Category: Happenings
Subversively Suburban Street Art
May 9, 2012The clever Carmichael Collective staked out some unlikely ground for suburban street art, and for me, it’s a big win. It’s like billboard appropriation + guerrilla gardening + environmental intervention + oversized objects + tagging 2.0 all rolled into a handful of elegant and ironic … Continue reading
Jeff Soto Makes Street Art With a Robotic Art Car in Oakland
April 20, 2012It doesn’t take a social media branding analyst to notice that artists are hot with car companies these days. Today, we add Chevy to our previous roundup of Scion [art cars], BMW [more art cars], Volkswagen [DIY art cars] and Ford … Continue reading
Spongebob Street Alteration by Paopao
April 18, 2012Italian street artist Paopao [note: there seems to be trouble with his website currently] views the world differently than most folks. Well, folks who aren’t me, at least in the example above. Not to toot my own journalistic horn, but I’ve been … Continue reading
Jeff Soto & Dalek at Richmond Street Art Festival
April 15, 2012The 2012 Richmond Virginia Street Art Festival wound down today after more than a dozen national street artists turned the James River Power Plant Building and Floodwall into a streetside art gallery. Participating artists [above] included: Ed Trask, Brad Bacon, … Continue reading
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Buy an Uglydoll
April 13, 2012In January of 2009, Sasha Obama, clipped a small blue Uglydoll to her school backpack and triggered a mediastorm of hype. Pictures of the President’s daughter and her Uglydoll appeared on CNN and The Today Show, and there were stories … Continue reading
Luke Chueh x FORD in San Francisco Tonight
April 11, 2012Luke Chueh is up in San Francisco for a few days to help Ford “Go Further”. GoFurtherSF is an art show/pop-up shop with toy art provided by our local Kidrobot. Luke invited me over for a sneak peek at his … Continue reading
Misspelled Street Art
April 10, 2012This typo in a wheatpasted Hunter S. Thompson quote caught my eye in The Mission last night. I really did think about adding a little grammatical caret (^) and letter U right then and there, but then, street art isn’t … Continue reading
Luzinterruptus Installs Mutant Weeds in Madrid
April 4, 2012While the DEA and the IRS raided herbal pharmacies in my hometown of Oakland this week, a continent away in Madrid, Spanish street art collective, Luzinterruptus, set up an herbal pharmacy of their own. Mutant Weeds is their latest installation to … Continue reading
Parra & Victor Moscoso in Conversation at SFMOMA
April 4, 2012Yesterday, SFMOMA presented a conversation with poster designers and artists, Parra [tagged] and Victor Moscoso, “the most formally educated of the psychedelic poster artists”. The discussion was mediated by Joseph Becker, SFMOMA’s assistant curator of architecture and design. The occasion for … Continue reading
David Lynch x JR Collaborate in Paris
April 4, 2012As far as dream collaborations go, it’s difficult to top the recent collab between artists Liu Bolin and JR in NYC. But here’s to trying: David Lynch is off to an interesting week with the debut of his “Crazy Clown … Continue reading
