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Street Artists make Place Identity

August 13, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Street artists like Haas and Hahn or JR are volunteering with or without crowd-funding or being commissioned by NGOs to help make place.   Sometimes place making by paint occurs overtime such as the Wynwood Arts District murals in Miami or older historic murals in smaller towns across America in the 1980-90s such as Lake Placid, Florida.  But this visioning by a single artist or artist team seems … [Read more...]

El Seed – Street Artist of Arabic Calligraphy

August 4, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Street artist el Seed has developed a powerful mural style deriving from the great history of Arabic calligraphy in architecture and books.  A catalog of el Seed's work can be found in the new book, "Lost Walls".  http://www.elseed-art.com     https://www.facebook.com/elseed.artist Translation of quote on the Mosque:  "Oh humankind, we have created you from a … [Read more...]

Kashink Street Art

August 2, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

According to her blog, KASHINK is one of the few very active female artists in the French graffiti/street art scene.  She paints huge four eyed characters, with thick lines, vivid colors, in a very distinctive style.   http://www.kashink.com … [Read more...]

Hanoi Ceramic Mural on Red River Dyke: 2007-2010

July 29, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

The Hanoi mural, which is built on the walls of the Red River dyke, was constructed between 2007-10.   The concept came from  Vietnamese artist, Nguyen Thu Thuy, a journalist and painter who works for the Hanoimoi newspaper.  Ms Thuy wanted to mark the city’s millennium with an artistic mural which reinvigorated urban Hanoi and bring local communities together through public art.  WATCH THE … [Read more...]

Mosaics and Ceramic Murals: Freeport, Bahamas

July 28, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Let's put mosaics and ceramic murals on the public art table.    For permanent, community-based public art - nothing is better.   And as a very beautiful artform in the hands of experts and craftspeople.    You can visit and walk-on Roman mosaics almost 2,000 years old.  The tiles of Persians, the Ottomans and other Asian Islamic cultures glow with the blues and greens and reds in the 500 year old … [Read more...]

Best of the Week in Public Art

July 12, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Friend me at glenn.weiss.100 for the originals in real time. Two best finds of the week are the giant mural in Syria complete this year in the middle of the war and the Smokey Hollow Memorial to the African American Community that was demolished in the late 1960s. Most popular this week is the Edmonton, Canada, pavilion by Marc … [Read more...]

Public Art Images from the Week

June 28, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Friend me at https://www.facebook.com/glenn.weiss.100             … [Read more...]

Brian Miller: World’s FIRST town artist. 1962

June 14, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

Thanks to Gar Dunlap for the correction.   Brian Miller may be the world's first town artist.  He served the Scottish New Town of Cumbernauld. From THE FORGOTTEN PUBLIC ART OF CUMBERNAULD by Neville Rae For twenty eight years starting in 1962, Brian Miller worked as Cumbernauld’s first, and only, town artist. After initial doubts over which department he should be placed in, he was employed … [Read more...]

HELLBENT murals with wall paper patterns

May 13, 2014 by Glenn Weiss

On the way to Kara Walker's Domino Sugar Factory installation, see the mural by Hellbent in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  http://hellbentart.com/   … [Read more...]

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