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PRETTY DECORATING: The Art of Nick Walker
Feb 2 – Feb 24, 2008
Opening reception
Saturday, February 2, 2008
8 pm – 12 am
Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
1257 N. La Brea Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90038
This event is invitation only!
To request an invitation please email “art (at) carmichaelgallery.com” with name and affiliation
BOMB IT comes to Vancouver Friday February 8th!
Check out Bomb It in Vancouver on Friday February 8th 2008 at the Vancouver International Film Center and Vancity Theater at 10pm as part of the 14th Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Film Festival.
Reserve your place at :
info@rendez-vousvancouver.com
“Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. Keep fighting, Keep loving.”
As seen on the wall in Palestine: Image courtesy of P.O.W. / Santas Ghetto
The people in Gaza are facing a serious humanitarian crisis since Israel closed the border on Friday after rocket attacks on Southern Israel. This closure blocks the entrance of fuel, food, and medicine into Gaza and there are currently fuel and food shortages. Hospitals are in critical danger without access to electricity.
“Gaza’s 1.5 million residents are struggling to cope without electricity and other basic necessities” as the result of the “Israeli blockade. Hospitals have begun to run short of fuel for generators, and sewage has spilled out onto the streets. “
View this Al Jazeera English video of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
But the wall has literally been blown apart:
“Yesterday people started pouring across the wall into Egypt. Gaza is often described as the world’s largest prison. If so, then the world is witnessing one of the biggest ever breakouts. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have poured across the border into Egypt, after a series of explosions breached the steel wall which divides the two territories. ”
Watch Al Jazeera English video coverage of the situation here
photo: Eric Westervelt, NPR
Over this past Christmas season a group of graffiti artists, including Banksy, traveled to Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born. The artist collective painted the West Bank barrier, a 400-plus mile-long mix of cement walls, fencing and barbed wire that separates the people of Palestine and Israel.
photo: Eric Westervelt, NPR
photo: Eric Westervelt, NPR
In addition to the public paintings the group of artists also set up this year’s Santas Ghetto in Bethlehem, where they sold art to profit children’s charities. Here’s what one local said about the visitors:
“It’s important for international artists to come to Palestine and express the situation here in their art. And it’s a start. You know we don’t have art galleries in Palestine,” says Palestinian painter and sculptor Souleiman Mansour.
“The situation here is very strange and contradictory and also absurd,” he says. “And this is heaven for contemporary artists because they deal with these subjects.”
To read and hear the whole story visit NPR’s coverage here
You can watch the BBC’s video coverage of “Holy Land Graffiti” below and hear what Banksy has to say:
Check out this fresh collaboration between Iranian artist A1one from Tehran, and Israeli artists Idiot the Wise and Poe called “Evolution of Violence” that is being seen on the streets of Tel Aviv and Tehran.
In Tehran:
And in Tel Aviv:
Also check out A1one’s silkscreen T-shirts. He’s ready to swap or trade all over the world….
Go to A1one’s blog for more pics and info at tehranwalls.blogspot.com
For more Iranian graffiti check out kolahstudio.com
The INSPIRE Collective and Idiot the Wise are proud to present the 2nd annual Inspiration Art Exhibition’s call for artists! Last year, over 70 artists from international and local areas were shown in Jerusalem for 30 days. This year’s exhibition will be 30 days in Tel Aviv at the Legal Action Gallery with partner Casco Urban Lab in the Florentine district. The event is in one of the few middle eastern venues who support global urban art, and asks “What inspires YOU?”
If you are interested in submitting your artwork, here’s the info you need:
Show dates are March 6th – April 2nd
Mailing deadline is Feb 21st!
Also: a size requirement of 2 ft x 2 ft is in affect. (Contact the organizers for different sizes or installation questions)…
All submissions should be mailed by Feb 21st, 2008 to :
Inspiration Art Exhibition
P.O. Box 4917
Tel Aviv, Israel 61049
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For more info check out the Idiot The Wise website, The Inspire Flickr site, or
event’s Flickr page here.
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