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Jamie Reid – Taking Liberties

Taking Liberties! Jamie Reid political work 1970 – 2020 Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury London WC1N 1JD Opened March 6th, extended to end April Jamie Reid is the activist artist who is probably best known in popular culture as the artist behind the Sex Pistols album artwork. The Horse Hospital in London has a retrospective exhibition […]

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Art Show Review Banksy Street Art

Foundry/Red Gallery Shoreditch Art Spot Closes

Think Shoreditch and inevitably thoughts are of clubs, parties and street art. A more considered assessment of the past 20 years would oblige image wizards to render Shoreditch in the collective memory as a place of creativity, craftsmanship, experimentation, fashion, film making, music making and art performance to name just a few. Sadly this week […]

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Art Show Review

The Thousands

Opening This Wednesday, “The Thousands” is a celebration of the gallery work of some of the top street artists in the World curated by RJ Vandalog. Artists to be shown include Adam NeateAikoAnthony ListerArmsrockBanksyBarry McGeeBastBlek le RatBurning CandyChris StainDavid EllisElbowtoeFaileFutura 2000GaiaHerakutJenny HolzerJosé ParláJudith SupineKawsKnow HopeNick WalkerOs GêmeosRoaSam3Shepard FaireySkewvilleSwoonWK Interact Vandalog has developed an unrivalled coverage […]

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Faile – Lost In Glimmering Shadows

Lilian Baylis Old School, London SE11 6PY 7th – 16th Nov 2008 Photos: nolionsinengland and (where stated) Wallkandy What we love, want and require of street art is that the artist applied some skill and sweat putting up work illegally on street walls. Faile qualifies, mixing permission (Tate Modern Street Art) and non-permissioned stencil street […]

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Street Art

Faile Today, Gone Tomorrow

Buffed/Stolen by this time tomorrow….now which bookmakers will take that bet on? ?

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Banksy

Cans Festival

Leake St, 3 May – 5 May 2008 words/pictures: nolionsinengland. LA got its elephant in the room (has anyone else noticed the “Elephant In The Room” drawing added to Banksy.co.uk, curious since everything else on his site is publicly seen work), Notting Hill had the rats, Waterloo’s tunnel hosted possibly the finest selection of global […]

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Graffiti Street Art

Dragon Bar RIP

The Dragon Bar, the legendary graffiti, drinking, snogging and fighting venue passed from our lives about 4 weeks ago. An effort had been made to torch the place, as stunningly captured by our friend on the spot Romanywg. Photo: Romanywg The inside of the decaying, stripped out husk which previously had been such a vibrant, […]