Street Art In One Atlanta Neighborhood Becomes A Messy Business

“Living Walls, a nonprofit arts group that aims to connect street artists with urban planners,” had commissioned dozens of murals to help brighten up areas in the city that had suffered due to the real estate crash. Then, one day, people showed up with paint rollers and blotted out one of the murals – and so began a long, strange battle.

Australia’s Great Female Artistic Polymath (Whom You Probably Didn’t Know About)

“Composer, adventurer, opportunist and benefactor” – as well as painter and critic – Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born in Melbourne 100 years ago this month. “[She] had an international career and enjoyed a mid-century artist-bohemian lifestyle that brought her into contact, sometimes intimately, with prominent creative figures of the day. Paul Bowles, Anaïs Nin, Yehudi Menuhin – even Theo Flynn, Errol’s old man – were close friends.”

Picasso, The First Modern Master Of Personal Branding

“At some level he realised that merely being a prodigiously talented painter was not enough. At first, it was his art that fascinated the public, but later his wealth (his brand value) became the fascinator itself.” He carefully controlled how much of his product was on the market, “excited demand with a continuous stream of new styles … [and] understood the media and the value of social networking.”