I haven’t seen any comment anywhere else so I am begining to wonder if I am reading too much into the letters in the tunnel! Anyway, without doubt the Cans tunnel has a Hunt The Thimble game involving each letter of the alphabet, I have only found 23 – could someone return the E, the […]
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WK Interact Show – Elms Lester
WK Interact hails from France but is based in New York and has about 20 years of street art practise under his belt. No surprise then that, unlike a certain relay team [this was written a day or two after the US relay team played some version of pooh sticks], practise pays off in a […]
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CORKED – Not a cheap whine
28 Cork St, London15 Aug – 25 Aug 2008 pics: nolionsinengland except where noted A battered white transit van sits on Cork Street, “Vandals” it proclaims and sure enough it seems to have suffered a graffiti attack, cops and wardens eye it suspiciously anticipating a ram raid and in many respects they are right. Bloody […]
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Street Fart (and other hot air)
we like having stuff we like on our walls. A self-styled accidental gallerist (no apologies necessary), an art establishment academic/critic and a “street art” gallerist spouted off at a panel discussion at Tate Modern on collecting street art. Pure Evil, the blushing gallerist, blew the debate out of the water with the truism that once […]
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Cancer Sell Charity Art Sale
98 Leonard Street, London EC1. 6pm ’til 11pm Free Entry! http://www.cancersell.org.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/cancersell Cancer Sell is almost upon us! With the quality of the artwork that has come in in the last few days, the organisers have been as pleased as punch and are really looking forward to putting on a great show. There is so […]
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Deadbeat Donny – Pulse Discovered
Pure Evil Gallery, Shoreditch, London11 July 2008 – fuck knows whenDeadbeat Donny somewhat underwhelmed on previous viewing at the Open Studio transient gallery in Dec 07. With a three week window to create something under the intermittent gaze of the public, a mess of cardboard shifted around between wall and floor and in a blizzard […]
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Pure Evil Brighton Solo Show
Ink-d Gallery, Brighton4 Jul – 2 Aug 08 Un-diluted, 100% concentrated, fully refined malevolence filled the sea air surrounding the Ink-d Gallery in Brighton. This phenomenon has a sweet herbal scent and it manifests in the form of Pure Evil. The master of the double bluff shields his evil bunny alter-ego behind a veneer of […]
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Thieves Ladder
Installation show by Armsrock, Chris Stain and Poncho,Black Rat Press, Rivington Street, London12th June Thieves and ladders are two words many might associate with graffiti and street art. Put them together and show them to a multi-national trio of street artists and the meaning transforms to the collaboration of people lifting each other up from […]
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Soozy Who?
Pure Evil Gallery, 108 Leonard St., London.22 May – 3 June (I think) 2008 Soozy Lipsey is a name I have never heard of before but judging by the beau monde who turned out for her show, she must be very well known to some pretty damn cool and happening people. Obviously not having heard […]
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Krah World at Pure Evil Gallery
Pure Evil Gallery, 108 Leonard St., London.22 May – 3 June (I think) 2008 The Krah, which is Greek for the corruption of civilisation, has been mystifying sober adults and scaring babies for many years on the streets of London. Typically the street stuff is half bloated machine, half organic being with infinitely flexible bendy […]
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Blam – Die!!! Spraycan
Blam Solo Exhibition New Cross Gallery 1 May – 24 May In the world of graff art, few pieces achieve a wider recognition beyond hardcore wall spotting fetishists but one piece known to many otherwise dis-interested Londoners is the Oscar The Grouch on a wall in Shoreditch. photo: HowaboutnoCredit for this enduring and council-preserved piece […]
No photos. Pin back your eyelids and try reading some words for a change. Howaboutno and Nolions rocked up to the premier of Joy Division by Grant Gee, courtesy of an email passed on from an obviously nameless mutual friend and photoshopped to look like addresssed to us. Two immediate questions, why London not Manchester […]
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Alternative Philosophies
Feat: Anton Unai, Marok, Jaybo, Andy Howell, Daniel Tagno, Ala Ebtekar, Kill Pixie, Bortusk Leer, Antonio Diaz The Leonard Street Gallery 18 Apr – 22 May A kaleidescope of art and entertainment opportunities within spraying distance of eachother meant a hectic night on Thursday 17 April. Cargo for Nick Walker was obviously going to be […]
Signal Gallery, Curtain Rd, London, 11 Apr – 10 May Dale Grimshaw previewed his first solo show at the Signal Gallery in Curtain Rd last night. His pictures are dramatic, energetic and powerful. I saw hints of Conor Harrington on the slightly canted lines across the portraits. At times the montaged composition of the faces […]
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Mode2 – Never Too Late
Laz Gallery, Greek Street, 4 April – 2 May Thursdays, perfect for a night to seek sensory stimulation, art and free beer. Tonight’s cultural oddessy started at Cargo gardens for live charity painting by Bristol Graff legends and 1980s Banksy contemporaries Inkie, Cheba, Cheo and Lokey. We watched and sniffed the spray work under progress, […]