October 2014

BSA Film Friday: 10.31.14

BSA Film Friday: 10.31.14

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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. “A Tale of Two Murals” Atlanta on PBS

BSA Special Feature: A Tale of Two Murals

Today we take you to the hot swampy south of the US to see two murals destroyed by Atlanta neighbors who are offended by the sight of bare breasts and surrealistic serpents.

PBS and PBA do an excellent job laying out the painful odyssey of organizers and volunteers at the Living Walls festival as they find themselves caught in the triangulation of “public art”, where great creative ideas go to die.

In a way, these events are all part of the conversations on the streets that we see daily in the Street Art world, minus the paperwork and hearings. Every Street Artist knows the stuff they put up may last a day, a week, or a year before it degrades naturally or by the hand of another.

But it is a special kind of torment that is activated by grandstanders and showboaters who wouldn’t otherwise take any interest in cultural edification of any kind – suddenly taking intense offense by the imagination of artists.  Their outrage seems misplaced, to say the least.

As an addendum to this PBS piece, we’re told by Trevor Keller, the director of the documentary, that these murals are back in the news this week. “The public art ordinance that is debated at the end of the documentary is now back and being moved through Atlanta City Council,” he says, “re-igniting the public art/community/government debate.”

Read more about it here:

http://www.artsatl.com/2014/10/public-art-ordinance-docket-raises-hackles-art-community/

 

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BOO! Street Art Inspiration for Halloween

BOO! Street Art Inspiration for Halloween

Boo! Halloween is tomorrow and you know your subway ride is going to have some Werewolves, Zombies, Sexy Nurses, and Mini Mouses (mice).

Also big fat hairy rats, but they are always there.

To help you get in the mood and for inspiration we have a lil’ selection of Street Art oddities and monsters that have popped up on the street in NYC. If you have not planned your costume yet, here are 40 costumes for lazy people. See you at the PARADE!

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Damon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Knor Crap…if you dare… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A series of shots of Lango creating this hellish scene in Bushwick.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Mastro (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Don’t Sleep (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Foxx Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Can’t really be sure what is happening here, but The Jizzard could be spewing green stuff out of his mouth or he could be eating a Christmas tree. Also, not sure about the babe in the stilletoes, but she must be wondering what he is doing with his hand. Is this related to his name? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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This piece is signed but we can’t read the tag. Please help. Good ears though. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Steiner (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Sir Crone, Must Survive Today and YesOne (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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She Wolf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Arbiter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Flood. The little kitten on the bottom with the fire hydrant is by Funky13. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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VHILS in Łódź Reveals Ghostly Profile Using Signature Destruction

VHILS in Łódź Reveals Ghostly Profile Using Signature Destruction

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It isn’t often that Street Artist Vhils aka Alexandre Farto does a profile view and this one gives you the feeling that she is ignoring you, or otherwise engaged. Perhaps the newest wall at Urban Forms in Łódź, Poland is his take on the feeling one gets when his girlfriend is always looking at a screen while he talks to her, meriting only a portion of her full attention.

Marking the end of his three month “Dissection” show at EDP Foundation in his native Portugal, Vhils landed in Poland to create their 34th mural in the series and created this wistful portrait emerging from a distressed wall.  Using his signature reductive, destructive method, he reveals something you may not realize was waiting to surface, a ghostly visage which even now is beguiling as you gaze upon it. Perhaps she is remembering something, or calculating, or staring off into nothingness.

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VHILS at work on his mural for Urban Forms 2014. c (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

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VHILS at work on his mural for Urban Forms 2014. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

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VHILS at work on his mural for Urban Forms 2014. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

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VHILS. Urban Forms 2014. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

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VHILS. Urban Forms 2014. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Urban Forms/Marek Szymanski)

 

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Maya Hayuk Colorfully Cross Hatches With Rollers In Toronto

Maya Hayuk Colorfully Cross Hatches With Rollers In Toronto

New images today from Toronto where muralist Maya Hayuk completed an enormous multi-part kaleidoscopic piece at the Landsdowne Street underpass. Reprising the color palette you may most recently have seen for her “Chem Trails” composition on the Houston Street wall in New York, Hayuk rolled out the eye popping plaid for fall (and winter), a welcome contrast to the cold grey skies that are coming, and which will hold no power here.

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Maya Hayuk at work. (photo © Jeremy Jansen)

“It’s about 300 feet long and more than 20 feet high at the tallest parts,” she says. Completed entirely by hand with cans and rollers Maya gives this stretch a lot of angular, drippy,  jarring color to alert the senses and make your brain come alive.

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Maya Hayuk at work. (photo © Jeremy Jansen)

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The full expanse. Maya Hayuk in Toronto (photo © Jeremy Jansen)

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Maya Hayuk in Toronto (photo © Jeremy Jansen)

This project was done in cooperation with Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto.

 

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“Natura Morta” with Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s in Italy

“Natura Morta” with Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s in Italy

Two Street Artists named Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s created this slicing critique of mankind for the Restart Festival 2014 in Imola, Italy that took place over 3 days in the end of September.

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Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s collaboration for Restart Festival 2014 in Imola, Italy. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE (photo © Dissenso Cognitivo/NemO’s)

“Natura Morta” takes inspiration from the traditional “still life” that artists usually apply to fruit, food, household items, even taxidermy – and instead objectifies the human as something to be pulled apart and studied. NemO’s typically casts an unsympathetic eye toward the homosapien, featuring him as a feckless desperate loser full of fallibility, blinded by his own selfish instincts.

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Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s collaboration for Restart Festival 2014 in Imola, Italy. Detail. (photo © Dissenso Cognitivo/NemO’s)

Here too the new piece “alludes to a humanity that has pillaged and transmuted natural resources, killing all them and himself too,” says the artist.  And when you learn that Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years, one is inclined to agree that we are actively planning a dim end for ourselves.

“Symmetrically, nature as biological system (from Greek bios: life) dies because of destructive human mania,” say the artists, and our collective behavior “opens the door to a dramatic and bleak future.” Not sure if this grotesque depiction of a dissected human will result in a new discovery about our nature, but “Natura Morta” does open the mind, and heart, and throat…

Happy Monday!

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Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s collaboration for Restart Festival 2014 in Imola, Italy. Detail. (photo © Dissenso Cognitivo/NemO’s)

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Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s collaboration for Restart Festival 2014 in Imola, Italy. Detail. (photo © Dissenso Cognitivo/NemO’s)

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Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s collaboration for Restart Festival 2014 in Imola, Italy. Detail. (photo © Dissenso Cognitivo/NemO’s)

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Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s collaboration for Restart Festival 2014 in Imola, Italy. Detail. (photo © Dissenso Cognitivo/NemO’s)

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Dissenso Cognitivo and NemO’s collaboration for Restart Festival 2014 in Imola, Italy. Detail. (photo © Dissenso Cognitivo/NemO’s)

 

 

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BSA Images Of The Week 10.26.14

BSA Images Of The Week 10.26.14

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Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Anser, BustArt, City Kitty, Dasic, Faring Purth, Flood, Gum Shoe, GWAD, Hot Tea, KIN, Labrona, Muse, Never Crew, Nick Walker, One Eye Mickey, and Spok Brillor.

Top Image >> Nick Walker (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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MUSE (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dasic and Spok Brillor collaborating for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dasic and Spok Brillor collaborating for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Dasic and Spok Brillor collaboration for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Anser (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Faring Purth. “Annabel”. Rochester, NY. October 2014. (photo © Faring Purth)

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Faring Purth. “Nela”. Cambridge, MA. October 2014. (photo © Faring Purth)

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Flood. The Tin Man levitates before he sees the Wizard of Oz. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Labrona and GWAD in Toronto, Canada. (photo © Labrona)

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Labrona and KIN in Toronto, Canada. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Gum Shoe. Girls! Girls! Girls! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Hot Tea (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Bustart, Never Crew and Mohamed Khaled collaboration in Cairo, Egypt at the Swiss Embasy. (photo © Bustart)

“The Nevercrew and I are the first ever people from outside of Egypt who painted in downtown Cairo, which had its rise in Street Art during the last 4 years and during the revolution. The military is back in charge now and the art on the streets came to a stop since you will end up in prison when they stop you (we had permission for this.” – Bustart

 

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One Eye Mickey (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Untitled. Pennsylvania. October 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

 

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Photo Journalists Dysturbing Passersby on NYC Streets

Photo Journalists Dysturbing Passersby on NYC Streets

The images are disturbing. Their methods of sharing them with passersby may be to some as well. But Dysturb says they are doing the educational work that the modern fourth Estate is refusing to do.

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#Dysturb at work. Wheat pasted photo by Moises Saman/Magnum by group calling itself #Dysturb. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In yet one more twisting of what you thought was vandalism and what is justifiable speech in the public sphere, a new international club of wheat-pasters called Dysturb has just hit NYC with their consciousness-raising black and white photos of harrowing human scenes from around the world. Mimicking the calculated and costly campaigns of advertisers to promote their products and brands, this work of a handful of photo-journalists began hitting up walls throughout the city in mid-October while a small crowd of photographers shot their every move.

Begun by photojournalists Pierre Terdjman and his colleague Benjamin Girette, the group say their images from war-torn regions are not getting out through the large corporate broadcast, digital and print methods they once relied upon, so the dire circumstances and messages about the world they produce are simply not being seen. The often distressing and poignant scenes vary but are often of modern people suffering real life turmoil or otherwise capture transformative flashpoints of life, death, suffering and our time; refugees, the hunters, the hunted.

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Moises Saman/Magnum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Each large scale monochrome image is stamped with the recurring brand name (and hashtag). Beneath it is a description of the image, the name of the photographer, and the URL where Dysturb can be reached. When you discover a piece like this, you spend longer studying it than a typical advertisement, and arguably you come away from it with a greater appreciation for the suffering of your fellow humans.

“NYC is full of insane and good ideas when you deal with media, photojournalism, and documentary photography,” says Girette of the groups experience wheat pasting and meeting people while in New York, which included being invited by the Magnum Foundation to present their project during a symposium on October 18th. “The energy is incredible and that’s something you’re looking for when you run a project like #Dysturb.”

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Moises Saman/Magnum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The largely French contingent began planning this campaign back in the spring and they are reported to have wheatpasted in a number of cities internationally before last weeks’ New York campaign.

The images from around the world are stimulating and sometimes difficult  and, while Dysturb says they are careful to present work that is appropriate to all ages (according to their website), most viewers will recognize the gravity of these scenes and many will have an appreciation for the assumed humanitarian goodwill that accompanies them. While understanding the journalistic intentions, you have to wonder if their openness in putting un-permissioned works up on public and private walls  will backfire for these folks who are so openly transgressing local laws.

BSA asked Terdjman and Girette about their experiences in New York and found that neither were familiar with the local scene and they believe their work is somehow different from what other Street Artists do because of their rigid adherence to journalistic values or other systems of internalized rules. Naturally when we hear this we think of a number of Street Artists on the streets of NYC who follow their own sets of values for exhibiting work and who with their work also address important social/political issues such as the human slave trade, torture, indigenous peoples rights, gentrification, climate change, sexual harassment, militarization of society, the banking crisis, the housing crisis, drug addiction, and a variety of other topics of great weight. In view of Street Art’s long and recent history, clearly these photographs by Dysturb are not the first or only socially/politically relevant Street Art, nor will they be the last.

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Moises Saman/Magnum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

One other point that may raise eyebrows is a belief Dysturb states that using water based or otherwise simple-to-remove materials will exempt the act of wheat-pasting without permission from charges of illegality. This may come as news to a number of Street Artists who have spent long hours in jail here and have completed days of community service to satisfy a sentence – not to mention those international Street Artists who report that they have experienced difficulty re-entering the country presumably because of these violations. Clearly the members of Dysturb have not run into this possibility yet, and perhaps they won’t. Regardless, from the perspective of the casual passerby, the impact of this journalistic photography will be strong and impart something meaningful to the viewer.

Brooklyn Street Art: Were you familiar with any other street artists who are doing political or social or educational work on the street?
Benjamin Girette: Not so many! A lot of street artists amaze me every day in Paris or elsewhere when I’m traveling. I’m interested in political or social or educational work so I use to take pics of their work for myself or for my Instagram account, but I don’t have names in mind.

Street artists have a complete freedom for what they draw or paint or paste. I do something different, with rules for how I make the pictures I do or paste. But we do something similar when raising questions or igniting debate about human right issues for example.

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Alvaro Canovas/Paris Match. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Street Art: How do you compare the illegal work that Dysturb is doing compared to the illegal wheat pasting that Street Artists are doing?
Pierre Terdjman: We both use the same way to express something. Our goal is to get the people closer to the world we live in and as photojournalists we see with the view of reporters. We use soft wheat paste that can be taken down easily; We don’t vandalize. We try to use the urban space to show the pictures and we consider how the foot traffic will be in front of the pics.  But again never in any way would we vandalize.

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Capucine Granier-Deferre. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Street Art: How is this work different from the work of other artists who wheat paste their work without permission on walls?
Benjamin Girette: Hmm… that’s an interesting question you ask! I respect a lot the work from different Street Artists that deals with human rights issues or global issues. In this case our work is similar… however:
1. We do not damage the wall we paste on. Water-based glue is used.
2. We have strong journalism ethics in the way we curate photographs and photographers whom we work with. That’s the only thing that #dysturb fights for, which is the nature of our job, is to to witness and relay the testimony of others with rules for how we make the pictures on field, and
3. We always sign the posters and never run from the police. Once again the fact that we do not damage walls is protecting us.

Brooklyn Street Art: Should the un-permissioned wheat-pasting of large photographic posters by Dysturb be viewed in a different way than posters from advertising campaigns?
Pierre Terdjman: Advertisement campaigns are everywhere and nobody asks you, as a citizen, for the right to impose that upon you. All day you are confronted with  advertisements. We take the space for something different. We are not political or militants; the goal is again to raise awareness about world issues and to educate people through journalism. This is a part of our project – bringing #dysturb into the school yards with a specific educational curriculum is something that we are already working on.

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Richard Jeanelle Pour/Paris Match. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Ashley Gilbertson/VII Photo. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Manuel Litran/Paris Match. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Manuel Litran/Paris Match. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Manuel Litran/Paris Match. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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#Dysturb. Photo on wheat paste by Manuel Litran/Paris Match. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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This article is also published on The Huffington Post.

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BSA Film Friday 10.24.14

BSA Film Friday 10.24.14

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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. Spotlight on Brazil: Street Culture in São Paulo

BSA Special Feature: URBAN AMAZONE – SAO PAULO

A new French documentary about Sao Paulo street culture with host Véronique Chainon takes a calm and measured look at the currents on the block in this Brazillian city of 11 million. Included with an interview with a breaking crew, a parkour class, zine makers and other contributors to this city’s vibrant youth culture, Ms. Chainon interviews Street Artist (Edwardo) Kobra in studio and on the street about pichação, street art, and his eye popping murals. Alexander Orion, a Street Artist with a gallery show is interviewed, as well as writers, pixadores, and a number of people familiar with the graffiti and pichação scene. You also get a look at Abayomi Ateliê, a a cultural space that develops the activities of production and customization of clothing, crafts, accessories and graffiti – and you get to see some of the graffiti ladies in action.

The best part is the opportunity to see a large cross section of the varied and usually high quality Street Art and graffiti that covers many neighborhoods in this international city, and to get a real idea what the sabor of São Paulo is right now.

 

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Jef Aerosol in NYC, “Black is Beautiful”

Jef Aerosol in NYC, “Black is Beautiful”

Jef Aerosol, the French master street stencilist for over 3 decades was in NYC this week. He took part in a couple of commercial events and to visit other Street Artists shows and events like Nick Walker’s show on the LES/Chinatown border and the L.I.S.A. Project outdoor jam in Little Italy with Zimad, Bishop203, Carlo McCormick, Martha Cooper, and a cast of hundreds.

He told us he is lining up a couple of projects for next year in New York, which is good to hear, and of course he managed to hit up a handfull of spots himself at The Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn, including a large piece he’s calling “Black is Beautiful”.

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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Freewill Gallery in New Yorks Military Bunker on the Beach

Freewill Gallery in New Yorks Military Bunker on the Beach

Exploring Fort Tilden

National monuments are typically solemn places for reflection and remembrance. In the case of many decommissioned military installations across the world, the hidden parts of forts and bunkers are also serpentine galleries of freewill art shows. You may call it graffiti or you may call it a colossal explosion of creativity and unscripted free speech, but in all likelihood you will be moved by the clandestine display it in one way or another.

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The entrance… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The site of New York’s abandoned WWI era military base (and site of the first Trans-Atlantic flight departure), Fort Tilden, also conveniently is a beach for many of its creative types and related mis-matched fun loving miscreants. While there are snide asides about this being a hipster spot, it is much more than a place for one-dimensional posers – if only because it is sort of hard to get to.

But it is also a little utopia for the grimy self-powered soot-covered bicycling city-set who gravitate to the margins and outskirts for a day at the beach; There are art shows and ad hoc performances, long days of reading and snacking, splashing, Backgammon, and nudity. Sometimes all at once.

Additionally the entire site can be a hidden, yet open, art gallery.

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Artist Unknown. Also, Mika loves Mea. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Perched atop the bunker you can have a 360 degree view of the ocean and most of New York City, including the cluster of skyscrapers in yonder Manhattan. Inside it’s labyrinthine spaces below with a flashlight you will discover a 360 degree view of most all of the graffiti and Street Art techniques that are freely experimented with in these mid twenty teens.

On a recent overcast/sunny day at the end of the summer season we took a tour of the darkened spaces that are open to the public to find what kind of art gallery is on display and to discover hidden gems, furtive artists, discarded liquor bottles and the occasional condom. Are these the aesthetic meanderings of mad minds, the seeds of tomorrow’s art stars, or simply the unfiltered mark-making of youth on a summer day’s spraycation?

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Cake (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Cake (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Cake (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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DAN (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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NAD (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Elvis (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A monument to Walt Whitman by artist Patty Smith is one of many placed here during this summers “Rockaway!” art show here, organized by PS1’s Klaus Biesenbach. Whitman’s masterpiece “Leaves Of Grass” begins with the words carved on the stone above. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I Celebrate Myself. And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”

~ Walt Whitman. July 4th 1855

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KUMA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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You Go Girl . Mistakoy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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You Go Girl (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Newserf. Collab between News & Serf. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Never (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Overunder (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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“United States of pills and corn syrup”, says ARC as he washes down an Oxycontin with Coke. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Armer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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The New York Skyline from the top of the bunkers. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

 

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This article is also published on The Huffington Post.

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Salton Sea Road Trip with Eddie Colla, 2wenty, Caratoes, and Nite Owl

Salton Sea Road Trip with Eddie Colla, 2wenty, Caratoes, and Nite Owl

New images today from the barren detritus by Salton Sea in the Colorado Desert near the San Andreas fault line. Here near the water is a landscape littered with sheet metal, stories, tumbleweeds, and skeletons of simple squat structures once useful, now merely casting a shadow.

Until someone decides to clean up the man made remnants of industry and architecture you can be sure that some artist is going to consider that leaning structure or door-less domain to be exactly the perfect canvas for experimentation. Saltier than the Pacific ocean, this sea is also man made; “accidentally created by the engineers of the California Development company in 1905,” says the Wiki entry, and the arid climate will likely keep some of these facades till they are fossils.

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Dark pop illustrational psychodelia from Caratoes  (photo © 2wenty)

Far from any cities or urban landscapes,  four Bay Area artists took a road trip recently to do some site specific works and to photograph each others’ creations here under the enormous expanse of sky. Thanks to Eddie Colla, 2wenty, Caratoes, and Nite Owl for sharing what they found here, and to Nastia Voynovskaya for bringing this to our attention.

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“2wenty takes long­ exposure shots that enable him to write in the air by physically moving a light source across the frame as the camera captures its motion,” says Nastia Voynovskaya, “This writing, invisible to the naked eye, lives on only in the form of photography.” 2wenty (photo © 2wenty)

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Nite Owl (photo © 2wenty)

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Nite Owl (photo © Nite Owl)

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Nite Owl (photo © Nite Owl)

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Eddie Colla (photo © Eddie Colla)

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Eddie Colla (photo © Eddie Colla)

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Eddie Colla (photo © Eddie Colla)

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Eddie Colla (photo © Eddie Colla)

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Eddie Colla (photo © Eddie Colla)

 

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Banksy Hoax, Does Dutch Master Remix of “Girl With the Pearl Earring”

Banksy Hoax, Does Dutch Master Remix of “Girl With the Pearl Earring”

Two things in the news today about Street Art man of mystery, Banksy:

Thing 1: He was not arrested, cuffed and covered with a shroud yesterday as reported and re-Tweeted throughout the street-art-isphere, but that hoax was excellent!  (Also, don’t you think he must be older than 35 by now?) See video at end.

Thing 2: It looks like he has just created a new piece referencing a 350 year old painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer that uses a pearl earring for a focal point. In Banksy’s case, it is golden ADT security alarm box.

Brooklyn-Street-Art-Banksy-Girl-Pearl-Earring“Girl With the Pierced Ear” in this new image just released online, appears to be Banksy’s monochromatic take on the oil master Vermeer, below.

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Johannes Vermeer. Girl With a Pearl Earring, Oil on canvas, 1865.

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A lovely cafe from which you can enjoy some chips and a refreshment while gazing upon the new masterpiece by Banksy.

 

 

See the official Banksy site for more murky details, where we found the images above.

 

 

BANKSY Nabbed! Well, maybe not.

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