street art

Dirty Hands / Arty documentaries

by Doug LeMoine on 28 January 2009

David Choe: Setting a good example. I’m psyched to check out Dirty Hands, a new documentary about artist David Choe. I’m usually skeptical about “street art” films, but the trailer looks pretty great, and I’ve heard that Choe is kind of a madman. I compare everything in this street/art vein to Video Days  —  which, by the [...]

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Music / Peggy Honeywell at Mollusk

by Doug LeMoine on 12 September 2006

Being car-less keeps me (mostly) around the southeastern neighborhoods of San Francisco, but every once in a while I’ll venture out to the frontiers. Last Friday, we went out to Mollusk, the arty surf shop on 46th-ish Avenue and Irving, (i.e. WAY Outer Sunset), for an art opening and a performance by Peggy Honeywell, i.e. [...]

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Street art / Swoon

by Doug LeMoine on 5 September 2006

So it seems I’m a couple of years late to this particular artist, but some recent conversation on the Book Arts list turned me on to Swoon, a NYC street artist. Her medium is the cutout  —  from paper, wood, linoleum  —  and she attaches these to walls all over NYC. The paper ones are the most amazing to [...]

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Missour-ah signage

by Doug LeMoine on 21 December 2005

I was in Springfield, Missouri for work last week, and I was really surprised and impressed with the number of old, unique signs. Over on Flickr, you’ll be amazed by two shots of some amazing Glo Laundromats signs, and a strip mall called “Country Club Plaza” that has an old orange sign with an analog [...]

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Art / LACMA garage RIP

by Doug LeMoine on 4 November 2005

Soon, the garage outside the LA County Museum of Art is getting torn down to make way for some big new building. Unfortunately, it’s got some really excellent murals by Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen that I checked out when I was there a couple of summers ago. The LA Weekly says: Now’s the time [...]

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Art / Graphic design for public transit

by Doug LeMoine on 30 September 2005

If you’re like me, one of your favorite parts of seeing new cities is checking out the logo(s) of their public transit system. Nowadays you don’t even need to travel to these cities to appreciate their variety; here’s a site with an amazingly thorough catalog.

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Art / Palestine: “The ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers”

by Doug LeMoine on 31 August 2005

The British street artist Banksy just painted nine provocative murals on the wall that separates the West Bank from Israel. The sardonic quote in the title is Banksy’s reflection on his work there. He goes into a little more detail on his site. The Guardian and BBC both covered it, and there is at least [...]

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