The large ongoing program Art United Us keeps producing new large murals around the Ukranian capital of Kiev in an effort to raise public awareness and attention to the problem of war, aggression and violence. Curated by Iryna Kanishcheva and Geo Leros, the project recently revealed the latest finished piece by INO titled Instability.
This is the Greek artist's largest mural to date measuring 48 meters in height and done using his signature sketch-like style with gray scale tones and subtle use of color. Mixing photorealism and abstraction, the large mural works great juxtaposed against the busy skyline of Kiev and its architecture. The image features a ballerina dancing over a bomb, representing the recent political events in Ukraine and the unstable situation there. It also sends out a universal message, criticizing the failure of coexistence between people in many places on Earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUZCEfTJKag
Streets: INO // Art United Us (Kiev)
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Streets: Leon Keer (Dresden)
Street painting expert Leon Keer recently created a new piece in Dresden, Germany for the upcoming Magic City street exhibition. The Dutch artist is known for his anamorphic paintings on the ground that deceive the eye, with this latest piece being no different. Entitled Across the Border and painted in front of Scheune Dresden, it tells a story of hope and tolerance and is inspired by the famous Dresden Meissen porcelain figures.
Discuss Leon Keer here.
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Streets: Miss Van (Toulouse)
Fresh from her recent museum exhibition opening at the CAC Malaga (covered), Miss Van is back to Toulouse, the city where she started to paint, with a new mural for the Rose Beton Festival (covered). La symphonie des songes features her signature sensual female character in a dreamlike landscape playing with colourful folklore masks from various continents, transporting us from China to Latin America.
Photo credit: Butterfly (except front image by Benjamin BigAddict Roudet).
Discuss Miss Van here.
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Streets: Blu (Porto Torres, Sardinia)
Several weeks ago, Blu was invited to Porto Torres, Sardinia, by the C.S.O.A. Pangea Posthudorra collective. During his visit, the Italian artist painted another impressive piece in the Villaggio Satellite residential part of town.
The finished mural depicts a large head whose face is formed with a human puzzle, sending a message of unity. Done using a signature illustrative style with a lot of small detail that creates the story, the piece is painted on a colorful gradient background which accents the main image. The idea of the organizers and the artist was to create this work in a less popular area of the town, hoping to initiate similar actions and bring more focus and life to it.
Photo credit: Urban Painting.
Discuss Blu here.
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Streets: Mural Social Club (Kiev)
Mural Social Club is another international festival of art in the public space, taking place around Kiev this last couple of months. The goal of the organizers, NGO Sky Art Foundation, and curators Oleg Sosnov and Yulia Ostrovska, is to popularize art in Ukraine and to support social and cultural initiatives.
Over the last several of months, they invited recognized artists and muralists from as far as Italy, Spain, USA, Portugal, France, Russia, Chile, Peru, Brazil or Argentina, with the result being each of them leaving their mark in Ukrainian capital. From city center and major buildings to the outskirts and smaller, neighboring towns, the idea of the project is to decentralize urban culture and bring it closer to common people. Apart from murals and installations, the festival includes a number of indoor exhibitions, as well as workshops and seminars by renowned street artists.
After a close look at the piece Aaron Li Hill painted, we now have a selection of the most recently finished murals by Elian Chali, Milo, Agostino Iacurci, Fintan Magee (header), Fikos, Marat Morik, Borondo, and Rodrigo Branco.
Photo credit by Mural Social Club
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Streets: Bezt // Etam Cru –“Europe” (Germany)
Recently in Mannheim, Germany, Bezt from the Etam Cru painted a eye-catching new mural for the Stadt.Wand.Kunst open urban art gallery project. The somber multi-story high piece is simply entitled Europe and features a glimpse at a funeral procession. We can think of several ways this new wall can be interpreted, but whatever your own thoughts about it, we can all agree the Polish street artist got his message across in a striking and beautiful way.
Discuss Etam Cru here.
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Overtime: Aug 8 – Aug 14
More stories from the week that ended Aug 14 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Nicolas Party’s Pathway comes to Dallas Museum of Art.
- RIP: Betsy Davis, who passed away at the age of 41 via doctor-assisted suicide after hosting two-day party.
- RIP: Ernst Neizvestny, who passed away at the age of 91.
- RIP: The Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, who passed away at the age of 64.
- Museum visitor interaction with works and subsequent vandalistic acts a rising concern. The Guardian also writes about vandalism fears.
- Antonio Cosme and William Lucka face huge fine and up to four years in prison for political graffiti.
- Fire breaks out on roof of Aby Rosen’s historic 190 Bowery building.
- Nipples on image of painting by Lisa Yuskavage censored on Vault Magazine cover with yellow stickers.
- Bill Cunningham had two wills, which could trigger an estate battle.
- Alec Baldwin claims he was sold different Ross Bleckner painting than one he agreed to buy from Mary Boone.
- Peter Doig takes the stand during the trial related to disputed painting. Artnet reports on day three of the trial.
- Blue Art Limited sues David Zwirner Gallery for $2mil. claiming breach of contract on a transaction. Brian Boucher has more on the case.
- Fears over the future of a Keith Haring mural in New York building where tenants have been evicted.
- Vanessa Beecroft was on Kanye West's payroll until Kim Kardashian took her off of it. She discusses more in her New York Magazine profile. Carolina A. Miranda discusses her racial insensitivity. Art F City also criticizes her.
- The 10 Most Hated Public Sculptures.
- Scott LoBaido resurrects pro-Trump sculpture on his lawn after first one is destroyed by arsonists.
- Jonathan Jones wonders if collectors are really just hoarders.
- Pokemon Go banned in various museums, memorials, institutions, and prisons in Asia.
- Group of Chilean filmmakers demand British Museum return Easter Island statue.
- Art and Cake's list of 9 Must-See Alternative Art Spaces in Los Angeles.
- UK accepts rare portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds for the Tate in lieu of $6mil. inheritance tax bill.
- Broad MSU's Fire Within: A New Generation of Chinese Women Artists includes 28 female Chinese artists.
- Jens Hoffmann declares that he is not leaving the Jewish Museum.
- The Donald and Maria Cox Collection donated to the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.
- Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University to open in Feb. 2017. Building is designed by Michael Maltzan.
- North Carolina Museum of Art gets new outdoor works, inc. by Giuseppe Penone and Hank Willis Thomas.
- Michael Jordan donating $5mil. to Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- The Bavarian State Paintings Collections receives donation of 58 works from Christof and Ursula Engelhorn.
- Aspen Art Museum raises $2.5mil. at annual ArtCrush event.
- The Village Voice's profile of Black Art Incubator.
- Liam Gillick named the artistic director of the first Okayama Art Summit.
- British Library teaming up with J.K. Rowling to present a historically-minded Harry Potter exhibition.
- New York’s Museum of Ice Cream pop-up institution.
- Sotheby’s reports second-quarter net income of $88.6mil., a 21% increase compared to same time a year ago. Sotheby’s rallied the most in more than four years as lower costs, improved commission margins and a jump in Asian art sales fueled higher earnings at the auction house.
- Artnews has an extensive profile of the going-ons at Sotheby's.
- First edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone may sell for $26k at Bonham's.
- Julien’s Auctions announces Property from the Estate of Frank and Gail Zappa Auction sale.
- How the weather affects bidding at auction sales.
- Artinfo's list of the Top Auction Houses of 2016: North America. And its list of Top Auction Houses of 2016: Africa and the Middle East.
- Peter Doig's top performing works at auction.
- Artnet explains the role of the art advisor.
- Billionaire.com's list of The World’s Top Art Consultants.
- Artnet visits Swizz Beatz’s No Commission art fair.
- Stefan Haupt discusses his collection dedicated to art of all media about money.
- Stefan Simchowitz criticizes gallery system and art dealers.
- Interview with Young Chung of Commonwealth & Council.
- Gallery Diet renames itself to Nina Johnson and will host a exhibition by BHQF's Seth Cameron.
- Kristen Dodge opens September in Hudson.
- A day in the life of Princess Eugenie of York, who talks about working at Hauser & Wirth.
- Rachel Uffner Gallery announces that it now represents Shara Hughes.
- VICE Magazine's 15th Annual Photo Issue is dedicated exclusively to women photographers.
- Jeff Koons throws first pitch at York Revolution baseball game and has his own bobblehead.
- Rebecca Morris and Roy Dowell on The Modern Art Notes Podcast.
- The Fader interviews Jordan Casteel.
- Artspace interviews Peter Marino.
- Frontrunner Magazine interviews Ryan Schneider about his work and move from NY to CA.
- Laura Lima discusses her work.
- Henry Hudson showing at Sotheby's S|2 in Sept.
- Artspace looks at 6 "fake" artists or artist alter-egos.
- Sheri Pasquarella provides 5 tips for choosing minimalist art work.
- Artinfo's list of 10 Exhibitions to See in the UK This Week.
- JT Steiny discusses his Donald Trump artwork wtih LA Weekly.
- Art & Seek profiles Vernon Fisher.
- 10 artist recall receiving their first gallery exhibition.
- David Burnett's Olympics photography.
- An evaluation of Ivanka Trump's taste in art.
- Kanye West reminds Paul McCartney of Andy Warhol.
- Dave Cortes and Marvel Comics bring Captain America sculpture to Prospect Park.
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Streets: JR (Rio de Janeiro) – Part II
After sharing a first look at the public art created in Rio de Janeiro by JR (interviewed) for the Olympics, we now have photos from the rest of the project. Like the first piece featuring a Sudanese athlete high jumping over a building, the other two installations also feature athletes that didn't make it to this year's Olympics - French triathlete Léonie Periault swimming and a Brazilian diver. He chose to photograph young athletes who may one day make it, people who are still “working hard for the passion of sport.”
As one of the first artists-in-residence for this year's Summer Games, the French "photograffeur" took his art to the next level with a new technique involving scaffolding, his most expensive project to date. The three giant pieces can be seen in Flamengo, Botafogo and Barra da Tijuca.
Discuss JR here.
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Streets: AEC (Interesni Kazki) // Bloop Festival (Ibiza)
Earlier this month, AEC from Interesni Kazki (interviewed) traveled to Ibiza for the latest Bloop Festival. The mural was painted as part of the OpenAir.Gallery project, the festival’s long term plan to convert the island into a true gallery under the skies, open all year round. Entitled The Revolution, and located Sant Antoni de Portmany, the piece features his signature surrealistic and symbolic style.
Discuss Interesni Kazki here.
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Streets: SHOK-1 (Paris)
Shok-1 was recently invited to Paris by his artist friend Franck Duvall. During his visit, the pioneer of aerosol X-ray art painted a new mural titled Dark Magic. The image depicts hands forming a shadow puppet bunny, with the shadow behind being an anatomically correct X-ray of a rabbit.
The clever idea is completed by mixing two different techniques which accent his unique style. The hands are drawn using brush and ink, creating clean lines and a sharp image, while the x-ray part is done using his unmistakable spray paint technique. Always experimenting and continuously improving his practice for 30 years now, this was the first time for the British artist to juxtapose these two styles in one piece. The mural that was fully self produced with the great help of Duvall represents the artist's theory that art, science and magic are the same thing.
Discuss Shok-1 here.
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Overtime: Aug 15 – Aug 21
More stories from the week that ended Aug 21 (click on bolded words for more information):
- David Hockney: The Yosemite Suite show is a pick in Artnet's Must-See Art Guide: Los Angeles.
- RIP: John Vaccaro, who passed away at the age of 86 due to complications from surgery.
- RIP: Jacques Terzian, who passed away at the age of 94.
- Marina Abramović compares Aborigines to dinosaurs and has other racist thoughts in her upcoming book. The artist responds. Publisher will remove racist passages from book.
- Dale Chihuly criticized for his reasons for naming a series Persians.
- How money laundering affects the art market.
- David's ankles could bring down Michelangelo’s almost perfect statue.
- Gerda Taro's images vandalized in Leipzig in politically-motivated attack.
- Two men arrested over attempted theft of a panel appropriated from Banksy work previously installed.
- CNBC thinks that Death, divorce or bankruptcy is needed to jumpstart this art market.
- Gary Nader battles Jorge Perez over bid for new museum development in Miami.
- Bradley Theodore painting of Diana Vreeland stolen from Dream Downtown hotel and then returned later.
- Madam Chung Khin Chun wanted a Xu Beihong, but instead received a replica and now broker is on trial.
- Jeff Koons work revealed to be piece surrounding $6mil. Fabrizio Moretti lawsuit against David Zwirner.
- Peter Doig's testimony in his authentication trial. Artnet reports on the final day of the trial. I. Kurator also covers the trial.
- Rain Embuscado takes us Inside the Hidden Drama Behind Modern Art’s Most Treacherous Rivalries.
- Nude Donald Trump sculptures by INDECLINE installed in cities across the US.
- New York Public Library restores original Winnie-the-Pooh stuffed dolls.
- CA judge declares that Norton Simon Museum can keep Cranach works that were subject to Nazi loot claim.
- Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibition does a US-wide tour.
- Brooklyn Museum to host year-long program devoted to the history and multiplicity of feminist art.
- NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale receives promised gifts from David Horvitz and Francie Bishop Good.
- MoMA announces major Pedro Almodóvar career retrospective.
- Christopher Knight reviews Loris Gréaud's Sculpt at LACMA.
- Hammer Museum announces recipients of the three Made in LA 2016 Mohn Awards and prizes.
- The Smithsonian Institute has announces that Rachel Goslins will head the Arts and Industries Building.
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art names Lauren Haynes curator of contemporary art.
- Portland Museum of Art announces David E. Shaw and Family Sculpture Park, which will be free to the public.
- Stanton Williams and Asif Khan chosen to design new Museum of London at West Smithfield.
- Minneapolis Institute of Art receives $6mil. bequest to focus on Asian art and events.
- Crocker Art Museum acquires work by Allison Schulnik.
- NY Times looks at Steven Korff's ceramics collection.
- Cobo interviews Marta Gnyp about collecting.
- Helen Molesworth answers some questions.
- Steven Cohen's Point72 Asset Management dropped two thirds of its Sotheby’s stock. Sotheby's shares doing well since the last year.
- Sotheby’s to auction off traditional Chinese paintings from the Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection.
- The Collection of B.Z. + Michael Schwartz currently on display at Sotheby's.
- Elizabeth Tenenbaum's artwork picks from Code Art Fair.
- Artnet's list of the top Asian art collectors.
- Tom Ford’s Tadao Ando-designed Santa Fe, New Mexico ranch on the market for $75mil.
- H&H Classics offering Porsche Carrera acclaimed as most successful by Classic 911 Magazine for over £1mil.
- Why Stefan Simchowitz Is the Donald Trump of the Art World.
- Gustavo Aceves to install monumental sculptures, addressing migration issues, in front of Rome's Colosseum.
- Hueman designs Nike Hyperdunk 2016 shoe.
- Omul Negru at Nicodim Gallery is a Artforum Critic's Pick.
- A list of New York’s 20 hottest public artworks on display this summer.
- Artnet discusses advice and etiquette around museum or gallery dates.
- Tracie Ching's Kickstarter for her Wes Anderson-themed merit badges.
- Washington Post writes about fan participation and demand in the arts.
- Burning Man to get a transformed Boeing 747 jet.
- Larry Gagosian and Shaq to produce Killer Bees, a film about a black basketball team in the Hamptons.
- Madonna coming to Art Basel Miami Beach in 2016 and wants to take a couple of fans along with her.
- David Bowie gets commemorative plaque on former home in Berlin.
- Supreme makes a brick.
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Studio Visits: Tomoo Gokita
Only few weeks before opening his second solo show with Mary Boone Gallery in New York, Tomoo Gokita gave us a peek inside his Tokyo studio. Among all the new artworks ready to be shipped to the US, we were able to enjoy this stimulating place and all the various bits from which the Japanese artist is getting his inspiration.
Out Of Sight will be Gokita's second show with the gallery since his 2014 show (covered). For this exhibition he prepared a whole new series of monochromatic paintings that evoke a fictional world of vintage starlets and gangsters. Mostly large in size, the pieces were created with gallery's spacious Chelsea location in mind. Though primarily inspired by the retro films and photographs, they also feature elements of popular Japanese culture. Contemporary Japanese comics (manga), graphic novels (gekiga) or even monsters (kaiju), can be found all around the studio, along with vintage US magazines, large piles of books and an impressive record collection. As a fan of music, the Tokyo-based artist collaborated with different musicians on creating their album covers, and still has working versions of those designs hanging on the studio walls. Along with those, the walls are covered with sketches, fliers, posters, with special attention given to a small wrestling memorabilia section. Among these little personal jewels, there are stacks of brushes, pencils and pens scattered around, as well as an improvised paper palettes on which Gokita mixes the lush range of black, gray, and white tones.
Out Of Sight will open on 10th of September at Mary Boone on 541 West 24 Street in NYC, and will stay on view until 29 October 2016.
Discuss Tomoo Gokita here.
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Streets: Patrick Shearn –“Liquid Shard” (Los Angeles)
Liquid Shard was an installation in downtown LA that was on view for two weeks created by Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics. The undulating piece featuring suspended holographic mylar and monofilament arranged in a long ribbon-like canopy in Pershing Square and measured 15,000 square feet in length. According to Hearn - "The inspiration comes from observing nature and the feeling that we are only aware on a very surface level of what is really going on around us. Unexpected things are revealed in time-lapse or hyper-spectrum photography that fascinate me. Like fractals recurring progressively, we feel the currents of air on our skin but do not see the larger movements."
Photo credit: Birdman Photos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFgs8p1t4Y
https://youtu.be/6_yIqVKEDbs
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Streets / Recap: POW! WOW! Antelope Valley
Held in conjunction with The New Vanguard at MOAH was the latest iteration of the POW! WOW! series of street art festivals. POW! WOW! Antelope Valley featured murals from Amandalynn, Andrew Schoultz, David Flores, Bumblebeelovesyou, Yoskay Yamamoto (seen above), Julius Eastman, Kris Holladay, Lady Echo, Mark Dean Veca, MEGGS, MOUF and Michael Jones. Check out more photos below...
Photo credit: Birdman Photos.
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Streets: Logan Hicks – Bowery & Houston Mural
Last weekend, the latest artist to paint a mural at the iconic Bowery & Houston corner in New York finished his weeks of hard work. Logan Hick's piece entitled Story Of My Life features a crowd of people he photographed on the corner of Spring and Greene Street and is a testament to his impressive skills working with stencils. Many of the people depicted are important to Hick's life including Martha Cooper, Chris Stain, Sara & Marc Schiller of the Wooster Collective, Rosie Perez, Elbow Toe, Joe Iurato, The London Police, and Lori Zimmer, who curated the mural for landlord Goldman Properties.
Photo credit: Scott Lynch (Gothamist).
Discuss Logan Hicks here.
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Streets: Know Hope –“Vicariously Speaking” Project
Continuing his unique approach to his art form, Addam Yekutieli aka Know Hope (interviewed) recently revealed his latest project - Vicariously Speaking (commissioned by OZ Arts for OZ Art Fest). The Israeli artist began writing prisoners on death row in a Nashville penitentiary earlier this year. He then took key phrases from their correspondence and presented them on a series of billboards throughout the city written in his distinctive script. The ongoing project will see the next phase manifest itself with the phrases tattooed onto members of the public (a technique Yekutieli has used before).
Via Lazarides.
Discuss Know Hope here.
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Overtime: Aug 22 – Aug 28
More stories from the week that ended Aug 28 (click on bolded words for more information):
- Carolina A. Miranda gives us a tour of Glenstone. Above: pair of reflecting pools by Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
- The demise of Qatar's art scene.
- Experts fear many historic buildings might have been damaged as a consequence of the earthquake in Italy. Italian museums to donate ticket sales on Sunday to earthquake rescue efforts.
- Paris terrorist attacks and flooding cause 20% drop in attendance at the Louvre.
- Ai Weiwei says his work was pulled from Yinchuan Biennale due to political sensitivity.
- Roland Scahill indicted after he raised money for fake Broadway play that would have starred Lupita N’yongo.
- Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi pleads guilty to destroying Timbuktu mausoleums. A first war crimes case of its kind.
- Banksy's Spy Booth street piece may be lost forever. BBC also covers the removal.
- James Smith sues the Met saying he was fired due to false allegations.
- Mynxii White sues Richard Prince over Instagram photo work.
- Defne Ayas pulls out of Antarctic Biennale.
- Leonardo Dicaprio may have canceled hosting a Clinton fundraiser due to his ties to Jho Low.
- Louis Hock builds a wall at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to protest Trump.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego eliminates eight full-time positions and 20 part-time positions.
- Speed Art Museum lays off seven employees and reduces hours of two more after unveiling renovation plans.
- Björk fans upset and unhappy that Somerset House seeks unpaid volunteers for VR show.
- Marina Abramović apologizes for her racist and controversial comments about aboriginal Australians.
- Judge rules in favor of Peter Doig in his authentication trial. The Art Law Blog comments.
- Portrait bought by Belgian couple for €450 turns out to be a long lost early work by Willem de Kooning.
- The deal SFMOMA made to acquire the Fisher collection.
- New video series has artists discussing works in LACMA's collection.
- Ben David reviews Forty at MoMA PS1.
- The New York Public Library exhibits some Japanese Dada works.
- Serpentine Sackler Gallery to host major Zaha Hadid show.
- Prince's Paisley Park estate and studio in Minneapolis will open for public tours in October.
- McNay Art Museum receives $1mil. donation from G.A.C. Halff Foundation.
- PAM appoints new deputy directors: Adrienne Chadwick, Melissa Cowley Wolf, and Christina Boomer Vazquez.
- SculptureCenter fall programming will feature solo exhibitions by Cosima von Bonin and Aki Sasamoto.
- Ben Davis shares 10 Fall Museum Shows to Get Excited About Around the US.
- St. Moritz Art Masters opens this weekend with a focus on the United States.
- Erin Thompson writes about the reasons people collect art.
- Kelly Osbourne and Zackary Drucker team up for TransNation Festival, a transgender film festival in LA.
- Henri Neuendorf discusses the tax benefits of having private museums in the US.
- Artinfo interviews Sarah Cottier Gallery.
- Massive short-term interest in Sotheby's stock.
- Christie's attempting to revive interest in the fallen angels of India’s contemporary art scene.
- Truman Capote's ashes offered in Los Angeles at Julien’s Auctions.
- Michael Jackson's RIAA gold record for Thriller to be offered at auction by Nate D. Sanders Auctions.
- 1955 Jaguar D-Type becomes the most expensive British automobile sold at auction at RM Sotheby's.
- Chart Art Fair opens in Copenhagen.
- Gallerists that also make and exhibit their art.
- Modern Painters' list of the top galleries of 2016 in Europe. Also their list of the top galleries in Asia. And of course, a list for Africa.
- Surace interviews Jack Shainman.
- Larry's List visits and interviews Jeffrey N. Dauber about his collection.
- Claire Tabouret, Awol Erizku, and Cara Benedetto is now represented by Night Gallery.
- Pavel Zoubok Gallery will soon join forces with George Adams Gallery.
- Haynes Fine Art launches new gallery with rare and unseen works by Andy Warhol.
- The New Yorker profiles Michael Heizer, whose City is nearly complete.
- AnOther Magazine writes about Jamian Juliano-Villani and her upcoming Studio Voltaire show.
- New York Times profiles Tom Wesselmann.
- Artinfo has a Q&A with Jessica Stockholder.
- Kent Twitchell creating another Ed Ruscha mural for Downtown Los Angeles.
- Tom Sachs discusses his collaboration with Frank Ocean. Wolfgang Tillmans also discusses working with the musician. How Wolfgang Tillmans' track ended up on Frank Ocean's album.
- Lensratch revisits the Elizabeth Avedon Mixtape.
- Mitzi Pederson, Josh Faught, Simone Bailey, Will Rogan, and Ruth Laskey finalists for 2016 SF Artadia Awards.
- Peter Alexander at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery is an Artforum Critic's Pick.
- Artnet's list of 20 New York Gallery Exhibitions Everyone Should See This Fall. And their preview of NY museum exhibitions.
- John Baldessari limited edition print released to benefit Lincoln Center Education.
- Madonna surprises fans by visiting MoMA.
- James Franco releases bizarre erotic music video shot at Chateau Marmont.
- Amy Schumer complains about Anna Wintour’s Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Streets: Telmo Miel // UGANGprosjektet (Norway)
Recently in Drammen, Noway, artistic duo Telmo Miel painted a mural entitled Når jeg blir Stor or When I Grow Up for the UGANGprosjektet. Referencing the country's viking roots, the piece was the second one the two painted on their trip (first one here). Take a look at a few more in-progress photos and detailed shots below...
Discuss Telmo Miel here.
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Streets: Nychos // Mural Harbor (Austria)
Recently in Linz, Nychos painted one of his largest and most detailed murals to date for the Mural Harbor project. The Austrian street artist certainly gave his best effort for this piece in his motherland which was entitled Translucent Serpent - two huge snakes, one with its insides exposed. Utilizing a generous amount of Montana Gold "Lime", Nychos was able to leave a great example of his anatomical style next to the train tracks.
Photo credit: Christian Boehm, Christian Fischer, and the artist.
Discuss Nychos here.
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Streets: Nimi (Stavanger)
Only few days before the official beginning of Nuart 2016, the team behind one of the leading street art festivals introduced their brand new Art City program. Sofia and the Mountain by NIMI was recently painted in light of Region Stavanger’s new mandate to further promote art and culture. This is the first artwork to be produced under Nuart's self-financed initiative Art City program. Aiming to produce work outside of the festival period, it connects with the region’s Smart City programs to develop as an international ‘hub’ and destination for street art culture all year around.
The piece depicts the artist's daughter, Sofia, and the famous Rogaland landmark - Preikestolen rock. With this work, the Bergen-based architect and street artist wanted to express his pride and love for his kids, as well as his trust in all children as the force of good. On this mural, he collaborated with local artist RH74, experimenting with a variety of techniques, mediums and creative processes.
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