RISK x FLAUNT for MOCA Art in the Streets 1st Year Anniversary [Video]

Set to Velvet Underground’s “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’,” RISK and FLAUNT Magazine present a behind-the-scenes video of the notable artist’s contributions to the MOCA Art in the Streets exhibition. Celebrating a year since the historic gathering of the who’s who in the world of street art, the accompanying video showcases Risk and his signature style of lettering – a piece that...

ArtNowNY Launches in Chelsea NYC

ArtNowNY is an urban contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea arts district of New York City. Founded by Joseph Gross in 2012, the gallery focuses on the representation of a diverse stable of emerging and established artists working in variant mediums and genres. With a curatorial program that highlights the contemporary experience of aggregate cultural influence, ArtNowNY...

LRG Artist Driven Asia Tour: Hong Kong

As part of a two part series LRG Artist Driven, team members Pose, Vizie, and Steel headed east to find inspiration and share their passion for graffiti with local writers. The first part of the journey took them to Bangkok, Thailand’s capital city, and this second part of the trip takes the three American writers to Hong Kong. Here they hooked up with local writers Xeme and...

Blek Le Rat Street Art ‘Stencil Pioneer’ [Documentary]

While searching the interwebs, we came across this interesting documentary entirely devoted to Blek Le Rat, the legendary French artist who began 30 years ago to make stencils, later inspiring a Banksy and everyone else who uses them in their art. Check out the docutmentary below which retraces Blek Le Rat’s history, step by step, location after location. The quality is not tip...

Unique Surroundings: The Classical Baby Grand Hotel Hires 10 Urban Artists to Create 55 Custom Designed Rooms

In an attempt to capture “a sense of New York in the heart of Athens,” The Classical Baby Grand Hotel in Greece hired 10 artists to custom-decorate and design 55 rooms with signature looks. The artists came from various fields of urban art including graffiti, design, and illustration. The result is a creative one. For instance, the hotel’s main lobby uses the body of a Mini...

RIME: Detroit Arrest Sheets Series

Last year while in Detroit, street artist RIME took us to a long abandoned police station in the Highland Park section of Detroit. Wandering around, he came across a bunch of records left behind, scattered across the floors inside and left behind to what seems to be like several years. Below Are A Few he worked on. All of the arrests Happened Between ’90 – ’95. The...

Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2012 Lookbook & Kidult Tee

Marc Jacobs has been making some news lately. Recently, street artist Kidult vandalized Marc Jacob’s Manhattan store (seen below) and now the two have collaborated on a limited edition tee shirt. With all that happening this week, Jacobs also found time to release his Fall/Winter Mens lookbook. The American designer goes for more traditional looks this coming season,...

JR x Jose Parla: Wrinkles of the City [Cuba]

Artist and good friends JR and Jose Parla are in Cuba at the moment completing the Wrinkles of the City project. This public art project is set up in time for the Eleventh Havana Biennial 2012, turning the streets into works of art. Large-scale photo print posters of JR works harmoniously with the free flowing calligraphy style of Parla, which then blends in effortlessly...