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The contemporary underground art scene has been in effect for a very long time. Most underground artists go unnoticed by the majority of society, but now art takes center stage in Humble Pictures’ upcoming documentary “New Brow”. The film takes an in-depth look at underground artists (Shepard Fairey, Anthony Ausgang, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Ron [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
One might think that we’d finally gotten the country back on the right track, our problems were slowly but surely fading into the distance, and the brotherhood of man would be more…. brotherhoodly. Well, not where the dark, bitchy cloud of copyright lawyering is concerned. It turns out that the iconic ‘HOPE’ image by Shepard Fairey [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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With Obama in the White House, Shepard Fairey has turned his hopes and stencils to Lance Armstrong. Shepard is helping Lance with imagery to promote this summer’s “Stages” art show, which is a benefit for the LIVESTRONG foundation. KAWS, Barry McGee and Damien Hirst are supplying the transportation. From Supertouch: “Stages” brings together nearly 30 of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 6, 2009
Attaboy just snuck us a preview of the upcoming issue of Hi-Fructose. The eleventh volume of Hi-Fructose Magazine arrives in April. It features exclusive coverage of Mark Ryden’s “The Snow Yak Show,” the art of Chet Zar, Tiffany Bozic, Brandi Milne, Brandt Peters, Damon Soule, the dangerous dioramas of Thomas Doyle, Charlie Immer, The dynamic [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 4, 2008
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Cope2 presents TOP OF THE LINE: a collaboration event featuring some of the most influential and inspiring artists from the pop art, contemporary, and graffiti art scenes Where: THE SHOWROOM NYC When: December 4th – 9th 2008. Opening Reception December 4th 7:00PM – 11:00PM Who: FUTURA – internationally acclaimed graffiti artist, graphic designer, and gallery artist. Known for his [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
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You know what your bedroom needs? A portrait of Ron English, Gary Baseman or perhaps Shepard Fairey staring down at you while you get dressed, sleep and well, you know what. If this sounds seductive to you, you are in luck. Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho who are responsible for the wonderful portraits of beloved and influential contemporary [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 7, 2008
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Did you notice that during the last couple months of the presidential campaign that Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obama Hope was everywhere? On posters, on stickers, on T-shirts on buttons and I’m sure tattooed on someone’s bicep. It’s amazing how prevalent Fairey’s stunning work has become in popular culture. A segment about his piece was even done by Katie [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 27, 2008
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The first stage of the two-part auction for the custom pieces was held during the exhibition and was a huge success. The second, online auction phase began Friday with many additional groundbreaking custom works available for bidding. The ART + ACTION online auction will be held for one week only on eBay, with proceeds going [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Tokion Magazine was founded in 1996 and began devoting many pages to the then still-taboo topic of graffiti. “Neo-graffiti” is a term they coined in the title of their Neo-Graffiti Project 2000, which featured classic subway graffiti artists working in new media. This was back in ‘99. It’s practically ten years later and a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Shepard Fairey has HOPE. And he has the prints to prove it. Just sold out (sorry kids) from the Obey website was the HOPE for Darfur Print Set designed by Shepard Fairey as well as Florencio Zavala, Jesselisa Moretti, Cleon Peterson, Zach Gibson, Casey Ryder and Kristian Henson. There were only three hundred of these [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 19, 2008
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Last weekend I was lucky enough to squeeze myself through the hipster masses and check out the new Shepard Fairey (of Obey fame) show happening at the Shooting Gallery & White Walls in San Francisco. There was a very good reason why the kids were lined up around the block. The show was f*cking brilliant! Even [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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Get your most Satanic Halloween costumes ready to don for the Devil Dog Art Show opening Halloween night October 31st. In honor of the little Devil Dog vinyl figures by Osaka Popstar x Secret Base, one hundred artists (like Nathan Jurevicious, Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Mad Barbarians, Brian Flynn, Buff Monster, Erick Scarescrow, among many [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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Sticker Robot printed a limited number of Shepard Fairey’s small poster-sized, silkscreened vinyl Obama Progress stickers. The stickers measure 10.25″ X 7″. Shepard has signed 200 of these which will be offered for sale on September 3rd (tomorrow). These are extremely limited and will only be offered once. There will be a limit of 1 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 29, 2008
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Shepard Fairey has 8 new deck designs for ARTSPROJEKT, adding to the badass boards by Dalek and Alex Pardee I posted yesterday. OBEY is just one of many micro-brands participating in ARTSPROJEKS. A few of the others are: Crooks and Castles, Hellz Bellz and Blood is the New Black. “Skateboard graphics were one of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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There are a lot of mysteries about the world, society and life itself. In September, at the Shooting Gallery and the White Walls Gallery in San Francisco, Shepard Fairey explores the complexity of life, society and war in his solo exhibition Duality of Humanity. There will be a stunning amount of painting, over one hundred [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 25, 2008
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The auction includes original paintings, rare toys and limited-edition collectibles from KAWS, Joe Ledbetter, Michael Lau, Ron English, Buff Monster, tokidoki, Shepard Fairey, Devilrobots, Amanda Visell, Doktor A, Tim Biskup, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters and many more.
Continue reading...Friday, August 22, 2008
Aaron Rose, director of the documentary, Beautiful Losers, and NIKE have organized a series of over 30 artist-led Make Something workshops in Tokyo, NYC, San Francisco, and LA. Designed to bring street-level art instruction to disadvantaged urban youth, the roster of instructors includes urban art heroes like Shepard Fairey, KAWS, Eric Elms, Mister Cartoon and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 15, 2008
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I've got a few exclusive pics of the KAWS pieces which will be offered at auction. There's a yellow Chum, a 1999 Companion and a Kate Moss ad art piece. Get your bids ready because you know you'll be competing with Kanye.
Continue reading...Thursday, August 14, 2008
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When I wrote about Buff Monster’s series 2 figures here, I was kind of shocked at a pricetag of $29.99 for a mini-figure. But that’s nothing compared to what’s about to occur over the next two months. Way back in April, Sunny brought news of Phillips de Pury & Company to ToyCyte regarding their auction [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 11, 2008
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ToyCyte has been covering efforts from the toy community from adFunture to Brothersfree for aiding the victims of last May’s tragic earthquake in China. Most of the projects have been isolated episodes without the far-reaching momentum of a group event. Today brought rad news of a noble (and highly necessary) charity that is sure to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Shepard Fairey is dropping a print of Public Enemy based on a photo by Glen E. Friedman the first week of August. I didn’t know this, but Shepard’s design studio is named Studio Number One, after the song “Public Enemy Number One,” from which the hip hop group also derived its name. Shepard blogs about [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 11, 2008
Shepard Fairey has dropped three new lithographs/art prints this week and man are they killer, literally. Left to right: Fictional serial-killer Dexter Morgan, future president Barack Obama and accused rapist/basketball icon Kobe Bryant. It makes me happy to know that even though he hobnobs with politicians, Shepard can still hang with Billy Idol, draw the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 10, 2008
This is one of the most fun collabs that’s crossed my desk, and it’s not just because I’m a child of the 80s. As previously blogged here, Shepard Fairey did the package design and a screen-printed poster for Billy Idol’s new Idolize Yourself collection. Now the men behind two enduringly iconic faces (Shepard’s Andre [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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Sea No Evil is an art show benefiting the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Remember when Kurt Cobain sang about it being OK to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings? Well, Cobain sang a lot of truth, but that one kind of missed the mark. Turns out ocean animals have plenty of feelings, so [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 25, 2008
This brand new greatest hits collection joins the forces of two men responsible for iconic faces: Shepard Fairey (Andre the Giant’s gargantuan mug) and Billy Idol (his own signature sneer). Shepard did the album package for Billy’s new Idolize Yourself and screen-printed a poster to go along with it. The prints are an edition of [...]
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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