Archive for the 'Art' Category

February 23rd, 2011

Greg Craola Simkins Painting Mural At Mid-City Arts – Time-Lapse

Greg Craola Simkins painting his mural, assisted by Graham Curran at Mid-City Arts on the eve of his signing. Spotted over at ArrestedMotion
February 22nd, 2011

Banksy x Simpsons Part II – The Oscars

With an Oscar nomination for his Exit Through the Gift Shop documentary, there has been a lot of Banksy news lately. Especially in Los Angeles where he seems to be putting up work all over the city. With the Oscars coming up this weekend, Banksy makes a second appearance on The Simpsons. This time as a tag backstage at The Oscars. It's pretty ...
February 18th, 2011

“Dead Drops” in New York

As part of his EYEBEAM residency in NYC, Aram Bartholl created "Dead Drops," an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space where USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. from wiki: A dead drop or dead letter box, is a location used to secretly pass items between ...
February 17th, 2011

Banksy Banned From Oscars, But Is He In Hollywood?

Although Oscar officials declared him 'not welcome' at the upcoming 2011 Academy Awards on February 27th (for the Best Documentary nominee "Exit Through The Gift Shop"), Banksy appears to have begun a subversive campaign around Los Angeles.  The billboard above is near Hollywood's Sunset Strip, directly opposite the Director's Guild of America ...
February 14th, 2011

B Movie – A Film About The Art Of Banksy

Another look inside the mind of Banksy... B Movie - A Film About The Art Of Banksy. Spotted over at Hypebeast
February 8th, 2011

Artists Wanted – Peter Eckert – A Blind Photographer

'Pete Eckert is a totally blind person. But through his photography, he proves that he IS a visual person, he just can't see. Pete was the Grand Prize recipient of Artists Wanted: Exposure 2008, an international photography competition, and was awarded $2,008 with a formal reception at Leo Kesting Gallery in New York City on Thursday August 7, ...
February 5th, 2011

NGVstudio x Everfresh – Graffiti always wins

'Everfresh was invited by the National Gallery of Victoria to be part of the new space soon to open at Fed Square called the NGVSTUDIO. The space will be something new for the NGV and we are looking forward to what’s going to be happening there when it opens up this year.'
February 1st, 2011

Art Project Powered By Google

Taking a tour around the "Art Project" powered by Google, using their Street View technology to see some of the most incredible art from around the world. Spotted over at Highsnobiety