Armsrock's work is always delicate (working primarily on paper) yet raw and political at the same time. His new show is titled 'Drawn Towards The Present' and will be built around an installation that consisting of monumental charcoal drawings on rice paper. The imagery is based on press-clippings from the artist's archive. They have been reworked to create a fragmentary representation of contemporary history and a glimpse into our future hopes and fears.

Since moving to New York a few years ago Logan Hicks has taken a lot inspiration from the city while giving plenty back to it in the form of his artwork, his family, and his never-tiring work ethic. Over the past year or so we've seen his work drift away from the purely realist stencil technique to incorporate more graphic elements and lines, proving his skills yet again with some incredible results. He continues to mix this with his HDR photography of abandoned places, subway tunnels, building facades, and the city's inhabitants themselves. This coming Thursday, June 10th, he will have his first solo show in Paris at Galerie Itinerrance.

Hailing from Monterrey, Mexico Rene Almanza will be showing his work for the first time in Europe at the Ras Gallery in Barcelona. The show, organized by Maximiliano Ruiz, will open June 10th and will have a beautiful range of new paintings and drawings on exhibition.

We're very sad to be bringing you the news that tonight, June 5th, at 8pm the very LAST show at Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona will be opening. 'Too Cool For School' will be a retrospective show of many of the artists who have passed through the gallery over the the seven years it has been alive. Iguapop has been an iconic gallery in Barcelona, having helped usher in its Golden Age period, and having stuck it out through the not so Golden Years. In Mid-July the gallery will be closing its door and ultimately moving to Madrid. Come by tonight to say goodbye and check out Iguapop's last Barcelona show.

Iguapop Gallery
C/ Comerc 15
Barcelona.
www.iguapop.net

anyone wanting to know where to start when looking at the south african graffiti scene should start with rasty of the pcp crew in Johannesburg...

infinitely skilled and a skillful perfectionist in nature... rasty keeps the levels high...
see his flickr account....

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Last month a few of our good friends, and some No New Enemies members, including Victor Castillo, Jeremy Fish, Boris Hoppek, Jon Burgerman, and Jim Avignon took part in a very large group show at the MADRE Museum in Naples, Italy. Jon and Jim were also on hand with their musical act. The show is up until June 14th, so if you're around Naples be sure to stop by. More information at: www.museomadre.it

In 2004 Slanted was started by the Magma Brand Design Studio as a web portal for design and typography. The magazine came into existence one year later and is released quarterly to this day. They really do an amazing job covering a wide range of topics and opening up discussions about typography, design, illustration, layout, and photography. They were nice enough to send us over a preview of issue #10 the other day. This issue focuses on blackletter fonts and their modern applications. We're happy to be sharing the preview with you as well as our feelings about this magazine in general. Go check it out for yourself: www.slanted.de

The Laserkatz Artspace in Innsbruck will be presenting its first show this Saturday, June 12th. Hosted in The Moustache basement will be the show with work exclusively from artists either from or living and working in the city. Amongst others, paintings from Lukas Goller, Tobias Ludescher, the Thaler brothers, Stephan Wimmer, Andreas Prugger, photos by Carlos Blanchard and Reen West, as well as the Skateboard project by Markus Graf and Aids Awareness Association Gummi Love will be presented.

Two design studios, BANK in Berlin and INVENTORYStudio in London, have organized an interesting exhibition embodying all forms of design, titled The Art of Conversation. The first installment opened last month in London at the Idea Generation Gallery with the flip side going on now in Berlin through July 3rd at the Program Gallery. They called on twenty designers and over the course of 90 days twenty entirely new original works are being created, each in response to the previous piece in a chain of communication via Skype. Alongside the exhibition they are also holding discussions and workshops by the participating designers. The website will be charting the whole process and development of the project.

Last Thursday Night Galerie Itinerrance opened up Logan Hicks' newest solo show and sent over the photos to prove it as well as a few of Logan's process. The show is up from June 10th through July 31st. Check out more at itinerrance.fr.

Andrea Michaelsson aka Btoy is opening her newest solo show, 'Look For the Silver Lining' this Thursday, June 17th. She'll be having the show in her hometown of Barcelona at the Espai B Gallery. She's one of the few street artists still holding down the Barcelona streets prolifically with posters and her work has continued to grow incredibly over the past few years. After having shows in Paris, LA, and other cities around the world we're really looking forward to seeing her newest indoor works back home and in person.

We went to the huge german music festival Rock am Ring last week to set up an exhibition in the backstage area.
Modart curated the artists and the exhibition took part from thursday to sunday, during the festival. Luckily some of our favourite artists joined that event and produced exclusive artworks for the 25th anniversary of the biggest musiv festival in germany. Thanks to Will Barras, Marc C. Woehr (especially for beeing on location and your great job there), Nomad, Kingdrips and Jim Avignon.

These are the 1st views...check all the artworks for the main room below!

We have some more images of the Rebel Exhibition for you - all artworks and the Booklet with all details. We produced all this stuff to support the idea of the exhibition, especially because it took part at Rock am Ring - a music event and not an art-event. The visitors liked the documentation and the background information about the artists and artworks. Conversations about the art started with the booklet and we met some really interested people there. An extra goodie were the art prints of three of the artworks, we will show you below...

Amsterdam-based artist, SIT, opened his first ever solo show in Hong Kong recently. '9' is based on the connotation of luck with this number in Chinese culture. The nine new works based on the goldfish imagery are great (especially love this one above). Read on for a video with the artist and a bit more of how the exhibition came about.

cameron platters new exhibition at the what if the world gallery is great.. His series of home-made drawings - each meticulously hand-worked and coloured in pencil crayon, are tapestries of a contemporary South African experience; appropriating images from the media, TV, films, art history, pornography, battle scenes, politics, music, signs, imagination, adverts, and religion he creates a thunderbolted universe of his own.. see the full write up on the what if the wolrd gallerys website

if you are in cape town the show is still on till the 2nd of july .. and im sure they will have some of his works at volta in basel as well this week...

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We collected some images of the Rebel Exhibition, which we took before and during the event. This is the stuff we usually don't show, but all of you who ever did something like that know that there is a lot of work and numerous stories which happen during that time.
So we hope you enjoy to get a glimpse of all that.

If you like this, you can get in touch with us on FlickR and see all pictures and some more info about our activities.

ElTono just sent us a massive update with news of his travels, artwork, experiments and a multitude of major shows since the beginning of the year. He's been all over Spain, Mexico, and Argentina with some incredible shows including the "Uncontrolled Mural" created in Madrid from the video above. His work is amazingly clever, fun, interactive, and continually growing and changing. He's one our favorites by far and we've included some more of the videos of his projects and the links to find out more.

This evening, Friday, June 25th, Brooklyn-based Matt Haber will be opening his newest show at BLDG Gallery in Covington, Kentucky. His work harks back to stories of a civilization that has only existed in the artist's mind but we all might be familiar with. He's worked for major animation studios as well as been as assistant to Takashi Murakami. The show will include all new works including his first life-sized sculpture.

When I first got wind of this story, I thought: So What? A Graffiti writer gets busted. It's part of the game and in all the years we've been doing this, there are few stories that involve authority and haven't already been told to death.

Ok, so its Singapore and like Michael Fay (a fellow buckeye), this time it won't just be a fine or some time locked up, but there's going to be some old fashioned ass whipping involved (President Clinton intervened on behalf of Fay in 1994, but I guess the Swiss Government will stay neutral?). Still, I feel worse for Poster Boy in Rijkers for slashing movie adverts then I do for guys who busted into the trainyard and knew what they were getting into.

Why talk about this, is what I initially thought. But people are going to talk about it. Check out Oliver Fricker. He could be a movie star. His shirt is pressed. His hair is perfect and the guy is keeping his cool. He claims that they were just imitating well known writers and that he was alone. If this is true or not (we chime in with NOT), it is admirable (especially when NOT) and already there is a strong point in the story: Vandals with Ethics.

And of course there are some other odd bits that might get some light in the near future. Like, how did they get busted a couple of days later? How did the train roll out before that happened?

One thing is sure, in as far as Graffiti makes a claim for fame, Fricker is about to get his 15 minutes... worldwide from the yards of Singapore... this hit mainstream news before it hit the Graffiti or Street Art circles...

Whatever happened and whatever will, we wish him well and will watch the story as it unfolds, which we expect it to.