"European Bailout" Pix From The Post No Bills Gallery in Venice, Ca

Another great art space we visited on Abbot Kinney in Venice, was Post No Bills and their "European BailOut" show. A Venice based print shop - this is a large, very open space with lots of room for art. Couldn't find an informative website for them, this may be a very new gallery. On the very back wall they had ever-fun Banksy prints for sale. Lots of art worth seeing in the show and as usual we have some selected images to share (and close-up details too!)

Collage portrait works by Jonathan Yeo, - Arnold

Jonathan Yeo

Detail, Jonathan Yeo

Antony Micallef

Mode 2 -  I never thought a cardboard box could be so sexy!

Ian Francis

Ian Francis

Detail from above

Some skull bunnies in the window by Paul Insect

Wall of Banksy prints

Banksy

and more Banksy....

There were quite a few very beautiful and strong sculptures by Antony Micallef, so shiny they looked like they had been dipped in mercury. I loved the fact that the crates they were shipped in, became the bases for their display, complete with postal and shipping markings. 

Gleaming sculptures by Antony Micallef

Detail, Antony Micallef

http://www.postnobillsshop.com/

Banksy Versus The Gray Ghost, A New Orleans Gallery

In New Orleans, the street artist known as Banksy has created more than a dozen murals around the city, including the one shown above. The murals depict a variety of scenes, including Abraham Lincoln as a homeless man pushing a basket, a marching band wearing gas masks, an old man in a rocking chair with an American flag below the words “No Loitering,” and a boy on a swing made out of a life preserver. According to a statement released by Banksy on Thursday, the murals were created in response to Fred Radtke, an antigraffiti campaigner also known as the Gray Ghost, who uses gray paint to cover up graffiti. The statement also said, “Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the clean up operation.” - Via The New York Times
It's ironic that the anti-graffiti zealot Radtke is himself guilty of the crime he seems intent upon destroying. He even painted over a mural on someone's home who had commissioned the work! Nice to hear he got nailed for it, (below) - I mean would you rather see a blot of gray paint or a Banksy original on your city walls? I think he needs to get a life.

Radtke in action, Operation: Mean Sweep

"Radtke was sentenced to a 60-day suspended sentence for overpainting a graffiti-style mural on the corner of Press and Burgundy streets. Conditions of the suspension of the sentence include that he can no longer remove grafitti without first getting the property owner's OK. Radtke and members of his graffiti-eradication organization, Operation: Clean Sweep, were in the process of rolling gray paint over the colorful mural, when stopped by patrolling National Guardsmen, who took the Gray Ghost briefly into custody.The muralists had been given the go-ahead from the owners of the property to create the painting. Radtke, who is known as the Gray Ghost for the color of paint he uses to blot out graffiti around the city, had not obtained permission to destroy it." - Via Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune 
Enjoy these pictures of Banksy's clever art, below, that may or may not still exist in New Orleans.

Fun For Friday: The Simpsons and Banksy

What better way to end the day and start the night than with The Simpsons? This intro was storyboarded and directed by famed British street artist Banksy. 

YouTube LINK

Via: Boing,Boing

Banksy Art Attack

Found another great Banksy piece on the web... the caption alone might just make it one of my favorites.