CNN interviewed Risk, Saber and Ron English for their show “Letters from America” in London. Also featuring some still pics from Butterfly.
Category Archives: London
Preview: London Pleasure Gardens
The Paradise Gardens is a free family festival and a feast for all the senses in the new London Pleasure Gardens site. Featuring a vintage fair, performance arts, live music, pyrotechnic galore and all kinds of entertainment, this is definitively a destination for the summer. But a festival wouldn’t be the same without street art and graffiti…
Fresh from Paris, Shepard Fairey and the Obey Giant team finished a large scale mural.
To top it all, celebrated US street and graffiti artists Risk, Ron English and TrustoCorp are joining in and completing outdoor intallations, as part of Letters of America. The project then continues its UK invasion with an all-American Independence Day celebration – in association with Corey Helford Gallery LA on Wednesday, July 4 at Black Rat Gallery.
Full set of pics by Butterfly here
Check the LPG programme
London Pleasure Gardens
Gate 1, North Woolwich Rd, London
London: Mr Brainwash returns – Part 1
Four years after officially launching his “MBW” pseudonym at the Banksy’s Cans Festival, Thierry Guetta aka Mr Brainwash has landed in London for the preparation of his first huge European show to date.
2008 Banksy Cans Festival
Celebrating both the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympics, the MBW show will take place end of July in central London, opposite the British Museum. Needless to say that the building is massive, known as the former post office.
MBW put up some huge colourful paste-ups around the building with some added trademark pink paint. Stay tuned for more details.
View the full set here
London: Herakut – After the Laughter
German duo Herakut is back to London for the release of their new book titled ‘After the Laughter’ . To celebrate the launch they also produced a new series of work curated by Shea&Siegler.
Featuring female figures wearing tight shiny catsuit with animal hats, sometimes a horse, a cat, a wolf or squirrels, Herakut masters spray paint to create hyperealist portraits. Looking closer, one can even see the artists reflection in the subject’s eyes.
More pics from the opening here
Further info on the show and book at Shea&Siegler.
Herakut – After The Laughter
May 31st – June 10th 2012
The Gallery, 99 Mount Street, Mayfair, W1K 2TF London.
Curated by Shea & Ziegler in collaboration with Moniker Projects
London Streets: Banksy
In response to the upcoming Jubilee Celebration in June, marking the Queen’s 60-year reign, a new Banksy stencil appeared in Turnpike Lane, North London, featuring a young kid working on a sewing machine. While some of the Union Jack flags didn’t last long, the one on the sewing machine has been screwed onto the wall…
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