Blu and Erica il cane

It has to be said it's not one of my favourites, but maybe it's on the side of a greengrocers? Still, it says more than most work out there and is more entertaining on the eye than fair bit too.

Oscar says 'No' to Banksy

Breaking news, best documentary goes to Inside Job, a film looking at how the rich banking elite fucked over the world, rather than a film chronicling a rather silly french person who fucked over the art semi literate proletariat. Perspective.

Anonymous says 'Don't Believe the Hype'

http://daydreammagazine.blogspot.com/2011/02/single-stik-preview-show.html


Painting these in the streets for 10 years? So how come I only saw the
first one in the streets two years ago? And don't say I didn't have my
eyes open, coz I been living and working the streets of London since
the mid 1990's

"live graffiti"??? It's not graffiti if you have permission

STIK has got to be the pinacle of street art bullshit. I don't hate
the work, it's a kind of poor-man's London Police, and it's not as
shit as some of the stuff I see. But I do hate the bullshit. The lies.
The desperate attempts to get famous. All. The. Shit.

Let's hope he ends up crawling under the rock that Eelus is hiding
under since that god-awful African abortion.

Shit. We're gonna need a bigger rock to fit all the egos under...

110 quid Birthday Card Anyone?

Just back from the pub, oh fuck it's your gran's Birthday tomorrow the old dear loves dogs and remembers Evel Knievel, what better way to say 'die soon and leave me your mini metro' than this wonderful print?

fucking kill me now, it's come to this.

More from Nick Walker in NY

Vandal Arms

this doesn't work on so many levels, most of all image

Eine in SF for White Walls

the free paint secured, the legal shutters secured, the deal with the gallery secured, the feeling it's something you've seen a million times over secured

more here

Another Obey print for your Enjoyment

With all this recent talk of street pieces I had almost forgotten what this was all about, thank fuck for Shep putting that right. Another piece of desensitised, emotionless, poorly adapted work for the art folders of the poster collecting generation.

Burning Candy - Bristol - UPDATE

'Kings without a doubt! '

'That is street art at its best!

'awesome'
 
Praise indeed for a colourful piece on the side of a cafe, entitled 'Last Supper' , so most likely with the owner's permission and with a theme in line with the business - so a 'themed mural crazy advert' rather than a straight up piece of street art. What else is there to say? Not much really (certainly not the ridiculous hyperbole above) and that's probably Burning Candy's biggest problem in their on going slog for some fame.

This piece has now received the much needed seal of approval it craved rest easy children of the art college your knowledge has been shown to be amazing, for this piece isn't merely a humourous cafe drawing on the side of a cafe nooooooo it's the embodiment of the rebellious nature that makes street art so important. Or maybe someone just wants to be friends - please - pretty please?

And Another Couple LA Banksys

simply because it's irrelevant and quite funny, this is not bad at all

from here


and this is there too, which isn't great at all

would have liked to have seen the above actually on the road sign

Another New LA Banksy

He had to do another one quickly because it's almost time for the votes to be counted. Well that's what it feels like. As an 'anonymous' on here said:

'people seem to think banksy has all of a sudden sold out. But he was a sell out from day one remember the little stocking filler books from waterstones or the Blur album cover'

Which is a good point to remember, it just feels alot more ubiquitous now, so with that in mind I'm not going to bitch about that, but try to simply critique the image.

It's another 'kiddie' reflection on our society, which just feels dull to me. Maybe the moaning pads my critiques out a bit? Maybe it's the greyness in the characters, or that it feels like I've seen them alot recently but it just doesn't grab the attention. Yes foreclosure is a serious issue, does this really address it? Or does it make light of it? What the fuck is the point I'm making? Possibly that the joke's not funny, it's not hitting the right note and it's just not that good.

J.R. 'Wrinkles in the City' LA

Whilst the young, tweet, troll and truncate their words, the old look on wistfully wondering if knowledge is indeed power and if their own deafness is why people don't seem to listen to them?

more here

Camden Canal Banksy gets an Addition

Sadly 'artists' are now looking to ingratiate themselves by doing shit like this

ROA in Newcastle

it didn't take long, I'm bored again.

Another gallery selling their wares via some legal wall work, how edifying.

Anonymous Says 'Disappearing up your own Epicentre'

and then came the internet, and all the liars became gods




Brick Lane in Art: The other side from Shafiur Rahman on Vimeo.



but thank the lord for the voice of honesty (GREMS) and the voice of


"I'm taking the piss out of your stupid film" (DSCREET)

Nick Walker New York 2011

uh oh

Is that shadow or a face mask? And gardening? Frighteningly weak.

Lazarides Rathbone - Miranda Donovan 'The Home Unleashed'

Should there be little lead figurines painted by some Games Workshop employees and a many sided dice to complete this set?

Maybe her and Slinkachu should get together.

BIG SOCIETY - BIG CXXT

In between opening and closing fifteen times a year, selling some right shite and some 'other' misbehaviours, L-13 and in this instance with Billy Chyldish, get it on occasion very right

Slinkachu Show Coming Up

'Slinkachu amiable 'nice' work originally nicely priced, open to all and seemingly in line with the type of work it was, now sold via Andipa with nothing below £1000, it makes you look at the work alot closer and think ' what the fuck is going on?'

Apr '10

(fuck I can't even be bothered to say anything new)

Pure Evil

Some work just makes me want to spontaneously vomit, is there a time of day or night you need to be told to fight for what you love in such a shite way? Maybe when you're being chucked out of a private view before you've finished off the free beers?

New Paul Insect

I've no idea why anarchy is on the end of a piece of string (an anarchy balloon? an anarchy football? No fucking idea). Two age old symbols brought together anarchy and peace, and used pretty well (even with the nagging string issues). Not bad, especially after those recent dire print releases.

from here

A Couple More New Banksys -UPDATE

It's hard not to look at these and think Oscars and film promotion.

I just want to think he's in the USA and having a laugh at their expense, these pieces have a little spite to them which is always good. But I can't - the promotion is always hanging around like elephant in the room.

Banksy will always be good at the analogy, pissing up against the wall/market crash works, the system is piss and we're governed by it.

And this, I love, a return to some older style work a smiling poke in the side of the 'US Dream'.


Okay so i hate the connection to the Oscars but if you can use your time there to piss off a few of the inhabitants all the better.

more pics


UPDATE

http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=f5b70364-d474-4610-b45f-e79080073388&isShareURL=true



'A rep for The Light Group -- a management company based in Las Vegas -- tells us CBS' outdoor advertising department is responsible for peeling off the billboard ... and they tore it down without ever contacting Light Group management.
The Light Group rep tells us, "We're extremely pissed ... It's our billboard that got tagged .. it's not their billboard ... CBS clearly has ZERO appreciation for art!!!"
The rep added some parting praise for the Academy Award nominated artist, "We were flattered Banksy tagged on our ad -- it was epic."

The Light Group was told it will be allowed to keep the work of art -- so far, no word on what it plans to do with it. '

Eyesaw in Slightly Good Piece Shocker!

Fuck this isn't terrible!

And Another One - UPDATE

from here

and the building -




nice placement and pretty funny piece (with the placement in mind)

yeah as pointed out , this would work much better if Charlie was sitting there manic grin on his face, empty petrol can next to him and  the cigarette on the floor


UPDATE  and it's gone

New Banksy in LA - Update

The stencil's good, the piece is what it is. Another play on the kids we're creating in today's society.He's said it before and he'll probably say it again. (Every Banksy clone out there has said it a million times too). The platform of publicity the Oscars gives him, could have been better utilised and maybe it will be?

from here

UPDATE: this in on the back of an urban outfitters store - it just gets better

Sweet Toof and Cirque du Soleil

For those wondering what that comment was all about at the end of the last post ta daaaaaa

info here

Tomokazu Matsuyama Print Release at PaperMonster

Not a street artist and I don't pretend to have some deep understanding of this piece or in fact any of his work, but it's always a benefit to at least pretend to broaden your horizons and look at some slightly loopy work and appreciate it just a little. The print is below and has all sorts of techniques involved to impress the vicar over tea, none of which are of interest to me, but still:

And at least this isn't a fucking ugly circus poster.

Baftas 2011

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
WINNER: Four Lions - Director/Writer - Chris Morris
The Arbor - Director, Producer - Clio Barnard, Tracy O'Riordan
Exit Through the Gift Shop - _Director, Producer – Banksy, Jaimie D'Cruz
Monsters - Director/Writer – Gareth Edwards
Skeletons - Director/Writer – Nick Whitfield



thank fuck for that

A film wins that by no means is risky as it could've been (especially with Chris Morris at the helm), but at least it looks at society, confronts something we're not supposed to laugh at and makes you think just a little about the way we live.

Street Art: Contemporary Prints Book and Dface Print

So there's a book cataloguing the phenomenon that is the 'street art print', the printing of a million and one editions of exciting images for consumption by fan boy, feeding their vain hope that one day this here art will make 'him' rich rich rich. More importantly to complete the vacuum of meaninglessness there's a print included. Not just any print but a completely fucking pointless empty dface print that encapsulates so much of this wonderful field. It's a superhero, he's painting on the wall and he's painting over the vag&arse symbol with an anarchy symbol. What is more anarchic than promoting a product with a free fucking gift? Unless that free fucking gift is in fact a fucking explosive that goes off when you open the book. This print is reason alone to ignore this book.

The prints above were available at the BRP show, yes there are AP's of the free gift! A show that I've read saw the coming together of contemporary and street art, or more likely, the coming together of the gallery's collection to make the street art buyers feel part of the scene they've really always wanted to be part of. (In actual fact their limited knowledge makes them ripe for paying ridiculous prices).

Hirst v Banksy Andipa

Hirst v Banksy what a fight, one overtly sells his work to the art elite, whilst the other sells his work covertly to the wannabe art elite. 

Please Note: this show is nothing officially to do with either artist, but a good chance to make a comparison about said artists.This has been a pubic cervix announcement for the hard of feeling.

JOSE PARLA | WALLS, DIARIES, AND PAINTINGS

For those with wallets bigger than a kfc bucket and more fat between their ears than a kfc bucket, a new Jose Parla exhibition. 'The biggest trick the Parla ever pulled was making the world believe his paintings should be expensive'. Still good luck to him (they're nice enough, if you're into typography and think you're seeing more in it than the rest of us), I'm sure the massive prices and poor auctions sales afterwards haven't damaged his career at all.

Aryz 'Sing it Again'

New release at POW and what's there to say? Good Street pieces, subaverage/angst ridden teenage print? Yeah, I'd say so.

Mr Brainwash Death to All non-believer hater playas

News just in, another master class in 'genius shit' is upon us - rejoice.

Although no linguistic professor I'm told one of these prints is in 'French' a long lost language used by few and understood by even fewer. I'm reliably informed said print translates to 'your mother sucks cocks in hell', believe haters it's time.

Kidult

Striking, bold, in your face graf, supposedly illegal, unfortunately loved by Agnes B, makes me wonder.

Then another store hit, I'd like to think this was the start of something.

Anonymous said... What are you blabbering about Funky?

(Dr Funky - nice level of indignation at this post, i liked it so much it got its own post)



What are you blabbering about Funky?

"push their themes"?

ROA is quite clearly still painting dead animals in black and white!

OK, so he's added armadillos (and a dodgy porcupine) because he's in Mexico, but it's still a dead animal in black and white - hardly a big push!

Or have you mistaken the work of the people he's collaborated with as his work?



ROA is the best dead animals in black and white painting graffiti artist in the world. The problem is every fucking time he paints one I have to see it online, and as he seems to paint one every fucking day I'm constantly fed roadkill, breakfast dinner lunch. it's no wonder it's beginning to make me feel sick



(Dr Funky - yes knew collabs were involved, would ROA venture so far as to use colour? I see the collabs as developing the theme. New animals yes that's developing it too, not much granted but something more than nothing. The placement helps to. Will this begin to annoy me again in a couple of months time probably. Although the thought of people getting on the ROA bandwagon, paying thousands for originals that will go the way of C215's work, fills me with some joy at least)

3TT Cement Tags

Interview here , a reason to use translate on the Internet. What a message? Open to interpretation? Possibly to make people think or protest against what's happening in the world around them? Surely, that's not what street art is for?

Homer SimCock

Fuck the Simpsons

from here

ROA - Mexico

Last year saw ROA's dead animals spring up all over the place, all incredibly similar in fashion, at first outlandish and striking they got increasingly less meaningful with each hit accompanied by a gallery show. These new pieces have some slightly different takes to the ongoing theme, are well placed and up the quality of the work. Here's hoping a few more street artists push their themes and their work this year like ROA seems to be doing.

more here

Valentine's Coming and Urban Artists Fill Their Moccasins

Valentines the time of the year Urban art comes into it's own proving it's not only about encapsulating the ills of society into an easily digestible image that has an impact and insight, but shows no sign of caving into commercialisation.

Or you know, produce an image that uses fucking spray paint/pharmaceuticals to underline its urbannnnn credentials. Sell to your salivating man boys something that makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Pretend a female wants to share their life with someone who thinks said image in someway endears them to the opposite sex whilst still proving their a real man by keeping it 'real', edgy, dangerous, boring, fucking, middle, of, the, road, boring fuck.

Mr Brainwash Bat Papi et Cat Nani

Originally scheduled for November this wondrous creation sees the light of day shortly -

 http://streetartdead.blogspot.com/2010/11/mr-briainwash-bat-papi-et-mumi.html


So this is Thierry's ruminations on the upbringing of Batman, what his father and his nanny looked like - truly these are creations of amazing beauty, leading the viewer on a  journey of imagination to the very essence of art, until finally they realise, they were an utter cunt to allow such shit into their lives.

Rollins 50 Obey Print

A 50 year older rocker/failed actor idolised by a 40 year old failed street artist says it all really.

Mr Brainwash 'Cover Girl'

Coming out tomorrow, timed to perfection with the Oscar nomination and just similar enough to Banky's efforts with Kate to confuse the tabloid press and a few latecomers. It's all bollocks though in the scheme of things.

Buff Diss

Sounding like  something Morris Minor & the Majors would have said, wasn't expecting anything and looking I'm not sure it is anything, there's some use of surroundings and maybe given time this will develop. Maybe given time they'll change the fucking name too.

more here

One Thirty 3 - Artist Installation Space - TitFreak

"The Artist will be present - Open to the public for one night only
(EACH SHOW WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY ONE ORIGINAL PAINTING & LIMITED EDITIONS OF 33 SIGNED & NUMBERED PRINTS)
6.30pm-9.30pm on Thursday, 24th Feb. 2011


Venue: Onethirty3, Unit 22, Hoults Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

'One thirty 3 - 'Artists project space' will host six innovative and exciting wall based painting installations a year.

The invited artists will create site-specific art installations which will provide a unique opportunity for visitors to experience large scale examples of the best in contemporary street & urban art from around the world.

2011 Roster: April/May: Sickboy/Word to Mother - June: Herakut - August: Retna - October: Gaia - December: Special Guest"



Interesting idea, just long enough to hold the street art crowds attention and with a limited edition print to make everyone feel welcome and special. A group of artists showing through the year, who've either been totally ignored by their target audience, lauded and then fallen from grace with the canny help of gallerists or applauded as different without ever making a sale. Perhaps this is the future for this medium?

Beejoir 'Pills, Tills and a Slight Smell of Krill'

Beejoir released yesterday and for some excitement as it was relatively cheap, for others another derivative drop in the ocean of averageness forgotten like the urban art awards.

Comments From Banksy in a 2001 Interview

As if we needed proof Banksy when left to speak for himself isn't the raconteur you'd imagine, I was waiting for the 'hanging out the back of' comment to seal it, sadly that must be in the uncut version. It's a refreshing insight away from the image so often potrayed and the more human disarmingly off key replies makes me at least like this 'version' more.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51673333@N02/5399432606/

Watch Out Beadle's/Robbo's about!

almost as funny as that seminal 80's show and about 30% as believable - maybe it's time for Team Robbo to get relegated?


TEAM ROBBO SOUTH AFRICA from Team Robbo SA on Vimeo.