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July 03, 2012
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AARON ROSE: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A BEAUTIFUL LOSER

Aaron Rose sits down with Gestalten.tv for an interview encompassing his many views on art, anarchy, and the art world as a whole, discussing some of the more diverse opinions that have defined his shotgun effect on the world of creativity. Having worked in street art, curation, film, photography, writing, music, and many other fields, Rose is addicted to creation. The artist is also addicted to talking art with friends and strangers, as anyone who has run into him at openings and art receptions around the city and the world can tell you.

One of the more inspiring artists to come out of the street art movement, the man who introduced Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, and Harmony Korine is a blast to hear every time he speaks on his passions. 

Aaron Rose is one of my favorite people in the art world. 

(Source: vimeo.com)

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June 07, 2012
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THE HUNDREDS X THESEVENTHLETTER: REVOK 

When MOCA’s Art in the Streets exhibit was in full swing, LA graffiti writer REVOK was sentenced to a much-hyped 180 days in jail for violating probation on previous vandalism charges. One can understand why an artist in one of the most talked-about art exhibitions in recent years would have gripes about the police. In this at-times-dramatized and at-others-endearing interview, The Hundreds asks REVOK to share some stories from his crazy career as one of the world’s foremost writers. 

(Source: hypebeast.com)

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May 31, 2012
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BARRY MCGEE SOLO EXHIBITION AT PRISM GALLERY IN WEHO

PRISM has shown some amazing contemporary street artists who have made their name all over the world and gained their recognition at Art in the Streets in Los Angeles. Californian artist Barry McGee makes his second solo showing at PRISM gallery since “MindTheGap” in 2009. Signature characters and sharp geometry fill the work of McGee’s solo exhibit in a body of work that was largely created at the gallery space. Site-responsive installation work allows viewers to enter the vision of the artist as they transverse the vertical space of the gallery. The show runs until June 30th, and may prove to be a preview to the artist’s retrospective at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum in August. Details below.

Barry McGee
PRISM Gallery
8746 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Show runs: May 11th-June 30th, 2012

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April 30, 2012
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TRANSMISSION LA: AV DIARIES AT GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY OPENING RECAP

If you haven’t seen the Mike D-curated Transmission LA: AV Diaries at the Geffen Contemporary yet, you are missing out. Make sure you don’t miss out completely, as the 17-day festival shuts its doors permanently on May 6th. Until then, however, the doors are open to the public and the Beastie Boy brought some of his most talented friends into a museum show that proves what site-specific installation work can be if given the room to breathe. Luckily for all, the Sky Ladder display (which carries a very sublime ambience when walking out of the almost Wonka’s Chocolate Factory feeling of the Mike D show) is open to the public while this show is up, and it’s also not to be missed.

Tom Sachs, Peter Coffin, Jim Drain & Ara Peterson, Ben Jones, and Lauren Mackler of Public Fiction each draw heavily from music in their displays, and Mike D even uses the new Mercedes as a canvas in a dazzling light show. Free musical performances happen every night at around 7:30 at the museum, as well, which is also a sort of outdoor patio for Kogi BBQ, which has a truck posted up at the museum’s entrance.

Check out video recaps and find details and a list of musical performances below.






Find a schedule of musical performances leading up to the May 5th closing (featuring Diplo and friends) here and and dates that the Kogi truck will be present here.

Transmission LA: AV Diaries at the Geffen Contemporary
MOCA
250 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Show runs: April 19th-May 5th

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April 10, 2012
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WALL WRITERS: GRAFFITI IN ITS INNOCENCE TRAILER

After producing the film that took street art and graffiti culture over the edge into mainstream society, and capitalizing on the hype storm that culminated in Art in the Streets at MOCA in Downtown LA, Roger Gastman has decided to head back to the roots of the movement and direct a film about the first writers in New York City. Producing a documentary inExit Through the Gift Shop that has won multiple awards and was even nominated for an Oscar - but focused on the irony of an art form - makes a great transition to the innocent and humble beginnings of a now multi-million dollar industry.

TAKI 183, CORNBREAD, and many more legendary kings of graff give rare interviews in Wall Writers, while telling of a time when lower class, inner city kids were running from cops and tagging in the most playful sense of the word: to play a game of tag across an urban jungle.

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March 19, 2012

THE AVANT/GARDE DIARIES: AV CLUB CURATED BY MIKE D

Mike D of the Beastie Boys has been given the opportunity to take a wing of Los Angeles’ most-hyped contemporary art museum - which held the highly controversial Art in the Streets exhibition just a few short months ago - and turn it into his own space filled with music and art from artists the world over. In April, Mike D will be curating a 17-day festival exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary inside the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

Benjamin Jones, Mike Mills, Tom Sachs, Lauren Mackler from Public Fiction, and more are slated to contribute at MOCA, and the exhibition will debut on April 20, running until May 6. Find out more at the official site of The Avant/Garde Diaries.

(Source: hypebeast.com)

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February 29, 2012
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OS GEMEOS: MISS YOU OPENING NIGHT IMAGE RECAP PART I

Over Oscar Weekend the stars were out in full force in Los Angeles, and none more grateful than the ever-charming, most famous twins in graffiti, Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo - formally known as the Brazilian duo Os Gemeos (Portugese for “the Twins”). The ASCK crew swung by Prism gallery in West Hollywood the day before the show opened, and were invited back by Gustavo, who had some dope custom shoes to match his brother’s. In case you’re wondering, these two pairs are the only two that exist and will not be made available to the public.

Full of celebrities and celebrity art collectors, Miss You was the first major art exhibition in LA of 2012, and the absolutely splendid and immersive nature of the show could not be denied. With multiple interactive installations, glowing sculptures bubbling up from the ground in a ripple of color, and towering paintings overlooking the prissiest part of town, the show was a blast. If you’d like to see more of the Art in the Streets-featured stars at their best, check out the ASCK image recap Part II and further information for the show below.

Prism Gallery
8746 West Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA

Feb 25-March 24, Tues-Sat, 11AM-6PM

Tags: A Show Called Kicks. ASCK Brazil Gallery Los Angeles Miss You Os Gemeos Prism art custom graffiti hype painting shoes street art swag the Twins Art in the Streets

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February 17, 2012
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OUTSIDE IN: THE STORY OF ART IN THE STREETS

Like it or not, “Art in the Streets” was one of the most important things to happen to the art world in the last few years, and one of the biggest things ever to happen to graffiti and street art. Director Alex Stapleton takes us inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’ famous exhibition. 

From Shepard Fairey to Lee Quiñones, Swoon, Futura, and Mister Cartoon; from Revok to Martha Cooper, Invader and more, the show that took place from April 17-August 8, 2011, followed graffiti and street art as far back as Basquiat and even some of the gang graffiti in the 1940s and 50s in LA. Graffiti and street art are mainstays of the high art world now, and this documentary aims to show how MOCA contributed to that fact.

For the record, I thought the show was tastefully done with what highly controversial subject matter they had to work with.

(Source: vimeo.com)

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