ZIP MAGAZINE: INTERVIEW ON FILM WITH VLADIMIR RESTOIN ROITFELD AND OUATTARA WATTS `VERTIGO`
ZIP MAGAZINE IN AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH VLADIMIR RESTOIN ROITFELD TALKING ABOUT HIS CURRENT EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK WITH ARTIST OUATTARA WATTS `VERTIGO`.
ART SPHERE
It was Tuesday night February 7th in New York City. Like always Vladimir… More
Artnet: Head Over Heels: Ouattara Watts
Ouattara Watts
HEAD OVER HEELS
by Walter Robinson
Let’s start this review of “Ouattara Watts: Vertigo” by discussing the post-opening dinner, prepared for about 120 people by executive chef Mads Refslund at ACME at 9 Great Jones Street… More
Coolhunting: Studio Visit: Ouattara Watts
The acclaimed artist offers us a rare glimpse inside his Brooklyn studio ahead of his upcoming mini retrospective
by Karen Day in Culture on 27 January 2012
While we all like to tap into an artist’s brain, find out… More
The New York Times: The Young Gallerists
TO describe the retrospective of Richard Hambleton’s art that was recently held at the Phillips de Pury & Company galleries as a zoo doesn’t even take into account the woman who strapped a bug-eyed monkey puppet to her chest.… More
The Observer: Look Ma, No Gallery!
AT AN OLD WAREHOUSE on Washington Street last February, the Los Angeles-based street artist RETNA stood in a dimly lit room with 20-foot ceilings surrounded by his black-and-white canvases filled with symbols that looked like hieroglyphics, illuminated sporadically by camera… More
Dazed Digital: Retna
The new street art retrospective shows at LA’s MOCA and the solo touring exhibition present an array of international scripts and graffiti
Currently featuring in the MOCA street art retrospective in LA and the solo touring street art exhibition,… More
7thMan Magazine: Must-See: RETNA ‘The Hallelujah World Tour ’
Having already being featured in the major retrospective of street art ‘Art in the Streets’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, RETNA has emerged as one of the most prolific graffiti artists in the contemporary art world.
The Hallelujah… More
ART INFO: 22 Questions for Art Dealer and Curator Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
Name: Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
Age: 26
Occupation: Art Dealer/Curator
City/Neighborhood: New York City
What project are you working on now? I’ve just opened a show with Nicolas Pol, “Sick Atavus of the New Blood,” in New… More
The Huffington Post: The French Revolution
I kicked off my week with a preview of Alexander McQueen’s dramatic Savage Beauty show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, feeding my Anglo mania from the breathtaking royal wedding. While I swoon for anything in tartan, I’m more of… More
NY Times: A Risk-Taker’s Debut
NECK FACE banged a metal pipe on the side of a blacked-out doorway, jumping out at unsuspecting passers-by to shout, “Aaarrgh!” Banksy floated anonymously (or so went the rumor) around the perimeter of a room dominated by a huge cathedral… More
Art Info: 23 Questions for Street Artist Retna
Name: Marquis Lewis
Age: 32 rotations around the sun
Occupation: Working through my struggles
City/Neighborhood: Mid-City, L.A. to the death
What project are you working on now? MOCA’s “Art in the Streets” exhibition
What’s the last show… More
The Economist: Retna
At first glance, the work of the artist Retna looks like an undiscovered ancient script: a series of hypnotic symbols—complex, beautiful and captivating. But Retna has created an original alphabet, fusing together influences from ancient Incan and Egyptian hieroglyphics, Arabic,… More
Bloomberg: Graffiti Artist Trades Street Vandalism for Bombardier Jet Gig
Los Angeles-based graffiti artist Retna used to get arrested for spray-painting buses, trains and other commercial property.
Now, he gets paid to do this.
VistaJet, Swiss operator of 31 private aircraft, commissioned Retna to paint… More
Daily Beast: Retna
RETNA, a popular Los Angeles street artist, opens his first major solo show in New York this week. But will it translate? A few years ago, RETNA was a street artist painting murals on a warehouse in Skid Row. Now… More
Paper Mag: Richard Hambleton
Memo to Banksy: You owe Richard Hambleton a small fortune in royalties. You too,KAWS. Hambleton’s early ’80’s onsite works-dynamic, painted “Shadowmen” on streetcorners and in alleyways-are clear precursors of the early ’00’s graffiti-art boom, andHambleton himself, a contemporary of Keith… More
ARTNEWS: Richard Hambleton Vladimir Restoin-Roitfield and Andy Valmorbida, in collaboration with Giorgio Armani
A cavernous industrial space in the far West Village was the ideal locale for a Richard Hambleton revival. After becoming a star of the 1980’s East Viallge scene with his “Shadows” series of expressionistic figures painted on the sides of… More
Bloomberg: French Vogue Scion Corrals Guinness, Rosen in Art Opening Night
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Art Review: Richard Hambleton
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The Independent: The Street Art of Richard Hambleton
The dark, dynamic and almost forgotten doyen of street art, Richard Hambleton, returns after 25 years of skulking in the shadows. Alice Jones sees the results
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The Independent: The It curators: A new breed of young socialites are selling art
Once, the chances of a 25-year-old man – even if he was well-connected and stylishly-dressed – forging a successful career on the international art circuit were slim. The world of buying and selling sculpture and painting was a stuffy club… More