There is a chance I might be able to show stickers from my collection at an artists’ collective gallery in NYC next February-March 2013! I can’t say where exactly yet until the artists in the group confirm the idea, but the director of the gallery is very positive. I met with him on Wednesday, and we spent over an hour talking through different ways to approach the project in ways that would be a good fit with the well-known street artists in the collective (inc. Faust and others). Brian, the director, suggested we show individual stickers on the wall rather…
DE VIGUEUR et DE VERVE! press release
Hatch Kingdom | Stickerkitty International Sticker Exhibition DE VIGUEUR et DE VERVE! Fresh Paint – Peint Frais Edition III Hatch Kingdom, the only sticker museum in the world, has collaborated with Catherine Tedford, a.k.a. Stickerkitty, to present an exhibition of street art stickers and photographs from Berlin and New York City, with additional pieces from cities across Europe and North America. As part of a larger exhibition entitled Edition III, which includes work by contemporary muralists, graffiti artists, photographers, and others, the international sticker exhibition will be on display at Fresh Paint Gallery, Montréal, Québec, from December 2, 2011, through…
“Bush did it for oil”
According to the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook Web site, in 2010 the US consumed 19.15 million barrels of oil every day, compared with Afghanistan (4,800), Australia (960,800), Bhutan (1,000), Canada (2.209 million), China (9.189 million), Germany (2.495 million), Greenland (4,000), Hong Kong (333,000), India (3.182 million), Iran (1.845 million), Iraq (694,000), Israel (238,000), Italy, 1.528 million), Japan (4.452 million), Nigeria (279,000), Pakistan (410,000), Qatar (166,000), Saudi Arabia (2.643 million), and Singapore (1.08 million). The global consumption of oil that year was 86.99 million barrels per day, so by calculation, the US consumed a little over 22% of…
New link to street art database
The contemporary street art database is being re-conceived in a much more useful fashion. AT SLU, arts cataloging guru Arline Wolfe has been organizing image files and assigning consistent terms for artist, title, date, location, and most importantly, subject and description fields. Good cataloging = easier and better access. Sounds simple. It’s not. Really not. We’re still stuck with a non-intuitive online display format using ContentDM software, but at some point in the future something better will surely appear on the horizon. Arline now has 200 stickers from Berlin in the new collection with 300 in the wings – another…
Sometimes/all the time
“Sometimes the pencil is stronger than I am” is my favorite quote right now from an Inuit artist, Suvinai Ashoona. I can kind of relate. Sometimes stickers and street art have such a strong presence and force, stronger than me. Well, not sometimes. All the time. I hope that’s not too weird. I love the creativity, the hope, the commitment, the optimism. That people will notice. That people will care.
Quick status report
1. Oli and Nada head home to Berlin tonight. (Boo.) I heard from them today that they weren’t sure which was better during their trip to NYC — standing in front of paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat or happening upon a photo shoot in Central Park with Chris Rock. That’s a tough one, but after seeing CR on TV this past week, I vote for CR. Oli and Nada leaving SLU. Don’t you love this pic? 2. I’m listening to stories about the mid-term election results on NPR tonight and had a brief warm fuzzy about U.S. politics. Democracy in action. …
Notes
I was able to speak today with someone who grew up in (west) Germany, and I showed him stickers from my two recent trips to Berlin, the one in 2009 and the other in 2010. He’s lived in the US for the past 30 years, but he talked about aspects of German history and culture that will help me make better sense of the stuff I have been gathering for the past six years. My favorite quote of the day was, “Tempelhof is a cult like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” (I’ve got a dozen or so stickers about Berlin’s…
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“a healthy opposition to ideologies” (I miss my Dad today)
A link from Infoshop leads to a Web site called Little Black Cart, which is a combination blog and shopping cart for books, mags, ‘zines, etc. Reading topics include: anarchism, communism, culture, green anarchy, situationist, insurrection, anarchy, autonomism, and surrealism. Here is what they write about Situationists. The Situationists (or Sits) were artists from various countries who formed a group in the 1950s called The Situationist Internationale. They critiqued modern society in its various economic, social, and political aspects. They wanted to bring Marxism up to date, to construct a theory of what was going on in society that was…
2010 World Cup
In the last week, der Spiegel has featured a couple of articles regarding the multicultural diversity represented in the German football team as it moves into the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup. Eleven of the 23 team members are of immigrant descent. The Turkish-born German Mesut Özil scored a winning goal in the recent match against Ghana, which is said to have caused a great deal of controversy for many in Germany. Immigrants Defend the Flag while Left-Wing Germans Tear it Down (June 29) An Inspiring New Face for Germany’s National Team (July 2) Neo-Nazis Spurn Germany’s Diverse New…