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“Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art” Book Release Party Announced

Taschen and Wooster Collective, the publisher and authors of “Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art“, are throwing a book release party in NYC September 29. It’s open to the public. Below is the invitation.

Joey Skaggs’ work is included in this encyclopedic effort to, in editor Ethel Seno’s words, “bring generations together around the subject of street art and ‘uncommissioned public art'”, and he’ll be there. Come on by!

Written by Carlo McCormick, Marc Schiller, & Sara Schiller, and edited by Ethel Seno, copies of the book are available for pre-order online at a great price.

Here’s the list of artists included in the book: Continue reading ““Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art” Book Release Party Announced”

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New from Blu! Big Bang Big Boom

Here’s an amazing new wall-painted animation from Blu:

Directed and animated by BLU
Produced and distributed by ARTSH.it
Soundtrack by Andrea Martignoni

For more from Blu:

  • Muto, A Wall Painted Animation by Artist BLU
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  • 2004 Interview with Blu from WoosterCollective

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    A Ticket to Higher Education

    From Melbourne Art & Culture Critic, May 2, 2010:

    Pranksters struck at one of Melbourne”s train stations again. This time they altered a ticket machine”s instructions to dispense university degrees. The alterations used stickers of the same color and typeface, cut to fit over the existing information, it was so subtle that staff at the station didn”t notice them until informed by a confused customer. (Thanks to Jane for the photos.)

    Close-up view:

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    Melbourne Hopes Banksy Will Return to Re-Defile Their Streets

    City does give a rat’s for Banksy’s wiped-out art
    by Raymond Gill
    theage.com.au
    April 28, 2010

    The curator of Citylights Projects in Hosier Lane, where the Banksy graffiti was erased, says the council is remiss.

    Melbourne City Council sent the cleaners into Hosier Lane on Thursday to tidy up the rat-infested garbage, but they caught the wrong rat.

    A request by deputy lord mayor Susan Riley to clean up the laneway, world famous for its colourful street art, inadvertently resulted in the painting over of a stencil of a rat by the celebrated British graffiti artist Banksy.

    ”I went down there on Thursday and saw the cleaners and said: ‘You realise you have just painted over a Banksy?’,” Hosier Lane resident Kerry Butcher told The Age yesterday. ”And they said: ‘We are just doing what we’re told’.”

    Banksy, who created several stencils in Melbourne on a visit in 2003, is regarded as the world’s foremost street artist. In 2008, a London wall bearing one of his stencils allegedly sold on eBay for $472,528. His works on paper sell at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    Last week lord mayor Robert Doyle was pictured in The Age under a stencil of himself in Hosier Lane as he praised its street art as a ”legitimate expression of artistic intent”. Continue reading “Melbourne Hopes Banksy Will Return to Re-Defile Their Streets”

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    Banksy & Robbo Up the Anty. Perfect Timing.

    Banksy graffiti feud given a fresh coat
    by Alexandra Topping
    guardian.co.uk
    23 April 2010

    Banksy alters King Robbo ‘tag’ on Regent’s canal “¢ King Robbo retaliates but some cry publicity stunt

    The history of art has been coloured by fierce and often glaringly public feuds between celebrated artists of the day. From Turner and Constable to Whistler and Ruskin, long-standing and public battles have kept generations of art lovers engrossed, outraged or simply amused.

    But few artistic spats have been played out in such a public manner as the current standoff between Banksy, the internationally renowned bestselling graffiti artist, and King Robbo, one of the founding fathers of London’s graffiti scene.

    The battle, which started on the banks of the Regent’s canal in the capital before Christmas, has stepped up a gear with the Bristolian apparently launching a new attack on King Robbo’s work. Continue reading “Banksy & Robbo Up the Anty. Perfect Timing.”

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