Blek le Rat spent his 60th birthday giving away rat stencils. His mischief of rats wandered out into the rainy San Francisco streets on clothes, post cards, cardboard, and his lastest book (I wrote a contributing essay so that there could be some words for his images). The line was long, everyone was happy, and we all got to inahle some spray paint fumes while we enjoyed the hanging canvases. Eclair, Todd Hanson, Jeremy Novy, Eine, and probably other stencilistas were wandering around the gallery and making the scene.

I grabbed some cell pics and posted them to Blek's archive: http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/European_Artist…

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Recent Works by C215
Opening Reception – December 10, 2011, 7-11 pm
On View Through January 7, 2012,
@ Shooting Gallery (www.shootinggallerysf.com)
83 Larkin St,
San Francisco, CA

941 Geary is pleased to present 60/30, a new collection of works by Blek le Rat, the French artist credited as the Godfather of stencil art. The exhibition will be the largest show Blek has put on, and one of the most historically significant the street art community has seen. There is an opening reception on Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 6-9 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing through January 7th, 2012.

Seth Tobocman put together a great one. LMNOP made a nice one too. Good to see stencils from other Occupy camps as well.

http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/USA/Occupy-Together

BERLIN STREET ART AT CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL 2011
West Berlin Gallery at Contemporary Istanbul, Nov 24th - Nov 27th 2011

Dates: November 24th - November 27th
Place: Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Center
Website: http://www.contemporaryistanbul.com/

When: December 2nd, opening at 6 pm, also open in the weekend, 12-6.

Where: Chiellerie Gallery, Raamgracht 58, Amsterdam

Why: Great contemporary art from Iran!

Who: The fabulous brothers from Tabriz

What else: food, drinks, live dj

PDF with pics & prices available upon request: manuelaklerkx@gmail.com

www.klerkxartagency.com

www.icyandsot.com

GREY WORLD | SPEC OPS | DEC 3RD from theYOUNG on Vimeo.

SOLO SHOW

OPENING
DEC 3RD 20H

AT
SPEC OPS

VON-VINCKE-STR. 5-7 | 48143 MÜNSTER

C. WEINRICH WILL BE PLAYING SELECTED VINYL

I will continue to add images to this archive as I collect a decent amount of jpgs to upload.

Six new images from just before the Portland, OR raid (thanks David) and during/after the Wall St. raid.

http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/USA/Occupy-Together

The Origin of Spray Paint
By HILARY GREENBAUM and DANA RUBINSTEIN

Original NYTimes link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/who-made-spray-paint.html

That a paint salesman from northern Illinois created the tool through which rebels, gang members, artists and anti-Wall Street protesters alike have expressed themselves merely confirms that inventors can neither control nor predict the impact of their innovations. After all, Jack Dorsey never imagined that Twitter would facilitate Anthony Weiner’s self-immolation.

The spray-paint can, however, has eminently practical origins. Ed Seymour, the proprietor of a Sycamore, Ill., paint company, was in search of an easy way to demonstrate his aluminum coating for painting radiators. His wife suggested a makeshift spray gun, like those used for deodorizers. And so, in 1949, Seymour mixed paint and aerosol in a can with a spray head. As it turned out, compressing paint in a can made for a nice finish.

My super sleuth sysadmin found the demon error in the NYPost code on the main page. The error was mine and all is happy in navbar land....

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While on the remote drive, hoping to make a simple fix, the masthead links decided to disappear!

Stencil Archive sysadmin is on the case.

Meanwhile, archives are still up and running, as is the RSS feed.

To navigate to the main Archives Link, go to: http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/