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Shelley Leopold

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    Wrangling Art's Cowboys

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Art+Books

    September 9, 2010

    L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices

    Highlights from the fall season

  • News

    April 15, 2010

    Hanky Banksy

    Highlights from the fall season

  • LA Life

    June 4, 2009

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

    What to do in L.A., June 5-11

  • LA Life

    May 28, 2009

    Seven John Smiths, a Bob and a Bamford

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

  • LA Life

    January 29, 2009

    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

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2008

    Dark Knight Gets REVOKed (And AUGORed)

    Photos by Shelley Leopold.

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2007

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2007

    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 >>

  • Art+Books

    August 30, 2007

    Mass Attack

    Scion Installation L.A.’s “To the Masses”

  • Art+Books

    July 12, 2007

    Street Artists: The Primer

    Scion Installation L.A.’s “To the Masses”

  • Art+Books

    July 12, 2007

    Tapping the Source

    Scion Installation L.A.’s “To the Masses”

  • Art+Books

    July 12, 2007

    Anatomy of an Aesthetic Criminal

    Scion Installation L.A.’s “To the Masses”

  • Art+Books

    July 12, 2007

    The Rise of the Seventh Letter

    Mad society kings

  • Art+Books

    September 7, 2006

    Tiffany Bozic, American Gothic

    Mad society kings

  • Art+Books

    July 27, 2006

    Thomas Campbell, Suzan Woodruff, Ernest Silva

    Mad society kings

  • Art+Books

    July 13, 2006

    Eastside Connection

    Also, David Reed, Eli Langer and Alvaro Siza

  • Art+Books

    June 8, 2006

    Freight Train Graffiti

    Also, David Reed, Eli Langer and Alvaro Siza

  • Articles

    January 19, 2006

    About LA Weekly: Staff

    Also, David Reed, Eli Langer and Alvaro Siza

  • Stage

    November 3, 2005

    Snap!

    Also, David Reed, Eli Langer and Alvaro Siza

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    Oil On Concrete

    The Los Angeles County Garage of Art

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    State of the Art ’05

    A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    All Finked Up

    A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Letters

    A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn

  • Music

    September 16, 2004

    Workingman’s Metal

    A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn

  • Columns

    November 20, 2003

    Origins of the Corporation Farm

    A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn

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