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    Do you think Shepard Fairey honestly supports fair use?

  • Where art thou BC?
    May 11, 2009

    Where art thou BC?

    Yup it’s been weeks and then some more weeks since we last posted. Well that’s because everything is changing at BC.

    Principal writer Adam was was forced to take a job that involves computers and interwebs and will be contributing the occasional article to new BC. In fact it’s a great opportunity for him and we wish him every success.

    What? Did you say new BC?

    Yes and we’re talking to ourselves about it.

    The site is going to change big time and you’re going to like it. So please bear with us, it’s been a tumultuous few weeks, but stay tuned for the new site, due to launch in the coming weeks. It really is something rather special.

  • 3 x 1 - Finbarr DAC
    April 5, 2009

    3 x 1 - Finbarr DAC

    Finbarr gives us 3:

    1 x Picture

    Salvador Dali: Metamorphosis of Narcisuss

     When I was young I presumed this painting was huge cos of the level of detail? But its actually not much bigger than an A2 size piece of paper. An amazing piece of work by any standards.

    1 x Artist

    Aubrey Beardsley

    Both shocking and grotesque, erotic and sensual, Beardsleys work has stood the test of time like many of the Japanese exotic illustrators he himself was influenced by. My parents bought a print of his in the 70’s
    that hung in the family home until the day I left.

    1 x Video

    Currently it would have to be Spike Jonze’s take on Unkle’s ‘Heaven’ - an absolutely glorious marriage of music and imagery.

    But if we’re talking classics it would be Talking Heads’ ‘Once in a
    lifetime’.

  • Hunt The Pink Box
    April 5, 2009

    Hunt The Pink Box

    This literal rather than cheap sexist remark is the title for BC’s second guerilla event, yup an Easter Egg Hunt, complete with Twittering directions on where to find these boxes of seasonal joy.

    Fark FK, Finbarr DAC and Dan Kitchener have sprayed 40 boxes (taster below), each of which will be filled with original art goodies and which will be left around London over the Easter weekend.

  • Dotmasters… the business modelDotmasters
    April 5, 2009

    Dotmasters… the business model

    Do Artists need galleries? The webotropolis means anyone can sell anything to everyone directly… such as Dotmasters who in true credit crunch defying times, have set up their own shop selling all your favourite work made with dots. 

  • PosterBoy - AdBoosterPosterBoy
    March 27, 2009

    PosterBoy - AdBooster

    Street Art and and vandalism have never been paired so eloquently as they are when PosterBoy gets out his razor. Through a simple act of civil disobedience, this work challenges our intense relationship with outdoor advertising in the city. It proposes new ways of interacting with your public environment and challenges notions of public and private space. Out of the work comes a dialogue which is sometimes political, sometimes humorous, and always a perspective shifting moment of communication.

    By bringing outdoor advertising into the gallery, this installation will attempt to discuss the appropriation of public space by outdoor advertising from within the gallery walls. The artist, having more time to construct the imagery will engage a more intense dialogue with both the advertisement and the viewer. By physically altering the medium of outdoor media, the PosterBoy movement critiques both the content and the dissemination methods currently overwhelimg our collective consciousness. Ultimately what starts as an act of social unrest becomes a reimagination of the spaces we all occupy and a vision of a different shared public environment.

    Over the past year PosterBoy has brought his critique of advertising and public space use to the streets of New York City with prolific force. Eastern-District is proud to bring you his first solo exhibition, including a large scale installation by the artist as well as prints of his now famous subway installations. 

    This was the blurb that accompanied an email in our inbox:

    PosterBoy “AdBooster” presented by PublicAdCampaign 
    April 3rd - April 26th
    Opening Reception 7-10pm Friday April 3rd 2009
    43 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY
    PosterBoy
    www.publicadcampaign.com

    Heck normally I don’t stick up generic press releases without at least a ‘Hey Adam’ , but PosterBoy is the new Madonna without the compulsive need to adopt more children. Deconstruct that analogy and I’ll give you a BC Munny.

  • Goldie - 3 x 1
    March 27, 2009

    Goldie - 3 x 1

    Pioneering graf force Goldie is back with a solo show at the maverik showroom, Shoreditch from 10th April, so we had to get in with a 3×1.

    1 x Video

    RADIO HEAD STREET SPIRIT

    The photography and shooting at different speeds is brilliant, fucking great, love it.

    1 x Picture

    In my house I have a picture I bought from a local chinese artist of a monk reading a book, this would have to be my favourite. It’s Such a peaceful image a traditional oil painting that’s totally the opposite to what I do, a composition that I really appreciate.

    1 x Artist

    Dali, no, Michelangelo….enough said! A genius way ahead of his time, more creative than any other.

  • BC 3 - Bungalow 8
    March 23, 2009

    BC 3 - Bungalow 8

    The third Beautiful Crime Presents Live Art with Live Music, being lively is Tuesday night at Bungalow 8. With painting by Finbarr and the canvas being auctioned for charity.

    Music is from the Rotten Hill Gang featuring Mick Jones from the Clash and Huey from the Fun Lovin Criminals.

    Expect loud noise and general social mayhem.

  • 3 x 1 - Dan Kitchener
    March 19, 2009

    3 x 1 - Dan Kitchener

    This weeks 3 things you shouldn’t do in a cellar comes from Dan ‘I’m working with the Prodigy’ Kitchener.

    1 x Video

    Gorillaz El Mañana of their animations to be honest, they’re so so cool, such attention to detail and the character design is awesome! (music pretty good too!!! )

    1 x Picture

    James Jean. I love his work, very haunting pictures, with a deep sense of stillness and
    a slight sinister edge, this one being my favourite.

    1 x Artist

    Ashley Wood. Simply stunning illustrator, everything he does is mind blowing, so free and
    loose with such expression and movement, always amazes me.

  • Where did I put the bin?..
    March 15, 2009

    Where did I put the bin?..

    It’s been a chaotic ole time here at BC, mostly because I’ve been busy writing business plans at a time when most people are writing references.

    So I’m back with an odd one. I stumbled across this pic via FriendFeed, at first glance it’s rudimentary post-Saturday night vandalism lite. On closer inspection the wheelie bin is somehow attached to the branch and the bike is growing out of the tree.

    So far so French, so what?

    Street art, when is really works, when it’s at it’s most effective and deconstructed is about the ability to alter our perception, so that our first glance assumes normality, but our second takes in the spectacle and digests it.

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