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Videos: Todd Schorr – “Neverlasting Miracles” @ Merry Karnowsky

Posted by sleepboy, March 16, 2012

After bringing you a glimpse of the magnificent new body of work from Todd Schorr (featured) created for his solo this Saturday night (March 17th), we now have a revealing first look at a video of the Los-Angeles-based painter and his new paintings for the show. In it, Schorr can be seen with some footage of the pieces for Neverlasting Miracles, set to be revealed at Merry Karnowsky at an opening hosted Patricia Arquette. See what Schorr had to say about this new after the […]

Videos: The Simpsons – “Exit Through The Kwik-E-Mart”

Posted by sleepboy, March 15, 2012

If you missed the Exit Through The Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons that aired earlier this month, you can now watch the entire episode on Hulu. Episode 15 of the 23rd season features Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf, and Robbie Conal as they give Bart some tongue-in-cheek career advice on being a street artist.

Rewind: (March 5 – March 11)

Posted by sleepboy, March 10, 2012

Another week, another list of noteworthy art videos for our readers to peruse. Our featured video is entitled Sweeping Beauty II and shows what an artist Niels Shoe Meulman from Singapore and do with just a broom and water. Vernissage TV visits the Armory & Volta Art Fair. A new Know Hope mural in NYC (via Nuart). See how Terry Richardson was cloned for his OH-WOW Gallery exhibition. Tim Biskup rethinks emoticons for a documentary series on TED.com. Trailer for Cindy Sherman exhibition on view at […]

Previews: Delia Brown – Last Exit: Punta Junta @ Martha Otero Gallery

Posted by juggernut3, March 3, 2012

Opening tonight at Martha Otero Gallery is a new show by Delia Brown. Entitled Last Exit: Punta Junta, this exhibition is a continuation of her Guerilla Lounging Project where parties are hosted in the luxuriously pimped out playgrounds of the upper class. The difference is that the ones depicted living it up are those of the middle and lower classes. Delia works during these few hours of decadence and fantasy to capture these unique situations with her brush. The show runs until April 14th, so stop by if […]

Video / Streets: ABOVE (Cape Town)

Posted by sleepboy, March 1, 2012

After going big on multiple walls (here, here, and here) during Art Basel Miami Week ahead of a sold out showing, ABOVE (interviewed) has surfaced in Cape Town with some new work. The prolific Bay Area-based artist’s latest wall is for Origin Wines, a South African winery that leads one of the largest Fairtrade projects globally. Entitled What Goes Up, the footage of it going up is a nice primer on one of ABOVE’s techniques – projection. Some photos after the jump…

Videos: Usugrow Artist Profile

Posted by sleepboy, February 28, 2012

Our friends over at the Backwoods Gallery recently sent over this video that they put together as an artist profile for Japanese artist Usugrow. If you remember, we covered the calligrapher and painter’s show at the gallery along with fellow Shinganist artist, Toshikazu Nozaka back in July of last year. Making good use of the time in Melbourne, some footage of Usugrow’s amazing script in the studio as well as on the streets was interlaced with an interview where he touched on topics such as his […]

Video: Anthony Lister @ New Image Art (Teaser)

Posted by carlosgonzalez, February 20, 2012

This upcoming Thursday, February 23rd, Anthony Lister (interviewed) will be showcasing a new body of work during his solo exhibition (previewed) at LA’s New Image Art. Focusing on the central theme of beauty and the twisted form of the ballerina, this collection of paintings will bring to the foreground Lister’s meticulous technique of blending his figurative style with an aura of abstraction. Although the Aussie street artist has been out on the streets of Los Angeles painting murals (covered), he’s also been hard at work inside his […]

Volunteers Needed: Cai Guo-Qiang @ MOCA

Posted by sleepboy, February 16, 2012

A unique and rare opportunity has come up in Los Angeles for fans of explosive Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. The MOCA will be hosting his first solo exhibition soon on the West Coast and as part of the showing, Cai will be creating three new gunpowder drawings with assistance of local volunteers. They’ll only need 100 volunteers (March 3 to March 9, with ignitions on March 5, 7, and 9, at 7pm, with a mandatory training day for all volunteers on Saturday, March 3) so head […]

Video Release Party: Mark Whalen & Autolux @ Launch LA

Posted by carlosgonzalez, February 14, 2012

During the weekend, Launch LA hosted a music video release party that featured an incredible collaboration by artist Mark Whalen and the music group Autolux. Directed by Thomas McMahan, the music video, which was shown on a large screen through out the night, features Whalen’s work come to life accentuated by a great song performed by the band. We actually got a small teaser of what this video would look like some months ago as Whalen was prepping for his show at the Merry Karnowksy Gallery (covered). […]

Videos: Conor Harrington – “Black Herds of The Rain” by Andrew Telling

Posted by juggernut3, February 13, 2012

Last summer, you may have caught our coverage of Conor Harrington’s (interviewed) visit back to his homeland of Ireland and the murals he created (here, here, & here). Since that time, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the video that was to be created by Andrew Telling documenting this trip. Finally completed and titled Black Herds of the Rain, this awesome short film gives us a rare glimpse into the talented artist’s creativity and approach in the the streets. We also find out that the journey and subsequent […]