Atlanta’s online art magazine, Burnaway, has a great interview with Gaia this month. Jeremy Abernathy discusses street art as social practice with this Brooklyn/ Baltimore street artist. http://www.burnaway.org/2011/08/artspeak-gaia-on-living-walls-and-street-art-as-social-practice/
If you’ve ever wondered where Banksy is, fear no more- there’s an app for that.  A new iphone app lets you know where you can find Banksy works, especially if, as artinfo.com puts it, you “find it difficult to tell his stenciled subversions from the less culturally ratified work of people like Mr. Brainwash, or from precursor artists like Blek le Rat.” Check out the whole article here: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38196/the-new-app-that-helps-you-track-down-banksy-inside-the-netherworld-of-mummy-smuggling-and-more-must-read-art-news/
For everyone keeping up with the “Ground Zero” mosque proposal-  From The L Magazine: Street Art Collective TrustoCorp Installs Signs of Support for Lower Manhattan Mosque and Community Center Our favorite incognito urban artists and street signage pranksters TrustoCorp have made their collective, anonymous opinion heard in the increasingly ugly ”debate” over the so-called “Ground Zero” mosque and community center hopefully being built very soon at 45-47 Park Place. A pair of signs spotted last night in the vicinity (pictured) indicate TrustoCorp’s support for Cordoba House, though by now they’re been removed, as a confused Fox correspondent notes in a report from the scene after the jump. Check out the article and the accompanying video from Fox News (haha): http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/08/17/street-art-collective-trustocorp-installs-signs-of-support-for-lower-manhattan-mosque-and-community-center#more
From ArtInfo.com and bbc.com: Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron Swap Art  For 39-year-old artist Ben Eine(real name Ben Flynn), remaining an anti-establishment vandal just got even more difficult, as British prime minister David Cameronoffered one of Eine’s paintings to president Barack Obama as a diplomatic gift earlier this week. (Obama, for his part, offered the newly elected pol a tasteful Ed Ruscha print — always a safe bet.)  Read more: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35285/obama-and-british-pm-cameron-swap-art-successfully/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10710074 Ben Eine’s “Twenty First Century City,” 2010
From Guernica: Introduction to New Conditions & Other Paintings “I am using my imagination to capture the psychology of a segmented reality. These realities, which are deposited into our subconscious everyday, are the basis for a dialogue that goes mostly unnoticed. Once these “segmented realities” or images are transferred and converted into paintings they become a “memory document,” a sort of time capsule for my experience in history. With this language I hope to communicate and provoke thoughts of the past and present conditions in the human spirit. ” - Jose Parla http://www.guernicamag.com/art/1652/introduction_to_new_conditions/
From DailyServing.com: “CutUp Collective” “The anonymous street art / urban interventionist CutUp Collective is based in East London, but have been subverting advertising on the streets of cities world wide. The main focus of the group is to disrupt the everyday experience of passerbys and to promote discussion through altering preexisting urban structures, namely billboards. They have been achieving this by ripping down existing advertising and “cutting-up” the images to make new collaged images that are reapplied to different advertisements.” http://dailyserving.com/2010/03/cutup-collective/
Chicago Art Magazine: Chicago’s Street Art “Not all art lasts forever, and in Chicago a piece you see on your way to work may be gone before you head home.  In the ecosystem of the city, street art is an endangered species.” http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/03/street-art/
artlistpro: arthistoryblog: Banksy drops a new film at the Berlin Film Festival, can wait till it hits the US Banksy, the British street artist who keeps his identity secret to avoid prosecution for graffiti, introduced his new film, “Exit Through the Gift Shop” at the Berlin Film Festival via video message in a hooded sweater, his voice disguised, his face dark. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=afJqqxQ.LmqA