Tuesday, November 10, 2009

UCLA Department of Art Lectures: John Knight

It has been some time since I posted on here, but this one needed to go up!

UCLA Department of Art Lectures: John Knight
"John Knight has exhibited recently at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2008); Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (2008); Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008); Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2009); and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2009). This fall, he will have an exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles and works in situ."

Friday, August 7, 2009

Damien Hirst meet Damien Hirst


“I am Damien Hirst. I am an unknown artist from Slovenia. I am doing art by doing art. My art glorifies the futileness of being an artist. It's a parody of the belief in nothing. My purpose is to demystify everything that was mystified in the name of art. Art is a religion and I am an atheist.”

Read more from Slovenian Damien Hirst on his website nothingthing.com or his blog. The blog has more of his recent artwork. Scroll through, take a look and have a little laugh.

Disclaimer: “In case you didn't figure it out yourself yet let me just make it clear that I am not the famous British artist named Damien Hirst. I am just an artistic appropriation of the name Damien Hirst and what it might or might not represent for you and everyone else. As well as I am an appropriation of the main concepts and principles found in contemporary art.” Read more of the disclaimer here.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Sticker Mural


The Ace Hotel in New York has commissioned artist Michael Anderson to create a mural consisting of about 4,000 stickers.
“Consisting of 4,000 or so stickers scanned from Anderson’s notebooks, printed in black-and-white on silk paper, and assembled into a dense collage, the mural evokes both the Giuliani years and a grittier, preboom downtown. “I think of myself more like the curator rather than the artist,” Anderson says, standing in the Ace lobby. As a curator and collector, he took an egalitarian approach: The mural contains stickers by well-known graffiti-ers like Barry McGee (who tagged as Twist) and Steve Powers (ESPO), as well as those of the unknown and untalented.”

Mosaic Graffiti in Sweden


The above image (by August Dahllöf) is a mosaic graffiti wall in Malmo. See more images here. (via Wooster Collective)

Friday, July 31, 2009

2009 Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair

For those in Los Angeles this Saturday and Sunday, the 2009 Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair will be held this weekend.

“The Second Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 1 and 2, 2009 at the Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research, 6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90044 (Saturday) and the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, 675 S Park View St, Los Angeles, California 90057 (Sunday).”

SOKKOMB: DIY Justice

“SOKKOMB is a new low-cost product designed specifically for all those citizens who are so interested in Do-It-Yourself Justice.”

Have you been wronged in a way that makes you boil? Do you demand payback? Now is your chance... Sokkomb allows for at-home, do-it-yourself justice!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

David Storey Two Tone Prints


These limited edition re-release Two Tone posters were brought to my attention by Chadski.
"These limited edition Two Tone posters have now been re-released as a result of a collaboration between the artists responsible for the original Two Tone graphic design work – John ‘Teflon’ Sims and David Storey*. They are now making each of these influential artworks available again in a limited edition of 100 giclée prints. Printed on Fine Art paper (Baryte Museum 300gsm) using light-fast archival ink, each one is numbered and signed by the artists and includes a certificate of authenticity.

(* The original Two Tone design work was carried out under the creative direction of Jerry Dammers.)"