Looks like Pepe Le Pew is lurking around for some lovely lady skunk to walk by so he can use his famously suave pickup lines “Permit me to introduce myself, I am your new lover.” “Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.” “Is it possible to be too attractive?” This piece of plywood was tagged several times by different artists at different times.
Some writers couldn’t resist the white huge canvas that was the Houston Wall, freshly primed for Pichi & Avo’s turn to paint on it this week. Jeffrey Gibson with a quote from James Baldwin for #artinadplaces (photo © Jaime Rojo) This is the wheat-pasted mural of Ai Wei Wei before Hebru Brantley added goggles to it. Luckily they didn’t find any information to influence Trump in any way. In other words, light artist Vicki Da Silva is referencing the apparent influence of the Russian government over the presidential election by smearing Clinton publicly with information they had found. Such materials can be used to create negative publicity, for blackmail, or for ensuring loyalty. Here’s what Wikipedia says: Kompromat (Russian: компромат IPA:, short for компрометирующий материал, literally “compromising material”) is the Russian term for compromising materials about a politician or other public figure. Yeah, we didn’t know what it meant either so we looked it up. First image above: American Puppet (photo © Jaime Rojo) So here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Adline, City Kitty, D7606, Drsco, El Sol 25, Hek Tad, Homo Riot, Jerk Face, Jose Feliz Perez, Lunge Box, Meguru Yamaguchi, Michael Vasquez, Nimai Keston, Not Art, Shepard Fairey, Sheryo & the Yok, and Vicki Da Silva.
You can be sure that Street Art will be probably be there to respond! We’re keep our eyes open. Not sure if his popularity would go up or down if he triggered a crisis in the financial markets, but it does feel like absolutely anything is possible with this wildcard. Obama inauguration numbers were pretty stark, and this week Trump’s national approval ratings have tanked, although a fresh war always tends to perk up a presidents approval numbers, so maybe he can start one of those. looked giddy and relaxed (despite a poncho battle) perhaps because he might not be the most disliked president of the century after all. In the early and mid-2000s there was a lot of anti-Bush/ anti-war street art. He certainly wasted no time by signing his first executive order within minutes of being sworn in, one that aims to repeal Obamacare and that would deny health care. This president, more than any one in decades, is galvanizing people to take action and get involved, just not in the way he might have preferred and we’ve been seeing a steady dialogue on the street about him since last fall. Inauguration week was just as bumpy as you could have expected with an incredibly divided country discussing the outgoing president, the incoming president, the foreign interference and weird circumstances around the actual election, the nearly all white all billionaire cabinet nominees, and the Women’s March‘s that vastly overwhelmed Trumps ceremony attendee numbers while “sister” marches took place in nearly 700 cities around the world.