That book certainly was a big part of some sort of revolution back in the mid 80’s, I didn’t steal my copy, I bought it in 1984, had to order it, had to wait weeks, several people did try to steal my copy though. I do remember a big crowd of people looking over my…
We passed a Pez on the way to the show, pretty hard not to pass a Pez on the streets of London, there’s been a lot of smiling out there, they’ve been documented often enough of these fractured pages over the years. “StolenSpace is excited to present the new summer group exhibition” so trumpets the…
A not so colourful Organ Thing of the day today, not until you get your pens and pencils out that is. Charlie McFarley has often featured in Cultivate shows, (you’ve surely worked out that Cultivate and Organ are different parts of the same thing by now haven’t you?) indeed he took the place over and…
2: Lakwena‘s basketball court – This just in from those JustKids people, they’re always doing interesting things of street art flavoured nature, they left the u out of colour but then they are American so we’ll forgive them = “London-based contemporary artist Lakwena gave Martin Luther King Jr. Park’s basketball courts in Pine Bluff Arkansas…
Organ Thing of The Day: ‘Holding Hands’ is a new piece of public work from the artist known as Stik, the piece was finally unveiled earlier this week over in Hoxton Square, East London (scene of Joshua Compston’s infamous Fete Worse Than Death of course). Stik has been talking about this piece for ages (and…
The much trumpeted London Mural Festival is almost upon us, it happens in the first weeks of September and it throws up all kinds of uncomfortable questions about the further commercialisation of street art, about gentrification and community, about art as mere advertising, about the integrity of it all. And as much as anything else,…
A new Brixton mural pays homage to hip-hop artist Ty, who passed away in May due to complications related to COVID-19. The rather fitting and hopefully perminant mural was unveiled today at Valencia Place in Brixton by artists Bunny Bread and Jason Caballero of Create Not Destroy & Jazz re:freshed. Located under an arch, by…
Thursday? Five art things? Are we still in lockdown, Boris and his bunch of crooks aren’t exactly being that clear about anything now are they? The scientists look like they’ve disowned it all and I think we can meet to have sex in zoos or maybe safari parks as long as we “stay alert” and…
Organ Thing of the Day: Well art galleries might not be functioning, their doors even more closed than they so often were anyway and the legions of street artists might not be as active as they would be expected to be once the Spring sunshine kicks in (and those damn paste-up artists might not be…
Organ Thing of The Day? The day after Christmas and we’re taking just one more day off, well kind of, there is paint to throw, art can’t stop, writing about other people’s art can wait until tomorrow when I imagine we’ll be back on the case. Here’s a throwback, ten years ago, we covered it…
