We've all driven down the road and seen lorries pass us with 'Clean Me' engraved in dust on its windows. But have you seen anything like this before? This is dirty car art - artists getting their hands dirty and creating images on car windows. Check the website (link below) for more images.
Sick of unsightly skips sitting on your road? How about giving it a skip conversion, adding beauty, and possibly a new social spot to your street? That's what British artist Oliver Bishop-Young decided to do - taking a Fluxus ideology to the extreme, he has adapted the skip to be a mobile swimming pool, a meeting point, somewhere to play table tennis, and even a place to practice your skateboard skills:
Sweden: The warm late summer weather contributed to record crowds as Kivik's apple market.
There is an art theme to the market with the traditional apple sculpture that is erected at its heart each year. This year's work by Emma Karp Lundström is entitled "After Frans Floris Pomona" and uses 35,000 apples on its 104 square metre canvas. Some 70,000 nails hold the nine apple varieties in place.
Ry Cooder caused an international sensation when he introduced the world to Cuba's son musicians with his 1997 CD Buena Vista Social Club. The CD, which met with extraordinary critical and popular success, went on to win a Grammy, and helped fuel America's current love affair with Latin music.
In 1999 Wim Wenders released his documentary of the same name, in which he profiles the legendary Buena Vista Social Club musicians, recording their experiences as they perform in Cuba and abroad, eventually appearing at New York's Carnegie Hall. Hailed as "splendid ... a sheer delight" (New York Post), "glowing-embers documentary " (Washington Post) and "more incisive introduction to the peculiar world of Buena Vista than any live performance could provide" (The New York Observer), the film helped immortalize both the music and its now-famous practitioners who had been living in near poverty, all but forgotten in their own country.
The striking mural, painted under cover of darkness, was intended as a stinging criticism of Big Brother society. So it will come as little surprise to its creator, Banksy, that bureaucracy has ordered the removal of one of his largest works.
So, is it goodbye to Banksy? I very much doubt it. In fact Westminster Council has probably done him a favour. Since when would an outlaw have wanted the approval of the sort of bureaucracy that puts waste disposal operatives instead of dustbin men on our streets?
After death, banning is about the best thing that can happen to an artist.
