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Post by sleepboy on Mar 11, 2011 18:11:01 GMT -8
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Post by svenman on Mar 12, 2011 12:43:31 GMT -8
how many riffs on this flyer design are we going to see in the next few weeks?
'censorship in the streets'?
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Post by thinkspace on Mar 14, 2011 20:03:01 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 29, 2011 9:54:51 GMT -8
Barry McGee and Saber water tags in the MOCA parking lot.  |
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 31, 2011 21:07:19 GMT -8
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Post by shine166 on Apr 1, 2011 6:59:58 GMT -8
I need to go to this, cant wait
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Post by epicfai on Apr 7, 2011 10:40:46 GMT -8
Safest Show on Earth?
LA Anonymous takes a swipe at the upcoming "Art in the Streets" via paste-up:
 From LA Raw:laraw-art.blogspot.com/2011/04/art-in-streets.html"At a time when Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is about to launch "Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum survey of the history of graffiti and street art presented in the United States", the city of Los Angeles has launched an all out attack on "street artists". At a time when a Billionaire backed museum organizes an exhibit of the street art, where people are required to pay an admission fee to see the show, and are provide with a "safe" venue to purchase exhibit related merchandise, "The Los Angeles city attorney’s office has filed a lawsuit against Gheorghiu and nine other graffiti writers... because they’re selling art works on the strength of their outlaw names and reputations"(Washington Post). At a time when the second largest city in the U.S. is run by big developers and lacks leadership by its elected officials, it's no surprise that same thing would happen to its museums. The natural outcome of this trend is out in the open for all to see (or NOT see); whitewashing of anti war murals, prosecution of non billionaire sanctioned street artist, etc. Culture Wars are on, and we're just getting warmed up!" Also covered over at Hyperallergic.comhyperallergic.com/22234/safest-show-on-earth/"This morning, LA Anonymous unveiled their latest work, a circus-inspired poster installed on the north-facing wall of Zip Fusion Sushi in downtown LA, near Little Tokyo. Titled “Art in the Streets” (2011), the poster by LA Anonymous appears a week before MOCA LA director Jeffrey Deitch’s Art in the Streets show opens. Judging by the list of artists on display in the MOCA LA show, I’m not really surprised that LA Anonymous would accuse Deitch (under Broad’s direction and funding) of playing it safe. The graffiti-heavy exhibition — a bias which may mean less political and social critique content — is geared very much to a California history of graffiti and (to a lesser extent) street art. There are some notable omissions that a New York version of this show would never have made. Why are Dan Witz, Faile, John Fekner and others excluded? Another lack in the show is that there is far less international talent than I would have expected, but as they say, we’ll have to reserve final judgment until we see the show. BTW, LA Anonymous, nice touch with including the big white wall that was the former spot of Blu’s censored mural in the new poster. I’m glad someone has a memory."
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Post by The Gorgon on Apr 7, 2011 22:21:09 GMT -8
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Post by The Gorgon on Apr 7, 2011 22:22:43 GMT -8
Drumroll please...
ALEXIS ROSS
ANDRE
A-ONE
BARRY MCGEE
BEAR 167
BILL DANIEL
BILL RAY
BLADE
CHARLIE AHEARN
CHAZ BOJORQUEZ
COCO144
COST
CRAIG COSTELLO
CRAIG R. STECYK III
CRASH
DAN MURPHY
DASH SNOW
DAZE
DELTA
DEVIN FLYNN
DON LEICHT
DONDI
DRUGS
ED TEMPLETON
EINE
ERIK BRUNETTI
ESTEVAN ORIOL
FAB 5 FREDDY
FREEDOM
FUTURA
GORDON MATTA-CLARK
GUSMANO CESARETTI
HAZE
HENRY CHALFANT
HOWARD GRIBBLE
HUGH HOLLAND
INVADER
IRAK
IZ THE WIZ
JAMIE REID
JAMES PRIGOFF
JANE DICKSON
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
JOHN AHEARN
JOHN FEKNER
JON NAAR
JOSH LAZCANO
JR
KAWS
KEITH HARING
KENNY SCHARF
KIELY JENKINS
KOOR
LADY PINK
LARRY CLARK
LEE QUINONES
LOOMIT
MALCOLM MCLAREN
MARE 139
MARGARET KILGALLEN
MARK GONZALES
MARTHA COOPER
MISS VAN
MISTER CARTOON
MODE 2
NECKFACE
NOC
OS GEMEOS
PATTI ASTOR
PHASE 2
RAMMELLZEE
RETNA
REVOK
REVOLT
REVS
RISK
ROA
ROBBIE CONAL
RON ENGLISH
SABER
SHARP
SHEPARD FAIREY
SJK161
SNAKE 1
SPIKE JONZE
STELIOS
STEPHEN POWERS
STEVE GRODY
SWOON
TAKI 183
TEEN WITCH
TERRY RICHARDSON
TODD JAMES
TOXIC
TRACY 168
ZEPHYR
...plus one extra bonus artist.
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Post by thinkspace on Apr 7, 2011 23:26:04 GMT -8
No Banksy? How 'bout Mear One since in LA? So many others... but obviously only so much room and you could pick this apart to the moon no matter who they put in...let the discussions begin.
It's going to be one hell of a show!
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Post by svenman on Apr 8, 2011 0:41:10 GMT -8
i heard that banksy is installing the westway highwayman piece at moca. not sure if this is true, but that piece was all about the context it was set within.
don't know what relevance it would have when installed within a museum in california....
so blu is not on the list, but i understand that they still wanted to use the image of his buffed mural in the book?
i quite like what LA Anonymous are doing on the streets.
the show seems to focus a lot on recreations of past events. street market, fun gallery, neckface's haunted house, rammellzee's studio, maybe banksy's westway highwayman, plus others. i guess the idea with the curation is that sometimes you have to look back to look forward.
i'm sure the exhibit will be a good experience just to see some of these artists' work crammed together in one place, particularly writers like revs.
i wonder if he will recreate some of his subway diary pieces? i'm not sure what relevance that sort of piece may have, but hopefully there will be some big revs and cost roller pieces somewhere in the mix if it is a true survey of graffiti as well as street art, but then how can a graffiti exhibition be staged indoors within a museum?
i look forward to hearing what people think of the exhibition after seeing it first hand.
i think that street art makes a better translation into the museum arena than graffiti myself, as a good chunk of street art these days is essentially advertising for an upcoming print release of a piece to be featured within a gallery show - so it has already been considered for the indoor environment.
i saw the born in the streets exhibition in paris a couple of years ago at the fondation cartier. they were clever enough to keep the current 'street art' at ground floor level on freestanding, oversized canvases whilst keeping the graffiti underground in the basement and this consisted of historical artefacts such as black books and photography rather than trying to recreate past glories. i felt that the curators got this approach right, and whilst it wasn't the best show i've seen, the historical pieces were interesting and i'm glad they treated it as a 'museum' show with artefacts rather than trying to create a circus.
for me, the best street art is that which relates to the context in which it is placed. i'd presume that most of the street art, and even graffiti, involved in this show could be housed anywhere. so you can essentially enjoy the art for what it is vicariously through jpgs on the internet, which is what i'll be doing for this show.
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 11, 2011 18:39:43 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 12, 2011 20:09:12 GMT -8
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Post by The Gorgon on Apr 12, 2011 22:35:22 GMT -8
No Banksy? How 'bout Mear One since in LA? So many others... but obviously only so much room and you could pick this apart to the moon no matter who they put in...let the discussions begin. It's going to be one hell of a show! Hi Andrew, I'm hoping that the "bonus artist" IS Banksy. We'll see |
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Post by The Gorgon on Apr 12, 2011 22:36:49 GMT -8
Even though Dab's and Myla isn't officially in the show. I'm glad they get to do a mural
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Post by thinkspace on Apr 12, 2011 23:08:33 GMT -8
Just to be clear, the DABS MYLA wall with HOW and NOSM is part of the LA Freewalls Project being curated by Jet Set Graffiti but isn't 'officially' part of the 'Art In The Streets' exhibition. It is however unbelievably amazing and they'll be finishing it up tomorrow. They may have well got pretty close tonight had Shepard not came over and borrowed their lift for his Reagonomics mural (see Sour Harvest and Daily Dujour for more on that). This wall will be a highlight of the LA Freewalls Project for sure.
Shepard is doing two more walls by Saturday's opening including another based on the evils of Reagonomics. Daniel from Jet Set also mentioned Aiko would be doing a mural tomorrow and possibly one or two others... keep an eye on the streets this week in LA.
Speaking of, INVADER got up next to our gallery on Saturday night too (pics on Sour Harvest of that action).
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Post by thinkspace on Apr 12, 2011 23:10:26 GMT -8
No Banksy? How 'bout Mear One since in LA? So many others... but obviously only so much room and you could pick this apart to the moon no matter who they put in...let the discussions begin. It's going to be one hell of a show! Hi Andrew, I'm hoping that the "bonus artist" IS Banksy. We'll see Vandalog and others have said it's BANKSY and referenced an article in the LA Times where Deitch mentioned he'd be taking part. Sure it's him. Time will tell. |
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Post by lowpro on Apr 12, 2011 23:26:07 GMT -8
My bad. Was thinking of this too generally like Basel. But def doesn't belong here. Regarding Banksy, there are reports of him working on something new and large on site..which is exciting, as I never really loved the piece being relocated. Probably was badass to drive by, though.   Sounds like they're breaking some important artists into their own "rooms" of sorts and Mr. B has remixed his classic "No Tresspassing" piece, among many other things. I have to admit, I didn't know what to think about this, if only because I wasn't sure how it could successfully be orchestrated..and especially because the Blu buffing was so counterintuitive to what I believed to be the spirit of the exhibit that it left a bad taste and hindered my ability to see past it initially and get excited. However, the more I hear and the more I see, it seems as if this is truly shaping up to be historic. Can't wait to get out there tomorrow night and patrol the streets in advance. |
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Post by svenman on Apr 13, 2011 4:46:59 GMT -8
This was seriously great. Katsu did this extinguisher tag illegally right outside the front door of the MOCA in broad daylight. MOCA have since buffed it. Shame. Maybe this is the true spirit of what they are trying to capture indoors. It doesn't get any rawer than a big fucking extinguisher tag. |
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Post by commandax on Apr 13, 2011 8:52:52 GMT -8
Just to be clear, the DABS MYLA wall with HOW and NOSM is part of the LA Freewalls Project being curated by Jet Set Graffiti but isn't 'officially' part of the 'Art In The Streets' exhibition. It is however unbelievably amazing and they'll be finishing it up tomorrow. They may have well got pretty close tonight had Shepard not came over and borrowed their lift for his Reagonomics mural (see Sour Harvest and Daily Dujour for more on that). This wall will be a highlight of the LA Freewalls Project for sure. And though the Dabs Myla/How & Nosm wall isn't part of the MOCA exhibit, it's right around the corner (easily walkable, on 3rd between Alameda and Traction) and everyone who goes down to the show should definitely check it out! There are few walls in LA that can compete with it for size and intensity, especially considering that it was done entirely freehand. |
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Post by juggernut3 on Apr 13, 2011 9:40:14 GMT -8
This was seriously great. Katsu did this extinguisher tag illegally right outside the front door of the MOCA in broad daylight. MOCA have since buffed it. Shame. Maybe this is the true spirit of what they are trying to capture indoors. It doesn't get any rawer than a big fucking extinguisher tag. It was a shame that such a cool act was buffed, but I understand why. Maybe he should have tagged: "MOCA" and (in smaller tag) Katsu was here... |
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Post by rhinomilk on Apr 13, 2011 9:43:23 GMT -8
damn. probably shouldn't have procrastinated on my taxes. definitely have to check this out while it's up... sounds exciting
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Post by lowpro on Apr 13, 2011 12:05:44 GMT -8
I guess this is what was put up over the Katsu piece. Sounds like Blade got a frantic last min call. Gotta play the the all mighty Deitch's rules.  |
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Post by thinkspace on Apr 13, 2011 13:02:52 GMT -8
Just to be clear, the DABS MYLA wall with HOW and NOSM is part of the LA Freewalls Project being curated by Jet Set Graffiti but isn't 'officially' part of the 'Art In The Streets' exhibition. It is however unbelievably amazing and they'll be finishing it up tomorrow. They may have well got pretty close tonight had Shepard not came over and borrowed their lift for his Reagonomics mural (see Sour Harvest and Daily Dujour for more on that). This wall will be a highlight of the LA Freewalls Project for sure. And though the Dabs Myla/How & Nosm wall isn't part of the MOCA exhibit, it's right around the corner (easily walkable, on 3rd between Alameda and Traction) and everyone who goes down to the show should definitely check it out! There are few walls in LA that can compete with it for size and intensity, especially considering that it was done entirely freehand. INDEED - not to be missed, anyone in the area today, be sure to swing by to see 'em putting on the final touches. Word is Aiko will be doing a wall nearby too, so well worth the trip... and Shepard in the area doing 2 more walls today/tomorrow too, all sorts of reasons to be in downtown LA the next few days. |
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Post by svenman on Apr 13, 2011 14:00:54 GMT -8
I guess this is what was put up over the Katsu piece. Sounds like Blade got a frantic last min call. Gotta play the the all mighty Deitch's rules. i prefer the extinguisher tag! |
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