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Preorder Streetopia Now!

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Streetopia, edited by Erick Lyle Due out from Booklyn in May! Preorder now and get 20{ed1b542e18a3fdb29a343f0bf5604cce6e71819c6df381e846b4d07cb9d1dc18} off! Just go to Buy.Booklyn.org; and enter the promo code: PRESTREET After San Francisco’s new mayor announced imminent plans to “clean up” downtown with a new corporate “dot com corridor” and arts district—featuring the new headquarters of Twitter and Burning Man—curators Erick Lyle, Chris Johanson, and Kal Spelletich brought over one hundred artists and activists together with neighborhood residents fearing displacement to consider utopian aspirations and to plot alternate futures for the city. Opening in May 2012, the resulting exhibition, Streetopia, was a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place …

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Best of 2014 Sounds of the Week part 4

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Welcome back to Sounds of the Week!, the musical musings of members of the Justseeds artist cooperative. For this installment I asked fellow seeders for the sounds that inspired them in 2014, not necessarily things that were released in 2014 but sounds that caught their attention or were the soundtrack to their work. Here’s the last Best of 2014 list, this time from Mary Tremonte! 1. New Fries My favorite band in Toronto right now! This no wave-influenced power trio mix jagged discordant beats with yelping vocals from Anni Spadafora, who is also one of my favorite visual artists in town. Bits of Lydia Lunch/DNA, the Raincoats, the Slits, Bush Tetras, loud and bossy and weirdly danceable! Catch them live if you can, and hopefully they’ll repress their…

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VNA 29 Los Angeles Launch Invite

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International Art Culture journal Very Nearly Almost (VNA Magazine) celebrates the launch of the latest issue at Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles this Valentines Day, Saturday 14th Feb, between 6-9pm. The issue comes with a Limited Edition Box Set features a signed, screen-printed cover designed by Cleon Peterson, printed by White Duck Screen Print in the UK. VNA will also be giving away free copies of the regular magazine to the first 100 people to arrive.

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Preview Optimist Solo Exhibition “Packrat’s Paradise”

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Bay Area Graffiti Staple Optimist a respected and important figure in the art and scene will open an important Solo Exhibition at Oakland’s Lequive Gallery. The show titled “Packrats Paradise” captures the artists experience in the Graffiti world at the same time capturing his travels across Asia as well as living in the San Francisco Bay area. The exhibition will feature a complete installation of the artists collection of memorabilia and ephemera, from tags to collected paint and ink the artist surrounds himself with captured items all representing a collective memory of his life. This collecting of memories is also relayed to his canvases which depict moments intertwined together as a stream of …

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Preview Clemens Behr “Small Works” at Mini Galerie

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Make sure you check out Clemens Behr at the Mini Galerie in Netherlands. The artist opens an exhibition of rare smaller pieces titled “Small Works”. It will be great to see an intimate side to Clemens work as he scales down his work to almost a model scale, compared to his large insitu installations. GF Solo exhibition Small Works by Clemens Behr Mini Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 21 February – 28 March 2015 Opening: 20 February 18:00-21:00 — The Mini Galerie proudly presents Small Works, the very first exhibition by Clemens Behr in The Netherlands. Clemens Behr is a German artist who gained international recognition for his grand gestures. Within his site-specific practice Behr creates complex sculptural installations composed of discarded materials and…

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Mooks At The Movies: Shitsmas Wishlist

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Vincent Pryce here, with a new series of posts called ‘Mooks at the Movies’ and since there hasn’t been a Christmas post in a while, I figured I’d start this shit off with a very special Holiday Edition for y’all. HAARYOU?! Now, Christmas can be a really depressing time of the year for a lot of people: If you’re homeless or broke, don’t have a family, are a degenerate gambler that just fucked off all your money on those VLT cocksuckers and now you have no funds to buy presents for your family and they are going to hate you, or any number of things we may come across in our wonderful lives. So while the rest …