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Call for Stencil Content: Stencil Nation Book Project Needs You

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...................... 2. GENERAL RULES FOR SUBMISSION ..........................................

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: August 20, 2007
  • Feel free to submit art and information for any of the categories that relate to you, but make sure that you read each category's details before doing so.
  • all submitted images must be 300dpi (high resolution) to be printed in a book. If you do not submit hi res photos, your photos will not be used. (Contact me if you wish to mail content to be scanned.)

PIXNIT Basel Update

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A special thanks to Alexis Hubsman, the owner and creator of Scope, for inviting PIXNIT to participate. Also, to the creative and energetic team of directors and producers of Scope, who put on the most dynamic Art Fair around. Many thanks to Camilo Alvarez from Samson Projects, Leora Lutz from Gallery Revisited and Chris Constas for all of your support.

Splashing the Art World With Anger and Questions

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The New York Times
June 30, 2007
Art

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Until the pranks turned ugly, it was heartening to follow the dust-up between a bunch of street artists and their nemesis or nemeses, identity unknown. As The New York Times reported this week, for some time works of stenciled graffiti art and wheat-pasted posters slapped onto walls in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan have been splashed with paint and scrawled with messages of protest.
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Splasher Manifesto PDF Download

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From the NY Times article:

Two days after Mr. Cooper’s arrest, a group of people showed up at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in Chelsea, where a reception was being held for Mr. Fairey. Without identifying themselves, they distributed copies of a 16-page tabloid with the title “If we did it this is how it would’ve happened,” with a cover photograph of an image created by Mr. Fairey defaced with paint.
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As Street Art Goes Commercial, a Resistance Raises a Real Stink

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Then in November, during a panel discussion on women and graffiti that included a street artist called Swoon, a figure wearing a hooded sweatshirt flung a sheaf of fliers using similar language from a balcony overlooking an auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum. Swoon was among those whose work had previously been struck by paint, and some couldn’t help wondering whether the person who threw the fliers was also the Splasher, as the perpetrator of the paint attacks had come to be known.
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