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“It’s Time to Fight” on Print & Paste

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 11, 2012
Steve Lambert - It's Time to Fight - Manchester

My sliding-scale priced “It’s Time to Fight” letterpress print has been turned into a billboard in Manchester, England by the nice folks at Print & Paste. I was stunned and delighted to see it at this scale. Print & Paste is a curated outdoor art space in central Manchester, located just off Oxford Rd opposite the old […]

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David Shrigley

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 22, 2011

    A David Shrigley piece just sent to me from my friend Christina Kral.

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Artist Kim Beck puts vacant billboard sculptures on High Line Park

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 22, 2011

Interview with the artist Kim Beck, who realized the latest project of the Public Art program of the High Line Park in New York City. The project consists of ;consists of three sculptures that are installed on roofs of buildings close to the High Line. via Lee Walton

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Waffle Shop Billboard: Rent it for only $100 a Week!

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 13, 2011

The folks at the amazing Waffle Shop and Conflict Kitchen (do yourself a favor and check out those projects) are making their Billboard available at very reasonable rates. (I rented it for the week of March 27th!) Here’s the info: From waffleshopbillboard.org We like to think of the billboard as an experimental publishing and broadcast […]

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Anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it | Grist

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 12, 2010

Annie Han + Daniel Mihalyo: Lead Pencil Studio, Non-Sign II, 2010 Photo: Lead Pencil Studio Anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it | Grist. thanks for the tip from Victoria Estok

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double happiness – mammoth // building nothing out of something

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 9, 2010

Bureau de Mesarchitecture’s “Double Happiness”, an installation for the 2009 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial via double happiness – mammoth // building nothing out of something. sent on by annie vought

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On the difference between art and advertising

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 24, 2010

…even a really beautiful, ingenious, powerful ad (of which there are a lot) can never be any kind of real art: an ad has no status as gift, i.e. it’s never really for the person it’s directed at. – David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again And poached in this really […]

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PosterChild Tells NPA What He Thinks Of Their Contest Promotions

By Steve Lambert | Published: August 3, 2009

via Public Ad Campaign Yesterday I went out with PosterChild, Jason Eppink, Steve Lambert, and Packard Jennings for lunch. Our talk inevitably surrounded upcoming personal projects, collaborative street actions and the age of the urinals at the Old Town Bar on 18th street. Posterchild was leaving for Toronto that evening and had one last project […]

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Subway HD Screens: Round 5

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 18, 2009

Stained Glass Post-Pixelators – Postronimos via Posterchild’s Blade Diary See also Subway HD Screens round 4

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The NY Street Art Takeover Map

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 18, 2009

via publicadcampaign.com: View NYSAT Project Map 04-25-2009 in a larger map This map shows illegal/unpermitted NPA City Outdoor locations located in Lower Manhattan. All the ads together cover approximately 29,450 square feet of our public environment. On April 25th approximately 30 participants whitewashed nearly 120 street level billboards in broad daylight between the hours of […]

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“Everything You Want, Right Now!”

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 5, 2009

Video walk through of the Los Angeles solo show… Steve Lambert solo show walkthrough from Steve Lambert on Vimeo. See more pics at visitsteve.com

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Interview with Jordan Seiler of PublicAdCampaign.com

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 4, 2009

Jordan Seiler of Illegalsigns.ca’s American comrade, PublicAdCampaign.com pulled together what many could argue as one of the largest organized guerilla art campaigns in regards to illegal billboards in recent memory (perhaps ever). Doing all North American cities proud, Seiler, along with over 40 participants, white-washed illegal billboards across the city followed quickly by artwork, messages, […]

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Plus Art Minus Ad

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 28, 2009

This video was sent on by someone who I’m not yet sure wants to remain anonymous. A simple and colorful change. Part of the massive coordinated art takeover of illegal advertising space this past weekend – which you will hear more about on this site soon…

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Solo Show in Los Angeles opens 4/25

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 17, 2009

I don’t normally mention many of my projects outside of the Anti-Advertising Agency, but this one feels relevant. I started the AAA four years ago after making my own art related to advertising and public space for the five years prior.  So, after 9 years of thinking about these issues and making projects about them, […]

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New on Add-Art: Net Art 1.0

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 17, 2009

Add-Art is the Firefox addon that replaces ads on the internet with rotating curated art images. Developed by myself and several others surrounding Eyebeam over the past 2 years, it’s free, will speed up your browsing, and features contemporary art that changes every 2 weeks.  We just released a new version, so install it now! […]

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