Have to post this image: Stencil Nation's homage to John Fekner (the cut-out for this stencil was made by him... hand-cut letters... and dated 1978!) The cut-out will be part of the June 6 Stencil Nation book release and stencil exhibit show. Thanks John.

Many new and updated Archives this round:

Artists

• Adam5100 had a show go up in Oakland yesterday
• Romanowski had a show go up a few weeks ago at Upper Playground
• serf gets a new Archive in the USA Artists Archive
• gurldogg in Seattle gets a new Archive
• Dri in Brazil sent a few stencils
• a1one in Tehran gets an Archive update
• Scott Williams gets two more stencil journals posted in his Archive (1, 2)
• Eclaricuda keeps cutting the pieces!
• So does x-sacto
• and MO-PI in France
• Pete in Oakland updates his dusty Archive

Places 

• B. Rex was kind enough to give me his photos from Oaxaca and Chiapas to post
• Chris keeps posting stencil pics on his blog for me to pull and post
• A small batch from Northern California (with a DPW stencil truck!)

San Francisco

• Clarion Alley
• Valencia St.
• The Mission
• Tenderloin and Civic Center (love the gentrification one)
• Random SF locales (Bayshore for the Fekner piece)
• One from the Financial District

This update brought to you by Harvey Rabbit (thanks for the burrito) and Mark at KCDC (NPR nods to Brad Mehldau and Ali Farka Toure) 

ach! Checked the Gallery/Archive comments today and nave 26 pages of new spam. Those bastards. Guess I didn't get the Permissions right (I'm a newbie with CMS). Have turned off comments until further notice....

If you really want comments back, let me know and I'll put some more time into trying to figure it out. 

Well, now.

I have recently gotten calls and emails from artists on Stencil Archive who were perplexed at the huge amount of comment spam that was accumulating on the Archives (Gallery in Drupal-speak). As I discussed things with my web admin, I watched the comment spam go from 900 to 1300 in a matter of days!

I just had the admin wipe all the comments from the Gallery Module (sorry, it had to be done), and I just set up Captcha, a module that makes people enter numbers when they leave comments (spambots cannot do this). Hopefully this will stop the problem (or at least slow it down until the spam-lords find a workaround).

Captcha is also set up for the comments on the other part of Stencil Archive (the post comments). Not much spam action there but now it is protected.

Enjoy!

In honor of Malcolm X's birthday yesterday, I decided to begin the stencil fun at Revolution Cafe earlier than planned. I was fortunate enough to have access to four portraits of 20th Century revolutionaries to stencil in front of Cuba's mural. So the fun has begun. Mark your cals for the June 6 book release part at this location (more info coming soon).

Go here for photos that show the progress of painting out these stencils on 22nd St and Bartlett in the Mission District (more public stencils will appear over the next three weeks).

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Pages Bookstore , Art window, will have a display of my bicycle stencils to celebrate the release of the book Stencil Nation, by Russell Howze.
www.stencilnation.org

Stencil Nation, will also be available for purchase at Pages Books. www.pagesbooks.ca

There will also be a table featuring other stencil and graffiti books, in Pages Bookstore.

The display, is part of Bike Month Toronto. The event takes place June 1 to June 20 2008.
www.toronto.ca/cycling/events

Pages Books and Magazines
256 Queen St. West
Toronto, Canada

In the first commission to use the building's iconic river façade, and the first major public museum display of street art in London, Tate Modern presents the work of six internationally acclaimed artists whose work is intricately linked to the urban environment:

Blu from Bologna, Italy; the artist collective Faile from New York, USA; JR from Paris, France; Nunca and Os Gemeos, both from Sao Paulo, Brazil and Sixeart from Barcelona, Spain.

Boutique; Artist Unknown; Stencil, New York, NY, ca.1983

We Shall Not Be Moved– International Graphics on Gentrification, Homelessness & Resistance

May 22- June 8, 2008

Opening Celebration:
Thursday May 22, 2008
7-9pm
Wine and Music

CSPG
1212 Abbott Kinney Boulevard
Venice, CA 90291
Open: Thursday-Sunday 2-6pm and Friday June 6th, 2-10pm