Shelley Leopold

Fuck New York: Street Art Began Here in L.A.

This piece is part of our package on L.A.'s war on street art, including: *Los Angeles' War on Street Artists *The Secrets of L.A. Street Art: Bumblebee, Sharktoof and Linelinedot Discuss Their Work More stories on street art from L.A. Weekly: *Our cover story on MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibit ... More >>

Sesame Street Meets Graffiti in 10 Awesome Artworks by L.A.'s Seventh Letter Crew

There was always something remotely hip-hop about Sesame Street. Elmo, Big Bird, the Count, Oscar the Grouch -- especially Oscar the Grouch -- looked like they'd really seen some shit in their eternal youth. They swaggered through life lessons with a knowing limp, putting some soul into the ABCs of ... More >>

Zes on His Journey From Graffiti to the Gallery

Zes, aka Zeser, aka Zes AWR/MSK, is a Los Angeles graffiti artist with a feral stare that you might only notice in serial killers or creative geniuses. He's been one of L.A.'s most prolific taggers for many years. If you look up every now and again, you may have noticed his burners in back alleys or ... More >>

Top 10 Street Art and Graffiti Stories of 2011

Shannon CottrellJR in L.A.​Yes, year-end lists. Not even street art is exempt. But hey, 2011 was a banner year for the Los Angeles street art and graffiti communities, as they enjoyed plenty of worldwide attention. LA Weekly put together the ten L.A.-related street art and graffiti stories th ... More >>

Graffiti House Celebrating Heal The Bay Targeted by Santa Monica Officials

Shannon CottrellArt in the Santa Monica streets -- and country club-adjacent.​Update: We're told the artwork is coming down Monday. More deets at the bottom. First posted at 1:20 p.m. Friday. Shortly after the unveiling of pro-Heal the Bay graffiti art in front of a four-story Santa Monica ho ... More >>

Jason Williams (aka Revok)'s 'Perseverance' at Known Gallery: Street Artist Sends Regards from Detroit

K.C. OrtizOne of Revok's 3-D collages​ This week in our arts section, Shelley Leopold interviews the street artist Jason Williams, a.k.a. Revok, who served 44 days in jail earlier this year for unpaid property restitution and then left town to work from Detroit, to get away from cops and vario ... More >>

Faile Launches Steve Lazarides' Venice Venture Post No Bills, Which Proves Print Isn't Dead

Shannon CottrellMaster printmaker Ramon De Larosa oversees Faile's prints at Post No Bills in Venice​ This week's main art feature in LA Weekly's print edition comes from our resident street art expert Shelley Leopold, who looks into London dealer (and former Banksy gallerist) Steve Lazarides' ... More >>

Wrangling Art's Cowboys

JR's 'The Wrinkles of the City': The Google Map

View JR's "The Wrinkles of the City" in Los Angeles in a larger map Since last week, writer Shelley Leopold and photographer Shannon Cottrell have been following French street artist JR as he brings "The Wrinkles of the City" to Los Angeles. For those who would like to see his work in person, we c ... More >>

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Hanky Banksy

Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman’s Ball and Other Signs of Aging

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Seven John Smiths, a Bob and a Bamford

What to do in L.A., May 29-June 4

GO L.A.: Survival of the Fittest: Persian Comics, Russian Avant-Garde, Darwin's 200th and Some Tango

What's going down in L.A., January 30-February 5

Dark Knight Gets REVOKed (And AUGORed)

Photos by Shelley Leopold.

Space Invader L.A.

Space Invader is easily one of the most unusual street artists working today. His tile mosaics based on 8-bit video games can be found in cities across the globe, but Los Angeles is one of his favorites. At one point L.A. had more Invader pieces than any other city except one. My guess is that m ... More >>

Kofie'One in Culver City

There's a very nice looking green and gray Kofie'One piece in a Culver City alley south of Washington Blvd.. Unfortunately, it's painted on a wall that has big shrubs in front of it so someone can have a little alley patio. Very relaxing to sit in with a cup of tea I'm sure, but it makes it ra ... More >>

Obama Iron Man

Photo by Shelley Leopold. Spotted on LaBrea over the weekend - Iron Man posters retooled. If there was any pro-Hillary or McCain street art we'd post that too, but darn if we haven't seen any. While we're at it, here's the big Shepard Fairey Hope piece that was on the wall of his gallery and st ... More >>

Buying Billboards, Bugging Bloggers

Wired got someone from Clear Channel on the line to confirm that their annoying electronic billboard was not hacked. Clear Channel's Tony Alwin is unhappy about the hacking rumors. "The advertisement was bought under the assumption that it was art that was in an art show," he says. "Any claims abo ... More >>

Augor: There Will Be Blood

Somehow, I doubt that Paul Thomas Anderson is going to love this so much that he'll grab it to hang in his house the way Murakmai did with Augor and Revok's piece a couple of weeks ago. Shelley Leopold got this picture of an excellent billboard liberation project done by Augor at Melrose and Man ... More >>

Murakami Revoked

By Shelley Leopold n the early morning hours in mid-December, an amazing masterpiece of epic pink proportions appeared above the Melrose strip. Not MOCA's Murakami billboard itself, but rather a young curator's fantasy art show: "Murakami/AUGER/REVOK." The spectacle lasted two days, and then it was ... More >>

Push and Retna in Koreatown

Yeah, I originally had this posted this morning as Push & Ayer - Sorry. It looked like a Retna piece, but I saw the Ayer in there and thought that must have been the signer. Wrong. Pictures remain the same, though. Shelley Leopold pointed out to me that the "Ayer" here is a callout. Ayer wa ... More >>

Os Brasileiros at Carmichael Gallery

The first showing of 2008 for the Carmichael Gallery featured over thirty street and outsider artists from Brazil. Shelley Leopold was at the opening Jan. 5 and got these shots of the work. Above, Vitche Ya PART I of the show runs until Jan. 17 at Carmichael Gallery, 1257 N. La Brea Avenue West ... More >>

Kofie'One's Obama Mural

Obamanation Photos and text by Shelley Leopold A mural appeared in Mid-Wilshire on a recent morning — not on a rooftop or an overpass, but at the ninth-floor entrance to a nondescript office building. Like most pieces of graffiti art, it rose to greet its environment seemingly uninvited as it sta ... More >>

Street art in Tokyo

By Shelley Leopold Not much street art found on a recent trip to Japan, but what was there was conveniently located in a compact area. EVIL deconstructs a construction site in Shibuya. London Police makes an appearance in an alley. NeckFace, ERAS, London Police, OBEY, Mickey Avalon all ... More >>

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