Margaret Kilgallen at MOCA's "Art In the Streets"

A must-see if you're in Los Angeles right now and you're a fan of street art and graffiti is the Art in the Streets exhibit at the MOCA .   Art in the Streets is the first major U.S. museum survey of the history of graffiti and street art presented in the United States.  Included is the work of the late (and Poppytalk favourite), Margaret Kilgallen.  Fun fact: Margaret's work is featured on the cover of April's Juxtapoz magazine.  Read a write-up about the show here and her show-stopping part of the exhibit. The exhibit runs almost all summer long (April 17 - August 8th, 2011)!  (All images juxtapoz.com).

April's Juxtapoz magazine

Affordable Art: You Sentimental Idiot

You Sentinmental Idiot  is a beautiful new project by Virginia-based artist Rikkianne Van Kirk of Chakra Pennywhistle. Inspired by found materials that have a past, antique diaries are the main medium, where she hopes to make the aged pages and forgotten words current with her illustrations. Some drawings are inspired by direct quotes from the diaries while others are what Rikkianne imagined the writer would have seen.  A collector and lover of folk art and all things with history, I am most especially loving her pieces inspired by the late Margaret Kilgallen.  See more of these original drawings at her shop here and at Poppytalk Handmade here.

Inspiration: Margaret Kilgallen and Barry McGee

Thanks to Chakra Pennywhistle for bringing this video back to my attention. It's been a while since I watched it and I could re-watch and re-watch and now I'm thrilled I'm able to find a link to embed it here. The beautiful art and musings of Margaret Kilgallen and Barry McGee. I love Margaret's words, "The public looks at graffiti and sees garbage and sees ugliness and I always wonder why that they don't look at the billboards especially around San Francisco there's millions everywhere. Isn't that garbage? That's like mind-garbage."

Read more on our posts on Margaret here