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Sculpture may reign inside Tom Otterness’s Brooklyn studio, but it’s raining paint on the outside. Click here to read about how these tropical storm clouds, created by Puerto Rican-born muralist Sofia Maldonaldo and painted with the assistance of local art students, came to land on this particular wall.
Street art has arrived at a place so inaccessible that even the most reckless, renegade taggers hadn”t been able to reach it–until now.
Billi Kid, an artist, curator, and “brand manager” of a company called Public Works Department, convinced the NBA to license official backboards so that graffiti and street artists could paint on them.
To coincide with the NBA draft, Guerilla Galleries will feature 16 of the 180 backboards in a show opening June 23 at One Gateway Center, across from Newark’s Penn Station.
(The party is 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.) Public Works charges a cool $15 grand for each backboard (some proceeds go to Newark-based charities).
Click here to read more via niborama
In this video, Jamaican-born artist, Nari Ward meditates on tensions between African-American police officers and young men of color. The film features a retired police officer who’s actually the father of the 2 young men in the video. The audio track combines the reciting of the Miranda Rights and the father’s spontaneously spoken encouragement to his son during filming “you can do this”. This is a powerful piece, no doubt – but what do you make of it?