Heads up:  Stencil masters Sten, Lex and Lucamaleonte will be doing an ongoing open studio in Rome. 

(photo from Sten’s flickr)

Sten  •  Lex  •  Lucamaleonte

The Fame Fest, put on in Italy by Studio Crombie, just ended and judging by the photos it was a stunner.  The show had site specific work from Blu, JR, Bo130, Microbo, Ethos, Erica il Cane, Mantis, Sickboy, Conor Harrington, Above and quite a few others.  Have a sample:

Conor Harrington

Ethos

Erica il Cane

Above and Ethos

All photos courtesy Urbanpainting.info, who are putting on their own show November 22-23 in Carugate, Italy with an excellent lineup.

Photos of the gallery part of the exhibition are on Studio Crombie’s blog

Studio Crombie has a lot of prints from the artists who participated and recently released this nice looking Blu book.

Erica il Cane has a show that just opened at D406 in Modena, Italy

I’m saddened to see that São Paulo’s Beco do Batman (aka Graffiti Alley), a street art landmark, was recently marred by the Movimento Pixação. Pixação is brazil’s own style for tagging, and this specific group of pixadores (ones who write pixação) recently became organized.  So far they have attacked an art university, Choque Cultural (a gallery centered on street artists), and some large pieces in Paulista; and just this past weekend they attacked the São Paulo Biennial. 

I hope the situation there gets resolved soon as, besides the destruction by the pixodores, this could result in a severe crackdown on ALL forms of street art (more extreme than the former mayor’s buffing) from the authorities (it has gotten media attention in the country).  

For those of you who have never been to Beco do Batman, its a three-block stretch of walls by some of Brazil’s finest painters. To give you an idea of the space and the work, here are some photos taken in late 2007:

Chivitz and Boleta

Highraff, Zezão and Boleta

Speto

Highraff, Zezão, Binho, Presto, Rhaga and Jey

Highraff, Boleta and Flip

Highraff, Boleta and Flip

Highraff, Boleta, Zezão, Ninguem Dorme and Hyper

See more photos on the Beco do Batman flickr group

Choque Cultural:  English site • Brazilian site

Choque Cultural comment on the incident at their gallery on ekosystem.org

ttssss: a book on pixação by Boleta • preview on ekosystem.org

Zezão’s post after the Choque Cultural incident (in Portuguese)

Looks like Mr. Twist is passing through…

Be sure to check out pix from his surprise show at Ratio 3 in SF which just ended.

Nick Walker continues the large-scale pieces we’ve been seeing in town with this one in the East Village.

Musk

Bloke

Casm

NY has been lucky enough to host a bunch of west coasters lately, and today we bring you the latest from Armer:

Two shows just opened at the Jonathan Levine Gallery: NYC’s own Doze Green’s N.O.O.N. and French stencil artist Blek le Rat’s Paris-New York, New York-Paris.  Blek le Rat’s version of the last supper was quite nice, and Doze Green’s pieces were great all-around.  You can’t miss the huge collab between Doze Green and Brazilain Fefê Talavera (they recently did a show together in Amsterdam, where this piece was made).  Here are a handful of pix…

Doze Green

Doze Green

Doze Green and Fefê detail

Doze Green

Blek le Rat

Blek le Rat

• Blek le Rat interview at UK Street Art

• Blek le Rat and Doze Green video interview at Radio Bungalo

• Alternate Fefê Talavera link and Subaquatica interview