Banksy recently updated the “outdoor” section of his website to include several new pieces in the UK. Looks like we are eating our words about the falling shopping cart piece.

More looks after the jump.

A new collaboration between artist/director Saam Farahmand and Absolut vodka. Taking place in London and running November 17th-27th, off London’s Brick Lane, with the grand finale December 2nd at Village Underground.

In short ABSOLUT BLANK Live is the unique digital concept of video
director Saam Farahmand, giving members of the public the opportunity
to create their own intimate artwork through personal visual
expression, as though their bodies are the paintbrushes – the bottle
their canvas. Open to London’s public from 17th-27th November, the
result will be a series of video portraits that form both an online
commission and a specially curated live a/v set by Jamie XX on
December 2nd. People will also be able to view their portraits or buy
tickets to the finale on Facebook. (www.facebook.com/ABSOLUTUK)

Check out the promo video after the jump. There are some pretty great images created using the 3D motion tracking technology and infrared cameras used in the capture process.

Located in East London, the J. Lindeberg showroom is set to become host of a rotating series of murals by street artists. The first comes from Donk, who explores history and a sense of belonging  via his photographic, Xerox and colour wash wheatpaste. The image on the sidewall of the J.Lindeberg offices near Old Street depicts a giant Shire horse moving slowly forward whilst carrying a young boy on its back. The boy is in fact Donk’s son, who appears in many guises though out his work; here he represents the individual Londoner, as the shire horse represents London itself.

More of Donk’s work follows. Above is the Lindeberg wall.

Joe Deane, Joseph Loughborough and Ben Slow paint on Hanbury Street, Brick Lane. Ben and Joe paint a piece called “Ma o Shishu” or mother and child from a photograph I found in a book about photography and its power to change in South Asia. Their piece changed the street. Everyone who passed – young and old, local or tourist – responded very warmly to it. As did the restaurant owner who owns the wall. But there was another hidden story just behind the painting…of destitution and homelessness in London. 21st century London.

Joseph painted with amazing speed and created two striking pieces one of which lasted only a few weeks before someone decided to make it their private property.

This video is part of a larger project on Brick Lane seen through art and artists.

Filmed March 2010. Music by Moka Only

From Se7enThirty.

Opening tonight in London, Big Deal #3 features a slew of young artists including Curated favorites EA Byrne and Jamie Lau. The exhibition is curated by Vanya Balogh and will run to December 31, 2010.

The Collective
15 Camden High Street
London NW1

Byne’s work is above. View the show flier and Lau’s submission after the jump.

New York artist Richard Hambleton will be the subject of an exhibition featuring 45 works, 25 never before seen, by Hambleton at the Dairy, London. This showing follows three successful exhibitions in New York, Milan, and Cannes. The exhibition opens on November 18, 2010, and is curated by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida in collaboration with Giorgio Armani.

Richard Hambleton rose to fame in the early 1980’s when like his contemporaries, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, he used the streets of New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Paris, London and Japan as his canvas for visually arresting public art, most notably his “Shadowman” and “Crime Scene” series. Hambleton has now been labelled ‘The Godfather of Street Art’, influencing artists such as Paris based street artist Blek le Rat and English street artist Banksy.

The last influential surviving member of the East Village Art Movement, Hambleton saw what fame and drug use did to his close friends, and for the last 20 years has led a relatively reclusive life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Despite a low public profile, Hambleton has continued to create and his works can be found in the permanent collections of The MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, The Check Point Charlie Museum and The Zellermeyer in Berlin; the Andy Warhol Museum, the Austin Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Queens Museum, and Harvard University. He was chosen for the Venice Biennale in 1984.

The exhibition in London will be open for two weeks. In addition to the original works, light-boxes (8 in total) will display photography of Hambleton’s work from the 1980s.

The Richard Hambleton Exhibition will be open to the public from November 19th to December 3rd, 2010, Monday – Friday from 10am to 7pm.

The Dairy
7 Wakefield Street
London WC1

Select images of Habelton’s work follows.

Frieze Art Fair features over 150 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world. The fair also includes specially commissioned artists’ projects, a prestigious talks programme and an artist-led education schedule.

The fair kicks off tomorrow in London’s Regent’s Park and runs through Sunday October 17, 2010.

A note on the above -

pOEtry pArk will take place in Regent’s Park and incorporate various activities and performances relating to an expanded idea of poetry. A unique first-time collaboration by Ei Arakawa and Karl Holmqvist, the ‘park’ will include sculptural and print interpretations of poetry as a physical existence. pOEtry pArk will also function as a refuge from the fair, a haven to which visitors can temporarily retreat from the preoccupied atmosphere of the fair, incorporating relaxing and meditative activities and an environment influenced by Japanese-american artist Isamu Noguchi.

AtomRooms presents THE ARCHITECTS , a show curated by Keith Hopewell (Part2ism) and featuring  the works of Errol Donald (Pride), James Choules (SheOne), Mark Sinckler (Prime) and Matthew Bradford (Fuel) celebrates the legacy of London’s graffiti originators. Running from September 24 to October 3, 2010 at 328  Portobello Road, London W10 5RU.

AtomRooms is a brand new gallery in West London. The exhibited works will be complimented by signed prints and posters available to the public.

As a preview, the above video offers a the thoughts of the featured artists. After the jump, the full story behind the exhibition.

I love the application of woodcut print (and other traditional techniques) to unusual finished product. Dale Grimshaw’s done some great stuff in London recently, all of which was captured by Unurth. Printed, then wheat-pasted. Great graphic quality.

More images follow.

Fresh off the press -

On 8 September 2010, graffiti fans and art collectors will be able to purchase a limited edition box-set of prints from some of the leading names on the London graffiti scene. However, this box-set comes with a difference. The owner will also receive a percentage share in a new graffiti documentary film that is currently in production. This is the first time that a film has been funded through graffiti art sales.

Burning Candy (Cept, Cyclops, Dscreet, Gold Peg, James Jessop, LL Brainwash, Mighty Mo and Rowdy) are currently making a new film Dots, which follows each artist on a journey around the world, as they visit the places and cultures that most inspire their artistic style, in order to discover how they can take their own work further. Not content to go about making a documentary in the traditional way, Dots is directed by The Baron, a former elusive member of Burning Candy. Drawing on his own prodigious talents as a graffiti artist and filmmaker, the Baron is able to access this closely guarded underground scene with a level of insight that few, if any, other documentarians have been able to achieve before.

To fund the film, BC produced a limited edition box-set of nine prints, one from each artist. These highly desirable sets are bound to become collectors’ items immediately – Mighty Mo recently released a set of prints which sold out in less than two hours. The box-set includes a certificate of authenticity, which gives the owner a 0.05% share of the film’s profits for the next 10 years and a co-producer credit on the film. In this way, the profits from the prints will fund the film.

For more information about the film and to purchase a box-set, please go to www.dotsthefilm.com.

The prints will be available to buy from 10am on 8 September 2010.

Head to dotsthefilm to buy the prints and hit the jump to view the contents of the set.