Street Art of the Subtler Sort in Denmark

July 17, 2013

New Danish Street Art / Public Art Festival Retains the Simplicity of “Play”

In the past few years major cities have begun to sport Street Art festivals that boast and blare themselves with branding, t-shirts, press releases and 90 second video trailers touting the event like an Olympics with spray cans; hosted in the city center with declarations by officials and featuring live DJs, face painting, urban dance troupes, hashtags and corporate sponsorship.

Then there are the quieter ones. These invite you to think and discover your town in an integrated way, conjuring the  meandering route of the creative spirit as expressed upon walls dispersed among streets in town and around it’s periphery in a manner that might strike you as cleverly sane. A recent one just completed in Denmark reminds us of the latter approach that somehow challenges you with its lack of the obvious.

Pøbel. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

The name “Public Art Horsens” is not about horses. You would be forgiven for flinching at the thought of one more beating of that near dead “Public Art” trope from the last 20 years where identical statues of apples or pigs or ardvarks are used as canvasses by all manner of artists and scattered around a city in a big cheerful way.  No, this Horsens is the name of a mid-sized waterside town in Denmark of about 55,000 that didn’t really have much of a reputation for most of the last century aside from it’s prison and the convicts who lived there, according to Henrik Haven, who co-organized and co-curated this art event with his good friend Simon Caspersen.

Portrait of Pøbel with a “No Tresspassing” sign across the channel from his piece. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

“Horsens State Prison housed some of the worst criminals since it opened in 1853 and the released population had a tendency to stay in the city when they got out jail,” says Haven of one of the factors that soured outsiders to the idea of Horsens. “People linked Horsens with social problems, violent people and crime,” he remembers as he recounts some rough years in the 1980s and 90s. But that is all behind Horsens since the prison closed in 2006 and Haven says the city began a cultural rehabilitation of the city’s reputation by putting a strong focus on music, art and cultural events.

Pøbel. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

As far as art in the street goes, the newly completed series of walls and installations for “Public Art Horsens” is one of the least flashy and most conceptual, almost understated – you may have to focus your efforts to see it and appreciate it but you are rewarded for the effort. Check out the work of American public artist Brad Downey, who uses a circular saw to switch chunks of public pavement with one another. You won’t see his work unless you are looking down at the street, and Mr. Downey is satisfied that you will enjoy the discovery of bricked patches swapped and recontextualized. Have a look at Sam3 from Spain, who incorporates the heaping steaming pile of garbage at a dump into a one-color portrait he completes on its retaining wall.

 

Pøbel. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

So subtle and integrated is the nature of “Public Art Horsens” that you may never discover the birdhouses by Thomas Dambo or the mind-tricking duplication of a pizzeria façade right next to the original.  Less subtle fare is available of course; you will probably slow down to contemplate Pøbel’s stencil of a moose mating with a unicorn, or the be struck by the gentle environmental activism of his lounging fisherman at the industrial waterside who appears to be catching a mutated fishbottle.

Pøbel. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Pøbel. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Spains Escrif is similarly cryptic in a big way with his depiction of figures demonstrating techniques of self-defense that are humorously old-fashioned, while Örnduvald simply installs a quite oversized and glittering GPS map pin on the side of an impressive example of Danish historical architecture.

In a way, the scope and the tenor of the “Public Art Horsens” is refreshing because of it’s lack of hype. You can also see the roots of the D.I.Y. movement that spawned much of the modern Street Art scene at play here – particularly with Brad Downey sifting through the refuse to construct a waving wall of found canisters or swinging off a crane while messing around with some objects on a concrete lot. When it comes to the public sphere at Horsens, the experimental nature of Street Art still feels like play.

Örnduvald. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Örnduvald. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Brad Downey sifting through the refuse for material to create one of his installations. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Brad Downey. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Brad Downey gets carried away with his experimentations with a crane. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Brad Downey. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

A temporary installation by Brad Downey. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Brad Downey removes a square of pavement, and rotates it, and places it back into its original spot. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Brad Downey. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Here the artist Brad Downey replaces a sample of bricked walkway with one from a nearby neighbor. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Brad Downey. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Incorporating a temporary configuration of garbage, Sam3 imagines it as contiguous with a larger art piece. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Sam3. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Sam3. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Sam3. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Sam3. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Thoma Dambo. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Thomas Dambo. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Escif. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Escif. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Escif. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

Escif. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

This Turkish pizzeria looked so nice they created it twice.

Escif. Horsens, Denmark. June, 2013. (photo © Henrik Haven)

“Public Art Horsens” features Pøbel, Escif, Sam3, Thomas Dambo, Örnduvald and local talents.

‘Public Art Horsens’ was created by the Municipality of Horsens along with organizer Simon Caspersen from ArtRebels, photographer Henrik Haven and the local creative community called ‘Stormsalen’.

 

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Various & Gould and Flower Power in Berlin

July 16, 2013

When was the last time you sent your grandma a greeting card? Huh?

You know she likes those ones with all the fancy swirly fonts and flowers growing up the trellis and probably a couple of cats wrestling. Get going son. You won’t have Grandma forever and you know how she loves her grand babies. And no, an e-card is not the same thing.

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

That’s what we were thinking about when we saw this new piece from Street Artists Various & Gould, who found an old abandoned billboard in Berlin and decided to bring it back to life with a nostalgic nod to old-timey signage, advertising and their own collage robotic style. “It was just a perfect summer day for painting,” says Gould, who say it is a collaboration with their friend Chula. You could call it a personal beautification project, and Grandma might wonder about that mustachioed fella in his pajamas.

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

Various and Gould in Berlin (photo © Various & Gould)

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Phlegm at Boombarstick Brings a Theatre/Church Alive in Croatia

July 15, 2013

Sheffield, England-based Street Artist, fine artist, and illustrator Phlegm took part in the zero edition of Boombarstick in Croatia last month, and today we have some images of his new work there. Now abandoned, the building previously held a cinema and was originally a church. Many Street Artists pine for this sort of architectural opportunity, a pre-built stage with just enough existing detail to play foil for their work.

Phlegm. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

As is usual for the meticulous Phlegm, the facade was well played as an exterior staircase leading up to the bellfry – presumably where a bat or two may come flying out. A good example of working within the context of the locality, the five day transformation was an intensive public display of the dedication to the imagination of one artist, and an opening to the inner world of many who would care to travel there with him.

See Hitnes on our posting about Boombarstick last week, and special thanks to Swen Serbic for sharing his photos here for BSA readers.

Phlegm. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

Phlegm. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

Phlegm. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

Phlegm. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

Phlegm. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

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Images Of The Week: 07.14.13

July 14, 2013

We’re in the thick of summer now ya’ll, get out the lime popsicles and 40 SPF sunscreen and let’s ride our bikes out t0 Coney Island. New Yorkers don’t need those waves like Cali to be happy, we just like the sand and the crash of the waves and waft of french fries from up on the boardwalk. Check out that lady dragging the cooler up the beach inbetween all the towels and tanning babes and boys, “Budweisahhhh! “Ice cold beeaaah heeeah! Get ’em while their cold! Get ’em while I got ’em!”  Hey, wanna go in?

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring ADB, Bisco203, Bishop203, Cake, Cern, ClassicB23, Foxx Face, Don John, Don Rimx, El Niño de las Pinturas, Elle, Emma Krahn, Gilf!, J. Meloy, KA, Leias203, LUTU, ND’A, Perk, Sebs, SenTwo, Sex, SKings Wanky, Stikki Peaches, and Vexta.

Top image Don Rimx. Sex. El Niño De Las Pinturas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don Rimx. Sex. El Niño De Las Pinturas. 5Pointz, Queens. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CERN (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gilf! Malala Yousafzai. Malala was honored at the UN on Friday, which was renamed “Malala Day”, to draw attention to the importance of education for all children. This girl was shot in the head last October by the Taliban for being on a school bus and going to school. She has recovered miraculously and Friday in New York she turned 16. And she spoke at the United Nations. To view her speech click here. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUTU (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CAKE (photo © Jaime Rojo)

VEXTA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikki Peaches (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don John in Copenhagen (photo © Don John)

J. Meloy. 5Pointz, Queens.. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SenTwo. ADB. 5Pointz, Queens. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ELLE (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Foxx Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SKings Wanky (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Classicb23 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

From left to right: Sebs . KA . Bisco203 . Leias203 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

PERK. 5Pointz, Queens. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bishop203 . ND’A 5Pointz, Queens. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Verrazano Bridge. New York City. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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ROA Fox and Friends in Vienna

July 13, 2013

Here are a handful of new shots of Street Artist ROA as he prepares his new urban wildlife wall in Vienna – featuring a fox, rabbit, beaver, and a doe on the wall of a local school in the Austrian capital. You can see how his work is beginning to take more dimension and mass as he continues to fully develop the form and musculature under the furry exterior of his friends in repose.

ROA at work on his new wall last week in Vienna (photo © Julian Mullan)

The irony of the animals’ unwinding and relaxed configuration is that the artist tends to work tirelessly; this wall was only begun once he had completed the work and installation for his new show at Inoperable Galley where he created entirely new pieces with found materials from Vienna including bullets, skulls, street signs, and wooden boxes.

Finished portions and part of the developing hair for the new ROA wall in Vienna (photo © Julian Mullan)

ROA in Vienna (photo © Julian Mullan)

The newly completed ROA wall done in one day last week in Vienna (photo © Julian Mullan)

Pan-Roa’s Box will be running all summer at Inoperable. For more information click here.

 

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BSA Film Friday: 07.12.13

July 12, 2013

 

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

Now screening: Neighborhood Love in Brooklyn by Serringe, Isaac Cordal: The Family, and The Lurkers go to Bulgaria for Summer Fun.

BSA Special Feature:
Neighborhood Love in Brooklyn

A new film by Serringe that celebrates the magical mix of sun and aerosol and a group of artists/writers/graff dudes all getting up in the neighborhood. The flows are nice, the movements a little hypnotic, the soundtrack allows you to travel, the love is there. Fall in.

Featuring HOACS, SEGE, ELSE, ZIMER, SEN TWO, OWNS, OKUDA, 4SAKN and SEBS.

Isaac Cordal: The Family

Street Artist Issac Cordal has been installing his small cement sculptures in staged scenes ever since Spain began suffering the brunt of the global financial crisis and he saw his country as having been dragged into an an economic, environmental and socialized purgatory. This new gallery show installation caught on video imprisons the organizational man and the entrepreneurial exec alike in much the same way as animals in our factory farms, with similar lighting but more room.  A conceptualist by nature, his message is heavier than cinder blocks some times, yet you won’t deny the devastating effect that his installations can have on your psyche as the camera pans and you see the effects of socialization on a mass level, evocative of cubicled offices and prisons, and may even cause a viewer to question things. Till the next video.

 

The Lurkers go to Bulgaria for Summer Fun

A self-described “movement” that makes urban exploration a spectator tagging sport, Lurkers may be a small club of skinny London boys in their 20s who like to spraycation through tunnels and abandoned monuments with their model girlfriends, discovering the hidden pockets that time forgot. Or Lurkers may be a well-positioned semi-chaotic lifestyle brand that is accumulating original content to help move product once you are hooked. One can envision the anonymity that these hilarious cartoon heads allow also being a way to extend a franchise once these rascals get old or get bored and need to be replaced. Either way, some of the sequences in their newly begun video series are alternately mundane, raw, soaring, or smartly sly.

It’s so difficult these days when true counterculture is swallowed whole by lifestyle brands and you can’t tell the real thing from the Coca-cola intervention but this is sort of Vice meets Monty Python meets reality show meets Polo with aerosol cans. The touchstones of rebelliousness and tomfoolery appear in a cheerfully non-political context but just as we we start to think that, we learn about world history on this trip, don’t we kids?  What really is lurking beneath the surface? Stop worrying and start adventuring.

 

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Hitnes at Boombarstick: Street Art in Croatia

July 11, 2013

50 points awarded for the name: Boombarstick !

Also, baby goats in your promo video melts even the meanest graff writers heart, so another 25 points for that. (see adorable video below)

In fact, if you look through all the walls and materials and listen to the voices of the organizers, you find a serious consideration of humor as a force for creativity, so we’re pretty close to a perfect score of 100 with this original and inviting concept for a city Street Art festival.

Mercifully, the art is also good.

Hitnes. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

All things considered, this ZERO edition (not 1st) of the Croatian festival that features a solid selection of international (mostly European) Street Artists along with local and regional musicians was very successful. The city is called Vodnjan/Dignano situated in the peninsula and county of Istria. It prides itself on its multicultural patrimony and the festival was meant to convey the artistic and cultural point of view that it has. Says Marco Contardi, one of the volunteer organizers, “The festival stands as a link between Istria and Europe, encouraging a reciprocal fruitful connection.”

Hitnes. Detail. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

So we’ll be bringing you some exclusive images of the pieces that Street Artists completed during Boombarstick. The first here is by Rome’s Hitnes, who completed this flight of imagination among the strong and well worn roots of the old city. He uses aerosol, brush, pencils, and whatever else brings out the detail in his alternate reality, which often meditates on the animal kingdom and a sense of magic.

Look forward in coming days to new exclusive photos of the completed pieces on BSA from some of the participants in this unique festival who include Franco Manzin, Phlegm, OKO, Sam3, Giorgio Bartocci, Hitnes, Eme, Ufocinque, Interesni Kazki, NeSpoon, Miron Milic, and Liqen.

Hitnes. Boombarstick. Vodnjan, Croatia. (photo © Swen Serbic)

 

Click HERE for more information about Boombarstick.

 

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The Synthesis Collaborative Presents: Wall/Therapy 2013 -Kickoff at 1975 Gallery. (Rochester, NY)

July 10, 2013

Wall Therapy
The city known as “The World’s Image Center” will once again be living up to its title as it welcomes nearly 30 world renown street artists for the third installment of WALL\THERAPY. They will be transforming walls both large and small throughout Rochester into works of art, serving our collective need for inspiration.

Expanding upon the success of its previous years, WALL\THERAPY will be hosting a week long event starting on July 19th, showcasing the extraordinary talent of artists from across the globe and from our own back yard. Faith47 and Chinese artist DALeast, both hailing from Cape Town, South Africa are returning to Rochester for the third consecutive year. New additions to the artist lineup include Gaia from Baltimore, Binho from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wise Two from Nairobi, Kenya and London-based Irish artist Conor Harrington. Rochester-based artists Mr. Prvrt, Range, St. Monci and Sarah C. Rutherford will join other local artists and our visiting “wall therapists” to create 30 original pieces of art throughout the city.
To kick off this week long mural festival, there will be block parties in each neighborhood where the murals are being painted featuring local musicians and performers, adding to the experience as crowds watch the “wall therapists” at work. An open community dialogue with the artists will take place mid-week.
WALL\THERAPY is brought to you by The Synthesis Collaborative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health in the developing world using the tools of teleradiology and cloud computing. The common thread is “Imagery,” which has the potential to preserve and enhance life by addressing the needs of both the body and spirit. Its co-founder Dr. Ian Wilson envisions this event and the art it will create to be a lasting influence on the heart of the Rochester community. WALL\THERAPY brings these talented individuals together as a community-level intervention to use mural art as a vehicle to address our collective need for inspiration.
The 2013 WALL\THERAPY has also been made possible by the generous individuals who donated through our indiegogo campaign this past Spring. With their help and donations from local artists, our campaign was able to reach its goal of over $30,000.
Members of the press and public are invited to visit and engage the “wall therapists” as they paint their murals on the various walls generously donated by individuals and businesses in the South Wedge and El Camino Trail area.
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Bazel Gallery Presents: Alice Mizrachi “Windows of Love” (Tel Aviv, Israel)

July 10, 2013

BAZEL GALLERY presents ALICE MIZRACHI
in her solo exhibition,
“WINDOWS OF LOVE”
“Windows of Love,” presented by Bazel Gallery, features select works by artist Alice Mizrachi that explore and celebrate the many facets of love.

Alice paints the simple exchanges of love she glimpses while people-watching and depicts them in her paintings as snapshots, to share that fleeting moment of connection we feel when we are witnesses to love. Whether it’s the love of a father and child, friends, lovers, love for animals, nature, home or the love of self, Alice encourages us to notice that love, in all its multidimensional facets, is often felt as recognition.
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open hearted vision of people who embrace life.” – John Lennon

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 11, 2013 from 20:00-22:00
Closing Date: Sunday, August 4, 2013
Bazel Gallery
1 Hashlah Street, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

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Specter Brings the Beauty of Decay to a Pristine Brooklyn Pool

July 10, 2013

Specter’s Inversion of the “Broken Window” Theory Makes a Splash

The news that the average apartment price is over $3,000 dollars a month in New York was blasted across many channels yesterday and we told you two weeks ago that our own informal survey of 1-bedrooms in Williamsburg showed the median price is now $3,150. That’s about twice the price from around 2000. Is it any wonder why artists and workers who have contributed for years to the lifeblood of the city are saying they feel like they are literally being chased from it?

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In that context it’s one of those rich ironies that can be hard to verbalize yet increasingly cannot be overlooked; Street Artists who once were chased from a neighborhood by high rents sometimes are being invited back to create commissioned work to make it feel “real”. You could say the neighborhood is experiencing a Re-Billyburg-ification at the moment even as new construction and zoning rules continue to demolish all signs of the old quirky artist bohemia. Drawn by an “edgy” creative culture, promises of lower rents, and maybe the fun sport of some derisive “hipster” bashing while chugging a brew with yer buds and watching your team on the big screen, it appears that pockets of BK may be now re-skinning with the arty types to prolong the myth.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And so it’s a semi-sweet experience to see many of these same Street Artists who were hitting these same streets and looking over their shoulder while doing it are now invited to do it and are getting paid for their effort. This week for example Cern just finished his Bruce Lee piece for a martial arts studio on North 8th, LNY is finishing his mural on North 6th Street for a new movie release, Ron English is reported to be working on a similar arrangement, and Icy and Sot just finished the facade of a new nightclub on the southside. Further down the street on North 6th where Faile used to be able to afford a studio space, an alcohol brand has sponsored a block-long installation that includes an amazing crochet installation by OLEK, an incendiary fire extinguisher piece by KATSU, and a large monochromatic painting by RoStaar, among other artists. For the big promotion, each artist spent much of the day doing installations while invited visitors on the street snapped photos and posed with the work. Of the brand sponsored event, a local TV station reporter says, “The goal is to promote art in the community while giving emerging artists exposure.”

We’ve been shooting and publishing and interviewing and getting walls for and telling the stories of many Street Artist here for years and now we receive press releases in the old email box from PR agencies who tell us that they are offering us to “receive a VIP tour” “in Brooklyn where artists’ visions explode onto streets in the heart of Williamsburg.” We are now invited to come and see “artists working street side to complete their pieces, while visitors can experience the creative process in motion.”

Gulp.

It sort of goes without saying, but in case you missed this – most artists cannot afford to live here anymore and they are only visiting the area to participate in the days’ events.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Which brings us to the posting of today – the opening of Street Artist Specter’s new installation that is literally inspired by the street, now on display poolside alongside a 4,800 square foot deck at a new Williamsburg hotel. Known for his painstakingly hand-painted recreations of street facades and street people, this quiet wall is so realistic that most observers wouldn’t guess it was painted over the course of a number of weeks this spring in Specter’s studio.

The rusted panes, the overgrown ivy, the pockmarked wall, the mismatched mottled patterns of a now silent industrial sector; Specters’ new glorious façade could possibly appear so genuine that some chic hotel guests reclining by the rippling three-season saltwater pool and sipping a cocktail may peer over their sunglasses and wonder when the hotel is going to get around to finishing the renovation of the backyard.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Here it is, the broken windows theory thoroughly and pleasingly inverted by the brain of the artist, complete with a couple of quick graffiti tags, in this neighborhood where most of the actual graffiti and Street Art has been “cleaned up”.  Who knew that decay would be such a sight for sore eyes.

You’re invited to check out the new wall tonight from 7-10 at King and Grove. Bring your swimsuit and cocktails will be served.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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A Dying Breed Presents: “Detention” Pop-Up Art Show (Manhattan, NYC)

July 9, 2013

Detention

A Dying Breed art collective Presents: Detention.

Featuring:
Sen 2
Zimer
See One
Rimx
Chris RWK
Veng RWK
Bishop 203
ND’A
Icy an Sot
Cern
Dice the God
Pun 18
Fibs

Schools out but we didnt pay attention to the teacher and drew pictures in class… and on the walls too. Now we’re all in detention. Lucky for us we have some friends joining us for this pop-up graffiti/ street art show!

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