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Street Art from ROBBBB in Dubai and Turkey Workers around the world look amazingly similar, no matter the city. Street Artist Robbbb, who we last saw in Beijing, is introducing some of the people from that city to be a part of Dubai and two of Turkeys largest cities, Istanbul and Izmir. “This series of works from China are images of the most common people. [...] Read More

Fun Friday 08.17.12   1.  Chatroulette Gone Wrong, and So Right (Call Me Maybe?) (VIDEO) 2. “Beautiful Darling” Warhol Film Friday Night in Manhattan 3. Living Walls, The City Speaks, All Weekend (ATL) 4. Please Don’t Tell Anybody But Detroit Is Where It’s At 5. Paraphernalia by Narcelio Grud (VIDEO) Friday Got You Feeling Frisky? Call Me Maybe? Props to Steve Kardynal “Beautiful Darling” Warhol Film [...] Read More

GAIA in Chicago with a Cuban Madonna, Michaelangelo, Masks Street Artist Gaia visited Chicago last week to hit some walls in his grandly fulsome style with imaginative remixing of classics. Here’s a guy who is perfectly badass about handily switching symbols, metaphors, cultures, belief systems, history, art history. The results are perplexing if you think too hard about it, thrilling if you are willing [...] Read More

Living Walls Atlanta 2012 Begins, 26 Artists Converge!  It’s Time for the Women to Represent as LW ATL Breaks New Ground Again Sarah Emerson at work (photo © Dustin Chambers) For the last two years at Living Walls Atlanta it’s been like graffiti summer camp; bodies and pillows and aerosol cans intermingled and stacked indiscriminately across the living room floors of friends apartments.  Sketchbooks. Pizza [...] Read More

JB Snyder Does His Stained Glass in the Desert Phoenix muralist JB Snyder is known locally for his color-rich abstract grids on sides or facades, as well as canvasses, often compared to stained glass. So it was a holy moment when he stopped by to see Jetsonorama with a few cans of aerosol to participate in his “Painted Desert” project. JB Snyder (photo © Emily [...] Read More

ROA and a Half-Eaten Carcass in Chicago Belgian Street Artist and painter ROA continues his USA Summer 2012 tour and his next stop after New York was Chicago last week. Hosted by the folks at Pawn Works Gallery, ROA was invited to participate in their ongoing outdoor project “Art in Public Places” in the Pilsen neighborhood. ROA (photo courtesy Pawn Works Gallery © [...] Read More

Images of the Week 08.12.12 Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting burnt and gritty Been down, isn’t it a pity Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city All around, people looking half dead Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head * Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Bad Cat [...] Read More

Labrona and Other and Hot Summer Freights “… when we had nothing to worry about except finding more trains to paint.” Painting trains seems older than horses, but of course that can’t be true. Outside of public transportation trains, which have been largely free of graffiti since the late 80s, the lust for hopping freights still runs deep for some. Like the current [...] Read More

Fun Friday 08.10.12 Happy hot sticky Friday live from New York! Lots of cool stuff on the street and in the exhibition spaces this weekend – just bring a water bottle. Here are some of our picks for you on BSA. 1. Détournement, Carlo McCormick at Jonathan Levine (NYC) 2. Chris Stain and Joe Iurato at Mighty Tanaka (BKLN) 3. Peeta [...] Read More

Reyes 78 in Chicago San Francisco painter Reyes 78 must have been exceedingly happy to be in Chicago with many of his fellow Mexican ex-pats and to bring his abstract graffiti-influenced new work to this city to display on a huge wall.  The folks at Pawn Works Gallery invited Reyes 78 to participate on their ongoing outdoor project “Art [...] Read More

Os Gêmeos and “The Giant of Boston” The twins have left Boston, but not before they opened their first solo museum show in the U.S. and left behind a handful of public installations that have garnered major attention as people once again grapple with the concept of art in the streets. Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo have done large installations in large cities [...] Read More

JR Keeps an Eye on The Williamsburg Bridge French Street Artist and photographer JR hit a skyward spot last week in Brooklyn with a large watchful eye which looks toward the Williamsburg Bridge that connects Brooklyn to Manhattan. An image taken of a member of the Lokota tribe on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, the new installation is part of The [...] Read More

Pandemonium on the Walls at Pandemic

Brooklyns’ Pandemic Gallery recently invited a sort of painted pandemonium to fill all the walls of their space for a summer art party. Shoulder to hip and head to toe, this mixture of artists is actually emblematic of this moment in Brooklyn history and representing the raucous variety of styles that are mashing and mixing [...]

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