Conversely, I just watched Sebastian Peiter’s Guerilla Art documentary, available in full on Babelgum, which forgoes the knowingness for the straight dope… including interviews with the late Rammellzee.

His name was derived from RAM, plus M for magnitude, Sigma (Σ), the first summation operator, L for longitude, L for latitude, Z for z-bar, plus a couple more summation operators (Σ) for good luck.

–Daryoush Hah-Nahafi, Rammellzee Fashion, Viceland Today, July 7 2010

More obits at NYT / The Guardian, among other places.

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Also, a production worthy of Nowness:

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Related: Invader Walk

• Andrew Kuo’s “My Wheel of Worry, May 2010″ (Tiny Vices via TWBE)

• Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle is screening in full at IFC through June 3rd 10th.

• Matthew Barney and Björk also had their pictures taken (opposite Marina Abramović, of course).

• Abramović fanboy Paco Blancas has sat with her 14 times (and counting), which is apparently enough times to get MoMA to interview you for their blog.

• Roy Lichtenstein at Gagosian

When we think of still lifes, we think of paintings that have a certain atmosphere or ambience. My still life paintings have none of those qualities, they just have pictures of certain things that are in a still life, like lemons and grapefruits and so forth. It’s not meant to have the usual still life meaning.

–Roy Lichtenstein.

Roy Lichtenstein
Still Lifes
Gagosian
555 W 24th St (at 11th)
New York NY 10011 [map]
212 / 741-1111
May 8, 2010 – July 30, 2010

• The new Banksy work in downtown NYC have already been, um, vandalized by the likes of IRAK and Poster Boy (supporters).

• Tag by China’s ABS Crew (NeochaEDGE)

• Hedi Slimane recently posted a series of photos of Jonathan from the Drums on his blog (alongside images of Johnny Rotten and Joe D’Allessandro).

• James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem—who has been getting mediocre-to-good (but mostly good) reviews for This Is Happening—answers fan questions for Opening Ceremony.

I love a shitty idea that you just totally go 100% with.

–James Murphy.

• Greg.org has a neat list of commonly mispronunced artist names.

• Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org present No Fun—click through for the amazing video. Their latest show consists of bits of famous work that they pinched from museums and galleries. (Animal) (UPDATE: Commentary, and an essay on the Mattes’ virtual reperformance from a year ago. Thanks Greg.) (Almost but not really related: art theft in Paris.)

Eva & Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org
Reality Is Overrated
Postmasters Gallery
459 W 19th St (at 10th)
New York NY 10011 [map]
212 / 727-3323
May 15, 2010 – June 19, 2010

• 2010 FIFA World Cup Official Art Posters! A well-executed, if predictable, promotion; check out the rest from the likes of Marlene Dumas, Julie Mehretu, and 14 others. (TWBE) Footnote: Kentridge’s show at MoMA is worth seeing as well.

• Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture (NYT)

• Surface to Air – Colder Front launch event at Oak

Surface to Air
Colder Front
Oak
28 Bond St (at Lafayette)
New York NY 10012 [map]
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 20, 7–10pm

• Plus, a spot of Ai Weiwei coverage for good measure:

His cultural and political footprint is unique in a country where people generally face a choice between thriving within the confines of the system or shouting from the shadows outside it. For the moment, he is attempting to do both, and nobody is at all sure where that leads. As Chen Danqing, a fellow artist, puts it: “He is doing something more interesting, more ambiguous…. He wants to see how far an individual’s power can go.”

Ai Weiwei is an evangelical believer in transparency: He chronicles his own life online and on film and, in particular, he has taken to documenting his interactions with officialdom with blunt precision.

–Evan Osnos, Ai Weiwei’s Transparent Life,
Letter from China blog on the New Yorker, May 17 2010

Osnos also suggests some recommended reading on Ai Weiwei.

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Too much, too much—

Full coverage & photos at Arrested Motion

Exit Through the Gift Shop premiere in L.A. I missed it in NYC… guess I’ll have to throw down $12.50 to see it at the Sunshine. (AM)

NYT’s review speculates about some kind of deeper meaning; NYMag’s interview with the Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash yields no answers whatsoever. UPDATE: Jon Reiss reviews Exit for HuffPo; GOOD has another bizarre interview with the filmmaker.

(Meta Alert) A sneak preview into the sequel, Exit Through the Garage Door. (SlamxHype)

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I Love Graffiti has a decent, if somewhat lengthy, interview with Os Gêmeos; worth checking out the photos for sure. (TBWE)

OGs doin' work last summer...

Apparently, the Brazilian twins’ awesome mural at Houston and Bowery is no longer: Animal reports that Deitch Projects has buffed it to furnish a blank slate for Shepard Fairey.

Os Gêmeos were also featured on an episode of W+K’s D.I.Y. America:

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UPDATE (4/15): Blek Le Rat studio teaser. (Wooster Collective)

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A nice interview with Serbian photographer Boogie. (True Slant)

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Sten&Lex’s ‘destroyed’ stencils. (PSFK / UPDATE: Also on Wooster Collective)

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After Caravaggio’s “David with the Head of Goliath” in Venezuela. (NYT)

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Matzu’s got a book! (Reed Space; AM)

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Dolk & M-City at Brooklynite Gallery. (Animal)

Dolk & M-City
Eurotrash
Brooklynite Gallery
334 Malcolm X Blvd [map]
Brooklyn NY 11233
347 / 405-5976
April 30, 2010 – May 29, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 30, 7-10pm

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Bonus pic: the detritus of a hard days’ work—

The ever-quotable aspiring vandal / contrarian street artist / pop antihero also raps with the L.A. Weekly, dropping far too many pithy gems to quote here (Animal). Wooster Collective has gone so far as to set up a Facebook Fan page for the film.

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Plus: that dope shit from Krink (HB):

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Sail in Shanghai (NeochaEDGE / WC):

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And yet another fast fashion × Keith Haring collbaration (SlamxHype)

Banksy’s been giving granting a lot of press lately, in his version of a PR campaign for his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, including two British magazine covers.

Proof that he did the Sunday Times Magazine cover:

Check out Time Out London’s feature and interview.

Read the Sunday Times Magazine article here.

Larger cover images after the jump.

HB via s.butterfly; High Snobiety via AM

Slow strings set a maudlin mood for Philip Bloom’s visually stunning time-lapse footage of Dubai—my own admittedly predictable/uninspired soundtrack would be “Red Sky,” a chilled-out techno track by Shanghai’s B6 (Sulumi’s labelmate). Other contenders included AC’s “What Would I Want? Sky,” either of Dam-Funk’s sky-related tracks, Kid Cudi’s “Sky Might Fall” and M83’s “We Own the Sky.”

» B6 – Red Sky (B6 Mix) (7:06) – 12.8MB mp3 @ 251kbps

The iPad was unveiled to mixed reviews as pundits and Macolytes questioned its lack of multitasking and flash support. The rest of the world just couldn’t get past the name: NYT, Gizmodo, droves of snarky commenters, etc.

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1. Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010—I love shit like this. (PSFK via Weathersealed)

2. Banksy was at Sundance in Park City, Utah, to ‘promote’ the film Exit through the Gift Shop (Animal / AM)

3. Barry McGee at SFMoma (AM)

4. Nick Knight’s striking ophidian fashion photography for Alexander McQueen, featuring last year’s infamous claw shoe, also immortalized as a Barbie accessory. (Fashiontography)

5. The inimitable (post-Criticism?) Damien Hirst at Gagosian.

Damien Hirst
End of an Era
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Ave (at E 77th) [map]
New York NY 10075
January 30, 2010–March 6, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 30, 6-8pm

6. Speaking of Mr. Hirst, he’s among the art stars and luminaries featured in the Little Artists’ Art Craziest Nation. John Cake and Darren Neave went meta with this cloyingly simple 2005 work, a Lego version of a modern art exhibition.

7. Ryan McGinley × Tilda Swinton for Pringle of Scotland.

8. Ron Mueck photo gallery via Life. Amazing.

9. Refinery29’s Six Most Outrageous Moments at Men’s Fashion Week

10. Kanye was also spotted at the absolutely absurd Walter Van Beirendonck runway show.

11. Josh Keyes at Jonathan Levine Gallery.

Josh Keyes
Fragment
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th St, 9th Fl (at 10th Ave) [map]
New York NY 10011
January 16, 2009–February 13, 2010

12. Heather Sherman at Sloan Fine Art

Heather Sherman
Feral
Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington St (at Norfolk) [map]
New York NY 10002
January 27, 2010–February 20, 2010

13. Summer 2010: Shepard Fairey × Deitch Projects (Obey via AM)

14. In the meantime, check out Jef Aerosol’s stencil graffiti at Ad Hoc.

Jef Aerosol
All Shook Up
Ad Hoc Art
43 Bogart St (at Grattan) [map]
Brooklyn NY 11206
January 29, 2010–February 21, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, January 29, 6-10pm

15. The Times has a related slideshow for the article that I so callously saw fit to supplement with my own images.

16. My first drawing of the new year.

I couldn’t let that last unsightly post stay at the top of the blog for long; quite frankly, it’s an eyesore and I almost wish I hadn’t posted it at all.

Anyway, I thought I would remedy the situation with a quick post on some new murals by Banksy. (The work, not the artist, was spotted… sorry if I got your hopes up.)

Source: Arrested Motion

In other Banksy news, one of his infamous rat pieces is for sale on eBay (HB / Animal / eBay).