Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Hyperallergic interviewed some of the artists that tagged the Oceanwide Plaza in downtown Los Angeles

Matt Stromberg for Hyperallergic:

Artists contacted by Hyperallergic said they were easily able to evade the few guards patrolling, not surprising given that a security firm hired to protect the site sued the developer recently for not paying them.

Some artists at work:





And I haven't seen coverage, but FWIW:

Monday, April 17, 2023

An artist is chalk-marking spots of power



They're not all bad luck. Some are very bad luck. And some are locuses of other types of power:

Sunday, August 28, 2022

Birmingham's "four lads in jeans" got their own statue, inspired by the terrible Ronaldo bust





BBC: 
“I used four women mannequins, which I covered in tight-fitting ladies jeans and tops. The heads are made from papier-mache and all of it was painted to have a nice, shiny bronze effect.” 

The artist said he was inspired by the much-ridiculed bust of Cristiano Ronaldo and the statue of Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch that stands near Birmingham library.