TwitArt #4 or When Art Is Hidden In The Timeline
Sorry for the lack of updates here, but I'm really busy with exams at the moment. To give you a special weekend treat, I've made another TwitArt Post. Remember to follow all this great people and make sure to actually click the links in the tweets to see all pictures, articles, etc.
https://twitter.com/#!/luke_chueh/status/114047571630108672
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As Their Work Gains Notice, These Painters Suffer for Their Art
Very interesting article from the Wall Street Journal. Those police officers crack me up! Apparently Risky's bus motivate other graff artists to paint on buses...because they've never done that before. XD
Work by artists Revok and Rime is part of an exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles. The artist known as Revok is in an L.A. jail on charges related to a graffiti incident.
LOS ANGELES—To the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Revok is a renowned artist whose bright, sprawling work is worthy of display in its latest exhibit.
To the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Revok is Jason Williams, also known as inmate No. 2714221.
Last month, Mr. Williams was sentenced to 180 days in county jail as a result of a probation violation from a graffiti incident, just days after the opening of a major museum exhibit dedicated to "street art" that features his work. Unable to post his $320,000 bail, Mr. Williams sat in jail for four days before the sentencing.
It may be illegal on the street, but inside the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, a new exhibit celebrates the history of graffiti, featuring work by artists like Banksy and Shepard Fairey. WSJ's Tammy Audi reports.
Law-enforcement officials around the country are prosecuting graffiti artists with harsher sentences than ever, pushing for felony charges, real prison time and restitution payments as they seek to wipe graffiti from the streets. At the same time, the art world and corporations are embracing the form like never before.
"You can make a case that graffiti and street art is the most influential art movement since the great innovations of the '60s," says Jeffrey Deitch, director of the L.A. museum, known as MOCA. "Before this show, no American museum had ever done an ambitious historical exhibition."...
TwitART #2
Here we go again! Some gems I've found in my "Twitter-Art-List-Timeline" the last days. Make sure to click on the links, because I only post one picture and often there are way more! Oh, and follow all these people if you have a Twitter, because they are awesome and many of them (like Revok, for example) post so much great stuff that it doesn't all fit into this tiny little blog post! And check out their blogs, subscribe to them etc., you know the deal, it's called SUPPORT!
http://twitter.com/#!/TeddyTroops/status/17643970368643072
http://twitter.com/#!/REVOK1/status/16166780296761344
STEVE OLSON and ALEX OLSON | BOOM BOOM
Opening December 18th, 2010 | Runs December 18th, 2010 - January 8th, 2011
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036
info@knowngallery.com
http://twitter.com/#!/garybaseman/status/17635513326370816
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Twitter Art
I get so many interesting Tweets from artists and art magazines in my timeline that I can't do single posts for all of them. Still, why let them go to waste? Here's a (very) little summary of what's going on in the "Twitter-Art-World". Also, if you know any good artists on Twitter let me know. You can find me here.
http://twitter.com/printmag/status/12986873643270144
http://twitter.com/GraffHead/status/12914784907300864
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