Peep this video of Martha Cooper talking about how she was one of the first photographers to document graffiti..

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Maxx242 along with Dayne Henry have been hard at work on the story and art for a full length TWO graphic novel.. It will be a four part mini series that will drop later this year.. #staytuned

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Peep this video of Pose painting a burner in The Bronx, NY..

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So if anyone is wondering what Jeffrey Deitch’s next step will be as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art now has an answer. In two words: “Street Art” #hihaters

Local artists and gallery owners have been whispering about the possibility, and this week Deitch confirmed his plans for a 2011 show. “We’re going to send out the press release in a few weeks,” he says. “Right now we’re trying to iron out sponsorship. It’s going to be the first major museum survey of the history of graffiti and street art presented in the United States.”

The show is called “Art in the Streets,” not to be confused with “Born in the Streets,” recently staged by the Cartier Foundation in Paris. Deitch says the MOCA endeavor will be bigger, broader and more historical in sweep. “A show at this level has never been done anywhere.”

The choice of subject is no surprise to anyone who knows Deitch. Since the 1970s, he has supported New York artists like Lee Quinones, Futura, Fab 5 Freddy, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. More recently, Deitch Projects, his former gallery, showed the work of California anti-heroes Barry McGee and Shepard Fairey.

The MOCA show will cover the 1970s through the present, including international street-art stars such as Banksy from London and Space Invader from Paris. (”Banksy is very excited about the show,” says Deitch. How does he know, considering Banksy’s notoriously elusive nature? “We communicate through his assistant Holly.”)

But also expect a substantial focus on Los Angeles: the legacy of cholo graffiti in the 1970s, the

influence of New York Wild Style graffiti starting in the ’80s and skateboarding-fueled art of the ’90s.

“About 25 artists will be invited to do major installations or murals,” says MOCA’s director. “But in terms of all the artists represented there will be more than 100.” One installation already confirmed: Mister Cartoon’s Ice Cream Truck, shown above, the work of an L.A. graffiti artist now famous for creating tattoos for the famous (think Eminem and Beyoncé).

To organize the exhibition, Deitch is working with two L.A.-based curators: Aaron Rose of “Beautiful Losers” renown and graffiti guru Roger Gastman. Fred Brathwaite, better known as Fab 5 Freddy, is serving as a curatorial advisor from New York.

Rose says he’s excited to see MOCA take street art seriously. “Because there’s a criminal edge or outlaw vibe, it doesn’t get the same respect that art coming out of academia gets,” he says. “But you can’t deny the cultural importance it has had in art, music and fashion of the last 20 years.”

He thinks the exhibition has huge crossover potential to reach new museumgoers in the city’s Latino and African American communities, and teenagers across the map. “I don’t think MOCA has done anything on this scale,” Rose says. “The sheer number of kids who will come to this museum will be mind-blowing.”

The show is slated to open at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary in April 2011. “I decided I had to do this in my first season at MOCA,” Deitch says. “I didn’t want to waste time opening up the museum to a larger audience.” – LA Times

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This is such a really good idea!! Graffiti Culture has really come a long way thanks to the internet & digital photography.. FTW

Using the power of digital photos, common web tools and photo sharing sites we show you how Cassidy Curtis is documenting the changes to living breathing cities that’s accessible to almost everyone with the click of a mouse.

When Google started taking street level photos for Google Maps, a lot of folks commented on what a wonderful historical tool it could be. The ultimate “digital archive” of cities, communities and neighborhoods accessible by anyone with a Internet connection and web browser. One would be able to go back and see how streets, stores, signs and city life change through time.

Now one doesn’t need to be a huge corporation like Google to accomplish a similar task. In fact Cassidy Curtis through his site Graffiti Archaeology is doing just that. Recording and documenting the every changing landscape of graffiti within the cities or New York, LA, London and San Francisco.

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Peep this video of OG Tyke aka Witnes in Paris as he drops game on the Graffiti Culture and how it has evolved since the early days..

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If you haven’t seen this movie yet you’re sleeping big time!! #dontsleep

BOMB IT is the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.

Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70′s and 80′s, then follows the flames as they paint the globe. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today’s most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape. You’ll never look at public space the same way again.

BOMB IT has shot in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tijuana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, and Tokyo.

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Here’s some footy from the ARTinfect II event last month.. The wall’s theme was time travel.. Over 60 writers participated….

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Risk is featured in a new animated TV series coming out soon called “The Driver” this is what he said on his website:

“At the producer request, I can only show my wallpaper thus far…. I recently worked with the creator placing real pieces on walls around the city, that he animated for the game. This was a real blast from the past, I hit some of these spots over 20 years ago……We will post more soon!” – Risk

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Here’s a video of Pariz from Portugal painting the “hall of fame” wall behind the Dedicated Store in Cologne, Germany during their 6th anniversary..

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