Flavorwire » The Best Banksy Controversies… So Far. You know the controversy is dead when you see your work on Flavorwire. Jeez. Commercialism at its finest. Gogo.
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Sometimes, life just isn’t fair…
Lawsuit Describes ‘Blacklist’ for Collectors of Marlene Dumas – NYTimes.com. This seems to me to be a case of simple betterthanyouism. The artists (and gallerists) see themselves as preserving the public good, encouraging collectors to hold onto artworks and eventually donate them to Museums. The collectors see themselves as, well, collectors. And like any other …
Government-Sponsored Graffiti? It’s not graffiti anymore.
Caracas Journal – Artists Embellish Walls With Political Visions – NYTimes.com. …the government… supports Mr. Zerpa’s creations and the work of many other street artists, and is increasingly making them a central element of its promotion of a state ideology. Government-financed brigades of graffiti artists and muralists are blanketing this city’s walls with politicized images, …
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Astoria Scum River Bridge – Street Art That Works
Astoria Scum River Bridge on Vimeo on Vimeo via Astoria Scum River Bridge on Vimeo. So this is totally awesome. Like, it’s teh Roxxorz, for sure.
The Toxic Side of Being, Literally, Green
Via the NYT, Design – The Toxic Side of Being, Literally, Green re-published, or re-presented, or whatever from the International Herald Tribune. I had no idea that ‘greenwashing’ (as a term) had been around for so long—almost 25 years—and was interested to read of the history of green pigments and green in culture. Good times. Also, …
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Robbo vs. Banksy: Graffiti FTW!!!1!
Graffiti Artist Robbo Took the Road – WSJ.com. I don’t have any idea how long this will be available for free, but it’s up as of today, so I hope it will remain freely available in perpetuity. Here’s the nutshell: Banksy dissed a ~25 year old ROBBO INC. piece, and now ROBBO has come out …
Keith Haring at Deitch Projects
From “Bad Boys of Art at Manhattan Galleries,” by Roberta Smith, 11 February, 2010: The 1980s certainly had no shortage of genuinely hopeless bad boys from both sides of the Atlantic, but Keith Haring 1958-1990 deviated from the norm by having something close to a heart of gold. It always seemed emblematic that his subway …
