Category Archives: urban art

Blublu: video art

If you loved “Muto” have a look at the other videos by Blu, you’ll love them as well: always restless, always full of thoughts, simple and involving.
And go to www.blublu.org, his site deserves definitely a visit.
video: Child by blu on Vimeo.com

Long Weekend 2008 + Margini Festival

txt: UBS Openings - The Long Weekend 2008
UBS Openings: The Long Weekend brings you three days and nights of extraordinary live events and performances at Tate Modern.
During the day, the gallery will be buzzing with performances to watch and opportunities to get involved, themed around the States of Flux Collection display, which [...]

Multiversity in Venice

link: www.sale-docks.org

txt: MULTIVERSITY, or the Art of Subversion
16, 17 and 18 May 2008
S.a.L.E. DOCKS
VENICE
www.sale-docks.org
multiversity.sale@gmail.com
The event “Multiversity, or the Art of Subversion” is the fruit of a joint effort between Uni.Nomade and S.a.L.E. (Signs and Lyrics Emporium), between a trans-territorial network of militants and researchers carrying out a critical analysis of the themes of contemporaneity and [...]

Wall Animation

via: Wooster Collective
link: blublu.org
video: MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

txt: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re [...]

Berlin ist arm aber sexy

via: stylesreportberlin.com
txt: Urban contemporary - INTOXICATED DEMONS GALLERY

Is “urban contemporary art” just another modern term for selling products to the suburban youth? Does it explain the different way of living in the city instead of growing up in the country? Nevertheless, we’re not an encyclopedia spending time on scientific explanations. We would like to show [...]

Yes we Can

via: Video From The Cans Festival - Wooster collective
txt: www.woostercollective.com
woo·ster (noun) A street in the Soho section of New York City
col·lec·tive (noun) Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision.
The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating [...]

Where is art?

txt: Art 38 Basel - Public Art Projects - on www.kopenhagen.dk
On Messeplatz in front of the Art Basel fair, visitor’s can witness nine public art projects. The nine works are each very different and show a wide range of artistic techniques, interests and fabrics. From Wim Delvoye’s amazing and monumental reconstruction of a big trailer [...]

Age against the Turbine?

txt: Tate Modern - Street Art - 23 May – 25 August 2008
Free Entry

In the first major public museum display of street art in London, an awesome line-up of acclaimed street artists will create gigantic new art works on the external walls of Tate Modern overlooking the Thames.
An eclectic group of artists, who [...]

Survive With/Without Selling

txt: “Wooster’s How To..,.” #12 - Blek Le Rat’s How to Survive in the Graffiti World Without Selling Your Soul
First of all: Before starting a career as a graffiti artist you have to make sure to have another income than your art to live for over a long period of time and maybe even for [...]

Arts, Culture and Public

txt: Arts, Culture and the Public Sphere
How do cultures relate to the public sphere? To which extent is the shape of the public discourse affected by cultural codes? What are the cultural dimensions of public knowledge? Why and how does culture matter? In contemporary societies the public sphere is constantly shaped and reshaped by media [...]

A story about art (thanks, Keith)

txt: comments on Drawing the Line - Keith Haring (1989) Part 1 of 3
hunnysuckledream (1 week ago)
I’m from Dutch Country in PA too. The thing I love about Haring the most is that he insisted that art was for the people–not just stuffy art critics and walls in museums. Such an injustice his premature death… [...]

Turbine Street Art Hall

txt: Street artists to adorn Tate facade
Mark Brown, arts correspondent
Wednesday April 2, 2008
The Guardian
Tate Modern is to get a summer facelift, with a group of the world’s most acclaimed street artists being asked to produce work for the building’s Thames-side facade, it was announced yesterday.
It will be the first commission to use the facade and [...]