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Der Spiegel: Street Art Sell Out
12/10/2008 05:47 PM
STREET ART SELL OUT
'Guerilla' Advertising Masquerades as Graffiti
By Christian Fuchs
Original article link can be found here
Herzog Solo Stencil Exhibit
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> "STENCIL ATTITUDE"
> HERZOG solo exhibition
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> 19th December - 31st January
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> vernissage: 19th December
> opening hours: 7PM-2AM
> drinks & djset
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> info:
> www.myspace.com/barlioy10
> dj set by: djb
> www.myspace.com/d__J__b
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http://herzog.noblogs.org/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/derherzog/
http://www.myspace.com/herzog031
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Adam5100 Stencil Print: Perfect Gift for the Holidays
Adam5100 has put together an 8 layer stencil for you all to enjoy. A gift that keeps on giving.....
A limited run of copies are for sale here...
If you're going to buy gifts this season, why not support the arts?
Logan Hicks: Blogging Primary Flight (Art Basel)
Logan dropped me a pile of photos, which I haven't had time to go through, organize, post etc. due to being on the book tour. But Nikki in SF just tipped me off to Logan's FecalFace post about all the killer FREE, DIY art walls that he and a bunch of artists put up. In the mix: Boxi, Chris Stain, Billy Mode, Shepard Fairey, Ron English, and Logan himself.....
Logal also sent over a link to a Flickr pool with hundreds of pics of Primary Flight
Ron English stencils a background before pasting up one of his freaky characters. Primary Flight, Miami, FL
Stencil Nation in Chattanooga's Times Free Press
Stencil Nation
Russell Howze encourages people to expand their idea of art.
By: Holly Leber
Original article found here.
Mr. Howze, of San Francisco, will visit Rock Point Books this Saturday to discuss his book, “Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community and Art,” a photographic collection of stencil work done by an international collection of artists.
Stencil Nation Q&A in Atlanta Journal
The Art of Social Resistance in Oaxaca
Exhibition Tour
Sunday, December 7
2 pm
Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Fowler Museum at UCLA Invite you to the closing tour of La Tinta Grita-The Ink Shouts: The Art of Social Resistance in Oaxaca by Jesus Kobe, Oaxacan artist and activist in the 2006 social movement.
Overspary in Miami: Event Today
Slide Tour Gets an Upstate Nod
'Stencil Nation' book tour tags the Upstate
Graffiti around the world in a day
By Matt Wake
Metromix December 3, 2008 Link to original Metromix post
This piece by Minneapolis artist Amy Rice is featured in the book “Stencil Nation,” by Russell Howze. A Greenville native, Howze is touring to promote “Stencil Nation.” The events feature slide presentations of graffiti art featured in the text, with Howze riffing about the style’s virtues and vices. (Credit: Amy Rice)
When: 5 p.m. Dec. 4 The Open Book 110 S. Pleasantburg Drive Greenville 864-235-9651 www.theopenbookonline.com
When: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 The Showroom 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave. Spartanburg 864-582-0056 www.hub-bub.com
San Francisco author Russell Howze has found spray paint salvation on Berlin’s Reichstag and on the side of a Clemson apartment building. Launching his Web site, www.stencilarchive.org in 2002, Howze is a noted curator of stencils, a sub-genre of graffiti which utilizes stencils to produce poignant (and expedient) imagery.
His 192-page ode to the form, “Stencil Nation” was published in June. The tome boasts more than 500 full-color photos of works from more than 350 artists hailing from 28 nations. A second printing is already in the works.
“Stencils have a mystery to them,” Howze says. “Most of the people that make them don’t put their name on them, so there’s not much vanity in them. The placement of stencils makes them really interesting.”