BLF Strikes Again
February 28, 2008
I’ve long thought that the Billboard Liberation Front, beyond being one of the longest running billboard alteration groups, is also one of the smartest. Rather than simply playing off corporate…
Imminent Disaster begins her journey in South America
February 28, 2008
JSVR is happy to introduce to you a “guest” writer, Imminent Disaster. She is a NY-based artist traveling in South America and agreed that our blog would be a great…
SF8 Info Day In Portland
February 26, 2008
OUR FLESH OF FLAMES: collages by Theodore A. Harris, captions by Amiri Baraka
February 26, 2008
Philadelphia artist Theodore A. Harris, who has been creating some of best political collage work for the past decade, has a new book out that he collaborated on with Amiri…
The Audacity of Desperation: Call for Work
February 15, 2008
This looks to be an interesting project, hopefully we’ll get some stuff together to submit, you should too! The Audacity of Desperation: a call for work Deadline March 10, 2008…
Street art for the Democratic Party (?) 2008 is off to a rough start
February 12, 2008
Critical thinking and dissent in street art is becoming as rare as politicians who reject corporate America, free trade, prisons, and the two-party system. Recently, a Chicago art show, Go…
‘People’s History’ headed to movies
February 12, 2008
‘People’s History’ headed to movies By Borys Kit Feb 8, 2008 BERLIN — Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is being adapted into a feature documentary….
South End Press Hiring!
February 12, 2008
South End Press is currently seeking qualified applicants to join our small, majority women and majority people of color collective as Editor/Publisher/Financial Coordinator.
Iraq War: 5 Years Later
February 12, 2008
Thai artist Vasan Sitthiket is showing a series of new paintings about the Iraq War 5 years on at the National Art Museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. The show opens March…
stain gets up elsewhere
February 12, 2008
Justseeds member Chris Stain has been leavin his wares around. You can see more of what he’s up to over on his site at ChrisStain.com.
Pay for Graffiti on the Apartheid Wall??
February 11, 2008
I had some serious questions about Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto project in Bethlehem (like the point of Faile’s boxer piece, which flattens out the Palestine/Israel conflict to a simple equation of…
Artists At War
February 10, 2008
Here’s a new art site trying to grapple with the fact that we’re 5 years into a never-ending war, and most of us have moved on to pretend that it…
A Call to Mapmakers
February 8, 2008
My good friend and comrade Daniel Tucker in Chicago just sent this over. If you are working on any sort of map projects, get in touch with him! Dear…
Friends at the Sundance Film Fest
February 5, 2008
Just to point your attention to some friends that were at the recent Sundance Film Festival. The documentary Slingshot Hip-Hop a film about Palestinian hip-hop, was screened to numerous sold-out…
Lowell Naeve’s Phantasies of a Prisoner
February 1, 2008
A few years ago I found a copy of the book Phantasies of a Prisoner, by Lowell Naeve. I’ve had a hard time finding information on Naeve, but fortunately his…