Retna and The Mac “Hollywood and Wilton”
Retna and The Mac killing the Hollywood streets as they paint 30 foot mural of model Dianne on the corner of Hollywood and Wilton! Photos by Greg Bojorquez.
Bikini spread in collabo with The Seventh Letter
BL!SSS Magazine X The 7th Letter X Bikini Issue Retna
Shepard Fairey Works on Houston Street Wall
Shepard Fairey Begins Work on Houston Street Wall Made Famous by Keith Haring!
LOWER EAST SIDE — Street artist Shepard Fairey got to work on his newest project on Houston Street Tuesday, breaking out the spray paint and his trademark poster designs for a piece blending pop art and political commentary.
Fairey, whose now-iconic “HOPE” portrait of Barack Obama came to symbolize his successful 2008 presidential run, is completing the sprawling installation at the corner of the Bowery as part of Soho-based Deitch Projects’ final exhibition.
The wall famously displayed a mural by renowned New York pop artist Keith Haring in the 1980s that was reproduced by Deitch in 2008, followed by a piece from the Brazilian street art duo Os Gêmeos last year.
Fairey, who gained notoriety for his Obama portrait and other highly visible poster-art campaigns, described the Houston Street effort as an exercise in democracy.
The piece will be a mash-up of some of Fairey’s most well-known propaganda-style posters and will also pay tribute to the artist Jasper Johns, Fairey said.
“Really, it’s just celebrating a lot of the different things I care about and condemning a lot of the things I’m upset about, and that’s how I’ve always worked,” he said, hinting that the kind of change he expected with the dawn of the Obama administration never occurred.
“My expectation is that my piece may get dissed, and I’ll fix it,” Fairey said.
“That’s the nature of street art — it’s democratic. That’s good and bad. I look at it as very much the same as free speech. I’d rather hear something I find offensive than not be able to say what I want to say.” DNAinfo
Banksy’s Documentary
First Few Mins of Banksy’s Documentary, Exit Through The Gift Shop!
Shepard Fairey is Back
Stephen Colbert immortalized (sort of) by Shepard Fairey
Stephen Colbert, the faux-conservative Comedy Central commentator, is heading to Vancouver for the Olympics, where he is expected to report on various competitive events including hockey and speedskating.
To commemorate the visit, artist Shepard Fairey has created a poster immortalizing the TV personality in an appropriately faux-gung-ho pose.
The poster, which Colbert has made available on his website and is asking fans to post all over Vancouver, depicts the comedian wearing laurels and wielding an Olympic torch while riding a giant bald eagle.
On the website, Colbert exhorts people to “help spread the word about his historic visit to Canada” and to download the Fairey poster and “post it all over Vancouver!”
He also announces that he will be holding a live event in Vancouver at Creekside Park at 1455 Quebec St. on Wednesday and Thursday at 9:15 a.m.
In the fall, Colbert helped to raise money for the U.S. Olympic speedskating team after one of its sponsors, Dutch Bank DSB, went bankrupt. The comedian has since appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in skin-tight speedskating apparel.
Colbert’s tongue-in-cheek mocking of Canadians has raised some eyebrows in the sports world and has even prompted U.S. speed skater Shani Davis to call the comedian “a jerk.” The two reportedly made amends after taping an episode of “The Colbert Report” in December.
No stranger to controversy, Fairey is embroiled in a fair-use legal battle with the Associated Press centering around the Los Angeles artist’s “Hope” poster of Barack Obama.
El Mac and Retna in Salt Lake City
Retna and Mac are taking street art to a whole new level, there latest mural stands 44 feet high!
Kanye West & Lady Gaga by David LaChapelle
The shoot was done for her Ultimate Super Deluxe Limited Edition of her new album “The Fame Monster” and the first shot should’ve been commemorating the Fame Kills tour starring Kanye. Until he was axed, that is. 
Closing Party Tuesday, Nov 3rd, 7-10pm!
Robert Berman Gallery is pleased to present Vagos y Reinas, an exhibition of selected works by artists and muralists Mac and Retna. Vagos y Reinas marks the first time these longtime collaborators have exhibited in a gallery together.
Mac and Retna are unlikely partners. Mac is a photorealist: His work in spray paint makes the medium dissolve into a sea of classical touches. Retna is all brush: He is known for his abstract embellishments and calligraphic font. Collaboration is a constant in graffiti, but from the first time that Mac and Retna worked together on a mural it was clear that each painter brought out the best in the other; that the precision of one balanced the looseness of the other. In the five years since, Mac and Retna have collaborated on more than 20 murals around the globe, producing some of the most memorable, monumental work in recent memory. Vagos y Reinas is their widely anticipated first collaborative gallery show. Read more »
Mickey Avalon
Mickey Avalon Art by David Choe
Chris Brown Graffiti Photos
On Tuesday, Chris Brown was to ordered to complete six months of community service as part of his sentence for assaulting singer Rihanna in an altercation earlier this year. A large part of Chris’ community service will include cleaning up some of the graffiti that serves as a canker sore for property owners across the country.
You know, graffiti –just like the kind the once straight-laced R&B prince was seen spray-painting on the side of a building in these pictures snapped earlier this year, right around the same time that he was arrested for putting Rihanna in a chokehold.
MJ Andy Warhol Painting Sells For More Than $1 Million
The King of Pop Meets The King of Pop Art: Andy Warhol’s portrait “Michael Jackson 1984,” a 30-by-26-inch painting of the pop star that was commissioned to celebrate the success of Michael’s iconic 1982 Thriller album — was sold for over $1 million in an auction at the The Vered Gallery in East Hampton, NY this week. Gallery co-owner Janet Lehr has not revealed the final bid price.
Andy Warhol’s Elizabeth Taylor portrait sold for $23.7 million (click here)
Banksy goes to Africa
Banksy went to Africa and brought (the spirit of) Peaches Geldof with him. This piece in Mali has reportedly been painted over already.
More Art by Banksy (click Here)
The republicans strike back!
These “Obama Is a Socialist Joker” posters are apparently the first-ever examples of Republican Street Art. The “Heroic Obama” street art meme is still dominating.
The highest-paid celebrity photographer in the world, is broke?
Annie Leibovitz, perhaps the highest-paid celebrity photographer in the world, is profoundly broke. She hocked every photograph she’s ever produced and now the high-end pawnshop that gave her $24 million has filed suit to force her to sell it all. Read more »
Retna and The Mac
RETNA and THE MAC crazy fly wall in Miami that Barneys New York used for their newest COOP catalog. Be on the look out for upcoming projects with RETNA, THE MAC and Barneys New York.
Oregon Country Fair goes topless
Arts and Crafts?
