Another public case against yet another giant corporation on behalf of street artists everywhere at least keeps the rights of street artists in the public spotlight.
Opinion
CENSORSHIP, POWER and a POLICEMAN WITH A BRUSH.
Trying to separate the artist from the work of art or the colonial imperialist from the nature of the culture created, is futile.
COLLABORATION, SYNCHRONICITY and a LEAP OF FAITH
Collaboration at any time is a matter or trust and mutual understanding. Committees, musicians and any manner of team and familial groups all manage it more or less successfully. For artists though it is a very different matter. Artists traditionally work alone. When...
ON GENDER, COLOUR AND LEFTHANDEDNESS
This affirmation, or conversely, this idea of rejection permeates the art landscape. There are winners and losers, by far the greater majority destined to be life-long losers by this measure. A level playing field? Some would suggest not.
COLLABORATION, SYNCHRONICITY AND THE CAMEL
Collective or collaborative art is simply a camel with attitude.
THE SELF-CENTERED, THE COLLECTIVE AND THE ATEMPORAL
While the cult of the heroic individual artist will seemingly continue forever, collaboration around shared philosophies, shared knowledge and that a work of art is not necessarily anchored to a specific individual, time or place may well be the most effective response to the time in which we find ourselves – past, present and future as one.