspace.

Videos: José Parlá – “Character Gestures”

Posted by sleepboy, October 25, 2011

The Standard Hotel just uploaded a new video taking a short behind-the-scenes look at the Jose Parla Character Gestures show (covered here & here) in Los Angeles last month. Put together by the Parla brothers (Jose and Ray), the footage reminds us of what a great new body of work it was, a fitting show for his LA fans, long in coming. Via Slamxhype. Discuss this show here. Discuss José Parlá here

Openings: TrustoCorp – “Life Cycle” @ Opera Gallery (NYC)

Posted by lowpro, October 25, 2011

Trading in their guerrilla tactics for gallery motifs, TrustoCorp (featured) took to the posh Opera Gallery over the weekend for their third solo exhibition since inception three years ago. Spawned in the wake of a crashing economic system and a Congress rotten to the core, the increasingly ubiquitous and always creative street art collective stormed the SoHo space, transforming it into equal parts bizarro Chucky Cheese and political strategy room gone awry. Building upon their breakout New York solo exhibition last year, Life Cycle (previewed) […]

Streets: Banksy x Occupy London?

Posted by sleepboy, October 25, 2011

What is purportedly a Banksy installation (see the TOX shoutout) has popped up at St.Paul’s Cathedral in support of the Occupy London Movement. The elusive street artist from Bristol’s alleged play on the Monopoly board game was remixed with the theme of the protests – corporate greed and corruption. We’ll see more and more artists get in the game in support of the 99% as these activists spread across the world (see original Occupy Wallstreet with Olek intervention). More photos via Demotix after the jump…

Streets: Steve “ESPO” Powers – A Love Letter To Brooklyn

Posted by juggernut3, October 24, 2011

Following up on his Love Letters to Philadelphia and Syracuse, Steve Powers most recently transformed downtown Brooklyn with his witty and endearing public art. Powers was given the walls of Macy’s department store parking garage for his project, and instead of the colorful palettes of his previous Love Letters, for BK NY, he chose black and white, reminiscent of his early days with Exterior Surface Painting Outreach. And unlike his other work, which tends to combine text and images equally, this new project is almost all […]

Openings: “Pure Logo” @ New Image Art

Posted by sleepboy, October 24, 2011

On Saturday night at New Image Art, Skullphone, who recently opened a joint show in New York with Curtis Kulig, decided to try his hand in co-curating a show which he entitled Pure Logo. This group show included the aforementioned Kulig as well as a diverse set of multimedia artists – Evan Gruzis, Curtis Kulig, Takeshi Murata, Cleon Peterson, Skullphone, Paul Wackers and Hugh Zeigler. The work included in the show explores “the omnipresence, necessity, form and functionality of logos as they metamorphose to communicate within […]

Streets: Phlegm (Sheffield)

Posted by sleepboy, October 23, 2011

Now that Phlegm is back to his home city of Sheffield earlier than expected he has some time to work on some local walls like this new one he calls “the passage”. Also, he has used some of his extra moments to work on his new book (see the last release, the soldout Illuminated Alphabet) with several incredibly detailed new drawings. See these as well as a detailed look at the mural after the jump…

Streets: World Roundup Oct 17 – 23

Posted by sleepboy, October 23, 2011

It’s time for another roundup of the new walls this week here on AM. Although not exactly immediately recent, this mural from Mesa in particular caught our eye. Other murals covered after the jump include C215 (Paris), Escif (France), Sam3 (Germany), Dabs Myla x Remi/Rough (London), Fintan Magee (Melbourne), Teo Doro (Valparaíso), Dimitris Taxis (Spain), and Isaac Cordal (Brussels).

Overtime: Oct 17 – Oct 23

Posted by Khoi, October 23, 2011

Coverage of the FIAC art fair, including a bronze sitting companion from KAWS. Artists (including SABER) are supporting the Occupy Los Angeles movement. A Ramellzee show at White Columns that we missed. More street action from David Choe & DVS-1 in Norway. Eric Elms has a show in Tokyo where he remixes the Kilroy character. New prints from MOMO (Fame Festival) and Junko Mizuno. A new comic from Brendan Monroe. Femke Hiemstra has work ready to ship (presumably for Roq La Rue). New work from […]

Releases: KAWS – “Joe Kaws” Vinyl Figure

Posted by lowpro, October 22, 2011

Since the Dissected Milo set was released back in February, KAWS hasn’t released anything on the vinyl toy front, undoubtedly due to focusing on his fine art and recent solo Hold the Line. That will all change next week with the release of his Peanuts homage to Snoopy, aptly dubbed Joe KAWS. The figure, who’s release was effectively set in stone over a year ago with the release of an OriginalFake x Peanuts Joe KAWS t-shirt collaboration to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Charles Schulz […]