Sentences with phrase «contemporary street culture»

Wiley mixes contemporary street culture with the portraiture of such European masters as Titian and Van Dyck: the results, such as Wiley's arresting portrait «Shantavia Beale II,» span the ages and bring a certain gravity to contemporary culture.

Not exact matches

Enjoy the afternoon on your own to stroll along narrow streets where regal architecture mixes with a vibrant contemporary culture.

Stroll along narrow streets where regal architecture mixes with a vibrant contemporary culture.

While many young people visit Amsterdam for the marijuana scene — and perhaps to peek at the legal prostitutes in the Red Light District — the city is teeming with high culture, from the world - class art in the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseumn to P.C. Hooftstraat, the shopping street where you can find plenty of the contemporary, cutting - edge design that has become a source of pride in Amsterdam and the Netherlands.

Join us at Surfivor and combine your Surf Camp Holiday with this wonderful celebration of our contemporary street arts culture.

Drawn to their specific language, which in turn draws from urban street life, contemporary art and the São Paulo favela culture, Joannou gave them absolute freedom to dream.

Drawn to their specific language, which in turn draws from urban street life, contemporary art and the Sao Paulo favela culture, Joannou gave them absolute freedom to dream.

An eclectic mix of «60s - inspired beach culture combined with boutique shopping, contemporary restaurants, new age meditation gardens and yoga studios, Encinitas is a vibrant and authentic beach town where the local surf scene rules, vintage cars take to the streets, and hipsters reside.

From retail therapy to fine dining to learning all about this area's culture and heritage, staying in a hotel near Liverpool Street will allow you to explore everything this upbeat part of the UK has to offer, including the Barbican, a performing arts centre, home to a number of contemporary acts, or the Bank of England Museum, a must for those interested in our financial heritage.

Aboudia's energized portrayal of the street culture of urban Africa takes full flight in «African Dawn», creating a powerful synthesis of historic and current events and propelling Aboudia to the forefront of global contemporary art.

«With roots firmly planted in illustration, pop culture, comics, street art and graffiti, put quite simply the New Contemporary Art Movement is art for the people,» Thinkspace co-founder Andrew Hosner said.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN January 29 - May 8, 2011 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX July 23 - September 18, 2011 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012 Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC January 14 - March 18, 2012 Inspired by artist Mike Kelley's observation that «the mass art of today is the folk art of tomorrow,» The Spectacular of Vernacular embraces the rustic, the folkloric, and the humbly homemade as well as the crass clash of street spectacle and commercial culture.

Drawing on the DIY aesthetic of punk, dub and early hip hop music and the tradition of street fly - posting to promote gigs and events, Simmons» rainbow saturated coloured paintings reveal traces of the long forgotten individual and collective creative voices that have informed and shaped contemporary culture.

Like his late contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf has been a key figure in the translation of street - art culture from the walls and train yards of New York City to the fine - art galleries of Chelsea, applying the graffiti burner's tools of trade (spray paint, acrylic, scrawled words) to canvases.

Metabolism and Communication, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany 2003 Love, Magazin4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Germany Patty Chang, Tracy Emin, Naomi Fisher, Paul McCarthy, The Moore Space, Miami, FL (performance, April 26) Water, Water, curated by Lilly Wei, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Awakenings, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Feminine Persuasion, The Kinsey Institute and the School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington, Indiana 2002 Videos in Progress, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Le Plateau Frac Ile - de-France (performance only, November 7), Paris, France Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA The Body Electric: Video Art and the Human Body, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Americas Remixed, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy (performance / exhibition) Extreme Existence, curated by Klaus Ottmann, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY (performance / exhibition)(catalogue) Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, New York Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (performance / exhibition), (Catalog available) Time Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY Le Studio, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Oral Fixations, curated by Sandra Firmin, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Panorama, curated by Carmen Zita, Room Interior Products, NY Superlounge, curated by Andrea Salerno & Mari Spirito, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY About the Mind (Not Everything You Always Wanted to Know), Video Cafe, organized by Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum, NY Mirror Image, curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Traveled to: Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, NY Perspectives: Artists of Chinese Descent in New York, Queens College Art Center, NY Traveled to: Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, March - April 2003 2001 Bodily Acts, curated by Jennifer L. Gray, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY Circus Maximus, BeganeGrond, Center for the Contemporary Arts, Utrecht, Holland Group Show, Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany (performance) Mimic, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst and the Bijloke Museum, Gent, Belgium (performance / exhibition) Looking for Mr. Fluxus: In the Footsteps of George Maciunas, Art in General, NY La Hijas de la Tierra (The Daughters of the Earth), IODAC Museum of Contemporary, Spain Panic, Julie Saul Gallery, New York Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida (brochure) 2001 Art + Performance + Technology, in conjunction with the 19th International Sculpture Conference, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA (performance) WET, Luise Ross Gallery, New York Trans Sexual Express Barcelona, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Smirk: Women, Art, and Humor, curated by Debra Wacks, Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, New York 2000 Uncomfortable Beauty, Jack Tilton / Anna Kustera Gallery, New York Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (performance / exhibition): Traveled to: Kunst - und Kunstgewerbeverein Pforzheim, Germany (April / May 2001) The Art of the Screen Saver, Stanford Art Museum / Cantor Art Center, Stanford, CA Traveled to: ICA, London, England (Feb - March 2002) Steamroller, performance festival organized by Galerie MXM, Prague, Czech Republic (Catalog available) Soma, Soma, Soma, The Sculpture Center, New York Performance Festival, Kunstpanorama, Lucern and USINE, Geneva The Standard Projection: 24/7, Standard Hotel, Los Angeles Deja vu, Art Miami 2000, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach Galerie Fons Welters (two person exhibition with Atelier van Lieshout), Amsterdam ID / y2k, Identity At The Millennium, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY 1999 - 2000 Illusion Delusion Denial, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York Mug Shots, Center for Visual Art and Culture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. 1999 IDENDITAT, hat man doch zu viel, Ort halle fur kunst, Feldstr.

2013 Luke, Ben, Kehinde Wiley on his first UK solo show for Frieze week, Evening Standard, 11 October George, Kendall, Kehinde Wiley's The World Stage: Israel, SFAQ International Arts and Culture, 19 February Chun, Kimberly, Kehinde Wiley brings «World Stage» to SF, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 February Frock, Christian L., Background Considerations: Kehinde Wiley at Contemporary Jewish Museum, KQED, 17 February Mason, Wyatt, Kehinde the First, GQ Magazine, 232, April Crow, Kelly, A Creative New Frame Game, The Wall Street Journal, 8 March G.M., The Portraits of Kehinde Wiley, The Black Diaspora, via Israel, The Economist, 18 February Crenn, Julie, Kehinde Wiley, Art Press, January, p. 28

Change Agents: Six South Florida Artists Making Things Happen Artists include Leah Brown *, Rosemarie Chiarlone *, Naomi Fisher *, Jillian Mayer *, Lisa Rockford * and Frances Trombly for Girls» Club's 10th anniversary exhibition, celebrating a decade of art exhibitions, events, publications, videos and web projects dedicated to contemporary art by women ABMB Hours: Tuesday — Friday, December 5 - 9, 10 am — 5 pm; Saturday — Sunday, December 9 - 10, Noon — 4 pm at Art and Culture Center / Hollywood, 1650 Harrison Street, Hollywood

2015 Dec. 17 — Tom Loughman Appointed 11th Director and C.E.O. of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Nov. 23 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Welcomes Seven New Appointees to Board of Trustees Nov. 18 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Appoints Henry R. Martin 30th President of the Board of Trustees Nov. 17 — Susan L. Talbott Appointed to Rank of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by French Minister of Culture UPDATED Oct. 16 — «Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls» Opens Oct. 17 at Wadsworth Atheneum Sept. 21 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's MATRIX 173 Features Artist Mark Dion Aug. 31 — Unveiling of Galleries Marks Completion of Major Renovation, Secures Future for Wadsworth Atheneum Aug. 26 — Commissioned Artwork by Jack Pierson Illuminates Hartford's Main Street at Wadsworth Atheneum Aug. 24 — Wadsworth Atheneum to Present First Exhibition to Pair the Work of Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe July 1 — Wadsworth Atheneum Celebrates Grand Reopening with Original Artwork by Artist James Welling June 30 — Wadsworth Atheneum Celebrates Grand Reopening with Original Artwork by Artist James Welling June 23 — Director's Choice Exhibition Examines Contemporary Portraiture in Photography at Wadsworth Atheneum June 23 — Exhibition Exploring Connecticut Artist's Influence on 20th Century Art Opens July 3 June 1 — Advance Exhibition Schedule 2015 — 2016 May 18 — «Mark Bradford / MATRIX 172» Opens June 4 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art April 16 — Student Artworks Take Center Stage at the 42nd Hartford Youth Art Renaissance UPDATED March 23 — 34th Annual Fine Art & Flowers Takes Place May 1 — 3 at Wadsworth Atheneum Jan. 21 — «Michael C. McMillen / MATRIX 171: SIDESHOW» Opens Jan. 31 at Wadsworth Atheneum Jan. 21 — New Galleries of Post-War and Contemporary Art to be Unveiled at Wadsworth Atheneum Jan. 13 — Wadsworth Atheneum's Board of Trustees Steps Up to Support Museum with $ 1.5 Million

Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY Brooklyn Divas, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, organized by Vicky Clark and Sandhini Poddar, various venues including The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, The Mc Dounough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, Tufts University Gallery, Medford MA and the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Univeristy of Richmond, Richmond, VA, (with catalog)

2011 Cintas Finalists Exhibition, Freedom Tower, Miami - Dade College, Miami, FL Optic Nerve XIII, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL Intimate Civic and Everyday Explorers, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Amid Street Noise: Short Films on the Peck Terrace, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL Sum of the Parts, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL Fighting, Kissing, Dancing, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA All - Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL All - Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL VOXELVISION 1.0.

It has evolved from that into street and graffiti art, and, from there, wall drawing has become so much a part of contemporary visual culture.

Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

For an artist who borrows so much from contemporary black culture epitomized by the milieu on 125th street, Simmons's current work in this context makes a strong case for the transformative (and potentially stultifying) effects of conceptual artistic practices.

While at 18th Street, he allowed the contemporary culture of Los Angeles as well as the artistic approach that many local artists take, to influence and develop his work.

Scharf was a pioneer among artists who integrated street culture into the contemporary art mainstream, incorporating pop and comic imagery in his sculpture, installation and paintings.

2009 Mayer, Sally, Straight Man, Wonderland, April - May Sculptor Shows his Own Poetry in Motion, The Southland Times, March Sherwin, Skye, Exhibitionist: The Best Art Shows to See this Week, The Guardian, 18 September De Wilde, Femke, Room With a Political View, Frame, March - April Lutticken, Sven, Taped Together: On The Bijlmer Spinoza Festival by Thomas Hirschhorn, Texte Zur Kunst, September Weiner, Emily, ArtForum (Review of show at Gladstone Gallery, NYC), March ArtForum (Review of show at Galerie Susanna Kulli), April Thomas Hirschhorn to Present his First Ever Solo Exhibition in a UK Public Art Gallery, Art Daily, 8 September Indepth Art News: Anschool by Thomas Hirschhorn, Absolute Arts, April 2008 Rappott, Mark, Strange Love, Art Review, June Stroh, Frank, Thomas Hirschhorn: Hotel Democracy, Creative Europe Online, June Thomas Hirschhorn's «Hotel Democracy» at Art Basel 2008, Designboom, June Art Basel Becomes More Global, Swissinfo.com, 5 June Basel Art Blow - Out, Artnet, 30 May Art 39 Basel: El Dorado of the International Art World Set to Open in Switzerland, Art Daily Online, June Art Basel Opening, Zimbio.com, June Bowes, Elena, Thomas Hirschhorn, Indagare, June Vogel, Carol, Hotel Democracy, New York Times, 21 March Crow, Kelly Culture Clash: Soccer Fans, Art Elite Butt Heads, The Wall Street Journal, 30 May Vogel, Carol, New York Times, 21 March Harris, Gareth, Art Basel, Financial Times, 24 May Reust, Hans Rudolf, Infinite Glass: The Arts Beyond the Discipline, Parkett, No. 84 2007 Demos, T. J., On the Ground - London, Artforum, December Nesbit, Molly, Le plan d'amitie entre art et philosophie, Le Monde Diplomatique, August Kultureflash.net, no. 124, 3 August Downey, Anthony, Thomas Hirschhorn, Flash Art, July - September, p. 134 Pennell, Arden, This is Your Brain on Reality, Whitehot magazine of contemporary art, Issue 3, May Icon, issue 046, April Sam, Serman, Thomas Hirschhorn, The Brooklyn Rail, April Kulture Flash, issue 198, 28 March Jones, Jonathan, How War Made Art Better Again, Guardian Unlimited Art Blog, 26 March Thomas Hirschhorn - Substitution 2 at Stephen Friedman Gallery, www.artvehicle.com, Issue 12, 23 March Coomer, Martin, Thomas Hirschhorn, Time Out London, 20 March Hubbard, Sue, This is the father of all battles, The Independent, 14 March Westcott, James, ArtReview: blog, 13 March Hirschhorn, Thomas, Eternal Flame, Artforum, Vol.

«We'll Make Out Better than Okay,» The Charlotte Street Foundation la Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, MO, October 25 — December 20, 2013 «Etched in Collective History,» Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, August 18 — November 17, 2013 «The Spirit of Utopia,» Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, July 4 — September 5, 2013 «Labour and Wait,» Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2 — September 22, 2013; catalogue «Sculpture in the Close,» Jesus College, Cambridge, MA, June 24 — September 22, 2013 «BNKUDRWTR,» Art Basel Unlimited 2013, Basel, Switzerland, June 13 — 16, 2013 «Transforming the Known: Works from The Bert Kreuk Collection,» Gemeente Museum, The Hague, Netherlands, June 8 — September 24, 2013; catalogue «Prima Materia,» Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy, May 30, 2013 — February 15, 2015; catalogue «Do It,» curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, organized by Independent Curators International (ICI), Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY, May 12 — July 7, 2013; traveled to Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, May 12 — August 25, 2013; tranzit, Budapest, Hungary, May 17 — May 19, 2013; MU artspace, Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 17 — July 19, 2013; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, July 5 — September 22, 2013; Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA, September 23 — December 12, 2013; Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY, September 30 — November 1, 2013; Stacion — Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo, November 15, 2013 — January 14, 2014; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, January 17 — May 31, 2014; Musée de la danse, Rennes, France, April 1 — May 17, 2014; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia, May 1 — July 6, 2014; The Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA, September 3, 2014 — April 3, 2015; Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Capt Town, Cape Town, South Africa, September 4 — 13, 2014; The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA, September 13 — December 6, 2014; Denler Art Gallery, Saint Paul, MN, October 16 — November 13, 2014; Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia, February 13 — April 24, 2015; KKW Kunst Kraft Werk, Leipzig, Germany, May 22 — July 9, 2015; Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA, June 19 — August 30, 2015; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 4 — August 30, 2015; Numu — El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 8 — October 18, 2015; Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, October 2 — November 29, 2015; Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, October 21 — November 19, 2015; Tallina Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia, November 24, 2015 — January 10, 2016; Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA, January 9 — March 20, 2016; Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal, Québec, Canada, January 14 — February 20, 2016; Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia, January 30 — December 31, 2016; Frac des pays de la Loire / HAB Galerie, Nantes, France, February 5 — April 17, 2016; Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, March 1 — May 10, 2016; Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX, March 3 — May 8, 2016; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, April 23 — August 28, 2016; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, September 9, 2016 — January 1, 2017; catalogue

To explore the fruitful aspects of failure in contemporary culture, Vancouver artist and curator Séamus Kealy has invited nine visual artists from across Canada to participate in an exhibition at the recently - opened Belkin Satellite at 555 Hamilton Street.

artscope proudly sponsors the region's culture and art institutions, including: Amherst Biennial Arts Affair 9th Annual Artists for Humanity Greatest Party on Earth 12th Annual Marina Bay Boardwalk Arts artistprojectny / Architectural Digest Home & Design Show Asian Cultural Center of Vermont Boston Public Library Brattleboro Gallery Walk Breast Cancer Research Burlington Open Studios Bristol Warren Art Night Cambridge Arts Council Cambridge Open Studios Cambridge River Festival Chelsea, NY High Line Development Project Copley Society of Art Fresh Paint Auction Danforth Museum Fountain Street Open Studios International Encausitc Conference Karla Little Fine Furnishings Light Up the Arts Lowell Folk Festival Lyric Stage Company Make Speak: Contemporary Craft MassArt Auction Montserrat College of Art, Artrageous!

Other significant exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial; the 2005 survey exhibition Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye at REDCAT, Los Angeles; and the 2004 — 2006 touring exhibition Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture.

I will return with more info shortly..., (GuytonWalker), curated by Howie Chen and Tim Saltarelli, IMO, Copenhagen, Denmark Good Friends, (GuytonWalker), Asia Song Society, New York, NY Street Trash, (GuytonWalker), 1 -800-GO-PENSKE, Brooklyn, NY Catalogue of the Exhibition, curated by Bob Nickas, Triple V, Paris, France After Images, curated by Fionn Meade, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium That's The Way We Do It, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria A Painting Show, (GuytonWalker), Autocenter, Berlin, Germany The Luminous Interval, (GuytonWalker), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Keeping It Real: Act 4, Material Intelligence, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin, Germany Image Transfer, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, traveling to Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture.

«Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art And Street Culture», Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; curated by Christian Strike and Aaron Rose [catalog]; travels to Yerba

Halsband's 1985 iconic portrait of Jean - Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol no. 143 in boxing gloves became such a staple of popular culture that its appropriation by contemporary visual artists and street artists continues thirty years on.

2016 Patron, 300 S Washington, Seattle, WA Material Culture, North Seattle College, Seattle, WA Photography and Contemporary Experience, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Out of Sight, King Street Station, Seattle, WA Essential Skimming, Common Area Maintenance, Seattle, WA A Stand of Pine in a Tilled Field: 21 Years at PDX, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR The Photograph: Selected Works from the 19th, 20th + 21st Century, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA Project Turn, Joe BarContemporary Experience, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Out of Sight, King Street Station, Seattle, WA Essential Skimming, Common Area Maintenance, Seattle, WA A Stand of Pine in a Tilled Field: 21 Years at PDX, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR The Photograph: Selected Works from the 19th, 20th + 21st Century, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA Project Turn, Joe BarCONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR The Photograph: Selected Works from the 19th, 20th + 21st Century, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA Project Turn, Joe Bar, Seattle WA

About the Jewish Museum Located on Museum Mile at Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, the Jewish Museum is one of the world's preeminent institutions devoted to exploring art and Jewish culture from ancient to contemporary, offering intellectually engaging and educational exhibitions and programs for people of all ages and backgrounds.

His notable group exhibitions include Dialogue of Hands, Glasgow International 2012; A New York Minute, Depart Foundation, Rome, Italy; the 2006 Berlin Biennale, Germany; the 2005 Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco; Beautiful Losers: Contemporary At and Street Culture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.

His numerous publications, monographs and catalogs include Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974 - 1984, and Dondi White: Style Master General.

Scharf's use of airbrush - like oil and acrylic paint embodies the presence of street culture within contemporary art that he helped establish.

He has curated projects for Headlands Center for the Arts, University of Nevada Reno, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, California Shakespeare Theater, and Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco & Kearny Street Workshop.

His numerous books, monographs and catalogs include: TRESPASS: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art, Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974 - 1984, and Dondi White: Style Master General.

A natural response to the lies and coercions we are fed on a daily basis, the détournement has been the reactive impulse of all those who question reality, from the Punks who adopted it in the 1970s through Culture Jammers, Adbusters, contemporary street artists and the winding legacy of protest movements from WTO to Occupy.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles's current exhibition «Art in the streets» features several customized cars as sculpture: Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring and Mister Cartoon contribute different takes on the concept of the personalized car pervasive in street art culture.

2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, US Litos Grafere, Danish Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, DE; Museum of Stavanger, NO Freeriding, East / West Galleries, Woman's University, Denton, Texas, US Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960 - 75, Ziehersmith, New York, US Intrusions, Galerie Michèle Chomette, Paris, FR Compagni Di Viaggio - Traveling Companions, Mestna Galerija Ljubliana, SI L'Insoutenable Légéreté de L'Être, Yvon Lambert, VIP Art Fair, Online Art Fair, New York, US Box is a Box is a Box, Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris, FR Drawn / Taped / Burned Abstraction on Paper, Kotonah Museum of Art, Kotonah, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Galerie Sonja Junkers, Munich, DE Works from the Pentti Kouri Collection, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, US Picasso: Guitars 1912 - 1914, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Berlin International Film Festival, various theaters around Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE Observadores - Revelaҫões, Trânsitos e Distâncias, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT Market Art Fair, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE Feuille à Feuille, Musée de Vence, FR TextVideo / Female: Art after 60's, PKM Gallery, Seoul, KR Topography / Topography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US Bidoun Project, Mercer Street, New York, US Temporary Stedelijk 2 - Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Push Pull, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH Tod's Art Plus Drama Party 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, US CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US 100 Briques Pour Madagascar Œuvres Contemporaines, Hotel Marcel Dassault, Paris, FR Bomb 30th Anniversary Gala and Silent Auction, Capitale, New York, US Benefit Auction from the Icelandic Wetlands, The Culture House, Reykjavik, IS Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US As Long as it Lasts, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, DE After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum and Art Production Fund, New York, US A Place to Which We Can Come, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, New York, US The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Designing the Whitney of the Future, Hurst Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, CN Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT Jeff Wall The Crooked Path, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE Through the Warp, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, New York, US Interloqui, National Glass Center, The University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, IT Arte in Movimento, La Galleria, Venice, IT Middle Age, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Brooke Alexander Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, DE Void if Removed: Concrete Erudition 4, Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'art Contemporaind «Ile - de-France, Paris, FR As Far as the Eye Can See, The Field Sculpture Park, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, US 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, DE Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D'Arcangelo, 1975 - 1979, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny, FR Play Time, Lieu D'art Contemporain, Sigean, FR Plot: Plan: Process Works on Paper from the 1960's to Now, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, US Distant Star / Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US 15 Minutes Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock - Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, US Seoul International New Media Festival, various cinemas in Seoul, KR Art = Text = Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Henrico, US Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Belvedere.

The programme highlights how the deployment of new and innovative materials and technologies, as well as shifting cultural and social attitudes is affording alternative frameworks and understandings about contemporary experience, from educational models and street culture to collectively designing museums for African contexts.

Ashton Cooper uses Katrina Andry's latest exhibition at Staple Goods as a lens to explore how street harassment is being addressed in contemporary art and visual culture.

As one of the most exciting and popular artistic spaces in Berlin dedicated to the cultures of street art, graffiti, photography and contemporary art, Urban Spree is home to many artists working in these fields.

Be sure not to miss booths by Azart Gallery from New York, focusing on innovative and original work of artists influenced by abstract, figurative, illustration, pop culture and street art; En Foco Gallery from Chicago, a non-profit that supports contemporary primarily U.S. - based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage; Haven Gallery from New York, exhibiting emotionally, intellectually and imaginatively driven, representational artwork; Lilac Gallery from New York, focusing on emerging international artists that explore new media in their concept with cutting edge techniques; Mirus Gallery San Francisco, championing new movements in contemporary art; and Stephen Romano Gallery from New York, amongst others.

The use of oil and acrylic paint in an airbrush - like manner imbues the presence of street culture within contemporary art.

One of the first artists to inject elements of street culture into the mainstream of contemporary art, Scharf has continued to pioneer projects like his Cosmic Cavern — a now legendary all - night DayGlo disco party held in the basement of a Brooklyn warehouse from 2009 - 2010.

1993 Cul - De-Sac: A Street - Level Video Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Tele - vecindario: A Street - Level Video Block Party — Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle., Culture in Action: A Public Art Program by Sculpture Chicago, Chicago, USA