Topic: ART - on October 22, 2013 at 3:11:00 PM CEST
Fake Banksy Sells Out
Sehr schöner Kommentar zum Hype um Banksys New York-Tour: Dave Cicirelli, Lance Pilgrim und George Gross haben eine Woche nach Banksys Popup-Shop im Central Park das Ding nachgebaut und verkauften dort Fake-Banksys inklusive Unechtheitszertifikat für exakt denselben Preis. Zur Erinnerung: Banksy hatte an einem ganzen Tag magere 420 Dollar gemacht. Die Jungs hier haben den kompletten Straßenladen innerhalb von einer Stunde ausverkauft und mit den 40 Artworks rund 2400 Dollar gemacht, rund das Sechsfache. Hoffentlich gehen sie mit dem Geld ordentlich feiern, haben’se sich verdient.
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Topic: ART - on October 16, 2013 at 3:35:00 PM CEST
Shugo Tokumaru - "Katachi"
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Topic: ART - on October 15, 2013 at 4:24:00 PM CEST
Banksy in New York Maps
Banky's "Better Out Than In" residency in New York City in October 2013 has the city buzzing, looking for where his art might next turn up around the five boroughs. Each day the anonymous, British graffiti artist posts a photo of that day's work with a rough location of his spray-painted street art.
Here is a guide to the location of each work, along with a photo and a link to accompanying information. Most of these works have been destroyed or removed, but feel free to go and find out for yourself.
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Topic: ART - on October 14, 2013 at 2:05:00 PM CEST
Banksy Sells Original Artworks for $60 a Piece in Central Park
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Topic: ART - on October 6, 2013 at 5:59:00 PM CEST
Banksy makes a splash in New York – but what will become of the murals?
He is the anonymous street art vigilante who uses the nondescript walls of cities to stage million-dollar exhibitions. In many places around the world, Banksy's graffiti art, with its strong political motifs, has become a cultural symbol and a community treasure. This month he is in New York, for what is expected to be a month-long residency featuring several new projects.
However, with great artistic acclaim and value comes a surge in commercialization. Many of Banksy's murals – prized greatly by art fans but even more so by private property owners – have been displaced and auctioned. In Los Angeles in August, a Banksy Flower Girl piece was removed from a gas station and put up for auction. The starting bid was $300,000. In February, a piece entitled Slave Labour disappeared under mysterious circumstances from a North London Poundland store, only to turn up in a Miami auction later that month, with an asking price of $700,000.
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Topic: ART - on October 6, 2013 at 5:58:00 PM CEST
Rebel rocket attack - Banksy
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Topic: ART - on October 4, 2013 at 3:49:00 PM CEST
This 98-Year-Old Man Spent 13 Years Creating Remarkable Art in MS Paint
Hal Lasko may be 98 years old, but while many of his peers devote their leisure time to shuffleboard and bridge, he has a very different passion: creating huge works of art pixel by pixel in Microsoft Paint.
While most people have long since abandoned MS Paint as an outdated graphics application, Lasko has spent the last 13 years using the program to digitally create works of art, spending up to 10 hours a day on his work. Originally a traditional painter, he switched to MS Paint in 2005 when his vision was impaired by wet macular degeneration, an eye disease that causes blindness in the center of his vision. He has since created more than 150 digital works, though his blindness means he will never be able to view them in their totality.
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Topic: ART - on October 3, 2013 at 2:51:00 PM CEST
Most Difficult Puzzle Ever!
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Topic: ART - on September 13, 2013 at 2:52:00 PM CEST
Syncretism, Painting Series Reinterprets Classic Works of Art
In the series “Syncretism,” artist Cesar Santos takes famous works from the history of art and reinterprets them with a modern twist. His paintings often feature thoroughly modern figures interacting with figures from classic paintings—or sometimes interacting with the artworks themselves
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Topic: ART - on July 31, 2013 at 12:56:00 PM CEST
Graffiti Attack at Wookey Hole Caves
Two sections of Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset were attacked by graffiti artists during the night.
A rope believed to be used by the raiders to abseil into the valley was left behind and mock cave paintings were produced deep inside the caverns. Elaborate drawings of a cave man and woman, a baby and a mammoth were also painted in the cave exit tunnel.
Wookey Hole owner Daniel Medley says he is trying to find out whether Bristol’s Banksy is behind the attack on the caves, which was carried out in the dead of night.
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Topic: ART - on July 26, 2013 at 6:33:00 PM CEST
Banksy graffiti disappears from wall in Tottenham
No Ball Games 'salvaged for restoration' by company behind sale this year of another Banksy piece removed from shop wall
Not so long ago the appearance of a work by the superstar graffiti artist Bansky was a source of curiosity and local pride. Now it seems it mainly spells a commercial opportunity.
For the second time this year a Banksy work sprayed on a shop wall in north London has disappeared, most likely to be sold at auction, to the consternation of residents and the local council.
A month after Slave Labour – a jubilee-themed mural depicting a child making union flag bunting – sold for more than £750,000 after being removed from the side of a Poundland in Wood Green, an even better-known work has gone from nearby Tottenham.
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Topic: ART - on July 26, 2013 at 6:31:00 PM CEST
Speed enforced by (armed) drones? Nope — artist installs fake traffic signs
California commuters may have been alarmed last week by highway signs that warned them that they were being watched by missile-equipped drones. But the signs were fake, installed by an artist from Napa, and have quickly been taken down by the California Highway Patrol.
The art project was inspired by real road signs. "I thought to myself, speed [monitored] by aircraft is kind of ridiculous, how are you going to enforce it?" the artist Stephen Whisler, who is 59 and lives in Napa, Calif., told NBC news, explaining why the "Speed enforced by drones" signs he put up last Monday show a Predator firing a missile.
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