'The Lazarides Minotaur will shortly be serving fine cuisine accompanied by an inhaled aperitif of
stale urine in the tunnels underneath London’s most boring commuter belt station. Naturally this is timed for the impending art market influx into London where gaily coloured tights on the
ladies will mingle with suits complaining they cannot get Blackberry reception below (or even above) ground.
Across town in the Shoreditch Village a rival fleecing operation will be in full swing under the guise of Moniker (which is East London vernacular for “overpriced”). Both will exude an edgy urban feel with the now customary private views for those with the money and cheap beer for those with the blogs. Range Rovers and fixie bikes will rest outside alongside each other but for a few hours then be off.
Meanwhile the streets of East London will remain bare of non permission street art, with barely enough surviving to warrant the £10 cost of a street art London walking tour.'
Yep, pretty much sums the state we find ourselves in. The Vandalog mentality has triumphed and killed street art. Even the street-art tour operators must be getting embarrassed to take a tenner off of people and then all they can show them are a few faded and torn photocopied paste-ups in a stinking back alley filled with tramp's piss and turd.
ReplyDeleteyou forgot to add that pointless word to mother show too - why not just show works from 4 years ago - nothings changed ITS EXACTLY THE SAME! every year, same time, same stolen space word show...its like a sad deja vu
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ReplyDelete"Beejoir was there and had a quick chat with him...very nice man! Talking about Mau Mau and how he thinks the whole art scene has slowed down a bit with the recession and all."
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"Slowed down a bit", is that the art or the money it makes?, Beeeeejwahh = nob.
ReplyDeleteI've been to Moniker three days straight and no ones buying shit, except the forum idiots all over the £35 print by Eine, the queing up for the Dick face print and the free warhol in your face prints.... Everyone is losing money on this one!
ReplyDeleteHere's a list, (from the most up to date first, and going backwards) of what the latest posts on Vandalog 'a street art blog' have been about...
ReplyDeleteA graffiti/street art coffee table book
A documentary film about a legal mural festival in Bristol
A feature on a legal mural festival in Norway.
A pop-up show in Miami linked to Art Basel.
A gallery show in New York.
A gallery show in West London.
A multi-link roundup, mostly of gallery shows.
A post about Various upcoming Ron English gallery shows.
Some legal murals.
Moniker art fair.
A legal mural festival in Spain.
A gallery show in L.A.
A legal video projection that was part of an art festival in New York.
A gallery show in New York.
And so on. Just give it up already Vandalog you moronic poser, or at least admit that your blog really isn't about street art at all, but is instead a thinly disguised advertising agency.
All the shows in his posts with the exception of Moniker was shit.
ReplyDeleteMoniker was extra shit.
Got some old tramp's turd you need to sell? Send a press release over to Vandalog and the lazy cunt will repeat it verbatim. All done for purely the love of 'street art'... well, apart for the 'gifts' expected in return for services rendered of course, but don't mention those to anybody.
ReplyDeleteMoniker Projects shook up the art world to its core by printing out free cash for your warhol prints to get people in. Plus printing £35 Eine prints to those those who think they have an investment like Obama. And another Dface print like last year. How Frieze were trembling with fear.
ReplyDeletePS. They used Banksys name again. He had nothing to do with this syphilitic opportunistic rag bag outfit.
the banksy was a secondary market print, they actually had that info on the website
ReplyDeleteONE print! That entitled them to use his name as if he was doing a workshop or an event? Look at the press they got using his name. ONE print? ha ha ha!
ReplyDeleteand it wasnt even for sale...
ReplyDeleteVandalogs latest 2 posts since I wrote that last list..
ReplyDeleteA video about Ron English.
A legal mural festival.
There's really no hope for the cunt is there.
A few hours after you posted that list, he did this tweet:
ReplyDelete"Legal walls beautify environments, but right now, particularly in the spirit of #ows, the world needs some disruptive and illegal street art"I think you did catch him with his pants down.
Pants down, giving a bully ramming to Gaya's a hole with his Kaws tweety for company.
ReplyDeleteI spoke to the galleries who exhibited at Moniker and they all said they made fuck all! The place was packed with knobs killing each other to buy Eines mini print to put on Ebay. Somethings never change.
Yeah, the little Gaylord might talk some shit on twitter about illegal street art, but the reality of his blog says something very different. He must be getting plenty plenty freebies to promote Ron English every 2 days.
ReplyDeleteNo gallery has come out and said that they have enjoyed the Moniker experience. They all go back home with tails between their legs and a depleted bank account. The only artist who sold a bit was dabs and myla and guess who is now repping them? He will run them into the ground over selling them like gold top milk, drunk quickly and throw the container away. And like Herakut, crashing and burning at the auctions.
ReplyDeleteBanksys Forum RIP
ReplyDeleteCarmichael Gallery RIP
Street Art is Dead RIP
Urban Art RIP
Vandalog, Wooster and Sheperd Fairey next hopefully.
ReplyDeleteDeath to the parasite cunts!
Grafter R.I.P.
ReplyDeleteHe choked to death on horse cock.
R.I.P Remi Rough.
ReplyDeleteHe toppled off of his high heels and drowned in the bowl of a public toilet while cruising for gay sex on Hampstead Heath.
The post mortem results are in!!!
ReplyDeleteArt, Urban
Official cause of death
Smothering, malnutrition, exposure, aggravated by delusions of grandeur, paranoia, malignant narcissistic personality disorder and a Napoleon Complex,
Coroners note
it never really had a chance and was doomed from day one due to these serious mental delusions meaning its whole miserable life was about control and money, cronyism, censorship hypocrisy and cliches.
Arguements are currently underway about what to do with the corpse, as apparently many people have not yet realised it IS a corpse and many of those that have wish to prop it up and parade it around a little longer to keep stocks level and avoid risking a crash, and cover the putrescent smell with garlic, but friends of the deceased have pointed out that it's aversion to garlic due to its vampirical life as an unapologised parasite may be seen as cruel and unusual and are suggesting a whitethorn stake to the heart to avoid any future disturbance.
Can the last person to leave remember to turn the lights out.
Good night all! Fun while it lasted, now the joke is funny no longer...
ReplyDeleteIf Grafter really died it wouldn't just spare us having to see his shitty 'art' ever again, plus a whole African village could survive for months off of the food the fat cunt consumes every day. So come on Grafter, you lump of sweaty stinking fecal matter in human form...do the decent thing and rig up a hosepipe from your cab exhaust straight into your blubbery dribbling mouth.
ReplyDeleteJust curious, what have been the worst drops in value for a piece of art or a particular artist?
ReplyDeleteWhere to start? Most urban art you couldn't even give away nowadays. Charity shops would laugh at you if you tried to donate it.
ReplyDeletenick walker
ReplyDeleteAdam Neate
ReplyDeleteHerakut
Ian Francis
Antony Micallef
Hush
Copyright
Holly Thoburn
Dan Baldwin
Jose Parla
Case
Anthony Lister
Dalek
Labrona
Guy Denning
Etc... Fuck it, all of 'em!
Worst value drops in Urban Art. Banksy.
ReplyDeleteNot sure how you work that out jp you moron, even his secondary market print prices for newer prints are woth 10 times their cost price. I won't even bother mentioning the sky high value of older prints like rude copper, gwb and crish with shopping bags.
ReplyDeleteA Ricky Gervais Twitter follower I see. The biggest value drops don't have to be from primary. Idiot.
ReplyDeleteKate - Auction High £90k+ :)
Kate - Auction Low £25k :(
Kate 6 colourways - Auction High £200K+ :)
Kate 6 colourways - Auction Low £100k unsold :(
I can see why you are Jboy's art advisor.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI'm from Brussels and my first impression is that Street Art here is dead as well. What do you think about Street Art in Brussels? Grts
Stefan
Depends how you measure it, purely in terms of amount of cash then those Banksy items mentioned would win, because they were higer priced to start with. But in percentage terms they've only suffered a 100% drop, whereas other stuff has lost much more than that. Works by Grafter for example were around 300 quid if I remember rightly, now you'd be lucky to find anyone willing to pay a fiver for one.
ReplyDeletesame goes for faile
ReplyDeleteYeah, that doesn't really surprise me. Faile were always gonna plummet in value once people realised that pasting a load of old comic book and magazine clippings together in photoshop isn't really that hard to do. That's aside from the fact that it looks like cheap nasty tat anyway. There's only so long anyone can string out a weak idea, and I guess the gimmick got old.
ReplyDeleteHey everyone,
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to share with you these
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Campbarbossa greatest hits!
ReplyDeleteHerakut 2009 £5K - Herakut 2011 50p
Holly Thoburn 2009 £3K - Thoburn 2011 25p
Case 2008 £2.5K - Case 2011 £500
Labrona 2008 £3.5K - Labrona 2011 -55p
Mabs and Dyla 2011 £5K - Dumb and Dumber 2013 Fuck all!
Best dealer of all time!
Thwats unfair! Our Fwanky has promoted many a top artist..... Other, and faith 47. watch out for his new web site with his new girlfwend.
ReplyDeletemoniker sold what little left of their tawdry soul to promote a adidas show! People queing up to look at trainers set in a gallery setting, ha ha!
ReplyDeleteFiner side of urban art indeed! X