Tonight around 8pm, Wooster Collective will stream online a live event featuring artists exchanging ideas on creativity, inspiration, art books, and more. Participating Artists: Chris Stain, Elbow Toe, Pax Paloscia, Ivory Serra, Logan Hicks, Swoon and WK Interact.

You can catch this streaming media event either on the Wooster Collective homepage or on their Facebook account.

Labels: Chris Stain, elbow toe, ivory serra, logan hicks, pax paloscia, swoon, wk interact, wooster collective

Last Saturday, the non-profit arts organization Art in General was host to Underground Up, a fall benefit party in an old firehouse on Lafayette Street. Artists Cake, Chris Stain and Cern were invited to create site-specific murals, the catch being they only had a few hours Saturday afternoon before the party to put up their work. It's a good thing they know a thing or two about painting under pressure...

Cake was kind enough to invite me into the space on Monday, shortly before the pieces were painted over. [Heads up: I'll have a full interview and studio visit with Cake coming soon!]

Cake

Chris Stain

Cern/YMI

Labels: art in general, cake, cern, Chris Stain

Since Michael Jackson's passing in June, there has been tribute graffiti and street art popping up all around the world: from stencils on the streets of Brazil to murals in Paris. New York is, of course, no exception. Among my favorites is this new wheat paste from one of street art's masters of celebrity collage, Bäst. Paired with Chris Stain's woman and child stencil, this is a trio is a real Thriller (insert groans here)!

Labels: Bäst, Chris Stain