The Twins (OSGEMOS) . . .

Dos edifícios à lona, da escultura para pintar merdas fora do gancho!

All Seattle Youth!!!!

From the rapping and singing to the camera work and the editing!

Street With A View

Google street view has been around for awhile now and expands daily. Its awesome and a little creepy at the same time. It tends to promote curiosity (finding our childhood homes) and at the same time it encourages "spying" even thought its not live (ex:finding our ex's parked car). Just wait till it is live!! But until then check out this city that got creative when the google car came around to take pictures: Pittsburgh
Or this blog that has posted some certain special/suspicious moments the google car caught!
The segway tour and the sunbathing on a sidewalk might be two of my favs.

Mobile Art

You know the oh-so-common picture on so-and-so's Facebook/MySpace page of them taking a embarrassingly cliché self portrait in their bathroom mirror with their cell phone? This is the opposite of that: Call Forwarding

The Favelas Have Eyes

The French artist JR has come to Brazil, putting up giant photographs on the walls of Rio's oldest favela. Check out the BBC's audio slideshow of his work.

Maybe the most prolific street artist goes indoors . . .

Up On the Roof

The Met has another amazing rooftop exhibit in the works. Roxy Paine (the artist behind Split at the Olympic Sculpture Park) has created a thicket of metal branches to grace the Met's most fantastic space. If the experience is anything like seeing the works of Jeff Koons on this same roof last spring, it is most definitely a trip worth taking.

Fairey from the Streets

Shepard Fairey has an exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. So the most pressing question of our generation: Is Fairey a sell out? I dare you to ask a graff-writing/appreciating-urban-street aficionado, and remember you'll never get that hour of your life back.

Dada Economics . . . .

Ever see a grocery cart miles from the nearest grocery store? Remember ridding in the cart down the isles while your mom pushed? Remember getting a little older and skating down the rows after hopping on?

What do you fill your grocery cart with now?

Artists for a Work Free America and Vital 5 Productions are giving a $500 grant to the person who creates the best “work of art” in a grocery cart using supermarket finds. Just enter an image of your creation to win. Entries will also be part of the Dada Economics exhibit at Bumbershoot this year. Sculptures will be accepted thru May 15th

"All the presidents' girls" . . . . and one man.

Annie Kevan’s take on portraiture is definitely fresh and full of exploration . . . as the artist says “my work isn’t really about portraiture; it’s always firstly about an idea”. Remember the name because people are taking note, or should be. Really it is only a matter of time before this artist is no longer starving. The photo above is the portrait of Mariella Novotny, supposedly one of JFK’s many concubines. Mariella stars in Kevan’s “All the Presidents’ Girls” series which includes every mistress from Marilyn & Monica to Venus & a Princess. Other series titles include “Boys”, “Girls”, “Mousketeers” and more. Each run reveals a little bit more of the artist’s investigation of society and the labels that we be become. As she puts it, she seeks to “reflect [her] interests in power, manipulation and the role of the individual in inherited belief systems”. Check out the rest of her work.

A Must See . . .

Garden and Cosmos: the Royal Paintings of Jodhpur

This show has been hyped all over Seattle, but for good reason, go while you can. You'll feel enlightened as you walk away, I promise.

"There must be a neuroscientific explanation for the pure pleasure of seeing these 17th-to-19th-century Indian paintings. Every tree is a fireworks display, a dendritic rush—the brain recognizing itself in the universe. Painted rivers glimmer gold and silver, seeming to move by you, playfully, as much as you move by them. The colors, opaque watercolors, are ecstatic. No wonder: They're made of lapis lazuli, malachite, vermilion, indigo plant, and the bright yellow urine of cows fed only mango leaves. Women, kings, gods, and animals appear in waves that reverberate across space. They dance, they chase each other, they give foot rubs, they swim, they consider their place in the cosmos, they fall in love. The eye simply registers joy." (Jen Graves) http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Event?event=964976

SAAM http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/visitSAAM.asp