GRAFFITI WARS

Graffiti Wars from StreetArtNews on Vimeo.

Streetartnews does it again and uploads last nights soon to be classic "Graffiti Wars", hot on the heels of Banksy produced The Antics Roadshow, this is a little different. Billed as "Graffiti Wars examines street art and graffiti, and the creative tensions and conflicts within this artistic arena"...more commonly known as... "Robbo V's Banksy".

Enjoy

Thanks to SAN

VIGILANTE VIGILANTE

"Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression" Official Trailer from max good on Vimeo.

A feature documentary about anti-graffiti vigilantes and the cultural significance of graffiti and street art. Premieres August 12th at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Hopefully we can get this to Nuart too, looks like an interesting take on the theme.

A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape: the anti-graffiti vigilante.
These dedicated blight warriors stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters.

Yet several of these vigilantes have become the very menace they set out to eliminate. In their relentless attempt to stamp out graffiti, they have turned to illegally and destructively painting other people’s property.

VIGILANTE VIGILANTE is the story of two filmmakers who set out to expose these mysterious characters and discover a battle of expression that stretches from the streets to academia.

check out the website here

THIERRY FURGER "BUFFED PAINTINGS....FAME FOR A DAY"

Loving these works from Swiss Graffiti writer Thierry Furger, one of the few times I've seen a writer really successfully tackle the issues surrounding not only bringing graf into a gallery context, but maintaining content relevant to writers in general.

Thierry Furger "Buffed Paintings – Fame for a Day" Thierry Furger

Speerstra Gallery

19.06.2011 - 25.06.2011

"Buffed Paintings - Fame for a Day " this is the titel Thierry Furger choose for his fist solo show at the Speerstra Gallery. It is the perfect slogan to express what graffiti is all about when caught on a whole-car passing by.

This Show is about the ephemerality of graffiti and the technique of buffing*. By showing the raw and dirty side of graffiti once it's buffed, Thierry manages to transfer the graffiti from the streets onto the walls of a gallery without it loosing it's authenticity and its emotional power. Like this he further immortalises the usually very short lifespan of graffiti. The show will also include a new body of work called "Clouds", a reflection on buffed tag's on the inside of a train.

RETNA IN LONDON

A Walkthrough of Retna's London show last night, from Graffiti TV.

Having adopted the name "Retna" from a popular Wu-Tang Clan song, Los Angeles-born artist Marquis Lewis has made quite a name for himself in the world of street art. His rise came during the mid-1990s as he began painting murals on walls, trains and freeway overpasses throughout the city using a series of symbols inspired by a mixture of ancient Incan and Egyptian hieroglyphics, Arabic, Hebrew, and Asian caligraphy and graffiti. He smashed it at "Art in the Streets," at MOCA in Los Angeles and he is showing his work in London at the moment.

DEFER. PEACE

Just received this from Defer working out of Dubai, really liking the concept where he's played with the gap between panels. Conceptual graffiti?. Heres' what Defer had to say.

"Attached is a photo of one of my most recent outdoor works here in Dubai, exploring on written graffiti inspired words, it's a commentary about the concept of PEACE specially here in the Middle East.

I played with the space in between the two panels to represent division and unrest amongst nations who have been seeking peace for a long time"

Check out more here

KATSU HITS MOCA

Yeah, Katsu adds his name to the long list of artists already confirmed for next weeks Art in The Street show at MoCA

Images from complex.com

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Graffiti Street Art Fast, in Heidelberg

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GRAFFITI REMOVED FROM GRAFFITI

After seeing photos of the tagged mural, Cassady, a professional art conservator, volunteered to come to the corner of Frankford Avenue and Norris Street two days per week to remove the graffiti.

Now we know that some fine art conservators of yesteryear have been considered vandals, creating more problems and long term damage to works than they solved, what we hadn't realised was that they actively pursued and enjoy it.


This story strikes us as slightly insane, from the sublime to the ridiculous, as Fecal Face say, it's like taking the double bass and pianist out of a Jazz Trio because the drummer became famous.

From :Source

By John Paul Titlow

When Lauren Cassady first saw the photos on Facebook, she was infuriated. A friend of hers from the East Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia had posted pictures of the side of a building with a large graffiti tag containing the word “Spain.”

Graffiti on a brick wall is not that unusual in Philadelphia, but for residents of the neighborhood, this tag was particularly irksome. It was made on a mural by Shepard Fairey, the world-renowned street artist most famous for creating the iconic “hope” poster of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.


Fairey and a team of artists came to Philadelphia on April 23, 2010, and produced three murals, of which this was one. In mid-January of this year, residents noticed that the mural had been defaced with the large black and white tag.

After seeing photos of the tagged mural, Cassady, a professional art conservator, volunteered to come to the corner of Frankford Avenue and Norris Street two days per week to remove the graffiti.

To remove the spray paint and marker used to make the graffiti, Cassady sits on a bucket in front of the mural, slowly dabbing the tagged portion of it with a solvent-soaked Q-Tip.

“It’s a very slow process,” said Cassady. “You can’t use a lot of solvent at a time, or else you will harm the original work.”

She won’t be able to remove the tag completely, but hopes to get the mural as close to its original state as possible.

Cassady isn’t being paid to restore the mural, but rather volunteered to do it for her portfolio and because she genuinely enjoys restoring artwork, however tedious it might seem.

“It’s pure zen to me,” she said. “I just love it.”

KID HITS UP AGNES B

Agnes B, a longtime supporter of Graffiti and Street Art culture, gets a makeover. Not sure if this is an illegal piece or not, which is maybe cause for concern if you're a writer. If legal, we like it, if not, we love it.

Flickr source

MAD C 700 WALL

700 Wall - Final Update from Molotow on Vimeo.

Wow.. just wow.

FROM MAD C

Here we are, the wall is done! Even though I decided to paint a little further still - I just finished it before the snow set in. The wall was originally planned to end at the set of windows since those are difficult to involve and the surface of the wall became pretty bad from thereon too. However, I decided to extend my theme in places and take the challenge to paint until the very end of the wall. Now it is about 680m2 of wall space.

Finally, the picture is complete and I hope the story sums up. My Stylemachine-idea was based on the life of a dedicated graffiti writer. It's a wall for all of us who paint 10+ years and who put all their energy and heart into it.

More: molotow.com/​magazine/​700wall/​

GRAFFITI EDUCATION COMMUNITY

KIDS WITH GUNS

We rarely post about graffiti here at Nuart, not for any other reason than we're pretty ignorant about the whole thing and generally have little or nothing to do with it. However, in response to the first video which we posted up on our facebook site, we received the second one. One of the most powerful life affirming reasons we've ever seen to pick up a can.

BOMB IT 2

Was an honour to secure the rights to screen BOMB IT part 1 at Nuart back in 2007, filmaker and director Jon Reiss is back with Part 2.

Bomb it 2 is the follow-up to Jon Reiss's explosive graffiti movie Bomb It, which through interviews and guerrilla footage of graffiti writers in action told the story of the graffiti movement.

Babelgum commissioned this exclusive sequel, which visits territory unexplored in the first film, including Tel Aviv, Singapore, Bethlehem, Copenhagen, Chicago, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Perth, Austin and Jakarta.

NPA Has No Respect For Chico, Pete, Or You For That Matter

I was looking through some old images of NPA's illegal street level billboards in NYC and realized I hadn't noticed their complete lack of respect for New York's public mural works. Like the Conor Harrington mural that they so callously covered and Dick Chicken and I then liberated, NPA seems to seek out Chico and Pete's work in order to cover it. These artists are not only NYC legends, but true community members and invested urban citizens, painting messages of hope and inclusion on the streets for all of us to enjoy.



6th Street & Avenue C SWC



Norfolk & Delancey NEC

VIA;
http://www.publicadcampaign.com/2010/01/npa-has-no-respect-for-chico-pete-or.html