Melbourne, Australia
August 20th - 26th, 2008
Opening Night: August 22nd at 6:00pm

Per Square Metre Gallery is putting on a show featuring the work of artists Logan Hicks, HAHA, and (female street artist) VEXTA. FUTURESHOCK is a week long exhibition of stencils as well as some of Logan Hicks’ recent HDR photographs. If you’re in the area, please do yourself a favor and stop by and take a look. These artists are dope.

More info and shows after the jump . . .

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Recoat Gallery (in Glasgow, United Kingdom) is coming to the end of its first year… and to celebrate they’re holding a live paint jam at the gallery on August 15th from 6pm onwards where SHEONE, O.TWO and Stefan Plaetz will paint alongside REKOR, LYKEN and ELPH. The following day on August 16th, their birthday exhibition entitled The Bothan Spynetwork shows from 7-10pm. Scott Wilson of Slamxhype will be curating the show. 25 artists will be showing, including legendary New York graffiti artists such as Futura, Stash, Crash and Daze, world famous fashion photographer, Fatsarazzi, and renowned toy designer, Klim Kozinevich (just to name a few!). This is ill!!!

Come out and celebrate an amazing event dedicated to street culture represented by a wide variety of artists working in different media, coming from different backgrounds… Plus the first 3 people attending will receive a Vestal watch and the first 20 people will receive a limited edition t-shirt that has the signature of every participating artist on the back. DOPE!

There’s more…After the opening get down at a Recoat X Goodlife party from 10pm- 3am at the Art School, 168 Renfrew St, Glasgow. FREE entry folks.

Bay Area Now is a triennial exhibit that the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosts featuring up and coming Bay Area artists.  The exhibits are phenomenal and the opening party always draws huge crowds.  This year should be no exception.  The theme of the exhibit is life in the Bay and how artists are inspired by their lives in and out of the Bay Area.  The opening night party will feature Campari cocktails and Bay Area talent including Port O’Brien, Softhug (Official Tourist), Bronze, T.I.T.S., Eugene International!

Opening Party - Saturday, July 19th, 8 pm–midnight
Grand Lobby, Galleries, Screening Room, Forum & Sculpture Court
$12 in advance, $15 at the door
FREE for YBCA Members and a guest

More info and exhibition details here.

Buff Fest 2 has arrived! This is the official pre-release of the SDCC Exclusive Series 2 figures. This series has only 400 sets of 8 designs, plus a secret figure and a new print. It’s gonna be crazy, don’t miss this toy release and signing party! Plus who can go wrong with free food and goodies?

Also check out the new Buff Monster x Official Fitted hat available here.

Details about the party after the jump!
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Ogilvy New York presents: Yo! What Happened To Peace?

Yo! What Happened To Peace?
Thursday July 17, 2008 - September 17, 2008
5-8pm
Ogilvy New York
309 West 49th Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY

Ogilvy New York is presenting, Yo! What Happened To Peace?, a powerful collection of artistic social commentary. The show started in 2003 with 14 prints and has grown to travel worldwide and continuously adds both new artists as well as new artwork. Yo! What Happened To Peace? includes hand-crafted prints from across the globe, with the majority of prints by American artists and printmakers. The show focuses on highlighting the beauty of hand-crafted printmaking techniques as a form of visual protest while inspiring thought and encouraging discussion. A Yo! What Happened to Peace? book was published in 2007, featuring 144 color pages of over 200 prints from the show, a die-cut stencil cover and an introduction by Winston Smith. Come out to see some beautiful art and think about some issues facing our world today.

Insa is exhibiting some new original works at a show called Dirty Cash.  The exhibition opens tomorrow, Thursday, July 3rd at Flawless Gallery in London.  I wish we could be there - if you’re in London this is a definite must see!

Details about the exhibition after the jump . . .

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One of my favorite artists is Miss Van. The girls she paints are so iconic that she’s been copied many, many times. The themes and settings that her ladies are painted in change with each series, but her girls always have the haunted, mysterious expressions that captivate me. Lucky for us, now we can all get a little piece of the Miss Van world. I’m excited to announce that Miss Van has recently opened her own online shop, Princesas Market, where you can purchase postcards, prints, books and jewelry. The postcards and prints feature works from previous exhibitions Princesas, Bestial and Atame. The book is her first catalogue printed for one of her latest exhibitions, Atame, and is limited to 1000 numbered copies. The most exciting items I saw on the site were jewelry pieces that made by Katrin Bauer. The ladies chose “la biche” character as the main subject for the project and all of the pieces are sterling silver. I’m so happy that there’s finally a place online to get Miss Van stuff and it’s so hard to choose, I want it all!

More pics after the jump . . .
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Juxtapoz magazine and Powerhouse Arena invite you to the launch of the Hustle: A tribute to capitalism in action, The Hustle, is about the art of selling—anything. Selling sex, selling drugs, selling clothes, selling souls, selling dreams, selling schemes, selling anything ‘cause this is America, baby. Held in conjunction with the publication of powerHouse Magazine Issue 3, The powerHouse Arena will be transformed into a Hustler Wall of Fame, with a broad selection of artists contributing their vision of this iconic figure in America culture.

The Hustle

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 28, from 6–9pm

The powerHouse Arena

37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

For more information, please call 1-866-99-ARENA

Music by DJ Emz

Mural by HOST18

Drinks Courtesy of Union Beer

RSVP: sophie@powerhousebooks.com

Exhibition runs May 22–July 13, 2008

Gallery Hours:

Weekdays: 10am–7pm, Weekends: 11am–7pm

List of featured artists and their hustle inspirations after the jump . . . 

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M.I.S.S. Crew’s very own Fawn Gehweiler is exhibiting some of her recent works at a new show entitled Pink Worlds, opening this Friday at Aftermodern Fine Art Gallery in San Francisco. Here’s how she explains the show:

Taking a cue from the show’s namesake “Pink Worlds and White Icing”, a collection of poems written by a 12 year old girl in late 60s, artists Dana Carlson and Fawn Gehweiler each present a collection of recent works that take a turn for the pastoral, pop and pretty, albeit with a dash of dark comedy thrown in for good measure. Awash in preteen nostalgia, strangely baroque and alternately naive, precocious, and deeply introspective, these tiny poems about “color, the Beatles, bubblegum, nature, and the universe” lend both a perfect title and a perfect backdrop to their respective candy colored dreamscapes and imaginary narratives of head-in-the-clouds teenage psychedelia.

Fawn is one of our favorite artists and if her work looks familiar it’s either because you’ve seen a Screaming Mimi’s ad or you saw one of our older M.I.S.S. Crew covers.

Details about the opening and info about the artists after the jump . . .
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Danyale, photo by Derek Blanks

There’s nothing wrong with having an alter ego (*wink, ahem). Superheroes got ‘em so they could save people and not be hassled at the grocery store the next day. Rappers have them if they aren’t lucky enough to rock the mic with their God-given name. And you can imagine how quick us girls can whip one up when some uninvited fella wants to give our cellies a ring.

Atlanta-based photographer Derek Blanks has an interesting photo series up that blurs the fine line between extra and ordinary. More photos after the jump…

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