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20x20 Call for Art

After Conducting The First and Second International Sticker Combos in Tehran( see Brainstorm#9 and #6)and Successful Indoor Exhibition on Both Sticker Combo boards at Spray2007 and Spray 1387 Gallery shows ,We Are going to make a new adventure.:20×20 Tehran

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Call for Art

Ataque23 - São Paulo, Brazil (Video)

On sunday september 13, about 200 street artists took over a very popular avenue, called 23 de maio, with a very wide range of public artistic intervention: grafffiti, pixaçao, sticker, posters, stencils, photo, videoart, street poetry, etc., as a way of protesting against the policy of the city administration of erasing all the city walls. 9 of the artists were taken to jail (as you can see in the video linked below) and some hours later were released with no charges, only beacuse there was some press covering the action. All the art seen on the video, which is only a part of the whole intervention, was painted/done in about 5 hours that morning. At night on the same day the works were being erased, and there are no works left today.

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Stencil Videos

If these scrawls could talk - Tom Sevil and Melbourne's Alt History

If these scrawls could talk

September 23, 2009

Original Article Here

Urban activist Tom Sevil leads a tour of political graffiti in search of an alternative history of Melbourne. Andrew Stephens reports.

TOM Sevil is up a laneway inspecting some 1970s graffiti. He likes these places. He's a stencil artist, graffitist and graphic designer, but also something of an archaeologist, because the work at hand here is but a fragment, partly buried beneath rich layers of history.

In white house paint applied with a brush, not an aerosol, this graffito no longer makes sense. It says: Frazer is a bottled toad in a trust - and there it ends, forever to remain a mystery, its final words obscured by years of others' graffiti.

This fragment, a bastardisation of a phrase from Shakespeare's Richard III, is more poetic than most of the illegible tags scrawled about the laneway. It might once have had something insightful (but misspelt) to say about Malcolm Fraser, then prime minister of Australia. But in this world of laneways and rapid-fire guerilla action, the scrawls, tags, posters and stencils are all ultimately temporary.

For Sevil, quality and longevity aside, it is all about political action.

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News Articles

Historical Item

Twelve Doors: Stenciled this Month by Canvaz

Canvaz does the September Twelvedoors in Dublin ‘Sometimes it’s hard to see the beauty all around you’

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In the Galleries

Jef Aerosol in Dublin

http://www.galleryzozimus.ie

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In the Galleries

News from A1one

I've been crazy Busy all the past month ,doing thenew stencil project which will be going to meet the finishing of cutting stage after 3 month cutting at least 4 hours per day .Now i am at the one last layer. IT IS called : ... ok lets keep the title and theme secret :)

There are some shows i am a part of whic h are already on the run.
First :

--------Urban Art Agenda#3
Directed JD Mittmann,/ FamousWhenDead Gallery

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Artist News

20 Sep Stencil Pic Uploads

Here ya go.

About 85 photos from around the world.

one from Joker in Brazil
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=272

SC (thanks Chip!)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=15051&g2_navId=…

DRI (BZ) sent one
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=62065&g2_navId=…

valencia st. in SF
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9775&g2_navId=x…

mission in SF
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=8411&g2_navId=x…

castro in SF
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=7826&g2_navId=x…

finan dist in SF
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9477&g2_navId=x…

other sf
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9276&g2_navId=x…

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Stencil Archive News

Miss.Tic Fan Club (FR)

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Miss.Tic Fan Club (FR)

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Artiste Ouvrier

Stencil Art since 1995

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Artiste Ouvrier

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Artiste-Ouvrier in Caen until 5 Oct

"Un Rêve de Haruki", l'exposition d'Artiste-Ouvrier autour de l'univers fantasmatique de l'écrivain japonais, court aussi jusqu'au 27 sept. à Caen, en Normandie.
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"Un Rêve de Haruki", Artiste-Ouvrier's solo show about the world of the Japanese writer is also running until Oct. 5th in Caen, Normandie.

thanks for the notice to C215

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In the Galleries

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