Streets: World Roundup (Feb 21 – July 10)

July 10, 2016, 9:32 pm

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It's been quite some time since our last Streets World Roundup feature so now's as good a time as ever to review some of the street art around the world that you may have missed in the last few months. Leading things off is a mural entitled Trumpty Dumpty that Ron English (featured) recently painted with the help of the Bushwick Collective, Mana Urban Arts, and Jonathan LeVine Gallery that make his political views clear. Other notable work come from Shok-1 (UK), Mobstr (UK), El Mac (Morocco), Pantonio (Morocco), Freeuno (Spain), Brendan Monroe (USA), Nevercrew (France), Telmo Miel (Netherlands), Borondo (Ukraine), Bik Ismo (Montreal), Sainer from Etam Cru (Germany), Bezt from Etam Cru (Belgium), Phlegm (UK), Veks Van Hillik (France), RISK x DR. DAX (USA), and The London Police (USA). [caption id="attachment_303350" align="aligncenter" width="1067"] Shok-1 - "MasterPeace" painted in response to hostilities arriving form the UK's EU referendum.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303353" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Mobstr in London.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303355" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] El Mac in Morocco for the "Igloo Hong" project.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303357" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Pantonio for Street Art Caravan in Safi, Morocco.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303358" align="aligncenter" width="827"] Freeuno in for Urban Art Festival of Mar Menor in Murcia, Spain.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303361" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] Brendan Monroe in Oakland, California.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303362" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Nevercrew in Grenoble, France for the Grenoble Street Art Fest.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303364" align="aligncenter" width="1876"] Telmo Miel in Rotterdam.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303365" align="aligncenter" width="1368"] Borondo in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo by Maksim Belousov.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303367" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Bik Ismo for Mural Festival in Montreal. Photo by @halopigg.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303376" align="aligncenter" width="1699"] Sainer from Etam Cru in Mannheim, Germany.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303377" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Bezt from Etam Cru - "Wolves" for North West Walls, in Werchter, Belgium.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303378" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Phlegm for the Colours Festival in Digbeth, Birmingham in England.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303379" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Veks Van Hillik in France. Via StreetArtNews.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303380" align="aligncenter" width="960"] RISK x DR. DAX in New Orleans. Via Supersonic Art.[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_303381" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The London Police for the Coney Art Walls in Coney Island, NY.[/caption]

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Streets: Deih // North West Walls (Belgium)

July 11, 2016, 6:52 pm

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Recently during the Rock Werchter Festival of Belgium, Deih was invited to paint some stacked metal storage containers for the North West Walls event. Working well with the unique painting surface, the Spanish street artist chose to create some of his signature otherworldly comic-inspired imagery with an upside down character. He further explains his piece - "We, humans, only can watch at Cosmos' face trapped by our limit´s perception. We will follow trying to understand it although I think we are not able to think in that strange way in which Cosmos developed himself." Discuss Deih here.

Recap: World Street Painting 2016 (Arnhem)

July 11, 2016, 9:53 pm

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Over the last week, artists from around the world gathered in Arnhem in the Netherlands for third World Street Painting Festival. With the theme of the Olympics in mind, artists Leon Keer, Tracy Lee Stum, Adry del Rocio and Carlos Alberto, Vera Bugatti, Luigi Legno, Remko van Schaik, Tomoteru Saito, Gregor Wosik, Eduardo Relero, Ruben Poncia, Alex Maksiov, David ter Horst, Maureen Kolhoff, Jena Fiers, Marianne Schokkenbroek got to work on their anamorphic three dimensional street paintings - chalk in hand. As you can see from the piece from Keer above, he decided to focused on the less savory aspects of the Olympic Games.

Streets: Blu (Ljubljana)

July 12, 2016, 5:59 pm

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Italian artist and activist Blu visited Slovenia last month in order to support the efforts of the local Rog Factory (Tovarna Rog) squat in their fight against the municipality of Ljubljana. During his stay, the street artist painted a strong piece depicting a gun created out of different tools, instruments and equipment used by the squatters, symbolizing their strength in their fight against the capital. This old bicycle factory has been abandoned since the downfall of Yugoslavia until 2006. For the last decade, it served as a base for different non-profit activities (solidarity actions, safe spaces for refugee self-organization), as well as hosting art & craft studios, used as an indoor skate park, circus practice ground, social center, gym, etc. Due to its central location, the municipality of Ljubljana is now trying to gentrify the area along with the rest of the downtown area. According to their plan, parts of the complex would be demolished and turner into profitable purpose facilities and institutionalized art spaces. These efforts culminated on the 6th of June at 03:15 in the morning, when a security company hired by the municipality stormed into the Rog with a bulldozer in order to 'secure' the space and to turn it into a construction site. The squat community managed to defend the place, the same way they defended it from neo-nazi attackers only a few days later. After these events, the Blu showed his support by painting an effective mural that symblozes the strength of these individuals. By using ropes to hang on the facade of the large building, he created a large pink/red gun formed from such weapons as skateboards, tools, instruments, pens, brushes, bicycle tiers, etc. Photo credit by rtvslo.si / siol.net. Discuss Blu here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDhNRra6t7g

POW! WOW! Long Beach ’16 / Streets: Update (Part 1)

July 12, 2016, 10:27 pm

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The second edition of POW! WOW! Long Beach is underway with artists painting in the streets as well as inside the Long Beach Museum of Art for the upcoming Vitality & Verve: In The Third Dimension show (covered). Here's a look at some of the public art going up before our eyes (map here) featuring some of this year's participants including Andrew Hem, Cinta Vidal, Ernest Zacharevic (seen above), Felipe Pantone, Hula, Pantonio, Sarah Joncas, and Yoskay Yamamoto (see full list here). Photo credit: @bshigeta. Discuss POW! WOW! Long Beach here.

Streets: Pejac (London)

July 12, 2016, 10:46 pm

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Only 10 days ahead of his big London debut, Pejac released another fresh intervention created recently on the streets of British capital. As a response to Brexit and it's causes and consequences, the Spanish artist came up with yet another fresh concept to comment on the sensitive sociopolitical issue. Borrowing a title from the iconic British band Oasis, Don't Look Back in Anger is a recreation of Van Gogh’s Starry Night scratched with car keys on a hood of a black Jaguar. Mixing vandalism and fine art while using such a strong British icon as his canvas, he is cleverly playing with the title of the work, while expressing his own anger about the situation. Aware that passion leads to destruction, but also motivates creativity, this original piece both speaks about the fragility of wealth and power, and the strength of individuals in such circumstances. Pejac's solo show Law of The Weakest is opening in London on July 22nd and will stay on view for only 9 days. Discuss Pejac here.

Streets: Sebas Velasco (Kiev)

July 14, 2016, 12:13 pm

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Week after week, new murals are being painted all around Kiev as a part of the ongoing ArtUnitedUs festival curated by Geo Leros, Iryna Kanishcheva and Waone Interesni Kazki. Sebas Velasco was one of the artists that recently visited the Ukrainian capital and left his mark on its urban landscape. For this piece, Spanish artist picked a selection of his personal photographs showing different images of the city featuring night lights, graffiti, typography and architecture, as well as a portrait of a friendly local that invited the artist for dinner. More focused on brush work, choice of color, line work or texture, rather than message or the story behind the image, Velasco paid tribute to local realistic painters from the beginning of the 20th century. Along with the unusual composition of this collage-like work, its the great effect of nightlights that make this work stand out, which is further accented with the neon light over the character's eyes.

Streets: Nychos (Rhode Island)

July 15, 2016, 8:06 pm

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This week in Providence, Nychos continued his hectic schedule with a snow leopard mural for the INFLUX public art festival put on by The Avenue Concept. The nonprofit organization working to bring sustainable public art to Rhode Island welcomed in the Austrian artist (with the help of INOPERAbLE) to paint his distinctive cartoonish dissected imagery for the project concentrated in two locations - downtown Providence and the “Cultural Corridor” between Classical and Central High Schools. Take a look at more photos of the piece below... Photo credit: INOPERAbLE, The Avenue Concept, and the artist. Discuss Nychos here.

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Overtime: July 11 – July 17

July 17, 2016, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended July 17 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Patrick Jackson's Drawings and Reliefs at Ghebaly Gallery is an Artforum Critic's Pick.
• RIP: Alan Vega, who passed away at the age of 78.
• RIP: Bill Jones, who passed away at the age of 81.
• RIP: Gabrielle "Gabby" Tillman, who passed away at the age of 23 after taking her own life.
• RIP: Harold E. "Hank" Muma, who died at the age of 94 due to respiratory failure
• Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement demand that galleries leave Boyle Heights.
• LITER arrested for defacing a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Venice just before Memorial Day.
• New evidence further proves that van Gogh cut off his ear and that his mental illness hampered his work.
• Hannelore K. damages Arthur Köpcke by using a ballpoint pen to "solve" his crossword artwork.
• Human Rights Foundation strips Pyotr Pavlensky of the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent.
• Parviz Tanavoli faces charges in Tehran of disturbing the peace. They are based on the content of his artwork.
• More Banksy street stenciled works destroyed by construction workers in Melbourne.
• Art expert vanishes without a trace with an elderly client’s sketch, possibly by Leonardo da Vinci.
• Olivier Thomas indicted again as new evidence emerges in ongoing investigation into stolen Picasso paintings.
• Bloomberg writes about the bitter battle over the Wildenstein art empire.
• Value of sales at Sotheby’s fell 24% during the 1st half of the year, to $2.4bil.
• Corey Menafee faces charges after shattering and destroying stained-glass window depicting working slaves.
• Peter Doig sued for $5mil, over painting he claims that he did not paint.
• Athens Biennale co-director, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, as well as its program director, Massimiliano Mollona, quit.
• Andre Saraiva apologizes for vandalizing Joshua Tree National Park.
• Gina DiSabatino tries to have Nahmads in jail, stemming from depositions related to her divorce proceedings.
• New York Central Art Supply will close by the end of September.
• Holocaust Museum would like visitors to stop catching Pokémon there.
• 5 art-related things you should abstain from doing while traveling.
• Brooke Shields and Will Kurtz rummage through trash to recover artwork mistakenly thrown away.
• The best anti-Trump art from around the world.
• Martin Parr photographs the food under threat from the UK's impending EU exit.
• Rafael Schacter argues that Street Art has come to an end.
• Is social media ruining art?
• 5 things artists shouldn't do.
• How Do Black Lives Matter in MoMA’s Collection? The art world's BLM Instagrams.
• LACMA's attendance rose to 1.4mil. in the past year.
• Review of The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibition.
• Sadiq Khan nominates London Underground logo into the Design Museum permanent collection display.
• Getty Foundation and Rothschild Foundation team up for new joint, annual fellowship.
• The Irish Museum of Modern Art and Hennessy agree to a partnership to create an acquisition fund.
• Museo del Prado unveils video installation based on Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights.
• Takahiro Iwasaki to represent Japan at 2017 Venice Biennale. Samson Young to represent Hong Kong in the show.
• The Contemporary Austin will be host the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, a $100k unrestricted biennial award.
• Helena Newman has been named chairman of Sotheby’s Europe.
• David Bowie's art collection to be sold at Sotheby's. His Sottsass collection is also up for sale.
• Artcurial tops in sales in Paris so far for 2016, beating Christie's and Sotheby's.
• Artnet Auctions offers early Peter Doig work.
• FIAC fair expands into two new spaces.
• Houston Art Fair, under new management, returns in Sept.
• New York Times writes about collecting street art.
• Seventeen Gallery to open in NY on Bowery.
• The collectors that have been driving the trend for super-sized artwork.
• Tico Murgrabi getting married to Colby Jordan.
• Larry's List profiles and interviews Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis.
• Sexy Beast, the gala and art auction that benefits Planned Parenthood, announces 2016 lineup.
• George R.R. Martin invests in Meow Wolf.
• New York Times has an extensive profile of Chuck Close. A list of his most expensive works at auction.
• Barry Schwabsky writes about Nicole Eisenman.
• Danh Vō  to create sprawling installation at White Cube in Hong Kong.
• Part IV of Mark Flood's diary on ARTnews.
• Profile of Sam Gilliam in the Washington Post.
• Deborah Kass creates Warhol Nixon-style anti-Trump art for Hillary Clinton campaign.
• Lucas Samaras' experimentations and artworks using Polaroid film.
• Richard Prince's upcoming marijuana and High Times-themed exhibition at Blum & Poe. Page Six also previews the Green Street Agency-organized project.
• Metro Pictures gallery now represents Oliver Laric.
• Michael Simpson named the winner of the 2016 John Moores painting prize, which includes £25k.
• Robert De Niro takes JR around New York.
• Sotheby's interviews Joel Messler and Adam Abdalla about their partnership and the artist's work.
• How living in Monaco affected Francis Bacon's work.
• Daily Mail writes about 13-year old Kieron Williamson.
• Mike Daisey to have performance work based on Donald Trump.
• Christian Marclay honored with SFMoMA’s 2016 Contemporary Vision Award.
• Julius von Bismarck awarded the city of Wolfburg’s 2017 Art Prize.
• Spencer Tunick's latest photoshoot is in Hull.
• Artinfo visits Intimisms group show at James Cohan.
• Artillery goes to M+B's Please Have Enough Acid in This Dish!” opening.
• Socrates Sculpture Park announces recipients of its 2016 Emerging Artist Fellowship.
• Artsy explores how certain photographs come to define a movement.
• Study shows that Rembrandt used a clever combination of mirrors to create his work.
• Artists and their use of studio assistants.
• Artinfo's list of 7 Young British Designers to Watch Out For.
• Elena Soboleva’s Instagram tips.
• The busy art week in New York.
• Norberto Rodriguez's It’s The Least I Can Do series now available online to purchase from Maitland Foley.
• Jerry Seinfeld learns of Genesis P-Orridge's body transformation.
• When you play Pokémon GO at MoMA.

Streets: James Bullough // Art United Us (Kiev)

July 20, 2016, 6:08 pm

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After sharing with you murals from Rustam Qbic & Sebas Valasco for the Art United Us project in Kiev, we now return with photos of the latest addition to the series of works from James Bullough. The massive undertaking will eventually feature 200 walls painted during the next 2 years around the world to raise public awareness and attention to the problem of war, aggression and violence. Bullough further explains his piece - "At a time when conflict and confusion have a hold in so many corners of the globe, 'Rise' speaks to the ability each of us has within ourselves to transcend the turmoil swirling around us and break free of the chaos caused by others." Discuss James Bullough here.

Overtime: July 18 – July 24

July 24, 2016, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended July 24 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Yanyan Huang - Giardino del Tempo at Tomorrow Gallery featured by Mousse Magazine.
• RIP: Mladen Stilinović, who passed at the age of 69 after battling a serious illness.
• RIP: Billy Name, who passed away at the age of 76. When he turned Andy Warhol's Factory silver.
• RIP: Carlos Nine, who passed away at the age of 72.
• Jeff Koons' studio lays off 14 workers.
• Met Museum might let go of as much as 100 workers after facing huge deficit.
• Jack Shainman Gallery will not reconsider hanging of Dread Scott flag.
• Marc Restellini to publish new Modigliani catalogue raisonné, despite death threats.
• Adolf Hitler’s birthplace and childhood home may either be demolished or turned into a museum.
• Andrew Schoultz & Paul Insect artworks censored and pulled from South Park-themed exhibition.
• Scientific research team retracts findings that say Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde works are a health risk.
• Zara steals Tuesday Bassen's work and sends her a callous response to her letter.
• US federal prosecutors plan to seize $1bil. in assets controlled by fund connected to Jho Low. The prosecutors expose Jho Low’s secret scheme to illicitly aquire $137mil. in art.
• Leigh and Leslie Keno face charges of improper bidding and are accused of not paying for auction items.
• Christie’s 2016 first half sales volume is down by 27.5%.
• Gagosian Gallery settles with State of NY over its failure to pay sales tax on works sold by its CA affiliate.
• KPCC on gentrification in Boyle Heights and how the opening of art galleries may have triggered it.
• Fake or Fortune authenticates Lucian Freud painting, despite the artist having claimed it is not his work.
• Recepient of Van Gogh's ear revealed to be a farmer’s daughter who lived north of Arles, France.
• Brian Whiteley retrieves his Donald Trump tombstone from NYPD after it was confiscated.
• Artnet's guide to the Los Angeles gallery scene, via 5 neighborhoods.
• KPCC covers the first ever Los Angeles Public Art Biennial.
• MTA's new five-year, $27bil. spending plan will bring new art to 31 stations across system in New York.
• 17 summer museum shows that might be worth traveling for in the United States.
• UNESCO lists Le Corbusier's works among its World Heritage Sites.
• Artnet's list of the 10 most respected art dealers in Europe.
• Pokémon Go's popularity in London museums.
• François Pinault to display works from his collection for first time in Germany at Museum Folkwang.
• Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show at Whitechapel Gallery.
• Suhanya Raffel will be the new executive director of M+ Museum.
• Julian Brooks appointed senior curator and head of drawings at Getty Museum.
• Asian Art Museum in SF releases renderings of wHY-designed expansion.
• Rashid Johnson is now the second artist ever named to Guggenheim Foundations’ board.
• Akron Art Museum will launch the Akron Art Library, which will lend out artwork as they would books.
• Smithsonian American Art Museum acquires artworks by Janet Echelman, Maya Lin and Leo Villareal.
• Kanye West collaborating on an art installation piece with Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center benefit gala.
• UCLA graduate studios renovation plans moving forward thanks to donation from Margo Leavin.
• Patton Hindle, Courtney Childress, and RJ Supa open Yours Mine & Ours gallery in LES, NY.
• Leslie Waddington's collection to be offered by Christie's this fall.
• Jane Fonda offering a Warhol portrait and other items in a sale at Julien’s Auctions.
• Bonhams will have two major works by Irma Stern in its Sept 14th sale.
• Artnet covers Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s annual St. Tropez Gala.
• Expo Chicago Announces Expo Video programming schedule.
• Paris’s Outsider Art Fair announces roster of participating galleries.
• A list of the most expensive British artists at auction.
• Artnet's 10 tips for pricing artwork.
• Claus Busch Risvig discusses collecting in the Scandinavian art scene.
• Matthew Barney to recreate Blind Perineum performance at Gladstone Gallery.
• Jessica Silverman Gallery now represents Judy Chicago.
• Andy Warhol's pet portraits.
• The art history behind Deborah Kass's anti-Trump print.
• Frank Gehry exhibits fish sculptures at Gagosian Gallery in Rome.
• 18 female artists share advice to women just starting out in the art world.
• Mnuchin Gallery exhibiting Sean Scully show in Sept.
• Spencer Tunik stages nude photoshoot with 100 women during Republican National Convention. Esquire goes behind the scenes.
• Keith J Varadi reviews Shio Kusaka's show at Blum & Poe.
• LA Times reviews Peter Alexander, Sculpture 1966-2016: A Career Survey at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery.
• Lynzy Blair interviewed in Frank151 about the Night & Day show at Joseph Gross Gallery.
• Logan Hicks is the next artist to create work on the Houston Bowery Wall.
• 10 paid residencies around the world for artists to research and apply to.
• Tate Shop releases new Wolfgang Tillmans works.
• The Pit releases Amando Ross-Ho Eternal Flame limited edition poster.
• Google launches new version of Google Arts & Culture website and app.
• A list of art-related books to take to the beach and read this summer.
• The art history of Donald Trump. Plastic Jesus creates baby border wall for Donald Trump Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Brian Boucher writes about the photo of a Trump supporter in front of Jeff Koons' Michael Jackson and Bubbles.
• Frances Bean Cobain selling her artwork online.

POW! WOW! Long Beach ’16 / Streets: Recap

July 25, 2016, 7:01 am

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With the second edition of POW! WOW! Long Beach successfully completed, it's now time to review the murals painted for the event. The street art festival upgraded itself this year with a more extensive list of artists including 123Klan, Aaron Li-Hill, Andrew Hem, Brendan Monroe, Cinta Vidal, Dave Van Patten, Defer, Dragon76 (seen above), Edwin Ushiro, Ernest Zacharevic, Evah Fan, Felipe Pantone, Gail Werner, Gary Musgrave, Hitozuki, Hula, James Molina, James Haunt, Jeff McMillan, Kaplan Bunce, Karshink, Mr44, OG23, OG Slick, Pantonio, Sarah Joncas, Sket One, Telmo Miel, and Yoskay Yamamoto. Photo credit: @bshigeta (except Hula image by @weerdnaa & 123Klan x OG Slick piece by the artists). Discuss POW! WOW! Long Beach here.

Streets: Invader (Toulouse)

July 26, 2016, 10:10 pm

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Last week, Invader started his first wave of public art in the city of Toulouse with some of his iconic tile-based works. Choosing an appropriate color for his video game-based characters, the French artist glued up ten different pieces in the "Pink City," known for the pinkish terracotta bricks used in its architecture. Toulouse is the 66th city to be "invaded" by the street artist - you can see more in the photos below... Discuss Invader here.

Streets: Sebas Velasco (Rijeka, Croatia)

July 27, 2016, 5:24 pm

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Sebas Velasco recently painted a new mural in the old town of Croatian harbor city of Rijeka. Blending his expressive painterly style with the aged building and its unusual architecture, he created a narrative dedicated to the workers of the city. Invited in by the local Museum of Contemporary Art, the Spanish artist contributed to their ongoing program of creating public works in order to revitalize quiet and forgotten parts of the city. As a busy harbor and railroad intersection, Rijeka has always long been an industrial center point of the region. As such, it attracted people from the region and further, who created their homes and built the city's identity as an unique "port of diversity." With this in mind, Velasco painted a portrait of a local man he met on the first day, along with elements Rijeka's recognizable industrial architecture. Located on a busy intersection in the city center, next to the river and railroad, it speaks about everything that the curators wanted to point out with this project.

Art Focus: Pawel Kuczynski

July 28, 2016, 11:13 pm

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For our latest Art Focus feature, we turn our attention to Polish artist Pawel Kuczynski. As you can see from some examples here, the award winning cartoonist's work dealing with technology and its effect on modern society was what caught our eye, especially his latest piece referencing the Pokémon Go phenomenon. His satirical illustrations touch on other topics too so if you are interested in seeing more, you can take a look at his shop and/or website. Tipped off by @hifructosemag.

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Overtime: July 25 – July 31

July 31, 2016, 4:00 am

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More stories from the week that ended July 31 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Piston Head II show, including a car by Richard Prince (above), comes to Venus Over Los Angeles.
• RIP: S.H. Raza, who passed away at the age of 94.
• RIP: Anne Chu, who passed away at the age of 57 due to cancer.
• RIP: Wendy Snyder MacNeil, who passed away at the age of 72.
• The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Hawaii faces financial troubles and leadership scandal.
• How political instability is negatively impacting the art market in Turkey.
• Swiss authorities seize paintings by Vincent van Gogh and two by Claude Monet amid 1MDB investigation.
• Dede Wilsey out as president of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco following ongoing investigation.
• Louis B. James Gallery closes after five years as owners pursue other projects.
• Hazel O’Leary surreptitiously sold paintings by Florine Stettheimer and Rockwell Kent while at Fisk University.
• Despina Stokou on sexism in the art world.
• Marina Abramović says that having children holds back female artists.
• Zara revealed to have allegedly stolen designs from many more artists.
• Lacy Doyle arrested for evading taxes on $3.5mil. in inheritance.
• Mary Boone Gallery sues Vanessa Buia for misrepresenting the identity of her client.
• Carol M. Highsmith sues Getty Images for $1bil. after it charges her for using own image she has copyright to.
• Orlan loses plagiarism lawsuit against Lady Gaga and is ordered to pay €20k.
• Top executives Paul R. Provost, Nicholas Hall, and Cathy Elkies all leave Christie's.
• Robert Miller Gallery closes Chelsea space and will exhibit in private showroom on the Upper East Side.
• Agnes Husslein-Arco fired as director of Belvedere Museum due to misconduct.
• Despite protests, BP will invest £7.5mil. in new sponsorship deals with four major British cultural institutions.
• Ben Davis discusses How the Rich Are Hurting the Museums They Fund.
• Artnet's list of The 10 Most Controversial Art Projects of the Last Century.
• Long-lost engraving by Albrecht Dürer discovered at flea market and returned to the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.
• Salvador Dalí and Tamara de Lempicka works stolen in '09 from Scheringa Museum of Realist Art recovered.
• Fritz Koenig's Sphere for Plaza Fountain sculpture to return to WTC site.
• High Museum of Art's list of acquisitions for 2015-16.
• The Indianapolis Museum of Art achieves reaccreditation by the AAM — the highest national recognition.
• Detroit Institute of Art launches multimillion-dollar effort to acquire African-American art.
• A look at the 29 works The Broad acquired this year, including works by Oscar Murillo and Jonas Wood.
• J. Tomilson Hill opening private art museum in Chelsea, NY.
• Tehching Hsieh will represent Taiwan at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
• Performa 15 gala shall honor Okwui Enwezor.
• Study by Artprice.com calls China the world's largest art marketplace, following an analysis of auction data.
• Chinese insurer Taikang amasses 13.5% stake in Sotheby’s.
• Choi Seung Hyun, aka T.O.P., to curate a Sotheby's Hong Kong sale.
• Eileen Kinsella reports on the Wright Four Seasons restaurant auction.
• Five art dealers tell the story of how they came to open their gallery.
• Morgan Lehman Gallery will move to a new location, at 534 West 24th Street in Chelsea.
• Larry's List interviews Lio Malca.
• Experts reveal the true hidden message in Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper painting.
• Film about Vincent van Gogh will be the world’s first feature-length oil painted animation.
• Artnet reviews Park Nights performance at Serpentine Gallery with Brian Belott, Jamian Juliano-Villani, more.
• JR's large-scale work for the Rio Olympics.
• Artspace writes about Nan Goldin.
• ART21 premieres Daniel Gordon Looks Back on NOWNESS.
• A musical playlist put together by Mary Heilmann.
• Yanyan Huang's show at Tomorrow is an Artforum Critic's Pick.
• A preview of Mehmet Ali Uysal at Galerie Paris-Beijing.
• GCC show coming to Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
• Air Pop exhibiting meme on canvas works at Sade.
• David Bowie on art and artists.
• The story of Opie Ortiz's Sublime sun logo.
• Dazed Digital's list of the artists to watch right now. Artnet's list of 9 Emerging Artists You Need to Know About Right Now.
• TimeOut's list of 10 NYC artists 35 and under you should know.
• Rain Embuscado's guide to becoming a famous artist.
• Sarah Sascone's Artiquette: 10 Mistakes Not To Make While Promoting Your Art.
• Artinfo's list of the 10 Most Exciting New Buildings Announced in 2016.
• Artnet's list of the 20 most fashionable women in the art world.
• Donald Judd chairs available from Artware Editions.
• Movie in the works about 1972 Worcester Art Museum heist, based on Stealing Rembrandts book.
• Artnet's list of 10 Political Figures Who Resemble Famous Artworks.
• Cantor Fine Art transforms well-known artists into emojis. First poo-themed dessert cafe set to open in Canada.
• Artforum visits San Diego Comic-Con International convention.

Streets: World Roundup (July 11 – July 31)

July 31, 2016, 10:39 pm

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We end July this year with another Streets World Roundup, covering some of the public art from around the globe that you may have missed. Leading things off is a 600 meter mural Evoca1 painted in Abu Dhabi just in time for Eid al-Fitr. Other notable walls come from Case (Belgium), Natalia Rak (Spain), Jonathan Bergeron (Montreal), Dabs Myla (Iceland), Odeith (UK), Faith47 (USA), Aryz (Belgium), Shok-1 (UK), Hyuro (Spain), Nychos (USA), Leon Keer (UK), Vhils (Senegal), Outings Project (France), Monsieur Qui (France), and Aakash Nihalani. [caption id="attachment_306830" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Case for Northwest Walls in Werchter, Belgium.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306832" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Natalia Rak for Rexenera Fest2016 in Rúa Vila de Negreira, Carballo (Spain).[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306828" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Jonathan Bergeron painted wall for Mural Festival in Montreal.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306823" align="aligncenter" width="1080"] Dabs Myla in Reykjavik, Iceland.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306822" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Odeith in Bristol for Upfest.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_303953" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Faith47 - "who will guard the guards themselves" in downtown Los Angeles. Arranged in collaboration with Branded Arts.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306761" align="aligncenter" width="1318"] Aryl in Ghent, Belgium.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306762" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] Shok-1 in Brixton, UK.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306818" align="aligncenter" width="1194"] Nychos in Brooklyn.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306819" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Leon Keer - "Empty Hole" at Upfest in Bristol.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306820" align="aligncenter" width="1080"] Vhils in Dakar, Senegal, with new wall depicting the physicist, historian, and anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop (1923 – 1986).[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306824" align="aligncenter" width="1134"] Outings Project in Angers, France. Via StreetArtNews.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306829" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Monsieur Qui in Sète (South of France). Via StreetArtNews.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_306827" align="aligncenter" width="775"] Aakash Nihalani[/caption]

Streets: JR (Rio de Janeiro)

August 2, 2016, 8:06 pm

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French artist JR (interviewed) recently completed a new installation in Rio de Janeiro utilizing an intriguing new technique lending the work a more three-dimensional feel. The clever new piece is based on a photo of Mohamed YOUNES IDRISS of Sudan (who didn't qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics) performing a high jump over the top of building with the assistance of some scaffolding. Discuss JR here.

Streets: El Mac –“Spark of Divinity” (Sedona)

August 4, 2016, 6:16 pm

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Recently in Sedona, Arizona, El Mac finished painting a mural that was commissioned by a local Whole Foods store. Near and dear to his heart, the piece featured a portrait of his mother-in-law and her granddaughter juxtaposed against a background inspired by the famous Beethoven Frieze by Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. His work was inspired by a "Beethoven symphony from 1824, which was inspired a poem, Ode To Joy, by Friedrich Schiller from 1785 which begins with the line - "Joy, beautiful spark of divinity..." - giving this mural its title. Discuss El Mac here.

Overtime: Aug 1 – Aug 7

August 7, 2016, 12:12 pm

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More stories from the week that ended Aug 7 (click on bolded words for more information):

• Artnet shares some art-filled day trips from NYC.
• Ben Medansky's studio and everything in it lost to fire in Downtown Los Angeles.
• LA Times writes about the gentrification resistance in Boyle Heights centered around art galleries.
• Will Zika concerns be a major issue during the Miami art fairs in December?
• Justin Giarla leaves San Francisco as artists, collectors, and others discuss financial disputes with the dealer.
• Lenora Claire fighting to change archaic anti-stalking laws.
• Lushsux Instagram account censored by the platform after Hilary Clinton pic goes viral. The artist subsequently alters the mural by covering the presidential candidate in a niqab. He releases a limited edition print of the image.
• Magnus art-pricing app removed from Apple's App Store due to evidence of widespread data theft.
• Giancarlo Neri public art installation in Rio, coinciding with 2016 Olympic Games, scrapped due to budget cuts.
• Pokémon Go player crashes into Deana Haggag's car. Her house is Great Blue Heron, Fishing Gym PokéGym.
• Jeff Wall leaves Marian Goodman after 25 years to go to Gagosian Gallery.
• Zehra Doğan among those detained in Turkey’s wave of arrests after a failed military coup.
• Trial judge denies request to reconsider California Resale Royalty Act decision.
• Trial for lawsuit centered on Peter Doig painting the artists says he did not paint set to begin on Monday.
• Harry Brant arrested, charged with larceny, resisting arrest, and drug possession after skipping $28 taxi fare.
• Studies show that there is a lack of ethnic and racial diversity among top museum staff in the US.
• Jens Hoffmann out as deputy director of Jewish Museum.
• Lori Hotz, global head of postwar, contemporary at Christie's, leaves company amid declining sales.
• Kanye West Watermill Center Benefit performance postponed until next year. Photos from the event, as well as other summer social events.
• Robert Ekelund on Why the booming contemporary art market is bad for art museums.
• Jamie Sterns writes about exiting the gallery world as a professional.
• Ronald S Lauder says that a work with a disputed provenance was discovered at New York’s Neue Galerie.
• Why collecting art and investing in it for money is frowned upon.
• X-ray reveals mysterious female face hidden beneath Degas' Portrait of a Woman painting.
• Jamillah James named curator of new ICA LA.
• Michelle Obama visits MCA to view Kerry James Marshall exhibit.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art had its best year ever in attendance, despite $10mil. deficit.
• The Getty Research Institute acquires major collection of works on paper by Käthe Kollwitz and her peers.
• A preview of LACMA's Meander galleries.
• Garage Museum of Contemporary Art organizes first exhibition in St Petersburg, featuring Russian artists.
• 100 Joseph Beuys works on paper in exhibition at Edinburgh’s Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
• Creative Time adds seven new members to its board of directors, including Trevor Paglen and Waris Ahluwalia.
• Daehyung Lee appointed curator of the Korean Pavilion (group show) for the 2017 Venice Biennale.
• FRONT International: Cleveland Exhibition for Contemporary Art triennial coming in 2018.
• The Tennessee State Museum to receive donation of 238 Red Grooms graphic works from Knestricks.
• The Hyde Collection receives gift of artwork and cash valued at $11mil. from a Schenectady architect.
• Jupiter Artland unveils a new permanent outdoor commission by Christian Boltanski.
• USC Roski School hires Suzanne Lacy, Patty Chang, Edgar Arceneaux, Kori Newkirk, and Keith Mayerson.
• CGC 5.5-graded Action Comics #1 issue sells for $1mil. at Heritage Auctions.
• Sotheby's to offer works from the Steven and Ann Ames collection.
• Kenny Schachter finds his way back on Facebook and writes about his mischief in Ibiza.
• Swizz Beatz's No Commission Art Fair has a Bronx, NY edition.
• Bortolami Gallery launches Artist/City project, which install artworks in nontraditional spaces across the US.
• Artnet's list of six art dealers under the age of 40 to watch.
• CoBo's list of Top 5 Asian Collectors You Need to Follow on Social Media.
• Why antiques fairs are now also showing contemporary art.
• Hannelore K. claims copyright of new work after claiming "collaboration" with Arthur Köpcke increased value.
• Robert Irwin installation opens in Marfa.
• Mariko Mori's sixth Olympic ring installation: Ring: One with Nature.
• Brandi Twilley's show at Sargent's Daughters.
• Juergen Teller to curate exhibition of works by Robert Mapplethorpe at Alison Jacques gallery.
• Patrick Martinez interview with Take Two on KPCC 89.3 FM.
• Petra Cortright by Stefan Simchowitz, in Vogue Italia.
• Pioneer Works announces its fall 2016 residents.
• KCRW's ArtTalk visits some group shows in Los Angeles.
• Blake Gopnik writes about an unknown "self" portrait of Andy Warhol.
• Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné release date announced.
• Rob Pruitt creates for J.Crew.
• Tracey Emin, David Shrigley, Eddie Peake, and others discuss work they created for Rio Olympics.
• MoMA/MoMA PS1 Records label to release The Thoughts of Gilbert & George.
• Artnet writes about 12 Sound Artists Changing Your Perception of Art.
• Architectural Digest visits the home of Laure Heriard Dubreuil and Aaron Young. They also provide a tour of Marc Jacobs' house and art collection.
• Pikachu statue appears in New Orleans.
• Tips on how to take a art selfie.
• Jimmy Fallon and Jonah Hill draw fruit and a nude model.