XML FeedsArticle Archive - Published Nov 2009 and Prior
New York POST -- Nov 2009 -- "Art is plain 'English'" -- by Justin Rocket Silverman
12oz Prophet Nov 2009 - "Ron English Opens at Opera" by Martha Cooper
Triple J TV Video Interview - April 2009 "Culture Jamming - Ron English's first Australian visit"
Tonic.com - March 2009 "English As a Subversive Language" - By David Jenison
Liberation - Nov 2008 Ron English's Abraham Obama in "Liberation" one of the most read newspapers in France
Everything Abraham Obama — Ron English in Video, Print, TV, Blogs - Nov 2008
Boston Globe - July 2008 "Street artist inspires too much enthusiasm - Fans' unauthorized ad blitz draws fire by John C. Drake
The Jersey Journal - Nov 2007 "Pop artist gives an 'English' lesson" By Jeff Theodore | Journal Arts Editor
Swindle Magazine - Nov 2007 "Sons of POP" by Ron English
Lifelounge - Nov 2007 "Ron English, Art Terrorist" by Chris Mitchell
Re/Search Publications: Pranks 2! - 2007 Interview with Ron English
Pages Books & Magazines, Toronto - June 2007 “This Is Not A Reading Series and Vagrant Films present Agit–pop artist Ron English!”
LoDown Magazine - Feb 2007 “Ron English: o.p. Original Prankster”
McGill TV Interview Video - “Pop Montreal: Ron English” - Rae Cohen interviews Ron English
Comic-Con 2007 - July 2007 "Holy Cow! Stunning New Image Technology Debuts at Comic-Con 2007"
Inside/Oustide Video on YouTube - March 2007 DVD release "Film Trailer" with clip of Ron from the movie
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Ron English Interview on Triple J TV - Australia
April 21, 2009 - Ron English is well know to authorities in the US. He's been to jail over thirty times for putting his spin on corporate billboards.
Although he's been referred to as an 'art terrorist' and a 'billboard liberator', culture jamming is generally the name given to this form of art
It's Ron English's first Australian visit and he teams up with young Aussie street artists as they take on local advertisements.
Abraham Obama Film Screening SF IndieFest 2009 - Roxie Cinema
JetSet Graffiti Productions is proud to announce the debut of our first feature length documentary at this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival! “Abraham Obama” is a humorous and provocative look at an unprecedented political art movement.
A campaign to change the visual landscape of America yields a new President, and ushers in a new collective consciousness for America’s people.
Famous street artist Ron English gathers a crew of professional pranksters and hits the road on a grass-roots campaign to make public art and promote Obama’s campaign for the Presidency. “Abraham Obama” takes us on an unforgettable ride as the stories of Ron English unfold alongside musicians and artists such as Shepard Fairey, Jack Medicine, David Choe, Sam Flores, The Date Farmers, Will.I.Am, Morgan Spurlock, DJ Z-Trip and several others.
Directed by Kevin Chapados, and Produced by Daniel Lahoda and Ron English.
The documentary is showing at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on Sunday, February 15th at 12:30pm, with a second showing on Wednesday, February 18th at 7:30pm.
To get tickets to the world premiere, click here: http://www.roxie.com/
For more information on the debut at the SF Indiefest, go here: http://www.sfindie.com/
Ron English on CNN Video "Abraham Obama"
Two faces, one man
Photojournalist Emmanuel Tambakakis introduces us to Ron English, a street artist painting the future with a nod to history.
Believe in Obama by The Electric Illuminati
lyrics by Ron English
See next page for lyrics
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Everything Abraham Obama — Ron English in Video, Print, TV, Blogs
Ron English is a New-York based Pop-Artist. He is most famous for his street art, where he subverts existing billboard advertisements by using his own artwork in place of the existing legitimate billboards. He is in the middle of his nationwide tour making murals of “Abraham Obama”, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln fused with presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The tour travels to Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and ends in Denver at the Democratic National Convention
The “Abraham Obama” Campaign Tour has received international attention, including the following news, and countless blogs reporting on the event:
Video
JetSet Graffiti website:
www.jetsetgraffiti.com</a>
The Wall Street Journal "Picturing Obama"
online.wsj.com/article/SB121625710569060513.html
USA Today
www.usatoday.com</a>
The Boston Globe "Street artist inspires too much enthusiasm"
www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/07/08/street_artist_inspires_too_much_enthusiasm</a>
Television
Channel 7 News "Political mural turning heads in South End"
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