When you spot one of these palm-sized concrete sculptures on the street in Hong Kong they may remind you of Brutalist architecture or the dense clustering of concrete beehives like so many of this cities’ neighborhoods.
This week BSA and Urban Nation (UN) are in Hong Kong for the 4th edition of HKWalls to capture a very international and local mix of artists in this East/West nexus; a world-class city for art and culture, English and Cantonese, hi-tech and traditional methods – all during the enormous Art Basel week.
An embarrassment of riches in so many ways, the Wynwood Street Art and mural scene is outrageously sexy, flashy, ugly, posey, pretty, proliferate and quizzically content-free. The annual outdoor urban art visual carnival that accompanies Art Basel in Miami is full of hi/low expectation and spectacle, and it confidently delivers on both.
~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo ~ Art Basel in Miami is part of an annual three city fair that includes Hong Kong and it’s namesake Basel in Switzerland. This years fair in Miami hosts 269 galleries and your […]
~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo ~ Scope! The verb, not the art fair. We will be hitting SCOPE shortly but in the interim we’ve been scoping for action or trouble; trolling around the streets of Wynwood and other […]
One of the fantastic parts of Miami’s Art Basel / Wynwood craziness, aside from the colorful drinks and hair sculptures and accidental tripping over almost every Street Artist you have heard of (and many whom you haven’t) is the sheer […]
~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo ~ You’ll Need Good Shoes. That’s what most people will tell you in the Wynwood District of Miami if you want to see everything, especially now that the murals go further north up […]
The police here in Miami have taken over the Goldman family offices in the Wynwood district. Correction: Those would be the artists named London Police and they are painting a new wall inside the just-opened offices of Goldman Properties – which is a different situation entirely.
~ Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo ~ The gallerists and merchants have begun arriving in the South Beach area of Miami to uncrate the art they’ve shipped for the enormous Art Basel and the assorted satellite fairs of Art […]
Moscow presents a Street Artist’s exhibition, but the streets have almost none. When Street Art and it’s associated cousins move inside the possible outcomes are many. With exhibitions like this you are seeing urban becoming very contemporary.
