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Podcast
Art Dirt 9: Please Stop Painting the Electrical Boxes (a discussion)
by Glasstireby Glasstire"If you're arguing that it's OK that these things aren't very good, then you're making an argument for mediocrity."
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Via The Fashion Law: Dash Snow, the late great-grandson of John and Dominique de Menil (Snow died in New York in 2009 at age 27) is in the news again…
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(Via Colossal/ArtFCity/Design You Trust): A street artist in France has taken it upon himself to revise ubiquitous (and to many of us, totally opaque) street tags into perfectly legible names, signs…
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News
Idealistic Graffiti Artist Wants to Paint Heart Across Texas-Mexico Border
by Lucia Simekby Lucia SimekGASAK is a 23-year-old street artist from South Africa who has been hanging out in Ciudad Juarzez lately, says Austin’s ABC affiliate, KVUE. He’s a man on a mission, painting…
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There has been a lot of graffiti in Houston news this month. First, there was Gonzo247’s unveiling of his Market Square mural (part of the of the Houston Is Inspired…
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Tumbleweeds We don’t have New York’s density, or Chicago’s architecture, or Los Angeles’ mythologized spaces. We don’t have San Francisco’s prices, Aspen’s lack of oxygen, Austin’s lack of pigment, and…
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Aerosol Warfare has been a Houston institution for over twenty years, and for much of that time, GONZO247 has been the engine driving the website and studios. GONZO247 and his…
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Recent UH graduate Abby Lee loves graffiti, and she’s got six twenty-foot walls in her Commerce St. Studio, all painted white or light gray. She’s holding a graffiti free for…
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This summer, the Dallas Contemporary is offering a street art workshop, promising to train 20 young artists, age 13-16 in “all aspects of the artistic process” under the tutelage of…
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Repeated vandalism, gunshots, graffiti, and attempted theft from Prada Marfa, Elmgreen and Dragset’s fake upscale shoe emporium in the West Texas Desert on highway 90 near Valentine, are slowly causing…