The young artist combines his street-art roots with his love for Thrash Polka, a tattoo-style that incorporates graphics with brush-strokes and splatters. An interesting note to add Endless his stencil work of the picture was re-used in a campaign that warned males to check themselves for testicular cancer.ĭoko is revealing two new works that were made especially for this show. His artwork for the show depicts a picture of Mark Wahlberg during his Calvin Klein campaign in the late 90’s. Perhaps the most (in)famous of the six is Endless, a London-based street-artist that creates colourfull stencil-art. Six artists that have a vastly different style yet seem to look as a whole when their art is hung next to each other. This year they featured 6 artists Endless, Ard Doko, Holger Zimmermann, René Zuiderveld, R’JEAN, and Cris Marmier. A celebration of love, Amsterdam as a progressive city, the L.G.B.T community and their supporters.
The award-winning gallery has a tradition to host an extravagant show two weeks prior to Amsterdam’s famous Canal Pride. “Today, gay Americans have achieved so much, yet many people are unaware of how it happened.Go Gallery’s annual show “Pink with pride” is a household name inside the L.G.B.T community and Amsterdam. “There is no one, unified gay history what all gay people have shared across time is the struggle for the right to be themselves and the museum has been documenting these stories for decades,” said the museum’s curator, Katherine Ott. Though the exhibition opened last summer to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, the digital component includes artefacts from the 19th century onward, including protest signs, the first trans pride flag, Aids-related lab equipment, oral histories, Billie Jean King’s tennis dress and ephemera from the collection of Frank Kameny, who staged the first gay rights protest outside the White House. Photograph: Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American HistoryĪn ongoing online exhibition with the National Museum of American History in Washington traces the history of gay rights and activism. “Another day, another hashtag, another soul gone at the hands of police brutality and white supremacy,” said Spinello. “If black lives don’t matter, no lives matter. This show is a virtual rallying cry for justice in solidarity with our black brothers and sisters, and for all those who are deemed other.” Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond StonewallĪ ‘Gay is Good’ button from 1968 from the collection of Frank Kameny.
The gallery director, Anthony Spinello, says it’s “open to our represented artists and extended family who identify as LGBTQ+, minority, or allies”. Some of the works included is My Little Brother’s Casket, by Reginald O’Neal, an up-and-coming black painter based in Miami, as well as paintings of black figures by Jared McGriff and a piece by Eddie Arroyo, which depicts a street scene with a sign that reads: End Police Brutality.
The Miami gallery Spinello Projects is hosting an Instagram exhibition which features different artists each week, and will be curated in real time, in response to time-sensitive issues.