Author: Jon Hammer / ELATE
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The ‘Cold Joke’ You Gotta Get
“Hypocrisy is the state of promoting or administering virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have or is guilty of violating. Hypocrisy often involves the deception of others and thus can be considered a kind of lie.” Wikipedia Just after I published this post about the upcoming Team Rex exhibition starting…
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A New Breed Of Art Critics
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Team Rex – Saving The Nation from Landfill Art
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.“ William Blake For years our collective intelligence has been insulted by blockbuster shows by manufactured artists, showing tired and threadbare worn out clichés, sweet and sour gimmicks , stolen ideas, and often…
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King Robbo ‘Graffiti Wars’ Wins Royal Television Award
The Channel 4 documentary, Robbo vs Banksy ‘Graffiti Wars’ by Jane Preston and TwoFour has won the Royal Television Award for Best Arts Programme on UK TV in 2011. The other two shortlisted documentaries in the running were… In these times in which we find our precious culture dumbed down beyond recognition and sold…
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Graffiti Wars Nominated for Royal Television Award
The Robbo vs Banksy ‘Graffiti Wars’ documentary for Channel 4, the first ever documentary to challenge the spurious myths propagated by the ‘Street Art Establishment’, has been nominated for a Royal Television Society award and is in the shortlist as one of the three best arts programmes on UK TV in 2011. Robbo would…
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Winter Warmer – Robbo Ruin Restored!
Thanks to Fuel for this…pic by Choci Roc Robbo’s 25 year old masterpiece, on the back of BTP HQ, by Regents canal in Camden, despite being tagged was still visible until it was ruined by Banksy two years ago. It was restored on Christmas Eve; finally, after the ‘battle’ that commenced two years ago…
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LSD Magazine Issue 8 Out Today
No blog posts from me for a while, I’ve been extremely busy on an exponentially expanding project which actually seems to be going covertly viral pre-release, radicalising the unlikeliest sources to far reaching effect!!! Stay tuned… More on that to come, I’ve been painting some new canvas that I’m delighted with in ‘break times’ so…
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Auction Results and Graffiti Wars Update
I couldn’t make it along but £20,000 was raised toward the ongoing care of Robbo and his family at Cargo on Sunday. Robbo R on section of ‘concrete’ with dishevelled black rat sliding down the protective perspex by Fuel CCD. After a two week battle with Banksy’s lawyers the Channel 4 Graffiti Wars documentary is…
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Let There Be More Light
Newly finished canvas, ‘Let There Be More Light’, oil 90cm x 90cm Inspired by the old Pink Floyd song of the same name from when they were still a psychedelic rock band, from the Saucerful of Secrets LP 1968, and visions it first brought to my head when listening to it many years ago (and…
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“See No Evil…Not the ‘Graffiti Wars’ documentary, not if WE can help it!”
Have you tried to…. Watch Channel 4 Robbo vs Banksy Graffiti Wars documentary online, or Watch Channel 4 Robbo vs Banksy Graffiti Wars documentary on YouTube, or Watch Channel 4 Robbo vs Banksy Graffiti Wars documentary on Channel 4 OD On Demand? Well you can’t; here’s why. Channel 4 Robbo vs Banksy Graffiti Wars documentary…