From the personal collection of collector Michael Taylor we get a look at some of Cuba's Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America posters. Last time we saw the work of Faustino Pérez, this time we look at the work of artist Lazaro Abreu. Cuba's Day of solidarity with the Arab Peoples of Syria (1970) Day of world solidarity with the people of "so-called" Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde (1970) The Queen's House of Detention (1975) via 50W

"The Warlord" #11 | Cover art by Mike Grell | "Mike Grell is a comic book writer and artist, known for his work on books such as Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Warlord, and Jon Sable Freelance." via CBC | via Wiki

Belgian artist Roa took to Calle Lloveras in San Juan, Puerto Rico for last fall's Los Muros Hablan Festival to produce this magnificent work of an Iguana gripping (perhaps strangulating) a small frog. The frog is a Coquí, a small native amphibian to the island. Meanwhile, Iguanas, which are not native to Puerto Rico, have been creating a lot of problems as they have taken their toll on the economy and the environment. Seek and destroy missions have been formed as a result. A powerful eco-political statement by Roa to be sure. via SAN

0 Last week we mentioned that Jay Z's short performance art Picasso Baby film would be debuting on HBO this past Friday night. In case you missed it you can catch it here. "Concerts are pretty much performance art ... The venues change. Just by nature of the venues, the performance changes. If you're in a smaller venue, it's a bit more intimate so you get to feel the energy of the people," Jay Z explains. Even more fascinating is listening to Hov briefly discuss the historical significance and influence of the arts scene on hip hop in its infancy....

A new work by Overunder makes good use of rusted forgotten wall space in Atlanta. via JUX

From the personal collection of collector Michael Taylor we get a look at some of Cuba's Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America posters designed by artist and revolutionary Faustino Pérez. Cuba's day of solidarity with the people of Palestine (1968) Cuba's day of solidarity with Venezuela (1969) Cuba's day of solidarity with Zimbabwe (1970) via 50W

Wall art caught in Rochester, NY. via JUX

The legend of Escif grows... with this sickeningly simple, yet beautifully executed, work "Liberté, Egalité and Fraternite" which has just recently popped up in Montreal. via SA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETB83v42Zk Jay Z & Mark Romanek's project Picasso Baby, a short performance art film, will be debuting next week. The film will depict Jay Z performing his new track “Picasso Baby” while he interacts with a captive viewing audience in the intimate setting of an art gallery. New York's famed performance-based artist Marina Abramovic, whose own 2010 MoMA exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present which served as inspiration for the project will even appear. HBO has announced they’ll air the “Performance Art Film” this Friday August 2nd @ 11PM EST. (The network also aired Beyoncé’s self-directed documentary, Life Is...

On July 18, 2013 Detroit became the largest city in the history of the U.S. to file for Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy. What you will be seeing now is a city do everything it can to get out of having to pay all of it's municipal workers their pensions and any other benefits anyone who is not a big conglomerate supposedly have coming to them. It shall all be played out in the courts - but pay close attention kiddies - because this is going to be the test case. If Detroit gets out of having to pay their workers...

"He is the scariest most horrifying looking human being I've ever met, but at the same time the guy is one of the funniest nicest dudes I've ever met." -David Choe; on Danny Trejo It was 2010 when world-renowned street artist and multi-multi-millionaire (thank you Facebook stock option) David Choe first informed us that while growing up his burgeoning artistic interests began for him by drawing superheroes: Superman, Batman, etc. But then one day the inevitable happened, David Choe drew his first female. From then on Choe never had an interest in any studies of the male form ever again,...

Recently we took a look at Wham Bacabac's illustrations, one of which included an extremely bad ass tiger. But have a look at this. It's Nychos' new mural in San Francisco - which is a sight to behold indeed: A six-story high tiger jumping out of its own skin; sweet baby Jesus that's so bad ass. via JUX