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150+ New Photo Uploads for Jan. 2011

A box of stencil bon bons for you all to enjoy. Thanks so much for all the submissions from around the world (and for permission to grab off the interwebs)....

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20 Jan :: A Funeral Procession for Freedom of Expression!

Protest Art Censorship from the Smithsonian to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA)

Thursday, January 20, 2011
11:00AM
506 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Join US! A Funeral Procession for Freedom of Expression!

CSPG will join Artists and activists, along with supporters of free speech and free expression, to gather with props and posters to protest the escalation of art censorship. Join us in front of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

Over-reacting to complaints by Republican congressional leaders, Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Museum, recently removed David Wojnarowicz's 1987 video, "A Fire in My Belly," from a critically acclaimed exhibition about gay-themed portraiture. Clough will speak at the Biltmore on January 20th at noon as part of Town Hall Los Angeles public issues series.

Additional censorship information: Deeming it potentially offensive, Jeffrey Deitch, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in Los Angeles, recently whitewashed a mural he commissioned by Blu, an internationally renowned Italian street artist. The mural was to be an important part of MoCA's upcoming street art exhibition, "Art in the Street." Blu's powerful anti-war mural featured coffins draped in dollar bills.

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27 Jan : "Un artiste - Un univers" : Jef Aérosol

Du 27 janvier au 30 avril 2011

Chaque hiver, dans le cadre de l'événement Un artiste - Un univers, le musée des Avelines, musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Cloud donne carte blanche à un artiste contemporain invité à prendre possession des lieux pour y déployer son univers. C'est l'occasion pour les visiteurs de découvrir une personnalité, un monde et de s'interroger sur une œuvre contemporaine. Cette année, l'exposition présente l'artiste Jef Aérosol qui travaille le « pochoir de rue ».

L'exposition invite le spectateur à pénétrer dans l'univers original et fascinant de Jef Aérosol. Elle présentera un grand nombre d'œuvres de l'artiste, notamment des portraits. Une installation en boîtes de carton, crée spécialement pour l'occasion, prendra également place dans l'exposition, sous forme de pyramide.

L'exposition s'accompagnera de nombreuses animations telles que des performances de l'artiste et des ateliers pour enfants permettant d'appréhender la technique du pochoir.

http://www.saintcloud.fr/musee/

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In the Galleries

Eddie Colla

Public spaces were never intended to be coated from top to bottom with photos of consumer products. These spaces should, in some manner, reflect the culture that thrives in that space.

Also: https://www.instagram.com/eddiecolla/

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Eddie Colla

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Kenji Nakayama (MA, USA)

Also: https://www.instagram.com/kngee/

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Kenji Nakayama (MA, USA)

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Miss.Tic Reading and Talking (Video)

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20 Dec. :: Stencil Nation Book Presentation, Greenville, SC, USA

"Russell Howze is a native Greenvillian and a stencil artist. He runs the Stencil Archive and published the collection Stencil Nation: Community, Graffiti, and Art in 2008, documenting the work of over 350 artists from 28 countries. The Stencil Nation Book Tour will stop by the Warehouse Theatre Monday, December 20 at 7 PM." Check out the rest of the Create Greenville interview here. FaceBook invitation and info found here.

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Sten and Lex Spray a Tape Stencil (Video)

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Tina Tarnoff (SF, CA)

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Tina Tarnoff

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17 Dec :: Celebrate People's History at AK Press (Oakland, CA)

ONE DAY ONLY

Poster Exhibit - Book Release Party - Artist Panel

CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution

Edited by Josh MacPhee

Foreword by Rebecca Solnit

Published by the Feminist Press

7pm – Friday Dec. 17

AK Press, www.akpress.org

674 A 23rd St

Oakland 94612

Since 1998, Celebrate People’s History posters have documented feminist organizers, indigenous uprisings, civil rights leaders, union struggles, LGBT activism and much more. The Feminist Press has just released over 100 posters in hardback – Celebrate People’s History: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, edited by Josh MacPhee with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit. The book’s West Coast premiere includes a poster exhibit, book signing by Bay Area contributors and artist panel.

Featured Speakers:

Sabiha Basrai, graphic designer, Design Action Collective, www.designaction.org

Lincoln Cushing, poster historian, www.docspopuli.org

FREE admission. Donations go to author Josh MacPhee and his partner who is battling cancer. This event is wheel-chair accessible.