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It seems as though Banksy has truly done it again. When it seems like he has exhausted his long list of issues to take shots at, there is always one more trick up his wry sleeve. There is not a single member of the street art community that [...]
Poster Boy, the artist known for his disfigurement of New York subway ads, has struck Miami with a stolen billboard that was reclaimed to bear the scathing message “Change My Ass, Obama to Murder More Afgans”
Some pretty unbelievable shit, but it only last twenty minutes. For more in depth coverage, check out BSA’s post on [...]
What it means to be alive today with documentation
Painting this whole past weekend. Kicking it with wonderful people. Drinking, fucking, working, intimate conversations for hours. But no school work. In preparation for Scope Miami
if this piece were only this piece it would totally freak me out.
Props to Guero on the photos. It is nice to see some new work in this neighborhood. This spot especially has had an interesting history. As you can see there was an old old swoon piece right next to that pipe running along the wall, and an elbowtoe poster down the block. About two years [...]
This text explores the development of polytheism with Archaic cultures to monotheism and eventually a more linear conception of time and transcendence. The text essentially, and very basically maps the progression of material conditions and how they shape the spirituality of a culture. The Archaic Iron Age maintains a sacred sense of cyclical time and [...]
I think that the issue should not be framed as Art Vs Advertisement but instead, as interaction versus limitation or conversation versus monologue. The issue is that there are spaces that have been designated as purely for the dissemination of information regarding commerce, corporate interests, events and communication, and that these spaces must only be [...]
NYSAT2 struck the streets of New York yesterday morning, whitewashing over 100 illegal street level billboard advertisements and adorning them with work from various artists. Despite intense NPA harassment and a major police crackdown that resulted in a few arrests, it seems that every artist had the chance to at least get their work up [...]
A brief consideration of the Temporal Rationalization and Logics instrumental within late Capitalism that is apart of the book Small Acts: Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of Time . Adrian Heathfield explores the dilemmas of performance within a contemporary culture dictated by linear, compartmented, managed and marketable time. This concept of organizing time to [...]
This video is a near proximity to what I consider this contemporary zeitgeist of neo naturalism, romanticized nature. The lyrics pining for nature, the gaze forward into the future with “when I grow up,” the contrast with the pool, the suburban reality.
