It didn't last long, but commuters in Raleigh, North Carolina were treated to a whimsical display of street art recently, as a 22-year-old NC State student (allegedly) assembled a barrel monster out of bright orange traffic barrels and put it to work directing traffic on a busy public street. Police say Joseph Carnevale is being charged with larceny for stealing and damaging the traffic barrels on May 31 for the purpose of building a statue, and I guess they're right, but it always seems unfair when it's vandalism you actually like. ]]> Victor Ozols 2009-06-13T13:11:53-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/6/12/11551/9874

· 70 Cities Around the World: One time during our travels, we had the (mis)fortune of crossing paths with a World Naked Bike Ride. This Saturday, 70 cities in the northern hemisphere (the southern hemisphere does theirs in March) will host bicyclists in the buff to protest oil dependence. To join in or just station yourself along the route, check out the WNBR's Google map featuring all of the cities and links to their wiki pages for information. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-06-12T16:44:54-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/6/12/91839/2952

True to his reputation, super-secretive British street artist Banksy is keeping his new show, opening somewhere at sometime in Bristol this weekend, under wraps until the very last moment. That moment came and went this morning actually, and now we know that his "Banksy Versus Bristol Museum" exhibition is happening at the Bristol Museum starting tomorrow through August 31st.

As a homecoming for the street artist-turned-cultural icon, the show will be Banksy's largest yet in Britain with over 100 works and the animatronic pieces from his New York show last fall. And what's better than taking in a new museum ehxibition? Taking in a new museum exhibiton that's free! ]]> JetSetCD 2009-06-12T10:45:23-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/2/23548/36690

Artist Barry McGee’s name may not be familiar but his drip designs and iconic male figures with sagging eyes are universally recognizable. McGee, a native Californian, began as a street artist known by the tag name Twist in the 1980s. But by the 90s, he had branched out and began creating paintings, drawings, and mixed-media installations that include empty liquor bottles, tagged signs, scrap wood, and metal.

Since then, McGee has become the most respected street artist turned legit artist (sorry, Shep) in the country and has had his work displayed in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Despite his success, McGee is still known to tag a few buildings now and then because he feels Graffiti keeps him in touch with a larger, more diverse audience. ]]> cmb 2009-04-03T11:38:53-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/1/135427/0688

Free stuff for travel; we love and have to have it. So it's no wonder that we've fallen head over heels for Adidas' Urban Art Guide to Berlin application for the iPhone. Since Germany seems to be the capital of highway overpass masterpieces and reworked billboards, it's no wonder that Adidas has chosen Berlin for this app which circumvents the usual museums and galleries to highlight street works.

Downloadable for free from iTunes, the Urban Art Guide allows you to traverse a Google map of Berlin, pegged with locations and photos of some of the city's most notable random works, complete with artist, title and date information. Take it a step further by following mini tour programs, such as one which walks you to nine sites around Mitte and stops at El Bocho's "Kamera," a surveillance camera image something like an ode to the British street artist Banksy.

Freshly released on March 20th, we recommend downloading the Guide asap and hightailing it to Berlin before some of the spots are hit with further layers of graffiti or get ripped out and auctioned as cultural ephemera.

Related Stories:
· Adidas Urban Art Guide [Official Site]
· adidas Urban Art Guide for iPhone [HighSnobiety]
· iPhone Travel Apps Coverage [Jaunted]

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Recession inspired street art has been popping up all over the world but the most intriguing pieces have been created by K-Guy, a celebrated street artist based in the U.K.

It all started last year with K-Guy’s “In Loving Memory of a Boom Economy” piece outside of the Bank of England in Central London. Then, the artist created a series mattresses that were scattered around the city. The used mattresses were stamped with titles like, “The World’s Local Bank”, “Bank of Sonia and Mike”, and “0% On Balance Transfers for Life”.

Unfortunately, the mattresses were gone the first day they dropped, but if you are looking for another recession themed activity while visiting London, Tate Modern is currently offering a map of site-specific art from a group of five Madrid-based street artists on their website for free.

Related Stories:
· K-Guy [Official Site]
· K-Guy Under The Mattress Banking [Graffoto]
· Slinkachu's Little People in London [Jaunted]

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This weekend, New York City street art takes center stage at the 17 Frost Gallery in Williamsburg. The Neo-Con Collective, made up of renown street artists Aakash Nihalani, Ellis G., and Poster Boy, has created an exhibition of collaborative installations for the gallery that will open Saturday.

17 Forest has praised the artists for their innovative and thought provoking work.

The collective consists of artists that utilize ephemeral mediums to create public art, focusing on neo-contextualizing the mundane. Their works, on and off the street, possess urgent relevance to modern societal contradictions and conflagrations, confronting the humanness of discomfort and dissatisfaction with typical, routine, existence.

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