In “Veil of Anonymity,” shot by Luke Shirlaw & Selina Miles, Ironlak and Adelaide’s Published ArtHouse, introduces us to works from Linz, Reals, Sofles, Meks, Sauce, Tues, Vans the Omega & Treas.
Watch as the writers transform a blank wall into a color-drenched mural.
I stumbled upon this exhibition pretty late, but if you’re in NYC, check out Italian-Japanese artist Oyama Enrico Isamu Letter‘s Aeromural.
Letter is an artist-in-residence at the Clocktower. For the first half of the residency, the mural process for this abstract work was documented along with the sound of the aerosol sprays as he was painting the intricate graffiti lettering. The audio files will be used for the second half of the residency as sound installation piece.
From “Dark Roast” to “Waterbed,” the sounds on Durazzo‘s new EP Cascades are thick, jazzy and full of movement, gliding from here to there– but always coming full circle.
Where else can Tupac, Malcom X, Ali, Bob Marley, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Obamas come together but this wicked cover art by the new rap duo Kool & Kass? Kool & Kass features Kool A.D. of Das Racist and producer/rapper Kass Overall. But the cover art is just a fraction of what makes the collaboration noteworthy.
The duo’s debut release Peaceful Solutions packs all kinds of heat. Kass Overall, who’s seemingly the new kid on the block, holds up his end of the bargain with a moderately paced rhyme scheme that complements A.D. signature, sluggish delivery.
The Wrinkles of the City, Havana Cuba, is a collaborative project by New York based artist José Parlá & French artist JR. Last year, JR and Parlá, who is of Cuban descent, interviewed senior citizens about their experience living through the Cuban revolution. Dozens of portraits of their interviewees were transferred on the walls of city buildings.
The Wrinkles of the City combines Parlá’s style of fusing images with palimpsestic, calligraphic writings as well as JR’s vibrant, colossal murals. The exhibition opens on May 7 at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in Chelsea.
Graffiti writer ino uses fat cap spray caps to paint his latest wall, “Dream On Him,”which features a pair of stunning yet ghostly portraits that seem as if they are floating above the ground.
The hard-hitting rhymes of rap stars such as Big L, Nas and Mos Def find their way in a clever street sign project by Jay Shells .
Inspired by a dead sperm whale that was found in the Aegean Sea, LNY‘s mural at the East Village gallery Ideal Glass examines how our economic choices and lifestyles are affecting the environment.
The Beauty In The Dark 