18 June : Fresque Monumentale by Jef Aerosol (Paris)
REALISATION D'UNE FRESQUE MONUMENTALE DE 350 m2 du 11 au 18 juin 2011
PARIS 4e - Place Stravinsky
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REALISATION D'UNE FRESQUE MONUMENTALE DE 350 m2 du 11 au 18 juin 2011
PARIS 4e - Place Stravinsky
A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy
By Jonathan Curiel
published: June 15, 2011
Jonathan Curiel on A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitmacy
Cover photo by Michael Cuffe/Warholian.
Inside his art studio in San Francisco's Bayview District, Jeremy Novy surrounds himself with the stencilwork that has burnished his reputation as a street artist of note. Of course, the koi are there. Even people who don't know his name know his aquatic vertebrates — colorful creatures that can be found on sidewalks across San Francisco, most prominently at Market and Laguna streets, where scores of the fish swirl outside the Orbit Room. In Novy's studio, though, the animals are crowded out by representations of people. Men, mostly. Queer men like the drag queen with the yellow beehive and bright red panties, and the young wrestlers grabbing each other's flesh. Then there's the stencil of a big pink erect phallus.
"That's my cock," Novy says matter-of-factly.
Nice video of a presentation I gave during the Stencil Nation book tour.
Just got word from my administrator that the Drupal7 upgrade is going to happen soon, most likely tomorrow (Wednesday).
Since it is an upgrade from Drupal5, things will look a bit different. But the content will remain the same. Stencil Archive will still host the photo archives, links, and the main categories on the navigation bar will not change.