A new movement in cutting (h)edge street art.

This morning a box of paintings was anonymously left on the door step of London’s famous AQUARIUM L-13 gallery.

It would appear that the paintings are all by the shy and secretive artist BANKSY, although it is obvious to us that they are clearly fakes and NOT by BANKSY at all.

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Ernesto Caivano
Echo Gambit
White Cube Hoxton Square
4 July - 30 August 2008
Preview Thursday 3 July 2008, 6-8pm

White Cube Hoxton Square is pleased to present Echo Gambit, the first major solo exhibition in London by the New York based artist Ernesto Caivano.

'After the Woods' is an epic narrative set in an alternative universe. Taking the act of consummation as its point of departure, two tragic lovers are separated and transported into a wooded realm, to live a parallel destiny. Situated within polar hemispheres, Versus (the Knight) and Polygon (the Princess) attempt to communicate to each other with the help of their natural habitat, particularly the exotic birds or 'Philapores'. This romantic, yet doomed allegory echoes the Garden of Eden and the Bible's Creation story, particularly in the lovers' final demise following a gambit taken in order to secure their offspring and thereby return to the origin of the story in the previous millennium.

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From June to September the city’s leading museums – the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as Artspace and spectacular outdoor sites such as the old industrial Pier 2/3, the Royal Botanical Gardens and the stunning Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour will host more than 180 artists, with over 50 new projects being realised. A unique online venue has also been developed. http://www.bos2008.com/revolutionsonline

The impulse to revolt. Revolving, rotating, mirroring, repeating, reversing, turning upside down or inside out, changing perspectives. Through installations, performances, films, texts, an evolving online venue, conversations and other events, Revolutions – Forms That Turn articulates the agency embedded in forms that express our desire for change. Such literal and formal devices are charted for their broader aesthetic, psychological, radical and social perspectives. This Biennale is a constellation of historical and contemporary works of art that celebrates and explores these dynamics, both in art and life. It includes some of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists from Kasimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Luigi Russolo, Marcel Duchamp and Tina Modotti to Jean Tinguely, Gianni Colombo, Atsuko Tanaka, Joseph Beuys, David Medalla, León Ferrari, Jannis Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz, Bruce Nauman and
Hélio Oiticica.

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Jake & Dinos Chapman
If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be
White Cube Mason's Yard
30 May - 12 July 2008
Preview Thursday 29 May 2008, 6-8pm

HELL hath no fury
Like a chapman spurned,
So come see the second,
'Cos the first one burned.

ING is one of the largest sponsors in Formula 1. #The company is also a major corporate art collector. Fresh Eyes celebrates both.

Working with artists across the world to interpret the unique spirit and passion of Formula 1, Fresh Eyes is a unique and exciting project that has already inspired some amazing artwork.

In 2007, ING took emerging artists behind the scenes at nine Formula 1 Grand Prix races around the world. The results were exhibited in London and auctioned for ING’s chosen charities, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Chances for Children. In 2008, ING is extending this opportunity to everyone. Each winner will work alongside a resident artist, to produce art that represents the passion and excitement of Formula 1. All artists, amateur and professional, are invited to enter an open art competition to win a unique experience painting alongside the internationally known artist Sir Peter Blake, at the British Formula 1 ING Grand Prix on, 5th and 6th July 2008. At the Grand Prix the winning artist will work alongside, Sir Peter Blake to create their own artwork reflecting the passion of Formula 1.

With full access to the Pit and trackside over the two race days the winning artist will paint, draw and be inspired. In October 2008 one of the artworks resulting from the Grand Prix will be shown in London at The Hospital gallery 30th September -3rd October 2008, and auctioned at a Gala Preview to raise money for ING’s chosen charities, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Chances for Children. The selected artist will be chosen by: the world famous artist Sir Peter Blake, Renault F1 Managing Director, Flavio Briatore and The Times Art Critic, Rachel Campbell Johnston. Closing deadline for entries is Friday 20th June 2008.

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Gregory Crewdson Untitled 2006 Archival pigment print
58 1/2 x 89 1/2 in. (148.6 x 227.3 cm) (incl. frame)
© the artistFrom 23 April - 24 May 2008

Preview Tuesday 22 April 2008, 6-8pm

White Cube Mason's Yard is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs by Gregory Crewdson. In this latest body of work, shot over the past three years, the artist continues to explore the lush and ragged edges of small-town America. While much of his earlier work focused on character and drama, Crewdson now shows a greater awareness of atmosphere and setting. 

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19 april to 18 may private view: friday 18 april 6pm till 8.30pm following their huge success as part of the cor da rua show last year, celebrated brazilian street artists speto and daniel melim arrive back on our shores for a joint show at ocontemporary  the frequent services from london victoria and london bridge take only 50 minutes to brighton and ocontemporary is only 1 minute from the station so its easy to come just for the evening, or you can take the ramada hotel on the seafront up on their 25% discount offer for anyone coming to see the show - call 01273 225519 and quote ocontemporary to book

WE LIKE WHAT YOU EATWEDNESDAY 16TH APR - SATURDAY 17TH MAY 2008

PRIVATE VIEW - Thursday 17th Apr 

WE LIKE WHAT YOU EAT is a micro survey exhibition investigating a specific set of tendencies in the practice of a selected group of North American contemporary video artists.The appropriation of pre-existing mainstream entertainment media is the dominant refrain in the work of the artists featured in this exhibition. The internet, in particular video streaming websites such as YouTube, as well as television programs, advertisements, music videos and cinema serve Paul B. Davis, the duo Javier Morales + John Michael Boling and Eric Fensler with an abundant territory from which they draw both their inspiration and subject matter.

In terms of exposure, the art gallery has been matched and perhaps even surpassed in importance by the website itself as an artistic platform for the included artists. In exact accordance with this relocation, there is no singular or predictable audience for their work and that of its ilk; from high school computer geeks to international curators - the fascinated take no dogmatic form.Immediate, humorous, inventive and, above all, relevant - the artists in WE LIKE WHAT YOU EAT stand as the selected representatives of a much larger movement which, while having an international span, nonetheless maintains its spiritual centre in the United States of America……….

Paul B. Davis [BEIGE] is a DJ, educator and data artist as well as being a founder member, alongside Cory Archangel, of the programming ensemble BEIGE. He had his first solo show at SEVENTEEN in 2007 and will present a solo booth at the SEVENTEEN stand at the NEXT Art Fair in Chicago, April 2008. He presents one of his trademark YouTube hacks - glitchy, pixilated visual mash-up's constructed via the manipulation of the compositional data contained within a number of standard video clips taken from the websiteJavier Morales + John Michael Boling first collaborated together as fellow students at the University of Georgia. Their collective oeuvre is here represented by two key video collaborations, The Church of The Future (2006) and Body Magic (2006); both television re-edit works that are mystical, musical and indeterminately potent.

Together Morales and Boling run the website 53 o's (http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/channel53/) and program the video blog Channel 53. Eric Fensler's diverse creative output is beyond singular classification - comprising television re-edits, cartoon re-cuts/re-voicings, Polaroid photography, music videos and network television screen writing. For the exhibition he presents a number of video works including the much lauded GI JOE PSA series - manipulated versions of the public service announcements that accompanied the end of each episode of the cult toy franchise's popular children's television cartoon. A series of evening screenings of related video material from each of the artists will accompany this exhibition. Please contact the gallery for more information regarding these events and the exhibition in general ……….WE LIKE WHAT YOU EAT is the inaugural exhibition at SEVENTEEN's new basement exhibition space - curated by Paul Pieroni.

In late May SEVENTEEN will follow this exhibition with the first major survey of the British Scratch Video phenomenon (1983/6). SCRATCH! will run from the 28/05/08 to the 25/06/08.