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Deitch Listens as Carlo McCormick Brings Up Blu Whitewash
According to the art world's favorite vlogger, James Kalm, Art in the Streets essayist Carlo McCormick spoke on June 19 at MOCA and Jeffrey Deitch was in the crowd.
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Brooklyn Museum Nixes Street Art Show
The Brooklyn Museum has issued a press release stating that it will no longer be hosting LA MOCA's Art in the Streets exhibition, which was scheduled to appear in Brooklyn next spring.
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Shepard Fairey's Secret "Revealed"?
I can't believe TMZ is in the art game (you know you're mainstream when … ) but the look on street artist Shepard Fairey's face when his wife offers her take on if he goes out on the street posting stuff anymore is priceless. Ouch.
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Anti-Gaddafi Street Art Pops Up in Libya
In classic Chairman Mao fashion, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had his face plastered everywhere in the country as pro-government propaganda. In cities overtaken by Libyan rebels, artists are turning those same images against Gaddafi in works of street art.
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Required Reading
Jeff Koons's art collection, thoughts on LA MOCA's questionable art history, Invader in Paris, a tour of the Calatrava building in Milwaukee, something fishy about Warhol, iPhone photography and corporate culture and the US government … all on this week's Required Reading.
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Street Artist Gets Jilted by LA MoCA, Bombs Bathroom
Becca Midwood, a downtown LA street artist working since the mid-1990s, got pulled from LA Museum of Contemporary Art's Art in the Streets exhibition due to a “last minute curatorial choice.” Becca gets her work in the museum anyway, though, with a wheatpaste in the museum's bathroom. Check out this
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Brooklyn Gets a Look at Brit Artist's Toothy Grin
The Street Spot has a series of photos by Becki Fuller of British street artist Sweet Toof hitting Williamsburg rooftops for some mural-size pieces. You might know the artist's work from his visual vocabulary of puffy pink gums filled with pearly white teeth.
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We Need a Campbell's Soup Can Moratorium
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Banksy on Osama in 2010
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Pantheon Puts Street Artists Behind Glass
Across the street from the Museum of Modern Art at West 53rd Street is an exhibition that might be unexpected for those expecting only Van Goghs and Picassos. Pantheon: a history of art from the streets of NYC is an attempt to create solidified narrative of street art history, to pin down this ephem
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Happy Earth Day … from the Archives, 1983
Artist John Fekner recently found this previously unpublished photograph of a subway billboard street art piece from 1983. This work transforms a Newsday newspaper poster in the Ely/23rd Street subway station in Long Island City, Queens, into a more ominous scene. Unlike street art interventions tod
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Street Artist Space Invader Arrested in LA?
The Los Angeles Police Department caught and arrested two French nationals vandalizing buildings with “buckets of grout and pieces of tile” near the LA Museum of Contemporary Art's Little Tokyo gallery this past Friday. One of the vandals seems to be the famed French street artist Space Invader, rep