Prolific U.K. doodler Jon Burgerman flies across the pond this week to collaborate with Brooklyn-by-way-of-Berlin pop artist Jim Avignon at Brooklyn’s Factory Fresh. “Anxiety Room” continues a theme familiar to Burgerman fans (as seen in sculptures like WorryKnott and the London installation, Anxiety Wall). On opening night, Thursday, February 12th, Jon and Jim will engage in a live painting called Anxiety Broom. The show runs through March 15th.

Next time you make a pilgrimage to see Gaudi’s architectural wonders in Barcelona, make sure to stop by the Iguapop Gallery/apparel store. The shop opened in 2003 within the El Born neighborhood – the hip, funky district where the locals snap up hot goods in the Catalan city – and hosts art exhibitions featuring the work of both local artists and international urban art sensations like Tim Biskup and Miss Van alongside hot new fashions.

An art advocacy non-profit based in Brooklyn brings us a show featuring two artists bending the template of urban art. AVOne of Destroy & Rebuild creates pieces inspired by classic street art and John Wright brings us Convoluted Construct, a peek into his fascinatingly twisted mind. The show opens October 11th @ Deity Lounge. Check out onefokus.org for details on the organization and the show.

Beginning on September 25th with a private showing (then open to the public on September 26th), Steve Lazarides heads up an exhibition of outsider art in the Bowery. Lazarides, who represents Banksy, will be bringing art by Faile, David Choe, Paul Insect, Reas, Invader, Zevs, Bast, Blu, Antony Micallef, Vhils, Conor Harrington, Miranda Donovan, JR, Jonathan Yeo and many more. The group show will run for at least two weeks. A book by Lazarides, entitled Outsiders, is being published next month.

Last time we checked in on Royal Remarkable (aka Joshua Gajownik), he was getting busy with Grafuck and Hand Job, two of the most graphically brilliant projects with sexual undertones that we’ve ever laid caresses on. Since then, the man’s been hard at work tuning out great stuff for clients like Burton, Nike and Nixon, and filling the time between with a piece for The Train Car Project, a promising group show featuring the work of 60 international artists.

The project (a brainchild of art collaborative PROCESS) supplied each artist with a train car illustration, either as a vector file or a screenprint. They were then instructed to take complete creative control over the trains, resulting in a miniaturized versions of THE BEST train cars you’ll ever not see chugging along the tracks. Check out a few of the participants completed work here, and if you are in the Brooklyn area on October 10th through the 16th, be sure to swing by Papa B Studios for a solid range of graffiti, digi, and artsy-in-general inspiration.

Louise Despont, Jackie Saccoccio, and Randy Wray are just some of the unique talents that Brooklyn-based fine arts publisher Element Editions have been cultivating. Their mission: to bring experimental printmaking (we imagine this to be something like using a Pantone color wheel outside the visible spectrum of light — or printing with meat) to average art lovers. Despont goes after a more geometric milieu, while Wray dabbles in ikybana (Japaneses flower arranging) with animals, vegetables, and minerals. Odd, exciting, and most importantly, reasonably affordable.

The head artist and founder of the REAS International, Todd James, has a history of creating comic-like statements of his surroundings. When you find out that he began making art as a kid on the streets of NYC, painting simple shapes and characters, it all begins to make sense. His style has evolved into a sort of Bevis and Butthead dream sequence of a political cartoon. Bombs, blood, boobs and creatures fill his illustrations to make jokes about war, death and modern life. It would be ridiculous artwork if the satire wasn’t so evident. The new exhibition titled Blood & Treasure will be in London’s Lazarides Gallery in Soho starting on Friday and running through the September 26. The exhibition features 20 new paintings and one brand new animation.

Art exhibits don’t grow on trees. No, a lot of hard work goes into putting them together. Such is the case with the massive Sol Lewitt retrospective opening at MASS MoCa on November 16 of this year. One hundred of the artist’s wall drawings are currently in the process of being re-created on nearly one acre of wall space in an abandoned mill building on the MASS MoCa campus personally chosen by Lewitt prior to his death in 2007. Charged with the monumental task of bringing the works of the multi-floor installation to life are 24 of the senior assistants who worked with Lewitt, as well as a collection of 30 students from Yale University, Williams College, North Adams’s Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and a few other schools. To get a unique sneak peak at the progress of the exhibit, you can head over to Hello Beautiful where there’s quite the inside scoop on the whole affair.

California-based artist Amandalynn paints canvases, motorcycles, and murals, but her current exhibition, “move A head” at West Hollywood’s Carmichael Gallery has put the street artist into a uniquely naturalistic context. Last Saturday, Amandalynn’s nymph-like ladies — which can frequently be spotted around town as part of murals by boys like Saber and Revok — were paired with the floral art of L.A.’s Renee Fontana, creating an organic/manufactured environment that mashed bright paint with leafy bursts of shrubbery (man I love that word). We didn’t make it to the opening, but pictures we’ve spotted since are making us turn wistful gazes towards the West coast. So if you call that area home, get thee to La Brea Avenue.

Judging by its $300 million plus take at the box office, you’ve probably already seen The Dark Knight. Remember that part where Batman tries to track down the Joker with that crazy cell phone contraption? Well, if you thought Wayne Industries’ secret project was shockingly original you’d be sorely mistaken. It looks to be derived from Listening Post, an art installation created by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin of Ear Studio. The exhibit featured pieces of text gathered from public forums, bulletin board, as well as thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms in real time, which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer and plastered across a grid of over 200 tiny electronic displays. The installation had been shown around the country in various locations from 2002 to 2007 — plenty of time for Christopher Nolan to rip it off … and frankly we don’t blame him.

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Yesterday there was a lot of Shepard Fairey news to cover. Today we have an update from his better half. Shepard’s wife Amanda, the curator and co-founder of Subliminal Projects gallery in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, takes a second to explain in an exclusive interview with Karmaloop TV why this fresh art space focuses on promoting artistic diversity and discussion.

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Related: Bonnet and Cheriel @ Subliminal Projects Gallery

Threadless is our kind of store (for more proof, see here). Their designs are driven by the creative minds of both artists and their devout consumers. These are the kind of T-shirts that when we wear them, we always get the obligatory “OMG! Where did you get that?!” so now we just carry their business cards (we don’t speak to strangers).
And, starting July 11th, Threadless plans to really bring art to the forefront by holding “Go with the Flow,” an exhibition at their Chicago store/gallery, featuring the urban-inspired art of graphic designer/illustrator J. Byrnes. In the meantime, you can check out more of his gritty designs at adapt-studio.com

Last year we turned you on to Brazilian artist tag team Mulheres Barbadas (that’s “bearded women” in Portuguese, just to give you an idea of this duo’s type of humor), and almost a year after the post, they just mounted their exhibit in Sao Paulo called Waxed Men (hmm, I’m seeing theme here). The show features fresh works solely in pen, a feat they admit is more time consuming than using Photoshop, but a heck of a lot more enjoyable. One of the most labor-intensive pieces took them three days to finish, and it also took that long for them to paint the wall outside of the show space — their first ever, by the way. The works have no specific subject, but instead are about “chaos, mayhem and toast.” Though they are looking forward to painting more outside spaces, team member Julio Zukerman was reported to be suffering “drawing spasms in his sleep after [their] little drawing marathon,” so they’re resting easy for a while. The exhibit runs at Rojo Magazine’s Sao Paulo art space in Livraria Pop until June 28th. Check out their website to see the collaboration in action.

For the most part Steven Harrington (National Forest Design) sees the same world we see — except with an altered color scheme that rivals our wildest imaginations. His artwork comes from a place where peacocks meet rainbows, and a colony of the love children in teepees pay homage to the Easter Island statues. He invites us into his world with his new traveling art exhibition Our Mountain. The first show will be in Paris at the Lazy Dog Gallery. From there it will go on across Europe, spreading Steven's ideas of redecorating. Not European? (specifically not Parisian, Berliner — the people and doughnut — Barcelonista or Milanese. What? No Londoners? Come on guys!?!) then be sure to pick up their 180 page book coinciding with the event. But you still want to travel around Europe don't you? Head over to their blog and follow them around for a significantly lower fee.

If you’re well connected, you would’ve received an invite yesterday to RSVP for a private preview on Friday for Dalek’s only exhibit this year, Overweight, at Washington D.C.’s Irvine Contemporary. It’s gotta be one of the biggest tickets in town (and sorry, we don’t have any to give out, but you can click here for a reasonable alternative). We’re guessing this based on what chaos it was trying to land tickets to the Takashi Murakami — Dalek’s boss in 2001, when he worked as his assistant — show in L.A. last year. The solo show sees the pop artist presenting new paintings that are as meticulous and psychedelic as ever. By occasion, Irvine Contemporary’s releasing a signed print produced in small quantity. The exhibit officially opens on Saturday, May 17, with a party open to everyone, but be nice when swarming your idol there.