A History of Polite Graffiti Last week, in a case resembling a Monty Python skit, a professor at England's Newcastle University pled guilty to scrawling politely worded graffiti onto twenty-four luxury cars in the upscale British neighborhood of Jesmond. The professor, Stephen … Read more on New Yorker (blog) Pair arrested in connection with graffitt [...]
SFMOMA Expansion Project Will Feature Sculpture Gardens And Educational … The new space will be outfitted with increased entrances, outdoor galleries and the largest vertical garden space in San Francisco. The museum's revamp is set to be completed in 2016. "From the very start of this project, our goal has been to improve … Read [...]
Teen graffiti tagger who allegedly fired at rival arrested Fresno police say a 15-year-old graffiti tagger is in custody after he fired shots at a rival tagger in January. Officers went to Blackstone and Cambridge avenues at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 28 and found a 17-year-old who escaped injury from the shooting, Sgt … Read more [...]
Sculptor selling mini sculpture for war hero statue fund A SCULPTOR who is creating a statue of a Walton war hero is taking part in an exhibition to boost the statue fund. Top sculptor John Doubleday is creating the life-size statue of Private Herbert Columbine, Walton's Victoria Cross winner who died in the … Read [...]
Street art: Gorillas in the midst of LA City Council District 11 campaign Two years ago, artist Isabelle Alford-Lago accepted a homeowner's invitation to paint a graffiti-prone wall on 20th Avenue, one of Venice's small walking streets. Alford-Lago, known for her gorilla depictions around Venice, painted four primates on the … Read more on 89.3 [...]
Cage Against The Machine: Hanksy's Street Art Puns Are Back And No One Is … One thing Hollywood and the art world share is a tendency to get a little self-serious. Luckily, street art prankster Hanksy is here to remind both egocentric circles to lighten up. In the past the vigilante jokester has coined celebrity-inspired [...]
Chappies Did You Know Edible Street Art Campaign Iconic South African bubble gum brand, Chappies, paid tribute to its supporters this January by creating and sharing six edible street art pieces, each inspired by "Did You Know?" facts submitted by South African fans. Thousands of YouTube views and … Read more on Bizcommunity.com Employee beautifies [...]
Gretna City Council to take into account new finance director Wednesday But Craig believes she wasn't ready for the political nature of her job given her private sector background, and that she by no means lost her status as an outsider, particularly when she began expressing hard economic realities. … Read far more on NOLA.com
Lost in Space Visionary artists, also referred to as "intuitive," "outsider" or "naive," are typically people without having formal coaching, pursuing extremely personal art independent of the art world, at times from within the confines of a mental or penal institution. … Read a lot more on Houston Press
Outsider Art Museum – Музей творчества аутсайдеров Image by raymond_zoller On Facebook Andy Serkis Grateful for James Franco's 'Bold' Oscar Support for Performance … … Serkis was the 1 person who probably appreciated the gesture most, precisely simply because it did what he couldn't do himself: Supply an argument in favor the art of performance [...]