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From RichAppleFool: “If life was a Chor Boogie painting, it’d be a free-flowing-jazz-toting-colour-tripping-wheel-deal. His work is included in the May’s Lane Street Art Retrospective, currently showing at the Carriageworks.“

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One of the latest artworks sponsored by Albus Cavus is Yulia Pinkusevich‘s large scale charcoal drawing in Santa Fe, NM. The drawing is 10-30 feet above the ground and she did not use any ladders or scaffolding. She went through intense training to be able to use climbing equipment to move around the space. The [...]

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Brenda Biondo is a photographer from Colorado who documents vintage playground equipment that is quickly disappearing from the American landscape. She says: “The equipment we grew up with – from towering metal slides installed in the 1940s to giant rocket ships erected in the 1970s – becomes more scarce each year as communities across the [...]

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Win free paint! Deadline is May 1st. Click the image to see the full flyer.

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This event is the second annual national “Remixing the Art of Social Change: A Hip-Hop Approach” teach-in. It will take place June 12-14, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The teach-in brings the tools and resources necessary to develop curriculum, programs, and work (artistic and scholarly) based in hip-hop culture. The teach-in will also address how to [...]

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“Se Vende” or “For Sale” by Tijuana-based artist Alfredo “Libre” Gutierrez opened on April 3, 2009 in Ex-convento del Carmen in Guadalajara, Mexico. The presented work included drawings, large scale canvases and installations. Libre focused on portraying life at the lowest social strata in urban centers and showed how people became just an another product [...]

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…larger version… By Will Kasso in Trenton NJ, completed in April 2009.

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On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman, foreword by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, introduction by Timothy W. Drescher. This week, Janet and Jane will be answering readers’ questions about community murals — collaborations between artists and neighborhood groups whose efforts have energized the [...]

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