Calligraffiti: 1984-2013

 copyright el Seed

Current MOCA curator Jeffrey Deitch, who recently announced his resignation, will open the Calligraffiti: 1984-2013 show at the Leila Heller Gallery in Chelsea. It is rumored that Ann Goldstein, who resigned as director of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, might return to MOCA. 

Back in 1984 street art lover Deitch and Middle Eastern art dealer Heller collaborated on the original Calligraffiti exhibition which explored the links between American graffiti, abstract and calligraphic art. 

Opening September 5th, the show now features installations and works from Keith Haring, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Shirin Neshat to street artists as eL Seed.  

Calligraffiti 1984- 2013 is built on the relationship between graffiti, street art and calligraphy in contemporary art.  

Calligraffiti 1984/2013

September 5 – October 5, 2013

Leila Heller Gallery

568 West 25th Street

New York 10001

Blek le Rat Ignorance is Bliss solo show

This month French street art pioneer Xavier Prou(1951), known as Blek Le Rat, will be honored with a solo exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery.

Sep 7 — Oct 5, 2013

Blek le Rat

Ignorance is Bliss

Solo Exhibition

Jonathan Levine Gallery

529 W 20th St 

New York 10011

Eager to know more about Blek le Rat:

http://beatstreetsmagazine.blogspot.be/2012/05/blek-le-rat-filling-our-modern-worlds.html

10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003–2013

Faile, copyright

10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003–2013 gathered works by street artists such as Shepard Fairey, JR, The London Police, Space Invader, Eltono, Faith47, Above, Aiko, Faile and Blek Le Rat in the Jonathan LeVine pop up gallery.

Wooster Collective founders Sara and Marc Schiller acted as curators for this group exhibition. The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. The Schillers' devotion to promote street art has proven to be essential in the documentation and the embodiment of the street art movement.

This impressive urban collection of wheat-pastes, silk-screens, outdoor murals and installations, canvasses, photographs was not to be witnessed in its original context but the wide array of expressive forms to convey socio cultural messages remains tangible.

Tresspass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art

Carlo McCormick, Marc & Sara Schiller, Ethel Seno

Taschen, 2010

Songs for a healthier America

First lady Michelle Obama releases a hip hop album entitled Songs for a healthier America in co operation with the Let's Move! campaign, the Partnership for a Healthier America and the Hip Hop Public Health Foundation.

The nineteen tracks performed by a variety of artists as Doug E Fresh, Run DMC and Ashanti should encourage children to exercise regularly and eat healthy food. Ten music videos accompanying tracks like We like vegetables, Veggie Luv, U R What You Eat, Get Up Sit Up or Let's move will be distributed to American schools.

In 2010 Obama formed the Let’s Move! campaign, which promotes healthy lifestyles in an attempt to fight childhood obesity.

Songs for a healthier America is set for free download on the 30th of September. Funny musical messages children can dance upon and sing along with are ideal means to reach every layer of society.