tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36507478164447241442011-12-14T19:11:38.086-08:00The blog of photographer Charlene Weisler who chronicles urban street art and creates Urban Montage photographs. Her portfolio is currently on view at www.CharleneWeisler.comCharlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02105510063783219567noreply@blogger.comBlogger851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650747816444724144.post-34040581890574515882010-03-30T08:24:00.000-07:002010-03-30T08:24:01.183-07:00

I guess in the middle of winter I have the beach on my mind. Here is another example of beach art. One could say this is just like street art - amazingly creative and very transitory. http://incredibleworld.net/2009/12/daniel-burens-beach-art-the-illusion-of-a-forest-on-the-beach/ Daniel Buren’s Beach Art: The Illusion of a Forest On The Beach

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From Incredible World website: Andrew van der Merwe is a professional calligrapher and letter artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. In last six years of his work he was working on a developing his original technique of the beach calligraphy. He considers himself as the world’s first professional beach calligrapher. His artworks are made by carving letters in the beach sand. Here you can see

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Should we try this on the side of a building....?

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Why is it that when a street artist creates art on the street it is criminal but when an advertiser does it, it is acceptable and even legal. Take the recent ad campaign from Mini Amsterdam. Just after Christmas, the company created "trash piles" on Amsterdam streets of used ribbons, crumpled wrapping paper, and large cardboard boxes that appeared to be Mini Cooper packaging. As you can see in

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Keiji Ando is a young, trend-setting pioneer in the new art of Sneaker Painting. Using Reeboks and Nikes as unlikely canvases, Keiji meticulously hand-paints customized designs and illustrations on each sneaker, ultimately turning each pair into a work of collectible art. Sneaker art has been around for a while but I haven't found anything as personalized as this that is being offered to the

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Just in time for Valentine's Day, I have just published a collection of NYC Street Art photographs with a love theme called Street Art of Love. It is available through Lulu. Check it out: Street Art of Love is a collection of NYC street art photographs with a love theme. Photographer Charlene Weisler captures these fleeting and evolving images as part of her Urban Montage portfolio.

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The jury is still out on this concept for me. This is their plug. What do you think? You like fine art. You like graffiti. You like nice restaurants. Gee, if only someone put them all together... Say hello to Baru Urbano, your new supper club with a splash of street art, opening tomorrow night in Mary Brickell Village.

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I always liked sweethearts candy - not to eat, but to save and use in collage. I liked the messages like "Love Me" and the pastel colors. Ah but all of that is changing apparantly. NECCO the makers of sweethearts has changed the flavors and the sayings to make everything so contempo. And so, I am filled with contempo too. Why change a good thing? And they have also changed the sayings, now to

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This just in from the LA Times: The movie doesn’t appear anywhere in the Sundance Film Festival’s catalogue. Outside a small circle of ultra-secretive confidantes, nobody knows its director’s identity and whereabouts. And the film’s place in the Sundance schedule wasn’t even announced until last week. That hasn’t stopped acclaimed British street artist Banksy's “Exit Through the Gift Shop” from

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Michael Anderson is a collector of graffiti stickers - the ones that you can pass on the street almost anywhere in NYC. What he did, however, is rather unusual. He would carefully peel them off and save them. Started in the early 1990's, Anderson has what he terms as the largest collection of graffiti stickers ever. Who can argue when he has over 40,000 of them?But then, what do you do with all

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Mr. Rudy's blog on art (called Artsindrom) contains some graffiti and also some other street art / transitory art / people's art posts. Great blog - visit it often! I looove the post on cappucino cream designs. Amazing!

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Check out this great street art inspired blog.

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I enjoy visiting the Web Urbanist site and just discovered a great retrospective of 3-D street art drawings. They say: Three dimensional drawing nothing new – the concept itself dates back to the Greeks in the 5th Century BC – but employing perspectival techniques on such a huge scale and with such a broad scope is a much more recent innovation. Some 3D street art takes up dozens of feet of

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Web Urbanist is a great website that covers urban activity in general and art in particular. This specific link takes you to a page of various street artwork - stencil, light and paint - that has humor, outrage and overall energy. Check it out. "As graffiti and technology evolve alongside one another more and more innovative street artists are mixing media to create radical hybrids of graffiti

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Graffiti-Style Beer Ads Anger Parents It used to be Joe Camel. Now advertisers are getting into graffiti type advertising to entice kids to use products. Graffiti-style malt liquor ads are drawing fire from parents and anti-blight advocates in a city known for its colorful murals. Colt 45  is the most recent culprit. The ads for Colt 45 malt liquor show comic book-style characters clutching

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Star Wars graffiti? What will they think of next?

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In case of making a tatoo one Russian proverb comes in very handy. The proverb we are talking about is ” you must measure seven times before you start cutting”. In English there are similiar phrases like, ” score twice before you cut once”. (Although in Russian, they warn to think seven times before acting.) Thinking, scoring and planning are especially important in regard to a tattoo. For

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The Museum of Modern Art now offers their audio tours from any smartphone which means that you can either visit the museum and give yourself a tour or you can listen to the audio from the comfort of your home. Whichever way you listen, this is a great resource for understanding and appreciating art. www.moma.org/wifi

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Graffiti Artists, Kings of Walls, Now Dress Windows. Several graffiti artists have been recruited to create  graffiti based paintings as a backdrop to Lord & Taylor’s windows along Fifth Avenue, following in the footsteps of other artists like Red Grooms and Larry Rivers whose work has appeared at the flagship store. This happened last year. I hope they do it again.

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Not only was it a massive wall, The Berlin Wall was also one of the major graffiti / street art venues of Europe if not the world. Yes it is good that the wall is down, but did so much great art 9much of it political) need to be destroyed? For the nilhillist in you, you can recreate the destruction at http://www.fallberlinwall.com/ where through texting you can knock down the wall yet again.

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Bomb It - the link is here -  is a great video about history of graffiti and street art in the city of Los Angeles.

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Who doesn't know Banksy? He is an English graffiti artist who's work can be seen all over the world. I love this collection of Banksey British street art - some of which I have never seen before.

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A must view - Here is a great video on graffiti that is amazing and beautiful. Not only is it a range of amazing images, it also shows the ephermal life of graffiti in fast forward. Incredible, creative and beautiful images are paintd over in the span of seconds. Keep watching and you will alwyas see something new. Bravo to http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ This video from the art group

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I never knew that they made spray paint specifically for graffiti. In fact I didn't know there was a need for such a product. A company in Barcelona Spain called MTN (Montana) makes specific markers and spray paint for graffiti and there is a store called Art Primo where you can buy spray caps designed to give you specific lines used in graffiti. Since graffiti is illegal in most places I wonder

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I just read that Los Angeles is destroying what is believed to be the largest piece of graffiti in the nation. A contractor for the US Army Corps of Engineers began painting over the gigantic "MTA" on the concrete bank of the Los Angeles River. "MTA" stands for Metro Transit Assassians" and is 57 feet high and one-third of a mile long. Is nothing sacred??

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You know that wierd self propelling vacuum called Roomba? Well it is creating art. So let's file this not under "street art" but under "living room" art. Roomba art. As far as we can tell, the trend started on a blog called Signal Theorist, who got the idea to set up a camera, turn off all the lights, and take a long-exposure photo of the Roomba's path as it "did its thing." The result looked

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Now here is a new twist to art. Data visualization as conducted by supercomputers help illustrate very large databases and create fascinating and beautiful images. A full article on the subject was covered in The Futurist Magazine in July/August 2009 issue. Isn't this gorgeous??

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Just like renegade street art that places art beyond the usual boundaries, I find the concept of forbidden photography compelling. Check out strictly no photography which is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. Here you can see everything you've ever wanted to see

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I like Philadelphia and I like it even more now that I have discovered that they have a Mural Arts program that creates neighborhood murals throughout the city. Here it is, right from their site: The Mural Arts Program works with more than 100 communities each year to create murals that reflect the culture of Philadelphia's neighborhoods. Mural projects often include stabilization of abandoned

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Just read a great post on a blogger Tony Quan who suffers from ALS. His friends found a way for him to tag using his eye movements. Here are the details: The EyeWriter project is on ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies. The project began in Los Angeles, Caifornia in 2009, when members of the GRL, FAT, OF and TEG

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David Hockney is creating art ("small paintings") on his iphone. Other artists are using computers and other high tech techniques. Is digital art the next wave? The New York Times says yes, well sort of. There may be some pioneers - collectors, galleries and artists - who are working and collecting in the digital space but how is the art delivered? Currently through DVD's that need to be loaded

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I just returned from a vacation in Ireland and found some nice examples of street art in both Limerick and Dublin. Here are some photos:From a skateboard park in Limerick  From the sidestreets of Dublin:

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Spinstertoo has a great selection of graffiti photos - mostly from Australia, it seems. Check it out here: Spinsteroo

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I have seen this in various forms - laser shows on the sides of buildings, for example. But I have not heard of light being used in a three dimensional type of way from a graffiti artist. I am not especially happy that this is linked to an advertising campaign but am sufficiently impressed that it looks so neat. It is your call, folks:Photographer Michael Bosanko swapped spray cans for

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Street art by any name has to include houses and structures. So when I saw an article on Kevin Bauman's 100 Abandoned Houses series, I thought - "Yes - this is street art!"Photographer Kevin Bauman embarked on an ambitious project. He began photographing Detroit's abandoned and deteriorating houses back in the late 1990s. His intention was to create a record of a Detroit past - a time of splendid

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Here is an article from the San Francisco Chronicle discussing the finer points of street art vs graffiti. As for me, I see little difference - unless you want to get nit picky. In my mind, graffiti is essentially spray paint while street art uses wheatpaste, stensil and stickers. However I think an argument can be made that says that graffiti is anything applied illegally or surreptitously in

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Mark Mawson has a new twist on an established idea. Splashing paint around has been a standard artistic approach ever since Jackson Pollock made his name with it in the 1950s. But by dropping the paint into water instead of onto a canvas, Mawson has arrived at a startlingly new look.The 41-year-old, from London, has been taking pictures for 22 years but only recently came up with the eye-catching

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Happy Bastille Day! What better way to celebrate the revolution than with a celebration of street art - art of the masses!This link to ArtSlant offers a great article on a Paris gallery graffiti show. Paris has been an especially great place to exhibit street art as JonOne's exhibit at the Magda Danysz Gallery will attest.Whenever I think of the French Revolution I can't help but think of my most

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I have recently discovered a street theater company who perform free for the public on the streets of New York City. Shakespeare in the Parking Lot is a troupe of accomplished actors who perform Shakespeare plays in a municipal parking lot on Ludlow Street and Broome Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This is street art in a performance form - gritty, loud, expert and daring. Bring your

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Jill Magid decorates police cameras and calls them "Glam Cams". It is a great example of street art, akin to yarnbombing.Here is an Introduction to her work:I seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures. The systems I choose to work with- such as police, secret services, CCTV, and forensic identification, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and

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Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird is as close to street art music as I have found recently. Are they revolutionaries or counter-revolutionaries? You decide:

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The Forward newspaper reported on an unusual art exhibition which asked the question, if you were to send us a photographical part of your body, what would that be? It is called HomeBase and it is located in a dilapidated old medical clinic on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. HomeBase IV is a free exhibition and part of the 14th Street Y LABA Festival, in which a dozen former exam rooms in the

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Iz The Wiz was a prolific graffiti artist plying his trade in New York City in the 1970s and ’80s. His work decorated the New York subways with a large “Iz the Wiz” tag. His work could be seen all over the subway system: fat capital letters spray-painted on a door, below a window, across an entire car or even along the full length of a train. Iz the Wiz was a legend among graffiti artists, by

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The Village Voice reports this graffiti based travelling art show. Check it out:J'Aime Graffiti BY ARACELI CRUZ Helenbeck Gallery curators and twin sisters Chantal and Brigitte Helenbeck have a distinct love for the French Revolution and contemporary art. So much so that they've decked out their galleries, based in New York and Paris, in certified antique Louis XIV furniture, crystal chandeliers,

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My list of the top ten best emerging artists blogs appeared on Blogs.com It was very tough to choose but my favorites are: 1. Art Brut and Outsider Art 2. The Arteur 3. The Wooster Collective4. New-Art5. Post Secret6. Artists Who Blog7. William Wray8. Happy Famous Artists9. Caroline Marine10. Other Things

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There is something to be said for the pure essence of graffiti. The "scrawls" and short tags that seem to crop up everywhere. I have to admit that I like some of them and am unimpressed with others. But there are a few that have a wonderful lyricism and grace. Here are a couple of examples:

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Trolling through the internet yielded these interesting graffiti based sites. In no particular order:http://www.kontraband.co.uk/pics/15790/Geeky-Grafiti/http://www.terracycle.net/graffiti.htm

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The thing I love about graffiti is that it will reflect (or some might say drive) the times. NPR just had a story about what they termed "Recession Graffiti" - how graffiti has taken on a political hue. But I say "Recession Graffiti" is just another way of saying "Graffiti". All street art is political and relevant.

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Bill Powers is a legend in the East Village of New York CIty. His beautiful mosaics adorn public lamp posts, street planters and even stoops and doorways. Bill lives a precarious existence however, having lost his apartment and living on the streets for a time. We met him on the corner of First Avenue and 8th Street with his dog Jessie Jane. Bill showed us his "Rudy Guliani move" - the move Bill

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Just read this from Cool News. It used to be that artists were invited into neighborhoods as a way to speed gentrification, pushing out current residents and eventually, as the developers got involved, pushing out the artists too. Hopefully we are seeing some change in that process. Can't we all live together? Maybe this is the change we need:"Artists have become the occupiers of last resort ...

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Who says that you can't get a street art feel from ceramics? Of course you can! Adams Puryear, whose fabulous ceramic vessels were on display at New York City's Greenwich House Pottery, has a great "low-brow art" (a term I personally object to but oh well) look to his work that is reminiscent of the vibrant creativity we see in graffiti and street art. See for yourself.

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Michael Toenges is a Cologne, Germany based artist whose paintings make great use of color and light. As he explained at his solo exhibition at the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, MA a couple of weeks ago, he paints in twilight type of darkness. And indeed, when the gallery lights were lowered, the paintings glowed.Michael said that he grew up in Germany where there is "northern light" as

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Martina Secondo Russo is the artist who painted the wonderful women who form the basis of my bathing beauty photos. Other unknown artists added some flourishes to her work that then created a new series of artworks. Martina emailed me with the background to the bathing beauty series and also sends a link to her website which is terrific! I love her work! Please visit her site to see her art:

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We used to call Marvin "The Mayor of Greenwich Village". That is until he moved to the very trendy Lower East Side. He used to be a gallery owner, representing some of the best emerging artists of the time. Now he is an accomplished poet whose work is haunting, despairing and cutting. Just like one needs a biscotti with every cup of espresso, art needs poetry. Marvin is a fitting cresendo close

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Just like the Papa Loves Baby tags, I am sensing a trend with the tag Love Me. Who is this great desirer of love? What is the backstory? As always, your comments are welcome.

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My latest solo show of my Urban Montage photographs is currently at the Kevin Barry Gallery located at 25 Victory Blvd in Staten Island, New York City. The show runs from April 16-June 11, 2009. This past Thursday night, April 16, was the opening night reception. The party drew close to 90 art enthusiasts who drank, ate and helped tag the entry wall. A special thanks to Kamillah Hanks, Executive

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Is street performance street art? I say yes. Here is a video of a group of street performaers who create theater in NYC streets and venues. In this video they had brunch on a NYC subway train. From business meeting to surprise party, the "play" rolls through Manhattan into Brooklyn as curious onlookers .... errr the audience of riders .... looks on.Check it out:

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Art and poetry are cut from the same cloth. Put a poem in your pocket and help celebrate Poetry month in NYC this April. There will be slams aplenty and where there are slams, there is street art. What will your poem be? In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, New York City is hosting the 7th annual Poem In Your Pocket day (PIYP) on Thursday, April 30, 2009. Be part of the excitement by

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Street Art? Subway Art? Subway Gallery Opening? It is all related! is the site for a group of artists - performance and art. They are the ones behind the no-pants subway ride. Their October "opening" was announced via a platform sign:and included such work as a Bravo cable TV ad, a pay phone and a gate (which had a red dot indicating a sale).Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in

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Okay, I am just cutting and pasting this short blurb in today's New York Times. Recognition for the street artists at last!March 30, 2009Arts, BrieflyToasting Graffiti Artists Compiled by LARRY ROHTERIt’s not quite the same as having one of your paintings in the Louvre, but a French exhibition, above, is enhancing the international recognition of graffiti artists. Among those honored in the show,

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File this under memorial art but it is also a type of street art. The Triangle Chalk Project commemorates the women and men who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911. This horrific fire which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers - mostly young immigrant women - helped launched the unionization of the industry. The company employed approximately 600 workers, mostly young

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Papa Loves Baby. And how! I have seen Papa Loves Baby all over New York - all around downtown and into parts of Brooklyn. Who is Papa? And who is Baby? What is their story? Anyone out there know?

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The new movie Watchman had graffiti based advertising campaign. While I liked the movie I did not appreciate the faux-graffiti all over town saying "Who Is Watching The Watchmen". I think that this type of campaign contributes to the idea that street art is blight and makes it more difficult to see graffiti as an art form to be welcomed and appreciated.But there was one bit of Watchmen movie

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5Pointz in Long Island City, Queens, New York is an extraordinary place where many street and emerging artists have gallery space. It is a series of industrial buildings covered with street art. Here is a short snippet of the ever changing work on the outside of the buildings which was taken in January 2009. But the best way to see this magnificant living art project is in person.

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Four small artist proof versions of my photographs were part of a large group inaugural show at the Art Raw Gallery on 210 11th Avenue, #905, in the Chelsea art district of New York City. The opening night on February 19th was too crowded with 300+ artists and their friends and family attending. It was hard to move around, some work was not yet hung and some of the lighting needed to be adjusted.

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Before the pooper scooper laws in NYC there was an artist who would quietly and stealthily add whipped cream and a cherry on top of the mounds and mounds of dog poop that lined Minetta Street in Greenwich Village NYC. I wish I had a photo of that because it looked amazing!Many years and a pooper-scooper-law-in-place later, there is a new dog poop decorater in town now on Manhattan's Upper East

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11 Spring street was once the hub of downtown street art and, before the building was turned into a luxury condo, the owners of the building offered the space to street artists - both as an inside and exterior exhibition space - for a long weekend event as curated by the Wooster Collective. It was extraordinary event.This photo to the left is of the exterior before the place was discovered as a

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I don't read a lot of books and I am not sure about this one but the subject certainly grabs me. The new book in question is called "Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tags in New York's Urban Underground" by Gregory Snyder through the New York University Press.Author Gregory Snyder is a Baruch College sociologist and has done years of research on the subject, hanging out with graffiti writers, earning

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John Wellington is a wonderful NYC based painter whose haunting work contains many disparate elements including Asian popular culture that is blended in a surrealistic way with New York City. And there is also a political leif motif. Well don't listen to me. View the video and hear it from the artist himself. This video was taken at his gallery opening called "Going For B'roque" on February 13,

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KAWS is a street artist from the late 1990s who now has a successful line of clothing and a partnership with a toy company in Tokyo. He is best know for his bus stop and advertising altering wheatpastes. Here is an example from 1997:

Charlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02105510063783219567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650747816444724144.post-78949837572121990582009-02-06T07:16:00.000-08:002009-02-06T08:06:02.303-08:00

What will they think of next?Street artists (well I think of them as street artisits) have been re-programming electronic road warning signs and changing the messages. Instead of saying "Roadwork Ahead" or "Traffic Problem Ahead", the signs might read "Daily Lane Closures Due to Zombies" or "Nazi Zombies Ahead".I love this. Altering the status quo with clever, subversive and sometimes funny work

Charlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02105510063783219567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650747816444724144.post-60845620701112742902009-02-05T14:58:00.001-08:002009-02-06T07:13:41.345-08:00

Well here is an interesting twist to the now very famous and revered Obama portrait by Shepard Fairey. Associated Press says that Fairey infringed on their copyright - his street art inspired portrait of the President was lifted from an AP photo of Obama.What do you think?A poster of President Barack Obama, right, by artist Shepard Fairey is shown for comparison with this April 27, 2006 file

Charlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02105510063783219567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650747816444724144.post-76401839636135024912009-01-28T13:37:00.001-08:002009-01-28T13:41:22.891-08:00

Some folks will tout this as a good thing but I disagree!I think I will visit Astoria....Civilians, cops tag-team vs. graffitiBY NICHOLAS HIRSHON DAILY NEWS WRITERTuesday, January 27th 2009, 1:00 AMQueens has made major strides in the war on vandalism. Graffiti complaints dropped dramatically across the borough in 2008 — including a 20% decline in Queens’ northern precincts — even as citywide

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First a program on his work on Ovation and now an artist in the Smithsonian? I love the fact that Shepard Fairey is getting the recognition he deserves. His work is amazing and a treat to see on the streets of New York and Miami (and probably many other cities as well).This article in today's New York Times however demonstrates how a street artist can achieve (and should achieve) the pinnacle of

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Graffiti artists use a variety of materials in their work - stensils, paint, stickers, wheatpaste. But now they are adding yarn! It's all the rage in Britain and it is called Yarnbombing aka Knit Graffiti. Yarn is wrapped, knitted or otherwise used to decorate (or tag) buses, street signs, mailboxes or really anything that a regular tagger would hit. What will they think of next?!Check out the

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Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is having a group show of 140 artists. I went to the opening the other night and the exbitit was great! One particular artist deserves mention - Rudy Gyselings. His work is very much related to street art. In fact, he and I had a show together at the 3rdRail Studio in Westchester in 2007 called "Wall Scrawl: A 360 degree Exploration of Street Art". Here

Charlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02105510063783219567noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650747816444724144.post-61799084858280709162008-12-28T14:35:00.000-08:002009-01-10T14:22:25.388-08:00

One of my favorite street artists is Judith Supine whose beautiful, disturbing and political wheatpaste collages enhanced downtown Manhattan for a couple of years. He is a man of mystery but has graciously posted a video of his artistic process on YouTube. Here is the link. Enjoy!He has since disappeared and is greatly missed. Where are you, Judith Supine?

Charlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02105510063783219567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650747816444724144.post-69342305188412162008-11-23T13:09:00.000-08:002008-11-24T08:35:32.324-08:00

Here is an incredible movie of my Urban Montage photography created by the incredible MaryJane Harris. It takes a minute or so to load. Enjoy!

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As far as labels go, Xavier Prou might not fit the exact profile of a street artist. And yet I have seen his large Rats on the walls of NYC buildings recently. He has a show at the gallery of my dreams - The Jonathan LeVine Gallery on 20th Street in the Chelsea Gallery District of NYC. Prou's work is highlighted in Creativity Magazine at this link: http://creativity-online.com/?action=news:

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Dr Douglas Frayn is a psychoanalyst who writes for Toronto Now Magazine. He has a recent article on Toronto graffiti and writes on it from a psychological perspective:As noted from earliest cave-man's markings, individuals have depicted their hopes and fears through art. Graffiti is a graphic art form of contemporary underground language. A "graffito" is a rough drawing or bit of lettering

Charlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02105510063783219567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650747816444724144.post-22660821112863725462008-09-28T14:56:00.001-07:002008-10-10T13:16:22.373-07:00

Finally, a city that appreciates the work of its artists.And bravo too to the Tate Gallery:Sao Paulo artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo obliged London's Tate Gallery by painting their distinctive yellow graffiti on outside walls of the museum. Just a month later, their hometown began rolling gray paint across one of the brothers' murals as part of cleanup efforts.Officials did an abrupt

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This link http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/08/some-of-worlds-strangest-fences.htmlhas some of the strangest and yet most beautiful fences. Since graffiti / street art is not everywhere, these examples of "street" art (or fence art) are related to what I do in more urban settings.What do you think?

Charlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02105510063783219567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650747816444724144.post-81394353547626978752008-09-19T05:34:00.000-07:002008-09-19T05:40:37.424-07:00

I think this might be old news but I just saw this on Artkrush:Charleston native Shepard Fairey, receiving lots of attention for his Obama posters touting Hope and Progress, was arrested in Denver during the DNC convention, according to the Denver Westword News. Fairey was in the process of hanging posters advertising his gallery show when police in full riot gear approached him. In a video

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As the new art season gets going, I too am expanding and revitalizing my art, beginning with a revamp of my website and the addition of this blog. My intent in launching the blog is to jot down my observations on how the street art scene is changing, adapting, breaking out or, sadly in some cases, disappearing.In New York City, for example, gentrification is wiping out many of my favorite

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