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Preview ATA “TOAST” BOZACI “BEAUTIFUL FACEBOOK FIFTEEN SECONDS OF FAME”

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Ata “Toast” Bosaci will open “Beautiful Facebook Fifteen seconds of fame” an exhibition based on his digital portraits. The Facebook portraits focus the artists gaze on the social relevance of digital relationships and our growing reliance on these digital relationships. Digital portraits are a symbol of a digital replication of this new reality. GF A warm welcome to the exhibition series “Beautiful Facebook – 15 Seconds of Fame” by Swiss painter and graffiti writer Ata “Toast” Bozaci. The exhibition showcases a composite of his portraits of Facebook, a digital gallery of faces, or quite literally, a «face book». Bozaci will reveal his social network locational and thus in a network …

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Seikon Wall Update

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Quick wall update from Seikon as he continues his traveling, bringing this new series of walls to us. Intertwined geometric shapes that resemble wildstyle but remain abstract and completely self contained in a continuous loop. GF

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Unmasked words with masked graffiti artist ALEC MONOPOLY!

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We often see his art, never see his face but finally get to hear him speak! Alec Monopoly grew up painting the streets of New York, whether on billboards or buildings nothing could contain his creativity. He keeps his identity a secret to ensure his illegal graffiti tagging persists without consequence. His artistic inspirations stem from Basquiat and Keith Haring; with his signature being

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Cataloging Artifacts: West Virginia Mine Wars Museum

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We’re moving forward with the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum over in Matewan, WV. This community-driven, people’s history museum opens to the public on May 16 (in the midst of the annual Matewan Shootout reinactment!). There’s still work to be done getting the building, and our exhibits, in order – but we’re moving quickly, and it’s invigorating watching it all come together. Last month several of us took on the task of cataloging the collection of board member Kenny King. Kenny’s been scouring the known battlefields where skirmishes occurred during the Mine Wars era (~1912-1921) and picking up whatever artifacts he finds. His collection …

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“The Horse is in the Cart” at George Adams

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Humor, vibrancy, and “whaat?” fill the walls of George Adams' current group show, “The Horse is in the Cart.” The curators say the show is about the weirdness of everyday life, and some of this strangeness comes across in the creative way the works are displayed. Sculptures sit under flat works, making shrine-like wall installations that hover over you. A creepy photograph by John Waters is even more unusual mounted above a Robert Arneson piece; a book by Robert The is transformed next to Martha Wilson's haunting self-portraits. Check it out at George Adams, 525-531 West 26th Street July 1-August 15, 2014