What the graffiti artist Blu should really be famous for
In December, Jeffrey Deitch, the new director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, canceled the painted mural the museum had commissioned from Bologna-based graffiti artist Blu for one...
View ArticleStreet artist JR on the Deitch wall
I inadvertently took this photograph of the French street artist JR in 2007 as he was installing an exhibit in a vast, roofless abandoned factory in Arles, France. At that time, he went to...
View ArticleSaudi women given the right to vote, at last
King Abdullah announced yesterday that Saudi women will be allowed to vote and stand as candidates in the next elections. This is welcome news — if it actually happens* — that comes (many) decades...
View ArticleRetna graf going up on the Deitch wall
It is 10.12pm on a Sunday and Retna is in one of his moods. The West Coast graffiti artist, whose real name is Marquis Lewis, is working on a mural for what used to be called the Deitch wall (for art...
View ArticleKony2012, the final indignity
So, after all the hype about the Kony2012 viral video and the wonderment at the very public meltdown of one of the project’s principal actors, tonight is the night of action: April 20th, when the 100+...
View ArticleGraffiti history written on your sneakers
In New York, there is no shortage of hustlers on Broadway who will tag a hat or shirt for a fee; they are young guys, generally, and they do it badly but for tourists it is like a piece of New York...
View ArticleLatest in the battle over the Mohamed Mahmoud mural
As soon as I heard that they had destroyed the exquisite street art in Cairo that ran along Mohamed Mahmoud Street off Tahrir and celebrated the post-revolutionary martyrs, I wrote a post about it and...
View ArticleHOW and NOSM mural on the Deitch wall
You have to credit the Basque twins Raoul and David Perre, who go by the street names HOW and NOSM: a day or two after Hurricane Sandy flooded New York and while much of downtown (myself included) was...
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