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David Cameron’s “I’ll Cut The Deficit, Not The NHS” poster campaign is annoying in the extreme. The adverts just scream ‘do something to me’. Even people fully intending to vote conservative often have a problem with Cameron. Now you could think of something intellectual and modify the wording on the poster. Hell, you could even spend [...]

Loving these collabs between Shok1 and Alert in Walthamstow and Shok1, Alert and Skore in Mile End ‘We Hate You’ (Alert and Shok 1, Walthamstow) ‘Cold So Cold’ – Skore, Alert and Shok-1, Mile End (below)   Read the original post at Art of the State

Yesterday Banksy announced via his website that a Banksy Film ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ will be coming soon to cinemas. The brief information on his site reveals the film has a ‘mental age’ of 13 and runs for 85 minutes. This has confirmed a massive amount of recent internet rumour and the movie is scheduled to be shown [...]

Graffiti and street art are often wrapped up in the same category. Certainly in past times the eyes of the law viewed them as exactly the same – straight up criminal damage. But times have changed and street art has become pretty much publicly accepted and law enforcement attitudes have moved around to seemingly turning [...]

The Watford Observer reported a sighting of a possible new Banksy in the local town centre on Monday. The paper retained a sound stance of sitting on the fence on whether it was a Banksy or not but 47 year old local IT Security engineer Charles London thought it “definitely…genuine”. One look at the picture in the [...]

This used to be pretty much my favourite wall in London directly opposite the 2012 site. That was until the graffiti removal team went to work on it recently buffing back to brick everything below an 8 foot line. Anything else probably was beyond the power of the jet wash team. So now we get left [...]

I’m a bit late in putting this unofficial Banksy video on artofthestate. I’ve not mentioned it yet but hooked blog, arrestedmotion and slamxhype have already posted it so seeing as I made it I guess I’d better post it too! Anyway, it’s a 1 min 20 second walk through of the latest Banksy pieces on the Regents [...]

Paving slab and bow photographed near St Paul’s, London (holly added courtesy of Flickr) Read the original post at Art of the State

Shortly before JG Ballard’s death last year, Iain Sinclair made a pilgrimage to the author’s Shepperton semi, a shrine to his surreal tastes and happy family life. A new exhibition of his favourite paintings and of art work he has inspired honours this distinctive vision Coming away from the official path, on a walk from the mouth [...]

My hero is Goya – hard to explain when so little is known about him, his very few extant letters being so flat (like those of a cabinet-maker, someone said). And given a “fact”, such as that he knew French, because he once signed a letter written in that language, it is promptly contradicted by [...]