These guys coordinated a large amount of paint being spilled in an intersection in Sao Paulo for a ‘civil occupation’ art festival. Cars splashed through the puddles and spread paint all over the place, making this beautiful mess.
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Featured Artist: LucyandBart
LucyandBart, an artistic collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess, explores the genetic manipulation of the human form through the use of home-made “prosthesis”.
FREEHAND JOBS – BIG GROUP ART SHOW SAT NITE AT PANDEMIC (HOMIES DOIN ART, KID)
These artists built out the inside of the Pandemic Gallery into a small town of handpainted signage and scrappy shanty town. Theres twisted versions of a Head Shop, a Brothel, an Ice Cream Store, a Booze Saloon, a Tattoo shop and more! Come check some great work from:
Rocky Banks, Olivia Katz, Aminah Slor, Ben Wolf, Ian Vanek, Jon Bocksell, Heidi Tullman, Kim Seilbeck, Conrad Carlson, Mikey 907, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Isabelli Scott, Rob Corradetti, and Tony Bones.
MERCEDES-BENZ IS THE BEST ARTIST IN LA’S GIANT ART AND MUSIC FESTIVAL, ACCORDING TO MIKE D.
From now through May 6th, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is hosting a free art and music festival curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys, titled Transmission LA: A/V Club. A multitude of artists, including Ben Jones (video below), Sage Vaughn, Tom Sachs, and more are exhibiting work, punctuated with daily [...]
BENEVERYWHERE MADE A MUMMY OUT OF MCDONALDS HAMBURGERS, AND IT’S FUCKING TERRIFYING.
Ben Campbell, an artist known as BenEverywhere, dropped $200 on McDonald’s hamburgers to make a full-scale, fucking terrifying mummy/corpse out of them, to make a statement about McDonalds and Egypt and human obsession with immortality and a buncha other shit, but more importantly just LOOK AT THE FUCKING THING. Jeezus. Top THAT, Spurlock.
Aboveground Animation: Casey Jane Ellison
If you go to the website of animator Casey Jane Ellison you’ll find that she has in her crosshairs nothing less than “world domination”, and then if you head over to her multi artist project, Aboveground Animation, you’ll find out that she has created an entire universe that serves as an arena for stories that [...]
‘RIOT // CONTROL,’ A Zine on Rioting for Police and Protesters
This anonymous, photocopied zine includes actual scanned pages from police training handbooks on the left side of each spread. On the right are instructions on the same subject for non-cops. It goes into detail with everything from street-level tactics, to making body armor and gas masks, to disabling vehicles.
Hennessey Youngman’s Show at Family Business Closes Tomorrow
Tomorrow, April 14th, is the last day to checkout “It’s A Small Small World” curated by Hennessey Youngman at Family Business in Chelsea.
ECOLOGICAL STREET ART AND GRAFFITI
A new wave of street artists is challenging the traditional idea of what graffiti can be, creating hybrid ecological works of art using organic material to change the face of urban landscapes. (Plus how you can do that shizz yourself)
WE BLEW UP THAT COUCH AT HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S ART SHOW IN CHELSEA (VIDEO & PHOTOS)
Last week Hennessy Youngman, the Philly/Internet Art Personality (celebrity? yeah, we can give him that with a lil “c”, sure thang), held an open call for his art show in Chelsea’s Family Business Gallery. Any idiot could tell that the first-come/first-serve situation in the small gallery was going to fill up FAST, so we showed [...]
SUPERCHIEF HAS THE BIGGEST WORK OF ART IN HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S CHELSEA ART SHOW/BLOCK PARTY TONIGHT!!! (UNLESS YOU CONSIDER THE WHOLE FUCKING SHOW A PIECE OF ART, IN WHICH CASE… HENNY WINS.)
So the charming Hennessy Youngman, AKA: The Dapper Don Draper, AKA: The Curatorial Oracle, AKA: The Bowery’s WU Museum, AKA: Mistah Chillah Than Yo Sistah, has his opening tonight in Chelsea on West 21st btwn 10th and 11th ave at 6pm. ITS GOING TO BE A FUCKING BLOCK PARTY AND SPANKROCK IS DOING A SECRET PERFORMANCE. (we like to capitalize secrets)
oh and our sculpture is the biggest thing in the room…
On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia
Review: On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia by Niki Schur-Narula Superchief Contributer Tally Beck Contemporary is a small gallery in the LES whose focus is on Asian Contemporary Art. I stopped by last Wednesday for a talk with Brian Curtin, curator of the current show “On the Threshold of the [...]
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: MATTHEW BRANDT
Matthew Brandt’s “Lakes and Reservoirs” series captures that dreamy longing-for-summer feeling you’ve got right now in NYC. His crisp, nostalgic images of a day on the lake washed with a psychedelic tint reminds you of that time you went camping with your friends for the July 4th weekend and tripped on shrooms the whole time.
GRAFFITI SKETCHBOOK: THE YOK GETS UP IN NYC
Graffiti Sketchbook is our new column that showcases those initial drawings that fill up graffiti head’s sketchbooks/notebooks and how they compare to that finished piece on the wall down the street.
Our new buddy, The Yok is getting us started with some sketches of a painting he did in NYC recently.
5-Mile-Long Laser Rainbow Shot Across London Last Night
It is entirely unacceptable that there isn’t a plan to have lasers like this permanently mounted at the tip of the FREEDOM TOWER, firing in every direction, in 156bit colors every night until… well, until someone knocks it down.
FEATURED ARTIST: Ben Frost
Ben Frost is a Sydney, Australia based artist that makes work that is critical of modern (pop) culture, capitalism and society at large. Heady it is not – you don’t have to read too far into an image of two girls poking at each other’s nipples superimposed onto a pack of Viagra – but it is fun, bright, and kinda makes you feel like you’re in a porno Disneyland.
A Review of Adel Abdessemed’s “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” at David Zwirner
…The next room is where the genuine meat of the show lies. And this time I’m talking actual meat. You walk in and are faced with a wall covered in burned, taxidermied wolves, deer, and maybe some birds…
Gallery Opening Tonight: Adel Abdessemed’s “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf”
Beginning on Friday, February 17th, David Zwirner Gallery is devoting its Chelsea space to artist Adel Abdessemed, an Algerian born French dude who does some seriously intense installation work that is usually political and almost always large-scale. His last show at Zwirner included twisted airplane fuselageand burned out cars. This upcoming show, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf”, will [...]
TAKANORI AIBA: Miniature-Michelin/Bonsai-Style Hotels
We want to take acid and stare at these for hours, shrinking down to ant size in our minds and walking around in these “Spirited Away” anime hotels for weeks on end.
FEATURED ARTIST: LUSH
LUSH is an Australian street artist who describes himself as “The World’s Premier Graffiti Asshole”, a role which he seems to be excelling in. The dude photographs strippers filling in his pieces, his inarguably vulgar, really well illustrated pieces.
Here are a SHIT TON OF THEM.
