Some art stinks but this art piece really has an odor!
This from Cool news: Amsterdam artists Lernert & Sander took "a tiny sample of each little scent and spinoff
fragrance that was new in 2012 and that they could obtain" and "poured
it into one large 1.5-liter bottle." Naturally, they named their
creation Everything perfume So,
what does Everything smell like? According to Eric, "It smelled, at
first whiff, of strawberries mixed with salt, along with hints of
baseball mitt and hair spray. And tuberose, yes. And licorice and fresh
paint. And musk and rotten peaches and honeysuckle and basil and soap."
Others compared it to Chanel or Shalimar, suggesting that "many
fragrances today use the most historically successful ones as reference
points."
The point, says Lernert, is "why do you need 1,400 new
scents a year?" Indeed, as Eric notes, "the number of fragrances
introduced annually ... is increasing at a startling pace, as
manufacturers seek to tempt shoppers with blends engineered for daytime
or nighttime or bedtime, or summer or fall, or just to suit whatever
music is playing on your iPod. Nearly four new scents are born every
day." For the person who has everything, a bottle of Everything sells
for about $39,000. ~ Tim Manners, editor.
Check out this fascinating blog about abandoned properties worldwide. I was drawn to this abandoned Australian power station. Here is the beginning of the post. Finished reading it on the blog itself.
Abandoned Fremantle Power Station, Australia.
Construction of the
spectacular building commenced in January 1946. By the 1980′s, after
just 34 years of service, it was left rotting on the coast of the
beautiful Indian Ocean. Much of the Power Station internals were
designed and manufactured in England, with skilled contractors sent out
from England to assemble the plant on site. These days, the only
visitors are intrepid urban explorers, talented graffiti artists, and a
few curiously brave locals. The seaside location of this abandoned
building has lead to some seriously stunning patina. One of the reasons
for choosing this buildings location was the ease with which seawater
could be utilised for the cooling system. Now, the saltwater spray
contained within the daily Indian Ocean winds are speeding up the
incredible rate of beautiful decay. On this abandoned journey
adventure, it was myself, Dr Hank Snaffler Jr, accompanied by my trusty
colleague, Nurse Jane. We had to be careful on this one, things could
get nasty......
Here’s
our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring Ai WeiWei, B.D.
White, Billy Mode, Bishop 203, BR1, Chris Stain, Duke A. Barnstable,
Free Humanity, Ice & Sot, Indigo, JM, Mataruda, Meres, Billy Mode,
NARD, ND’A, Os Gemeos, Palladino, PTV, Ryan McGinley, Shai Dahan, Shin
Shin, and Specter.
Top image > French Street Artist BR1 [...]
Skewville are amusing themselves in the gallery today. Amused, bemused. Bee-schmoozed.
Even though we haven’t seen much cryptic sarcasm or wooden sneakers
from these wiseguys on the streets lately, you can be sure that the
wonder wheels have been turning inside their heads, and in the studio.
Here’s proof. “Amusement” is their second solo show at White [...]
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening: “Spray Masters” and “Tunnel Stories” Sunday in
Brooklyn, Simon Silaidis Calligraphy-Graffiti “Skyfall”, Cern is
becoming a Balloonatic, and Jim Vision and The Blue Walls of Buenos
Aires.
BSA Special Feature:
“Spray Masters” and “Tunnel Stories”
Above is a still from the “Spray [...]
From
“Latido Americano” in Lima, Peru comes Part Two of our photo survey of a
Street Art / Graffiti event that blasts vibrant color all over your
keyboard and onto your desk. No amount of pollution and traffic
congestion in this crowded city can get these Street Artists and their
color palettes down, even as the [...]
The
mid-career survey of artist Barry McGee opened last week at the
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and the whole is in fact greater
than the sum of its parts.
Looking at his productive timeline from the 80s as
anti-establishment graffiti writer/tagger to art school student on
residency to San Francisco “Mission School” originator to celebrated New
[...]
Gutteral
grunts of smeared color across lumpen or attenuated limbs akimbo, eye
balls bulging and staring with body language and gestures happily
inclusive, the Canemorto trio are grotesquely entertaining many a wall
across Italy these days. Neneboy, Zenop, and Azz the One are three
Italian Street Artists “who paint together as a single person” using
[...]
Far
from her hometown of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa, Street
Artist Nard Star (or simply Nard) just completed this fox in the
Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. With references that include cubism,
graffiti, and street art, she often includes characters and animals
along with text treatments, always in a defined and precise line style
[...]
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Here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring Billy
Kid, Don John, Iced Coffee, ND’A, NYCe, Poster Boy (or some variant),
RONE, Trek Matthews, and some slight alterations Al Pacino, Helen
Mirren, and Tom [...]
Blog Spotting from “Underground Paris”
Periodically we like to highlight another blog post that has caught
our eye and here is a story about a billboard re-purposer named OX who
likes to claim in the name of art, and humor.
“French artist, OX’s, latest ad takeover at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, is a site [...]
A new photography show that captures the street in the borough you love organized by Jim Kiernan and Aakash Nihalani.
Opening tonight at 17 Frost Gallery in Williamsburg, “The Brooklyn”
features photography by Barry Yanowitz, Chris Arnade, Jaime Rojo, Jake
Dobkin, Jamel Shabazz, Jim Kiernan, Lucas McGowen, Luna Park, Mario
Brotha, Matt Weber, Sam Horine, and Timothy Schenck.
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening: ROA in Cambodia, MOMO and El Tono Snap Your Attention
in France, Conor Harrington in Norway, and Shepard Fairey in London for
“Sound and Vision”
BSA Special Feature:
ROA: A Trip to Cambodia
Street Art and Skateboarding – What’s not to like?
Presented [...]
“Tap
on it with your teeth, that’s how you know if it’s real solid gold,”
says Pernell on 47th street in the diamond district as he holds out a
handful of necklaces. In the Chelsea art gallery district, it’s harder
to tell what is the real solid thing and what’s just for show –
especially [...]
Just
checked out this long wall by two graffiti/Street Art buddies from
Baltimore who have made many a collaborative piece over the years. Seems
like Chris Stain and Billy Mode team up 3 to 5 times a year on
expansive installations that utilize Chris’s everyday folk before a city
skyline and Billy’s reatment of text [...]
“Go Ask Alice When She’s Ten Feet Tall” (on a ladder).
If you are wondering what cans to use on the side of a German
elementary school, Alice Pasquini can tell you. Readying for a show at
local 44309 Gallery in Dortmund last week, the Italian Street Artist
took some time to paint a mural for [...]
In
this weeks news, COST is on the cover of the Village Voice and Jay
Shells is making street signs with geographically pin-pointed rap lyrics
(see video below).
Meanwhile here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week
featuring Arturo Vega, Bast, Be Super, Billy Mode, Bologna, El Celso, El
Sol 25, Faust, Gilf!, Mint & [...]
Los
Angeles based Street and Fine Artist Greg Craola Simkins is prepping
for a solo show entitled “Stop Haunting Me”. He was “raised on cartoons,
well written stories, animal planet, graffiti, tattoos and mind numbing
trips to grandma’s house,” says he on his Facebook page, and you can
verify his penchant for escapism in his [...]
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening: Vexta in Kochi, India, “Crimes of Minds” video for the new book, and Yok, Sheryo and Fecks in Mexico
BSA Special Feature:
Vexta in Kochi, India.
Australian born Brooklyn-based Street Artist Vexta was in Kochi for the first Biennale on 12/12/12 and [...]
With
much respect to the Jazz Age and the musical heritage of New York that
still boasts a huge number of jazz musicians, events and venues, artist
Sir Shadow plays alongside the aerosol tags with his one-liners in the
East Village. Using a technique known to many a graffiti writer, the
artist makes the piece [...]
From
the 4th to the 15th of March in Lima “Latido Americano” took place
courtesy of organizers and home-town artists Entes y Pesimo.
Successfully putting it together for a second year, E&P are well
respected among their peers as artists and social activists and they
placed an international assortment of invited graff and Street Art [...]
Street Art Campaign With Amnesty International
“In many countries people are imprisoned simply because of their
political views,” begins the video just released by Dan Witz and Amnesty
international.
Screenshot
from “Wailing Walls”, a video about the Dan Witz “Prisoners” campaign
that raises awareness and engages passersby to immediately take action
for human rights. (screenshot from video [...]
It
is always a surprise to find a one-off piece that evidently took hours
of work to create, wheat pasted into the public sphere and ready to face
the ravages of rain and sun and wind and time on the street. It can be
compounded when you discover there is meaningful story behind the piece.
“La [...]
March
21 hit us this week and that means Spring and that means more birds,
flowers, sidewalk sales, thigh-high shorts, and Street Art and graffiti
are on their way! Great to find this new brick wall falling apart by
Aakash Nahalini in the subway this week, and then to learn that it is a
sketch [...]
Spring
started on Thursday and The Rockin Robin is not singing yet in Brooklyn
but when she does it might be due to getting herself a nice new house
in DUMBO from XAM. We spotted these new pieces while on bike through the
former industrial neighborhood and noticed they look a little different
from the [...]
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening: The Yok & Sheryo in Australia, Sixe and Okuda in Peru, and Mammutt in Mexico City
BSA Special Feature:
The Yok and Sheryo in “Fish & Chips”
The Yok and Sheryo have been working as a collaborative aerosol duo for a handful [...]
Brooklyn
based artist Kenny Scharf has fabricated one of his amorphous painted
classic characters and put it on display at The Plaza of the Standard
High Line Hotel in Manhattan’s Meat Packing District. A hot number from
the 80s downtown scene, Mr. Scharf has continued to add dimension to his
work over time, sometimes taking [...]
He
first wrote “Crash” on New York streets and trains in 1974 but he still
finds ways to entertain and challenge himself artistically. Now
managing a successful gallery career that has him globe trotting much of
the year, John Matos considers himself a closet pop artist, and the
similarities to Lichtenstein and Rosenquist are always [...]
Here
are a few moodily lit cellphone photos from inside a warehouse in Milan
today courtesy of Street Artist Gaia, who has been working on
collaborations with Baskik and Never 2501. He says the new pieces were
done in conjunction with a demonstration in support of “Dax Vive” that
just took place. We don’t know [...]
Street
Artist Blanco grabbed his camera while visiting Bangkok, Thailand this
month and discovered walls full of color, character, and even some graff
names he’s familiar with in New York. “Utah and Ether are all over the
city, crushing it,” he remarks.
His timing for visiting the city was good too because it coincided with the [...]
A
new mobile website for artist opinion was quietly launched last week in Maine.
The site, www.shypocket.com, invites professional artists to publish daily
commentary on topics that are hot or top of mind for them. With an edgy look
and simple interface, shypocket.com is designed to display bold and provocative
insight on a real-time basis.
“The
mobile platform is finicky, challenging, and oh so very cool,” said
shypocket.com creator, Cara Fox. A longtime writer and creative director in the
design communications field, Fox dreamed up her mobile forum while out west in
Taos, NM.
Artists
are encouraged to contributed mini-essays in a more raw and everyday voice than
they are accustomed to providing for galleries and artist statements. The
mini-essays on shypocket.com are 90 words and supported by a single image.
Fox
does not intend to make shypocket.com bigger that it is now, visually. The site
is designed for the small, smartphone screen and for swiping and tapping. It
can also be viewed on a tablet device, but it not accessible from a desktop
computer. The goal is for the forum to be as dynamic and in motion as the
artists who publish opinion on it.
Visit
www.shypocket.com on a smartphone or tablet device. For more information, write
contact@shypocket.com.
Take an abandoned ocean liner, add some amazing graffiti artists and what do you have? "It's got the potential to be the biggest open-air art project in the world" says Paul Williams, Duke of Lancaster manager.
Three monkeys dressed in suits crouch on bulging sacks of money,
striking the symbolic pose of "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no
evil."At more than 10-meters
tall, the imposing chimps are the size of a three-storey building,
dwarfing onlookers gazing up at their grim, spray-painted faces.
The menacing monkeys are
joined on all sides by similarly fantastical and macabre creatures --
from skeleton divers to slobbering pigs -- and you get the feeling that
out here, in the desolate British marshlands, no one would hear you
scream were they to come alive.
The 'Council of Monkeys'
Welcome to the Duke of Lancaster.
A hulking, rusting, abandoned ship on the Dee Estuary in north Wales,
which has become a canvas for some of the most renowned graffiti artists
from across Europe.
At a whopping 137-meters
long, seven storeys tall, and weighing 4,500-tons, the former cruise
liner is an awe-inspiring sight in the deserted countryside.
It was this remarkable setting which prompted graffiti collective DuDug
-- a word play on the Welsh for "black duke" -- to approach the ship's
owners with the innovative idea of turning the abandoned vessel into a
thriving arts destination.
With the owners'
approval, artists from across Europe began spray painting the decrepit
ship, using cherry pickers -- a type of hydraulic aerial work platform
-- to reach its towering walls.
They are now campaigning to have the site reopened to the public as the centerpiece of an arts festival.
"When the pieces first started appearing, we had some people say 'that's no way to treat the ship.'" Williams said.
"But there's no doubt
that what they're doing is art -- the key definition between art and
graffiti is graffiti is done illegally. This, however, is done with the
owner's knowledge and accommodation.
"And if it's the catalyst for regeneration, it's got to be a good thing," added Williams.
Behance is a beautiful blog that highlights street art predominatntly in Europe. Some of the photos here are stunning. It is the site of artist Przemek Blejzyk
I always think of Paris as pristine. Beautiful but pristine. So I was surprised to find out that Paris has a street art area that is not far from tourist centers. If you find yourself on the French side of the Atlantic, check out the street art in Paris.But if galleries are touting street artist works now, will we begin to see less work on the streets themselves?
Paris: Joie de graffiti
By JANE BORDEN
Jane Borden
Works by Da Cruz and others can be found on the Quai de L’Oise, 19th arrondissement, Paris.
Paris has always been able to boast of an artistic supremacy, so it makes sense that when they even do something like street art, they put America to shame. With its vibrancy, sophistication and sheer volume of production, the Parisian street art scene -- graffiti, stenciling, paste-ups -- makes ours look like it's still in grade school. Sketches and tags pop up throughout the city, yes, but beyond the central circle of neighborhoods, or arrondissements, designated areas boast entire blocks coated end-to-end on both sides with imagery that's constantly changing.
Hami Delimi of L'Oeuf Creative -- an agency helping artists with branding and representation -- says that many communities agree not to prosecute, particularly their native sons and daughters. "People are proud to have the artists there," Delimi says. "However, if someone not from the community writes over a piece, that person might get in trouble."
In the 19th arrondissement, which Delimi considers a first stronghold of the Parisian graffiti movement in the '80s, that local hero is Da Cruz. His big-featured faces and bold colors are calling cards on the area's buildings, municipal walls and mailboxes; no one paints over his creations. Other celebrated tags to locate across the city include Miss.tic, Nemo, Jerome Mesnager, Jeff Aerosol, Art of Popof and Atlas.
The Futura is now
Whether you think street art-ists working with luxury brands are receiving justified exposure and cash or are selling out, the practice is here to stay. And its most recent contributor is also one of the art form’s truest legends: Futura.
Lenny McGurr, originally known as Futura 2000, began his career tagging New York City subway cars in the late ’70s. He also toured with The Clash, painting onstage while they played; enjoyed a long history of success in art galleries, largely in Paris, which housed his first exhibit in 1982 (he’s currently represented by Galerie Jerome de Noirmont); went on to make album covers, T-shirts and toys; and, of course, owns a spot in the canon. Then he was quiet for a while. But on Aug. 13 he’ll add a Hennessy label to his collection. The limited-edition Cognac bottle is classic Futura: an abstract work of bold primary colors featuring his signature atomic swirls.
“The movement I graduated from, what I call the subway school of art, is, for all intents and purposes, over,” McGurr says. “But then the next generation of artists — Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Swoon — gave importance to this kind of work again. And that ultimately opened the door for me to return.”
Cheers to that. Or, rather, Sante.
Meet the artists
The scene has developed to the point where traditional galleries are also littered with street artists’ work, one of the more recent crossover successes being an artist named Nasty. It’s also now common for luxury brands to tap the graffiti scene. The artist named Kongo printed scarves for Hermès and another street artist who goes by Monsieur A created a label for Caviar Kaspia. But some artists seem to think it’s a faux pas to use their talents for commerce. Kidult has notoriously vandalized luxury-brand storefronts in revolt.
With an overview of a variety of styles and techniques used in the graffiti scene at the moment, São Paulo is hosting its 2nd international biennial of graffiti and fine art through February 17th. Along with a number of recognized Brazilian names, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE) is hosting international [...]
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening: JOSEF KRISTOFOLETTI: The Atlas Detector, FAITH 47 – Fragments of a Burnt History, and THE KLUB7: ABC 2013
BSA Special Feature: JOSEF KRISTOFOLETTI: The Atlas Detector This video documents the making of an art project commissioned by the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, [...]
Twin Street Artists How and Nosms’ new solo show titled “Late Confessions” with the Jonathan Levine Gallery opens tomorrow at a pop-up show in Manhattan. This exhibition, painstakingly executed in their now iconic style is a watershed moment in their transformation into contemporary artists with stellar street DNA.
The dance of high and low art lifts 40 feet into the air as Brooklyn Street Art duo Faile unveil their repertoire of ironic pop imagery at the New York City Ballet this week. As street artists in the then-industrial wasteland of Williamsburg at the turn of the century, Patrick Miller and Patrick McNeil would [...]
Here’s a new site we found that speaks of peoples’ long-time personal relationship with graffiti and walls, modern urban archaeology, and even the ephemeral nature the art you see on the street today. Alberto Boido was just a kid in Milan in the early nineties when he started taking photos of walls because he liked [...]
London is looking alive and on top of things at mid-winter, with a great variety of materials and techniques, imaginative styles and of course varying results, according to your tastes. During a quick trip on a somewhat blizzardish day, photographer Geoff Hargadon found “tough conditions: snowy, cold as f***, and a camera battery that refused [...]
Brooklyn by way of Austrailia Street Artist and fine artist Anthony Lister continues to communicate with the eyes. His disembodied faces and features appear on walls and corrugated surfaces on the streets, like these recent London installations, without context and full of expression. At turns mythic, gothic, and comic, the true intentions may not be [...]
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening: Voice of Art – Migration is Beautiful with Favianna Rodriguez, Project Brave with WK Interact,We Will Know When We Are Home with Creepy, and Innerfields: DIY in Berlin. BSA Special Feature: Voice of Art – Migration is Beautiful “Art has the power to [...]
La neige! C’est romantique! It is snowing in many city Street Art spots this time of year – transforming the evolving visual conversation on the street to something more. It may make you walk faster past it on your way to school or office or apartment, but for Demian Smith, editor at Alternative Paris, it is [...]
Street Artist El Sol 25 is back on the street with riveting visually displaced droids as he hand paints and wheat-pastes the future past on abandoned walls and construction lots through certain parts of New York. Looking at this evermore integrated fusing of limbs, torsos, and heads, you can imaging that the studio of El [...]
A recent sunny day brought Baltimore Street Artist Toven outside to install some new work, including his humorous mashup of American romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe and an astronaut. An avid reader, this ex graffiti writer has also done large wheatpaste tributes in the past to some of his heroes like Burroughs, Bukowski and Kerouac. TOVEN [...]
A Month-Long Painting Project in Johannesburg and Cape Town Four Street Artists have been painting for about a month in Johannesburg and Cape Town as part of a project by Ricky Lee Gordon. “Acrylic Walls” highlights the maturing voices of a handful on today’s Street Art scene even as they continue to explore and experiment with realism, [...]
The 'Council of Monkeys'
