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Flowers. Bees. Sun. Longer days. And a few more stencils for your weekend.

• Argentina (tnx Amanda)
• Australia (tnx social streams)
• erre (tnx BSA)
• In Media (tnx showbiz)
• Maryland (ant-Trump/Musk)
• Washington (ANTIFA)
• >NEW< Loretto in the UK

Celia Lerman, Protecting Artistic Vandalism: Graffiti and Copyright Law, 2 N.Y.U. J. INTELL. PROP. & ENT. L. 295, 295 (2013)(online link)

Introduction

Does copyright law protect graffiti? This is a question of growing importance in today’s art scene. Books, CD’s, t-shirts and other items featuring graffiti images are often released without permission from the original graffiti artists. For a recent example, take the graffiti exhibition mounted in a Buenos Aires art gallery by Peruvian artist José Carlos Martinat. Martinat’s exhibition consisted of appropriated pieces of graffiti that he had carefully removed, without permission, from the walls of private properties in Buenos Aires. Martinat also offered these pieces for sale. Local graffiti artists reacted furiously to this exhibition and collectively destroyed all of their graffiti pieces in situ during the gallery’s opening night. Examples like this lead us to wonder if graffiti artists could receive any protection under copyright law.

At least some pieces of graffiti are suitable for copyright protection, insofar as they are original works, fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Still, why should we protect expressions created by an illegal act (painting a third party’s property without her permission)? Should the law help graffiti artists to benefit from their transgressions? Moreover, if the primary purpose of copyright is to incentivize the creation of valuable creative works, should we protect and promote illegal art?

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Some fresh snaps from recent walks around San Francisco:

• Valencia St.
• the Richmond District
• Fillmore St. (thanks EG)
• Financial District (roller printing!)
• One in Mission Bay
• Mission District
• One by Sol Mission (thanks LR)
• >NEW< Diego Gomez Castro

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Spinning: KGLW, XTC
Thanks: Amanda and Chris

Just a small update for now, before heading out to IRL with some rad folks:

• United Kingdom
• Texas
• Toxicomano
• Valencia St., SF
• Candlestick Point, SF
• Run Don't Walk
• Amsterdam, NL

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The Spectacle shone brightly yesterday in the White House.... but Rebel Bear shows where the real fire is! Follow the street art to see where the breadcrumbs lead: Stencil Archive searches for Putin and Ukraine.

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Familiar names snapping photos and/or making stencils works this time around.

• Argentina (thanks, Amanda)
• Austria (BeneRegoef)
• NYC (Brooklyn Street Art / Jaime Rojo)
• Stefan Winterle's new works
• >NEW< Supercreate stencils a utility box in the Mission

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While uploading fresh stencil photos today, we realized that a stack of anti-Musk pics recently came to Stencil Archive from several different ways:

• Upland, CA Tesla dealership protest
• Indecline gets in on the salute dis in Los Angeles
• Yes, Musk is a slug in our garden in Maryland
• Chris C. sent a link with this double dose of reality from Oaxaca, MX.

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A Field Guide to Wheatpasting

Everything You Need to Know to Blanket the World in Posters
2017-07-18
(Original Link with pdf poster, diagrams, images)

Like graffiti, wheatpasting is a direct action technique for communicating with your neighbors and redecorating your environment. Because it’s easy to mass-produce posters, wheatpasting enables you to deploy a nuanced, complex message at a large number of locations with minimal effort and risk. Repetition makes your message familiar to everyone and increases the chances that others will think it over. If you’re looking for posters to paste up, we offer a wide selection of poster designs to print out or order in bulk.

This is excerpted from our book, Recipes for Disaster, which details a wealth of related tactics.

Neanderthals created hand stencil rock art over 66,000 years ago, U-series dating reveals
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Dario Radley
(Link)

A discovery in Maltravieso Cave, located in Extremadura, Spain, has fundamentally challenged long-held beliefs about the origins of human artistic expression.

Neanderthals created hand stencil rock art over 66,000 years ago, U-series dating reveals

Researchers have determined that hand stencils in the cave date back over 66,000 years, suggesting that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, were the world’s first artists. This revelation highlights the advanced cognitive and cultural capabilities of Neanderthals.

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The research, conducted by an international team of archaeologists from the University of Southampton and collaborating institutions in Great Britain and Spain, utilized uranium-thorium (U-series) dating to establish the age of the artwork. Their findings, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, confirm that these hand stencils are among the earliest known examples of intentionally created visual art.