Street art collective Faile let us know about some new work they are producing. Their “Wood Paintings” straddle a line between painting and sculpture, and give an added dimension to their graphic style.

Design Boom points us to a nice detailed studio visit of the Faile artist collective conducted by Fecal Face. There are tons of great photos showing off Faile’s complex work that they were preparing for their recent 2008 London show. Native American themes are abundant – the hand painted “prayer logs” are especially interesting, combining a mash of colorful typography carved onto a kind of totem pole.
[Fecal Face via Design Boom]

Anyone looking forward to Santa’s Ghetto this year (the annual supermarket-art show created by Banksy and selling the works of fellow graffiti artists) may have to travel a little bit further than Oxford Street. Actually a lot further- to Bethlehem! The artists have set up shop in a former chicken shop on Manger Square in Bethlehem opposite the Church of the Nativity, and along the way have used the dividing West Bank security wall as an 8 meter high blank canvas which they have decorated with highly symbolical and provocative images.
The website explains further:
‘The ghetto extends over three floors [...]