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It's All About the Graffiti Art in Rio, Not Bikini Thongs
If you're Brazilian, or, a Cariocaphile (a Rio lover) then you've already started the countdown for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Back in October, we were down in the "Marvelous City" and right smack in the middle of Copacabana Beach with the rest of Rio for the world announcement. Don't worry, our writer Shira Levine cased the joint to check things out for those of you considering getting your Olympic Games on in, uhhh six and half years. Questions or suggestions? Let us know.
Brazil is home to two legit and exciting graffiti artists. Meet Os Gemeos which is Portuguese for The Twins.
The artists: Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo are in fact twins and responsible for the mural on the corner of Houston and Bowery streets in Manhattan, that replaced the now whitewashed famed Keith Haring mural.
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Look Out Banksy: Barrel Monster Man Faces Prison for Raleigh Road Art
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.
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This Weekend In the World: Bloomsday, Banksy and Biking In the Buff
· 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.
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Banksy's Mystery Tour: 'Homecoming' Show Opens in Bristol
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!
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'Legit' Street Artist Barry McGee on Display in Berlin
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.
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Adidas' Urban Art Guide for iPhone Loves Berlin's Gritty Alleys
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.
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· Adidas Urban Art Guide [Official Site]
· adidas Urban Art Guide for iPhone [HighSnobiety]
· iPhone Travel Apps Coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: HighSnobiety]
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Street Art is Going to the Mattresses in London
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.
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· K-Guy [Official Site]
· K-Guy Under The Mattress Banking [Graffoto]
· Slinkachu's Little People in London [Jaunted]
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Neo Con New York Opening in Brooklyn
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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'Signs' of the Times in Denver
Denver isn’t usually thought of as a hip-hop or street art Mecca but Dan “Dunn” Ericson is working to change that. Dunn, also known as Signtologist (coined by MC Black of The Roots> aka Jimmy Fallon's new house band), creates unique paintings of iconic figures in hip-hop, like Kanye West, John Legend, Blackalicious, and Slick Rick, on street signs in Denver.
All of his signs are donated by the Englewood Public Works and are redistributed by Dunn after he has added his signature touch to them.
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Share The View (and Your Memory Card) with Photochaining
Losing a memory card at the end of the trip can be tragic. But what if you plan to leave it behind on purpose? The Photochaining project encourages photographers to willingly leave behind cheap cards for others to find and add to. It's like Where's George, but for pictures!
Currently there are 16 memory cards out there, some with people names (Ben, Lola) and others with themes (Gimme, Love, Landscape). Most of them have only been found once in places from Madrid (where a card with the above photo was from) to San Francisco. As much as we like to hang onto our cards, this could work as long as people remember to let their findings go. Yours could be next!
Related Stories:
· Leaving Camera Memory Cards in Public Places! [Photochaining.com]
· O'Hare Airport Stars in Chicago Photography Exhibition [Jaunted]
· TravelMuse Wants Your Vacation Snaps [Jaunted]
[Photo: "Anna" memory card]
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The New Poster Boy for NYC Street Art
You may not recognize the name Poster Boy but if you have been in a New York City subway this year, you know his work.
Poster Boy, who likes to stay anonymous since the nature of his work is technically illegal, has been creating street art mash-ups by taking existing ads and using a cut and paste technique to create completely new, and usually much more provocative, images. Poster Boy has been known to get people’s attention by taking iconic pictures, like a portrait of Heath Ledger, and turning it into something haunting, like a piece of anti-drug propaganda.
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Rebel Without A KAWS
Following in the footsteps of Shepard Fairey, street artist KAWS is celebrating his first solo show in Los Angeles this weekend.
KAWS, aka Brian Donnelly, told CBS news that he chose his name nearly twenty years ago while tagging buildings in his hometown of Jersey City, NJ.
"It's just a combination of letters I liked," he told CBS. "And when your whole art's based on the lettering you choose, you kinda figure out what ones work together. I just liked the shapes of the k, a, w, s. It has no meaning."
KAWS began his signature mark--placing Xs over the eyes of recognizable figures in pop culture- in the early 90s and quickly made a name for himself in the street art world. His most popular pieces include several paintings of Smurfs and vinyl Stormtrooper figurines, all with Xs for eyes.
