STREET ART STREET LIFE

photo:Fatimah Tuggar, Coverfield, 2008

On view through January 25, 2009
Organized by guest curator Lydia Yee, Street Art, Street Life examines the street as subject matter, venue, and source of inspiration for artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present.

This far ranging exhibition, one of the largest to consider the subject, includes street photography; documentation of performance, events, and artworks presented in the street; works using material from the street; and examples of street culture by more than thirty artists including William Klein, Lee Fried­lander, Raymond Hains, Vito Acconci, Martha Rosler, Sophie Calle, David Ham­mons, Jamel Shabazz, and Francis Alÿs, among others.

Museum hrs are: Thursday - Monday, 11am - 6pm, Friday: 11am - 8pm, Tuesdays and Wednesday are closed.Cost is $5 for students, $3 Seniors, children under 12 FREE.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th Street)
Bronx, New York 10456
718.681.6000
www.bronxmuseum.org

-Krazy Cam

Anonymous Twist = Encore Status

Anonymous Twist, a Toronto based MC, DJ, and producer, blessed us with a couple of tracks for our mixtape back in february(Melange mixtape featured on the right panel of this blog). One of the tracks and a personal favorite of mine was entitled 'Brainwash.' His camp put a video up for the track featuring clips from the movie City of God. Enjoy the track, and cop his album available on Itunes.

David Sides = Encore Status

We're probably late bringing this to you, but a friend of a friend of a friend of Encore Status sent this to me today and I was blown away. Known as the "Mozart of hip hop" D-Sides has done brilliant piano renditions of the music from top artists in the music industry. "Buy You a Drink"(T-Pain), "Bed"(J Holiday), and "Closer" (Ne-Yo), are tracks I have listened to personally. Please peep the rendition of Lollipop, originally performed by Lil Wayne.

Oh yea...and don't be late like us...friend him on the myspace.

-PM

STOP...now do the french Fry

Hello,
After posting the Smiley Jonez video "Chicken Wing," we set out to find content that was more tasteful. We think we have found what we were looking for. This Sweet and Sour clip forced me to STOP...and do the French fry. Please view yet another uncategorizable gem -- The McDonalds rap.

Enjoy,
StatisJackson

Quizzes by Quibblo.com

Rex Milano = Encore Status

While digging through Youtube the other day, we found this 21 year old hip hop dance phenom from Italy. His name is Rex Milano and seems like he would step to ANYONE on the dance floor. If you've seen anyone that will or can test him, please contact us at Talent@encorestatus.com. (We wont expect that many emails...just watch his video below).
Enjoy,
Pure Madness



Please check out more of his stuff in our Youtube widget on the right.

Dionis Ortiz...Encore Status

Recently featured in the New York Times 'City Room' section, Harlem resident Dionis Ortiz is a New York Artist on the rise. His "Self Portrait" piece is a part of the 'Evolution: The Changing Face of Harlem' exhibit at Columbia University. The exhibit features the art of 25 artists in the artHarlem community and will be open from September 22nd to November 6th.
Check out Dionis Ortiz's bio below and his website:

Harlem native Dionis Ortiz explores his dual identity as a New Yorker and as a person of Dominican descent, born to immigrant parents. His paintings visually narrate interpretations of his experiences and surroundings through the use of landscape, symbols, text, as well as various mediums and painting techniques. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase College and his certification in Art Handling from The Bronx Council on the Arts.

Dionis cultivated his interest and background in the arts to establish Inspiration Fine Art, a fine art gallery located in Harlem. Since its inception in 2005, he has organized and curated various group exhibitions and showcased the works of emerging and established artists from New York City.

Tabi Bonney...

Particularity. Swagger. Beat. Rhyme. Often we fall victim to parsing apart hip-hop artistry as such. Aside from the occasional comment about how an emcee rides a beat, there is fairly little convo in the way of what amounts to cohesion, to the whole picture. Tabi Bonney is a scuff on the kicks of such linear thinking. That is to say, there is something musically compelling about him, that can’t be identified in any one aspect. Self proclaimed genre blender, he pulls from everything he can get his hands on, producing a sound that occupies a precarious space between alternative, rock, and hip-hop. His shit is gumbo, and I feel that excessively. His lyrics on paper, or beat-free, would leave something to be desired, namely quotables. What you do see on tracks like Superhero is a let-me-clear-my-throat oeuvre, and a well developed union of music and flow that augment one another (think okra in a bangin ass rue). What I hear in Tabi Bonney is possibility, and a sound finding itself. His laid back somewhat sparse cadence can be mistaken for laziness, the same way the blues unexamined, can be mistaken for simple. It will be interesting to see where he takes this sound in future projects. His style is undeniably the changing face of an industry starving for new blood, and artists wiling to take risks, and experiment (i.e. mainstream artists like Kanye West). Hip Hop is turning a corner and seems to be going in one of two directions. Atavism, as artists strive for the Bronx born beat sound of minimalist concrete tracks punctuated with gutter verses and brick hard lyrics (which I f%!@k with), or music that is increasingly “hyphenated” with limited writers (such as myself) trying to cram round peg sounds into so many square categories that are becoming insufficient. Tabi Bonney is a round peg, and if he can continue to push and defy being defined, even by his own patterns and limits, he’s on to something.
Check out one of his videos: Syce it/Escalator


Picture from Tabi Bonney's Myspace