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Twelve Doors Update

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Since Jef Aerosol did Waiting for Godot in Temple Bar in October, we have had some great work on the door.

November saw ADW present the Irish Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD dressed in peasant garb looking very bored reflecting our current economic climate.
December was a joint project by artist Maser and singer Damien Dempsey, for the people of Dublin, about Dublin, in Dublin entitled Love Yourself Today.

January saw the return of Will St Leger who gave us Cowards Carry Knives a commentary on the amount of knife related deaths in Dublin.

February and March still to come and then the Twelvedoors are complete!

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Signs of Change in Portland, OR

February 4 – March 19, 2010

PNCA Main Campus Building, Feldman Gallery + Project Space, 1241 NW Johnson St.

Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily

In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art’s Curatorial Incubator Program, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.

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NABSKY : Stencil Session (Video)

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18 Feb :: Jeremy Novy :: Art Attack

Art Attack, an emerging artists showcase event of performance, art, music, food, dance, and colorful networking.....a sanctuary for the urban artist!!! Every third thursday we open our stage to Dj's, Performers and artists of ALL walks to come and share there art!!! to bring you the latest in the sf local creative arts scene!!! The cost is A mere $5 and the entire door is split amongs the artists!!!!

art attack is back this month with a flawless line up of local SF talent!

door .... at 8pm $5....with our door clown

Come Early , stay late, and enjoy the eye-popping immersive multi-media experience. supperclub san francisco is located at 657 Harrison Street at 3rd St, in San Francisco.

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10Feb :: Czarnobyl, Pisa73 Exhibit in Berlin

Wed., Feb. 10, 2010

8pm to 11pm

Nest

Gorlitzer Str. 52

Berlin, Germany

Die fünfte Ausstellung in der Galerie über dem Nest (via Wendeltreppe): Schablonen Graffiti auf Leinwand von Czarnobyl und Pisa73. Eröffnung ist am Mittwoch, den 10.02.2010, ab 20:00, mit Musik von Dejoe, Jorge Alistano und den üblichen Verdächtigen.

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Jef Aerosol :: in "Love or Sex" Group Show, Paris

Exposition collective
du 11/02/2010 au 27/02/2010
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Vernissage le 11/02/2010 à partir de 18h
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Gérard Rancinan / Robert Mappelthorpe
Speedy Graphito / Noart
JonOne / Psykoze
Taling / Bettie Nin
Exterface / David Mason
Katya Legendre / Éric Guglielmi
Jef Aérosol / LA2
Mijn Schatje / Chris Von Steiner
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Galerie Brugier-Rigail
48, rue Sainte-Croix
de la Bretonnerie
75004 Paris
www.artpartnergalerie.com

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Chris Stain Update

New http://www.chrisstain.com/ coming with FB, Twitter, and Regular Updates

What Else Is Up

In other news this month I've painted two murals for separate benefits.
One at WIN Initiative in SOHO for a creative info share called Take 5.
And another in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Bowl called Rock and Wrap It Up which is an anti poverty organization. More on that here Win4Hunger.
Good People.

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Graffiti's Story

February 5, 2010

Graffiti’s Story, From Vandalism to Art to Nostalgia

By DAVID GONZALEZ

Original NYTims article appears here

Eric Felisbret stood by a chain-link fence, watching three men spraying graffiti on a backyard wall in Upper Manhattan. One man smiled and invited him over.

“You can go around the corner and when you see a sign for a seamstress, go in the alley,” the man said. “Or you can jump the fence, like we did.”

Mr. Felisbret, 46, chose the long way. Not that he is unused to fence-jumping. In the 1970s, that was one of his skills as a budding graffiti writer who stole into subway yards. Using the nom de graf DEAL, he was part of the Crazy Inside Artists, a legendary crew from East New York, Brooklyn. This time, though, instead of wielding a spray can, he pulled out a camera and took a quick snapshot of the artwork, done with the landlord’s permission.

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