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Gaia press release? Woah. Basketball. Graf.
To honor the game, the NBA, the top professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition is sponsoring some of today’s hottest graffiti and street artists in an explosive exhibition / event during Art Basel Miami Beach this December. Urban culture has always had a love affair with the game of basketball and a select group of artists will be tapped to meticulously reinterpret the most powerful symbols of the game, the basketball and backboard. The result will be a unique impression of these two dynamic art forms.
Presented by Public Works Department and curated by Billi Kid and James & Karla Murray, the Art of Basketball will select a group of creative individuals that will develop literal works of art directly onto basketballs and backboards. These unique canvases will be donated by the NBA and will be given to each artist to produce works in all manner of context and variable skill. The considered contributors will represent some of the best artists making waves in the graffiti and street art community as well as the media at large.
Via Juxtapoz
