"I own the sky!" exclaimed L.A. graf king Saber as his latest project started to unfold at noon today -- not on an elusive downtown wall, but in the skies above City Hall. Saber's latest artwork is a sky written protest against the public mural moratorium in place per city......
Patti Astor -- indie actress, ground-breaking curator, Manhattan party girl and current SoCal resident -- is stirring things up again, this time here in Echo Park. Patti's headline-grabbing FUN Gallery in NYC (1981-1984) was the very first to give solo shows to street artists Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny......
Update: After the unveiling of the house, Santa Monica cops and city code enforcement weren't happy. For more info see our post on our news blog: Graffiti House Celebrating Heal The Bay Targeted by Santa Monica Officials In 2008, a deco-style fortress built in the '50s and originally belonging to......
A superhero among the spray-can set and one of the L.A. Sheriff's Department's most wanted vandals, the artist known as Revok, aka Jason Williams, has had quite an eventful year. On the heels of his work for MOCA's "Art in the Streets" show, Revok captured headlines after his most recent......
Check out our slideshow of photos from the book: "Heroes & Villains: Los Angeles Painters, Street Artists and Graphic Novelists" In looking at the portraiture that encompasses the sublime new coffee table book Heroes & Villains by Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho, you might notice that the photograph of illustrator......
Fans of London dealer Steve Lazarides’ ephemeral L.A. art antics — Banksy’s “Barely Legal” show in 2006, Antony Micallef in 2007 and 2010’s pop-up gallery in Beverly Hills — will be glad to hear that with his new concept, Post No Bills, the British firebrand is finally putting down local......
Consider yourself warned. Mr. Brainwash, aka Thierry Guetta, the real guy/fake artist star of Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop is bringing another of his art shows to Los Angeles, and, as evidenced by the new explosion of wheatpaste and red paint on the corner of La Brea and Romaine,......
JR just blew through town for 48 hours on his way to Japan and left behind two new walls. Both pieces are part of his ongoing "Wrinkles of the City: LA" project, something he started back in February that the LA Weekly has mapped for your street art pleasure. The......
The street artist Eine, in town for MOCA's "Art in the Streets" show, was looking for a place to paint, and, well, LA Weekly answered the call. The piece, which occupies the outside of our Sepulveda Blvd.-facing wall, took almost a week to complete, as challenges included painting around windows......
In the coming days, LA Weekly will post extended interviews from its cover story on the MOCA show "Art in the Streets" that ran last week. Aaron Rose, an "Art In the Streets" co-curator, has a long history with the street art movement and was integral player in the direction......
