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9 June: The Urban Artist (Hamburg)

Vernissage: 9. Juni 2011 19:00 Uhr nur mit Anmeldung: rsvp@circleculture-gallery.com

Ausstellungszeiten: 10. – 14. Juni 2011 / täglich 11-19 Uhr
Ort: Clemens-Schulz-Straße 87 – Hamburg / St. Pauli.

www.circleculture-magazine.com

Berlin, Mai 2011. The Urban Artist ist eine reisende Kunst-Ausstellung, die eine Auswahl der progressivsten Positionen in der europäischen und US-amerikanischen Urban Art versammelt. Die Ausstellung wurde Anfang 2011 im Soho House Berlin von ca. 20.000 Besuchern gesehen.

Nun freut sich das Team von „The Urban Artist“ nach Hamburg zu kommen. Entdecken Sie eine neue Location im Herzen von Hamburg St. Pauli und neueste Arbeiten von JAYBO MONK/ Berlin - AARON ROSE/ Los Angeles - CHRISTIAN AWE/ Berlin - STOHEAD/ Berlin - ANTON UNAI/ Barcelona - XOOOOX/ Berlin - STEFAN STRUMBEL/ Offenburg - KELSEY BROOKES/ San Diego (Cali) - MARCO ”PhO“ GRASSI/ Milano - MARCEL WALLDORF/ Dresden - VARIOUS & GOULD/ Berlin - HELLE MARDAHL/ Kopenhagen - JONATHAN YEO/ London - KEVIN EARL TAYLOR/ San Francisco - KATRIN FRIDRIKS/ Paris

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In the Galleries

City Buffs Legal Mural - Toronto

Artist says city erased mural it paid him to paint

June 01, 2011

David Rider

Original Article

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Mural artist Joel Richardson was paid $2,000 by the city to do a mural on a city-owned wall on Dupont just west of Lansdowne. On Tuesday, somebody -- apparently the city -- painted over it, likely as part of Rob Ford's graffiti eradication campaign.

SUBMITTED PHOTO

Artist Joel Richardson says the city has painted over a popular Dupont St. mural that it paid him $2,000 to create, an apparent misfire in Mayor Rob Ford’s war on graffiti.

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New Stencil Archive Uploads Pt. 3: San Francisco

All the archive names and directories have been updated. There have been many name changes and some consolidation (for example, there is now a "Random USA" Archive instead of "Eastern USA" and "Western USA"). If you have linked anything within the Stencil Archives, those links are effectively broken. A few updates to the Stencil Archives include geotagging, keyword tags, and social media sharing.

Here's Part 3 of all the latest uploads. The total uploads for the past few days is 275. Thanks to everyone who has submitted over the past month or so!

Next steps again: update Drupal, add site theme to Gallery archives, and enjoy.

Music compliments of KUSF in Exile (save college radio from greedy hands)

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New Stencil Archive Uploads Pt. 2: Europe Archive Done

Europe Archive is done. San Francisco will be Pt. 3 later tonight!

Reggae music compliments of KPOO...

Degage Exhibit, France >NEW<
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/France/Degage-E…

Hamburg
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/Germany/Hamburg

Germany (just one)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/Germany

Greece (just one)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/Greece

Netherlands
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/Netherlands

Lublin, Poland
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/Poland

UK
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/United_Kingdom

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New Stencil Archive Uploads Pt. 1: 16,000th Upload

whew....

Just went through most of the Archives, changing those pesky "album###" to the actual name of the artist or location. Changed dozens of albums so now you see clean links instead of odd numbered directories.

This is Part 1 of the uploads. San Francisco pics and Europe pics will be uploaded tomorrow. These archives will undergo the above mentioned changes too, making their links more understandable.

Stencil Archive uploaded photo No. 16,000 tonight! Jessica made a cut out for the End:Civ doc, and here it is as the 16,000th pic:

As for the rest of tonight's uploads, here are the fresh new links:

Uploads Part 2 coming later today (it's 2am here...)

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23 May :: Arabic Graffiti Exhibit (Berlin)

Arabic Graffiti Exhibition - Berlin
* el Seed * Zepha * Blouzaat * l'Atlas * Monsieur Cana *

Exhibition:
23.-28. May 2011 / 12-7 pm

After the great success of the recently published book "Arabic Graffiti", the Common Ground Gallery in Berlin shows a fine selection of international artists featured in this publication.

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In the Galleries

28 May :: Urban Imprints (Paris)

Urban imprints
An exhibit, an auction
At the initiative of SOS RACISME, 84 internationally renown Street Art artists united around the very present-day theme “Touche pas a mon pote” [don’t touch my buddy] exhibit they creations from Saturday 28th to Monday 30th May 2001 at the Palais d’Iéna, Paris, France.
Thanks to the generosity of these artists, this free (access) exhibit will conclude by a charity auction to the benefit of the Association SOS RACISME (for 3/4th, 1/4th for the artists).

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In the Galleries

Stencil Archives (Sort of) Back

If you look up in Stencil Archive's navigation bar, you will see that the Archives are up!

http://www.stencilarchive.org/gallery3/index.php/

Phase I of the repair is complete, so when you click over, you will see a different lay out of the Gallery3 Archives site.

There will not be a way to get back "home" here to the main page, so I suggest that you right click and "open link in new tab."

Phase II will include adding the same theme to the new Gallery3 Archives as well as updating this part of the site to Drupal7.

Then we hope to link the two parts in a somewhat seamless way!

Thanks to everyone who has generously donated towards this repair project. Every little bit helps.

PS: New uploads coming soon.... as well as photo no. 16,000

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Coyote Mentions Early 1967 Stencils in San Francisco

[During the January 14, 1967 Human Be-In] "paisley banners and flags stenciled with marijuana leaves fluttered in the balmy winds that seemed to be blessing fifty thousand people assembled before a single stage crowded with celebrities and Haight Independent Proprieters (HIPs)." p. 75

photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/hragvartanian/

"One morning [before the Summer of 1967] San Francisco awoke to discover that walls, freeway columns, and fences had been plastered with five-foot-high posters of two enigmatic Chinese men in pajamas, lounging on a street corner in the relaxed and at home posture of hipsters everywhere. Over their heads was the Chinese ideogram for revolution, and under their feet were the cryptic words "1% Free." The poster was designed by Peter Berg, executed with stencils by artist Mike McKibbon (drawn from a turn-of-the-century photo of tong hit men found in a library book), and a group of us [San Francisco Diggers] had spent a long night pasting them up in every neighborhood in the city." p. 81

- Peter Coyote, "Sleeping Where I Fall" (1998)

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[u] Stencil Archives Still Broken... Fix in Process

[update]

I used an old PayPal button link for the donate button. If you have had trouble connecting to the donate page, the link has been repaired (my current Drupal set up does not allow me to use /form code in postings, so the "email link" as an href will work).

.........

Hey everyone,

After a week of research, discussion, and decision-making, the current break will hopefully be fully repaired by next week.

This repair will cost anywhere between $750 to $1,500 USD (after a generous discounted rate from the folks at Mission Web Works here in San Francisco).

When Stencil Archive was migrated to a new server, the older versions of Drupal and Gallery caused the break. Drupal 7 is fresh out of the box, so there are not many choices to integrate a module that can handle over 16,000 images. And Gallery 3 is not as fresh, but an upgrade from what was supporting the Stencil Archives. Gallery's development for a Drupal module is DOA at this point, so we have had to resort to a tethered system.

What you may see in the coming week is a Gallery 3-only version of Stencil Archive, complete with ALL the photos (and a fresh new upload of over 200 images). Then you will see the reappearance of the Drupal-based "blog" content, with the Archives linked in the navigation area.

Let's hope that the fix is quick and easy!

For now, please consider donating to help me cover the cost of this repair. I make almost no money off of Stencil Archive. If you have enjoyed it over the years, why not consider donating to help get over this technical hurdle.

Any donations from the USA that are over $40 USD will get you a copy of "Stencil Nation," mailed to you along with an original hand-made stencil.

Any donations outside the USA that are over $50 USD will get you the same!

You can also buy a copy of "Stencil Nation" author-direct to help.

Thanks!

Russell

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