STREET ART SAVED MY LIFE

Our good friends over at Brooklyn Street Art are opening their show this evening ! We'd like to wish them all the best !

Brooklyn Street Art Presents Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories in collaboration with ThinkSpace Gallery, an art show to exhibit at C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice (LA), California on Friday, August 12, 2011.

Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories heralds the new highly individual character of stories being told on the streets of New York by brand new and established Street Artists from all over the world. Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo, founders of BrooklynStreetArt.com focus on this flashpoint in modern Street Art evolution by curating a strongly eclectic story-driven gallery show with 39 of the best storytellers hitting the streets of New York.

Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories, the gallery show, accompanied by an LA street wall series by selected artists and a public panel lecture and discussion, intends to stake out the New Guard in street art while recognizing some powerful near-legendary forerunners.

The mainly New York lineup exhibits talent from other parts of the US and internationally (Australia, France, UK, Canada, Israel, Germany) and it is as steely, idiosyncratic and storied as the New York scene itself, including Anthony Lister, Adam Void, Broken Crow, C215, Cake, Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Creepy, Dan Witz, El Sol 25, Ema, Faile, Futura, Gaia, Gilf!, Hargo, Hellbent, How & Nosm, Imminent Disaster, Indigo, Judith Supine, Kid Acne, Know Hope, Ludo, Mark Carvalho, Miss Bugs, Nick Walker, NohJColey, Over Under, Radical!, Rene Gagnon, Skewville, Specter, Sweet Toof, Swoon, Tip Toe, Troy Lovegates AKA Other, Various & Gould, and White Cocoa.

The staunch individualists in Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories give voice to the evolution of the Graffiti, Mash-Up, and D.I.Y. movements that birthed them; creating an eccentric, highly individual, and raucous visual experience on the street. With widely varied backgrounds, techniques, and materials at play, "The Story" is the story. With truths as diverse and difficult as the city itself, each one of these artists is a part of a fierce, raw, new storytelling tradition that is evolving daily before our eyes.

CONGRATULATIONS !

Congratulations to the winners of the BSA competition ! Prizes will be dispatched soon. Thanks to everyone that tuned into the film and entered the comp. Don't forget to follow BSA for a comprehensive look at Brooklyn's art scene and tune into Brooklynite for more screenings, chats and events.

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ELOQUENT VANDALS SCREENING & COMP

ELOQUENT VANDALS & COMPETITION & GIVEAWAYS

BROOKLYNITE TV PRESENTS
"ELOQUENT VANDALS"
A NUART DOCUMENTARY
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Monday, January 31, 5PM (NY), 10PM (UK) 11PM (NORWAY)
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Tune in and chat LIVE with NuART during the screening. Pay close attention because the next day the folks at Brooklyn Street Art will be having a contest in which they will be giving away FREE copies of the film, NuShit Skatedecks, limited edition T-Shirts and NuArt sticker packs all for answering very simple trivia questions.
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"ELOQUENT VANDALS"
Running time : 27 mins

Shot on location during Norway's Nuart Festival in 2008, Eloquent Vandals features candid interviews and work from some of the worlds leading street artists including Blek Le Rat, Graffiti Research Lab, Dface, Herakut, Nick Walker, Know Hope, Jimmy Cauty, Zeus, Chris Stain, Wordtomother, Sten & Lex, Dotmasters, Dolk & Pøbel.

Shot and Directed by Martin Hawkes
Produced by Nuart/Saft films
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CATCH UP WITH DETAILS ON THE COMPETITION AND GIVEAWAYS ON BROOKLYNSTREETART

Funky graphics courtesy Brooklynstreetart, thanks chaps.

BROOKLYN STREETART 2010

Steve & Jaime pick highlights from a year of Brooklyn Street Art, over 100 images photographed by Jaime Rojo on the streets of Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Street Art

STEN & LEX & GAIA

Nuart friends and family Sten & Lex are joined by NYC's Gaia at Brooklynite Gallery next week for what's shaping up to be an outstanding show.

Their recent show at Rome's CO2 gallery sneaked under most people's radar, here's hoping that Brooklynite and their online fraternity can give this the attention it deserves.

S & L's meticulous and unique approach to stencil art is truly something to behold, it pushes the boundaries of an artform renowned and developed for its *"quick hitness" into a new & more reflective territory. Contemporary ? yes ! But also a touch of the ancient and eternal.

* yes, we're inventing the vocabulary as we go. Sorry about that, it's still early.

BROOKLYN STREET ART INTERVIEW

Recently had the pleasure of answering a few questions from Street Art partners in crime over at Brooklyn Street Art.

From BROOKLYN STREET ART
Art Saves lives

The small but very expensive (if you are not a resident) and oil rich Coastal town of Stavenger in Norway must be feeling a bit blue right now. Nuart 2010 artists cleaned up, packed up their tools and left after two weeks of painting monumental murals for the town’s folk to enjoy during the long, dark winter months ahead.

This years’ Street Artists included Dotmasters, Dolk, EVOL, Sten & Lex, Vhils, and ROA, among others. As in the past 5 years under this curator, the ‘10 group is a stellar selection of talent that is helping define what direction Street Art is heading.

The offerings this year were super sized and in many cases bold in color. All of the participants this year were painters, masters at their craft and supremely independent. Martyn Reed, curator and visionary engine behind this elaborate but accessible street art festival doesn’t limit himself to one large festival – instead he marries it with a prestigious electronic-based music festival he created as a result of his years as a DJ. This years’ NuMusic festival featured performances by luminaries like Krautrock grandaddies Neu! and American hip-hop cornerstone Grandmaster Flash.

The affable bad boy Reed took a moment this week to look at his route to success so far and tell BSA about what the Nuart festival is and why it is important to him.

Brooklyn Street Art: Putting on a festival of this magnitude must be a big task. How do you do it?

Martyn Reed: Actually...

Read the full interview here