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Leaving Your Bite Mark: Juan Jose Surace
Meet Juan Jose Surace, a Spanish mural artist whose macabre style uses the grotesque to critique the Spanish establishment.
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A Window on the Wall: Art, Technology, and New Imaginaries with Edson Pavoni
Edson Pavoni’s work pulls in a number of human experiences and issues, utilizing technology as a means to glimpse a different and positive trajectory for humanity. The brilliance of his art is in its subtle suggestion, a process that coaxes collective meaning out of the participant rather than forcing it upon them.
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Curated Chaos: A Retrospective on 17 Frost Gallery
As 17 Frost Gallery shuts their doors after 17 years, the curators and community remember some shows from the past. One show, Scrawls on the Walls saw participation from acrobats and interpretive dancing. According to Harriman, the show felt like “curated chaos.” With so many wild nights in its history, “curated chaos” could be a tagline for the whole gallery.
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Miami Art Week 2023: From Basel to Wynwood
Scott Orr explores the differences and commonalities between the streets of Wynwood and the halls of Art Basel for the 21st edition of the world-renowned art fair that takes place in Miami every year.
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Soirée Henzo: A Grassroots Assault on Chelsea’s Elitist Gallery Culture
On a Thursday night in late November, a line formed outside an event space on W. 25th in the heart of the Chelsea Art District, snaking its way eastward for almost an entire block. This in itself was hardly unusual in a neighborhood known for spectacular gallery openings that can attract hundreds of art lovers and collectors on any given evening. But this particular line and the exhibition they were waiting to consume was different: it was at once an art opening, a party and an assault on Chelsea’s art establishment.
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Felipe Baeza Imagines an Elsewhere with “Unruly Forms”
In Unruly Forms, a multi-city installation with Public Art Fund, Felipe Baeza takes mobile audiences on a visual journey exploring queer identity, transformation, and the metamorphosis of cultural symbols including Mesoamerican artifacts held by US art institutions. Baeza forces viewers to question deeply held beliefs in the intimate ritual of public transit
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Allison Bamcat in Lala Land
Influenced by painters like Salvador Dali, Kenny Scharf and Vincent Van Gogh, Allison Bamcat developed her own style: Pop-Surrealism.
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A Brief History on The “Art” of Tagging
“Tagging” is a way of claiming a place or thing. A tag is unique and what it contains varies depending on the person. Today, they are seen everywhere from subway stations to local burger joint restrooms. The number of them plastered around cities proves its relevance in pop culture today–read about how the “art” of tagging has developed over time in this writeup by Kayleigh Ione Walker.
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“It Comes Up, it’s Beautiful, and it Dies” – King Adz
For King Adz, street culture was street food, street art, street fashion and street sounds. They collided together to tell greater stories of subcultures that were as yet untouched by the mainstream. They were of the people, for the people. Through his films and books, King Adz told these stories to the public.
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‘First Person Sludger’ – Sludge Life 2
To put it bluntly, and in the words of one of its creators, Doseone, “Sludge Life 2 is only hard if you’re not an intrigued mother-fucker.” Its creators, Doseone and Terri Vellmann had more twisted creativity brewing, releasing Sludge Life 2 in 2023, adding even more jaded and salty NPCs, obscure tagging spots, and subversive fuck-the-man vibes.
