Martha Cooper and Ernest Zacharevic Talk in Long Beach, CA

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As part of Pow!Wow! Long Beach event series for 2016, the legendary New York street photographer Martha Cooper and the playful street artist Ernest Zacharevic are having a talk at the Art Theatre of Long Beach on July 12th. This is a rare chance hear insights from a veteran like Martha Cooper who’s run the streets with the likes of Keith Haring and Futura in the heydays.

I already bought my ticket to the show, so see you guys there!

Here the link to get your own tickets, and it’s only $5: Talk with Martha Cooper and Ernest Zacharevic

-LBC, CA

Museum Visit: Vitality and Verve @ LBMA- Part Dos

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“Untitled” by Meggs

As you walk up the stairs to the second floor of LBMA (@lbmaorg) to continue your tour of “Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape“, the first piece you will encounter is an untitled installation by Meggs (@houseofmeggs) of a familiar gun range target character bursting out the wall as if he had just shot a bullet through it.  If you look closely at the wall in person, you can see where Meggs plastered the wall to create this effect.  If you walk behind this wall, you will meet the gunman in full view, except now you will notice that he is in fact NOT holding a gun, but rather a spray can.  This is a huge distinction that I did not catch the first time I visited.

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Street Hunt: POW! WOW! Long Beach- Part Dos [UPDATE]

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We start off exactly where we left off last time, in Long Beach, CA.  I will admit that most of the artists below are new to me, but that is why events like Pow! Wow! Long Beach are so valuable to expand your horizon of artists that you were unfamiliar with prior.

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Street Hunt: POW! WOW! Long Beach- Part Uno

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At the Varden Hotel on 4th and Pacific in Long Beach, CA

Street art purists bemoan the loss of ephemerality of sanctioned walls, that it no longer requires artists to employ stealth, speed, and creativity to complete a mural all while dodging law enforcement, and that it loses its impact of unexpectedly running into a powerful image in the street that wasn’t there the night before.  I can agree with that.  However, I think there’s still room for community participation in street art that invites casual observers to dive in headfirst to naturally grow the movement.

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