To coincide with the book release of Part One – The Death Squad, From Here To Fame and friends present a European black book session & book signing tour with the New York subway graffiti legend PART ONE.

Check all the dates by clicking the link below!

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Friday 9th October - Neurotitan Gallery - Berlin

Five of the finest Argentine street artists -JAZZ, GUALICHO, POETA, AIRE and CARU- will present artworks and live painting intervention along with local talents AMOSE, KOA (fr), EL BOCHO and LOOMIT (de).

Live music by TRUE INGREDIENTS (UK) and ROCK AND JUNIOR (Polydor / Universal Music).

GRAFFITI ARGENTINA (Thames & Hudson) books for a special price and Argentine beer will be on the house!

Epitaph is an exploration of lost spaces.
Known for her unique style and elegant gritty lines, Faith47 presents a visual diary from South Africa, including her latest video (created with Inge Beckmann and Rowan Pybus).

No New Enemies & Wallbreakers present "Epitaph". An installation and video presentation by Faith47, Inge Beckmann & Rowan Pybus.

Vernissage Saturday Oct. the 17th | 18:00 > 21:00 | with music by Dj Dark Matter
at MR-EGO | 29 Rue Des Pierres | 1000 BXL

Reinkingprojekte presents this group-exhibition with an international Line-up near Hamburg.
Just is broadcasting from there and you can follow him LIVE!
Check his website and get an impression of whats going on there right now...there might be some interruptions, but if you stay tuned you'll get many imressions from the preperations, the people or whatever he's doing at the moment...

Strychnin Gallery presents "Garden Of The Dispossessed" - New Mixed Media works by David Hochbaum.
This exhibition is part of the WALLBREAKERS Urban Art Tour and will be featured in our upcoming Newspaper "The Modart Times"..watch out for that in the streets of Berlin.

Reception for the artists October 9th at 7 p.m.

Stroke Art Fair is coming up soon.
The first Fair specialised in Urban Art only - INTOXICATED DEMONS Gallery from Berlin took their chances and organised this event in Munich to merge the subcultural efforts of small and honest galleries to a bigger event.
We will keep you updated about stroke.01

Check: Stroke Website

On September 26th a bomb dropped on Santa Monica, California. Retna and El Mac opened their first collaborative show. Although they've painted their way up the ranks and collaborated for years on the streets this is the first time they've come together in a gallery setting, the prestigious Robert Berman Gallery to be specific. The show, 'Vagos y Reinas,' is up until October 17th, if you get a chance to stop by and see it you'll be treated to a larger than life look at the masterful work these two have created on their own and together.

It was a cold rainy day (well we can just assume that cause it was in the UK) in 1999 when Sickboy first decided to leave aside his letters and paint a temple image on the wall for the first time. It's now become an icon of England's street art scene and on the 10 year anniversay has now been immortalized in a resin model.

Although making "street art toys" isn't the most original idea we're always supporting artists who bust their asses and do-it-themselves. In his own words: “Nobody said it was going to be easy, and this definitely wasn’t. I’ve been laughed at by model makers, sneered at by spotty adolescents from Games Workshop, breathed in enough turpentine to keep a glue sniffer happy for years, and ruined my best shirt at the printers. But I couldn’t let this one slip through the net.”

If you don't want to let this one slip through either you can pick up one of the limited editions models for yourself at sickboy.aerosolcolours.com

Over the past few years Adam Neate has left thousands of his cardboard works on London's streets for everyday people to stumble across and enjoy as art for art's sake, or more likely for street art hungry collectors to go ravage and horde. Tomorrow, Oct. 9th, his second solo show at the Elms Lesters Paintings Rooms, , 'A New Understanding,' will open up. Neate has taken his work to a new 3-dimensional level and the results are 22 almost cubist and futurist representations of everyday life. If you're a fan of Neate's work this show will be one not to miss.

Last week Miss Van left a big mark (or stain if you prefer) on London with her largest solo show to date, and her first solo show in the UK, at Stolen Space. The show will take over both exhibition spaces with retrospective and new works. It is only up for one more week until October 18th, so make it through to see her newest works as she has come a long way from her cuter street days and has developed her style into much more sensual and darker works.

STOLENSPACE GALLERY
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London

The Arty Farty Gallery in Cologne continues to let it all out with their newest show that opened last Saturday, "Inside the Magic Puff." New work from all-time house favorites Will Barras, Swanski, and Steff Plaetz. The show is up until November 14th.

Simon Birch followed his art from England to Hong Kong in the mid-90's where he went from construction worker to painting full time. We'd never heard of his work before but his portraits definitely have something unique and got our attention. Also nice to see the Carmichael Gallery showing some new styles, although it's already impossible to keep track of the hundreds of artists whose work has passed through their doors in the few years they've been open. Birch's new show will open this evening, Oct. 8th, at the Carmichael Gallery in Los Angeles.

It was just a little over a month ago that the Modart Group Show featuring the work ofNomad and many other of our close friends closed at Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles. We're happy to be letting you know that tonight, Oct. 9th, Thinkspace will be opening up three new shows in their space with the likes of Esao Andrews, Tony Philippou, and Joshua Mays. These three painters each bring something unique to the table although the three styles certainly fit together focusing on the surreal and figurative. If you're around Los Angeles check them out.

Los Angeles' art scene has stamped out a solid place for itself over the years and the
"urban contemporary" (or however you want to call it) scene is no different. As you know we post regularly about a number of LA Galleries including Thinkspace, Carmichael, New Image Art, Subliminal Projects, and others. Opening to the public tomorrow, Oct. 10th, will be the Beyond Eden Art Fair, the first LA-gallery-only contemporary art fair. You can check out a sneak peak of the setup here and learn more about the fair here.

We finished "The Modart Times"!! - fresh from the printers and ready to be spread in Berlin these days. It's about our activities with the WALLBREAKERS project.
Just click on the pages and flip through the Newspaper, right here on the site!

Or you can download The Modart Times as .pdf

rik reinking's project in ARTOTALE has just finished....
you can see pictures of the event on just's site
the artotale website, and rik reinkings site....

Artists list as follows......
Adam & Akay, Akim, Alex Diamond, Almut Linde, Ash, Ben Eine, Brad Downey, Boxi, Bronco, Daniel Man, Dave the Chimp, DTAGNO, Evol, Faith47, Flying Förtress, Herakut, Herbert Baglione, Jay-One, Loomit, Mirko Reisser (DAIM), Moki & 1010, Pius Portmann, SKKI, Swoon, Tilt, Trica, Tryone, Vitché & Jana, Zevs, Zezao, 56K.

The Nice/Nice gallery in Hannover just celebrated it's one year anniversary this weekend with the opening of a new show with Collin van der Sluijs. The show stays up through November 14th and we hope the gallery stays up for much longer than that. Happy birthday Nice/Nice!

Lucas Price has dropped his moniker (you might better know him as London's Cyclops) to present a major new body of work at the Black Rat Press gallery. The show will open this Thursday, October 15th. From the looks and sound of it this show will be much more than spraypainted canvases and street works adapted to a gallery setting and will really be showing Price's most "mature" work to date. We like that although the art world takes itself so damn seriously that "Snoopy for President" is part of the artist's "mature" work. You can read a great interview with the Price over at Ponystep.com.

David Shillinglaw is at it again opening yet another solo-show, 'Get Up an Antenna.' The one show will be open at two locations (not sure how that works, we guess there's just a ton of work), Macondo Islington and Macondo Shoreditch. Both open to the public this Wednesday, Oct. 14th. His work discusses chaos and confusion, for someone who multitasks like Shillinglaw that about makes sense. You can see his most recent blogging for Fecal Face here as well.

East Eric once again reminds us of the importance of innovation and invention. He's just recently perfected his self-described "Ultimate Tag Weapon." His printing shoes are self-inking, discrete, silent, will stand out from most anything else out there, and in about 2 minutes of walking you can see just how much they can do. More than anything these are a nice reminder to all of us to not just be happy with whatever tools that are produced and sold to us. Make your own or improve on what's there. Click on for a full photo report of the creation process.

FKDL's (aka Franck Duval) silhouette figures have been a fixture on the streets of Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Turin, NYC, and many other cities for awhile now. He's dug up vintage magazines and ads to create his newest series of work that will be shown at his solo show, 'Metro Monde', opening this Wednesday, Oct. 14th, at the Since.Upian artspace in Paris.

Mark Whalen, aka Kill Pixie, was just interviewed by Pedestrian.tv. Nice interview with some down-to-earth questions as well as some over-cliched comparisons. Kill Pixie always comes out on top. He will also be opening his newest solo show, 'Supreme Beings,' at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Berlin next Saturday, Oct. 24th.

Finally got to stop by our friend Mike Swaney's new solo show at Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona. "Zulu Voodoo Buddha Guru" definitely lives up to its name... whatever your interpretation of the name might be. In our opinion it's a great thing. Check the photos and check out his website here. The show stays up through October 31st so go seee it if you're in Barcelona.

We just got the photos from the vernissage of 'Inside the Magic Puff' with Will Barras, Steff Plaetz, and Swanski at the Arty Farty gallery in Cologne. The show opened on Oct. 3rd and will be up through November 14th. Looks great.

Redundant or Perfectly Named? We'll go with the latter. London's spanking new Chapter One gallery kicked off it's inaugural show, "Genesis," with work by some of our good friends: Stefan Marx, Michael Swaney, Samuel Francois, Erosie, Mudwig & Merijn Hos. The show is up through Oct. 31st and they've also released a print by Stefan Marx. We like where this story is headed.

According to Remi/Rough: "Curated by Agents of Change, The Ghostvillage was conceived as an antidote to a world of ever increasing safety and mediocrity. Six artists were given free reign of a never inhabited village on the west coast of Scotland – working on pristine walls Remi/Rough, Stormie, System, Timid, Derm and Juice 126 have created a gallery like no other…..and finally given the village the ghosts it deserves….. This looks like an unreal project, but only six artists for a whole Ghost Town??? Spotted on vandalog

As a part of the WALLBREAKERS Festival, Poet, Wesp and Bas 2 are rocking a part of the Berlin Wall today and right now.
You can follow them on writethewall.net and see how the wall evolves...

A video from French TV with two of our favorites from Barcelona, Kenor and Pez. These guys paint for the pure love of painting. The video is in Spanish with French subtitles, but even for the English speakers it's fun to see them in action.

The London Police and some talented local geezers just finished this great wall in Kosova for the Hope Box Action project and the Piece for POsitivity. Read on for the full report.

JonOne, the old school import from NYC to France who recently (and legally) left his mark on the Thalys high-speed Train, will be coming to Milan for the first time this Thursday. He'll be opening his new solo show at the Don Gallery, it will be up through November 21st.

Mark Whalen aka Kill Pixie is opening his new show, Supreme Beings, at Merry Karnowsky Gallery this Saturday, Oct. 24th. We know we already posted about his show coming up but we also received news he'll be releasing a new limited edition 'zine entitled 'Project Rooms' at the show as well (published by Izrock). So what's wrong with a reminder?

The two Swiss artists, Mizzo and M8, are braving the early snow and cold in Vienna to bring together their new duo-show, 'Zirkus,' at Inoperable Gallery. The show opens this Friday, Oct. 23rd and will see plenty of new works from both artists as well as a number of collaborative pieces.

Living Decay looks like an amazing project and is a great short film from Norway's Dolk and Pobel. Somehow they even got John Fekner to do the narration for the video. This is a great reminder of what a good idea and a well organized crew can put together. Although it looks like high-production value it also feels completely DIY, as it should. Go outside, meet some friends, go travel, and bring lots of paint.

This Saturday, Oct. 24th, Jonathan Levine Gallery will be opening up Jim Houser's solo show, 'Make Room For The Emptiness' as well as Gary Baseman's curation-creation 'True Self', with over 40 artists participating. If you're in NYC make time for Chelsea this weekend.

While on the topic of NYC and Jonathan Levine, here's a video we found of D*Face in action during his time in town. The video claims this was illegal but being familiar with NYC and the generally overzealous pile of pork that patrols its streets we somehow doubt it. Doesn't really matter anyway, it looks good.

As part of the No New Enemies collection of prints released by Art Friendly or boy Morcky Troubles has just released his newest work, 'Smockey Safari'. You can check his and all the other prints in the collection here and with every print sold a tree is planted, no joke. Other NNE artists include Ephameron, Will Barras, The Boghe, and Ripo.

Graffiti Argentina continues rolling through Europe with Argentinean and local artists in tow. Recently hitting Paris at Galerie Issue they had a massive event and sent us the photos and video to prove it. Artists painting included Poeta, Jazz, Gualicho, Caru, and Aire from Argentina and Amose and Koa from France. Music was provided by True Ingredients (UK) and Rock & Junior.

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