Art in the Streets

Gusmano Cesaretti Captures East LA's Heart And Soul

Posted 01.15.2012

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When photographer Gusmano Cesaretti emigrated to East LA from Italy in the 1970s he was captivated by the cultural differences. Among the first to doc...

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PHOTOS: LA's Top Street Art Stories Of 2011

Gregory Linton | Posted 03.06.2012

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2011 saw the most ambitious graffiti and street art museum exhibition ever with MOCA's "Art in the Streets." The show had record attendance and will be most remembered for giving a new level of legitimacy to art on the streets.

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PHOTOS: Architecture For The City Bird

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Mies Van Der Rohe, Brooklyn, Dwelling Units, Daniel Libeskind, Xam Bot, Urban Ornithologist, Gustav Klimt, Street Art, Feeding Units, Street Artist, Steven P. Harrington, Humorist, Designer, Graff Writer, Engineer, Victor Horta, Social Activist, Biomimicry, Archtecture, Santiago Calatrava, William McDonough, Environmentalism, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jaime Rojo, Social Activism, New York City, Architect, Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, Art in the Streets, Non-Dwelling Units, Razzel Dazzel, Environmentalist, Xam, X Charles & Ray Eammes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Xam-Bot, Arts News

Architect to the urban aviary set, Street Artist XAM is one rare bird. Averaging one per week over the last year, the California born former graffiti ...

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WATCH: Baldessari On Street Art

latimes.com | Posted 12.11.2011

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Last week, artist John Baldessari joined Times art critic Christopher Knight for a public talk at the Hammer Museum. At one point, the conversation tu...

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PHOTOS: Street Art Abstraction At Known Gallery

Posted 11.26.2011

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Known Gallery in Los Angeles has been on a roll these past couple years. With its artist base and clientele, it has become an epicenter of graffiti cr...

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'Art In The Streets' Sets Record For MOCA

Posted 10.10.2011

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The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) highly publicized and critiqued show "Art In The Streets" is making headlines once again by breaki...

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Jump!! LA: Art in the Streets

Caroline Giegerich | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: La, Graffiti Art, Andre, Geffen Contemporary, Angel City Brewery, Josh Lazcano, Kenny Scharf, Barry Mcgee, Banksy, Risk, Daily Marauder, Retna, Space Invader, Mr. Cartoon, Nomade, Art in the Streets, Shepard Fairey, Jump, Moca, Annabele, La Around Town, Los Angeles News

Jump!! is meant to re-invent art by expressing as much joy as possible in front of it.

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Assault On The Myth Of Banksy: 'Lush Sells Out In LA'

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 09.23.2011

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International street artist Lush opened his show in downtown Los Angeles with as much fanfare and contempt imaginable. Making bold, often savage comm...

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Street Artist Swoon To Build A Musical House In New Orleans

Posted 09.16.2011

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Brooklyn based street artist Swoon is working with the city of New Orleans and New Orleans Air Lift to give residents a musical house. Swoon, who was ...

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MOCA and Levi's Celebrate Film, Fashion, Food and Art

Hellin Kay | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Levi's Workshops, Levi's, Art in the Streets, Chef Ludo Lefebvre, LA Food, Kogi Truck, Food Trucks, Art in the Streets Exhibit, Chef Roy Choi, Moca, Arts News

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L.A. 'Street Art' in South Central at Manual Arts High

Carmen Zella | Posted 09.12.2011

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I interviewed MarkAyala to shed light on his experience teaching art at Manual Arts High. His story of what one person's vision can accomplish amidst a crumbling education is a film-worthy script.

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Shepard Faireyâ„¢: On Street Art And Street Cred

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 09.02.2011

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Shepard Fairey has grown up before the eyes of fans, peers and would be competitors. Undaunted by criticism he gets from both sides of his chosen voca...

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Legendary Hip Hop Artist's Street Art Show

Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Art in the Streets, Fred Brathwaite, Video, New York, Moca, Pop Art, Street Art, Fab 5 Freddy, Graffiti, Campbell's Soup Cans, Banksy, Arts News

Fab 5 Freddy, born Fred Brathwaite, is a Hip Hop icon and famed graffiti artist. In 1980, he paid homage to Andy Warhol by painting the side of a New ...

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Banksy Pays For Free Mondays At MOCA

Posted 08.09.2011

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Via LAist: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced today that it will offer free admission every Monday until August 8, courtesy of British st...

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Roger Gastman On Graffiti, His New Book & MOCA's 'Art In The Streets'

WSJ | Dennis Nishi | Posted 07.26.2011

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Writer and former graffiti tagger Roger Gastman has turned his love of the spray arts into a lifelong career. At 19, he sold graffiti supplies, later ...

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The Real History Behind MOCA's Controversial Street Art Show

ARTINFO | Posted 07.15.2011

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Los Angeles MOCA's blockbuster "Art in the Streets" show has churned out one controversy after another, from the uproar over the whitewashing of Blu's...

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Art in the Streets

Tamie Adaya | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Banksy, Art in the Streets, Jeffrey Deitch, MOCA Los Angeles, Keith Haring, Street Art, Os Gemeos, La Around Town, Shepard Fairey, Moca Art in the Streets, Los Angeles News

I've always found street art fascinating. It's so magical how a talented and select few spend their nights making our city streets an ever-changing landscape.

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Art Bites: Japan Benefit, Trippy Paintings and Street Art Bites Back

Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Japan Benefit, Art in the Streets, Bardo Pond, Moca, Hannes Bend, Japan Earthquake, Incognito, Book Signing, Street Art, Graffiti, Japan, Painting, Los Angeles, Slidepollajax, New York, Poetry, Arts News

Art Bites is a new HuffPost Arts series of cool videos, news and events we want you to know about, in brief. This installment covers everything from a...

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Art in the Streets

Mike Selsky | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Barry Mcgee, Graffiti, Art in the Streets, Moca, Street Art, Fong, Arts News

Jeffrey Deitch went deep on this survey of the history of street art and graffiti. Be prepared for some visual overload.

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PHOTOS: MOCA's 'Art In The Streets' Brings The Taggers Out

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 06.17.2011

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MOCA's "Art In The Streets" exhibition officially opens to the public today, but the streets of Los Angeles have been previewing the show for almost a...

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'Art In The Streets' Brings The Fire To MOCA

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Shepard Fairey, Steven P. Harrington, John Ahearn, Jr, Freedom, Blade, Swoon, Fab 5 Freddy, Jaime Rojo, Ron English, Os Gemeos, Moca, Jeffery Deitch, Brooklyn Street Art, Neckface, Martha Cooper, Saber, Roger Gastman, Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring, Barry Mcgee, Jean-Michel Basquiat, STEVE GRODY, Gordon Matta-Clark, Art in the Streets, Kaws, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Yes, Banksy is here. The giant "Art in the Streets" show opening this weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles gives a patch of real e...

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Plan ForYourArt: April 14-20

Bettina Korek | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Regen Projects, When in Rome, Charles Brittin, Walead Beshty, Michael-Kohn-Gallery, Hammer Museum, Kristine McKenna, Italian Cultural Institute, Luigi Ontani, Art in the Streets, Brewery-Art-Walk, Laxart, Moca, Los Angeles News

MOCA members are invited to the opening of Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum survey of the history of graffiti and street art on Saturday. It will open to the public April 17.

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Street Art Reprisal

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 06.03.2011

By the time the 25th anniversary edition of Subway Art was published in 2009, generations of graffiti and street artists had been influenced by Martha...

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