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If you head down Abercrombie Lane, off George St (next to the cinemas) you may be in danger of being hit by a falling tetris block. Installation art by Gaffa Gallery artists and project team: Kelly Robson, Ella Barclay, Hugh Rutherford, Adrianne Tasker, Ben Backhouse. They write: There are grand implications of error here that [...]

If you’re in Sydney this Friday and looking for some free beer and a bit of art head down to the MTV Galleries in East Sydney and check out the Numskull show. These tend to get quite crowded, quite quickly, so as with any gallery opening the early bird gets the free booze and the [...]

Street artist ABOVE has finished his South Central tour across the Americas. He’s posted the final video in the four part series complete with the requisite salsalicious soundtrack. Check it out above or watch the whole series from start to finish after the jump. Read more about this well travelled man of mystery, paint and [...]

Tag a Dummer is an activist project that seeks to raise awareness of the negative environmental impact of the Hummer. Participants are urged to leave a message for owners by defacing the car’s branding and changing it from Hummer to Dummer. A special template in the exact dimension of the Hummer logo has been made [...]

Came accross this in my favourite Sydney bookstore, Ariel, the other day. A pretty novel concept – combining two of our favourite things in the world: Art and Eating. The author put this book together over a great excuse for a trip around Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam to London and New York. His road-trip rules [...]

File this under reasons we love New York. Take a Seat is a public installation piece that “creates value simply by relocating an object to a new location”. The project encourages people rescue usuable chairs that have been thrown away and leave them on subway station platforms lacking in seating options. The project allows anyone [...]

Wooster Collective has launched a Facebook application that lets lovers of the nebulous and much maligned concept that is street art send each other Facebook ‘gifts’ in the form of street art photos. Regular DEGOURGET visitors may have noticed a few links from Wooster regularly popping up in posts on Banksy, Above and other great [...]

I imagine quite a few of you have already seen some of the work Bansky has been throwing up around New Orleans and into the Deep South, but for those that haven’t, we’ve put together a few pics for you. The pieces are a mix of commentary on Katrina, the usual Banksy fair and a [...]

Light painting, or light graffiti, is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. Typically the light source itself, or guy swinging around the tourch, does not appear in the image. The term light painting also [...]

Although a certain Sydney artist, claims to have invented what he calls ‘cuprocking‘ (that’s a little bit like saying you invented drawing by calling it ‘Penstroking’) – it’s basically a type of street art made by pushing plastic cups into a chain link fence. He might have coined the cute name, he’s DEFINITELY not the [...]