Nearly two years ago, San Diego artist Nicholas Nicholas coined the word “mendalism”. It happened on January 1, 2011 when he noticed that Brazilian artist Stephan Doitschinoff’s untitled contribution to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Viva La Revolución street art exhibition had been vandalized. The mural’s red ribbon
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Bansky, a well know graffiti artist and political activist based out of England has always been most acknowledged for is art which challenges government. He does not attempt to sell any of his art work, he simply longs to send a message to those who choose to listen. Should this
In this video Chris Burden asks a friend to shoot him. He is trying to make a point that was relevant during the Vietnam War but also applies to other instances where people use guns. This performance piece is very much in agreement with the postmodern idea that art should
A woman drove across state lines to destroy an art piece displaying “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals.” The lithograph shows Jesus “receiving oral sex” and other sexual innuendos. The artist expressed the attack on his “freedom of speech” and a Councilmember agreed. Perhaps the suspect felt a violation of
I attended the Prison Creative Arts Project 17th Annual Prisoner Art Show in Michigan in March of 2012 and purchased the “Mouse House,” created by inmate E. Ellis, Jr. The structure itself is accompanied by a set of typed instructions, which dictate how to uncover the secret bait bucket in
Dylan Mayer, an art student at Green River Community College, was assigned the task of drawing from nature. Like any respectable art student, Mayer placed further challenges on himself, stating, “I thought, ‘How about something underwater?’ “ Mayer purchased a day permit and entered a popular dive site in West
I have no doubt that this will be the first of many, many posts on the complexity of graffiti. In La Mesa, CA, where I live, the act of making graffiti is unlawful, as is possession on public property of anything deemed an instrument of graffiti (spray paint, oversized markers,
In a campaign to highlight the tortuous treatment inflicted upon animals in cosmetic lab testing, Lush, a ‘cruelty-free’ make up chain, along with the Humane Society International put on display a re-enactment of cosmetic testings on a woman, instead of an animal. A social sculpture student volunteered to be tortured