An ambitious project involving numerous international contemporary artists and disused Military airplanes is set to make it’s debut on January 28th at the Pima Art and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The Boneyard Project: Return Trip will include artists Andrew Schoultz, How & Nosm, Nunca(Brazil), Retna, and Faile who will all paint their own individual airplanes, along with cockpit from Saner(Mexico). We took a trip to the desert to get you these exclusive preview photos.

The concept for resurrecting the no longer active airplanes was conceived in spring 2010 by Eric Firestone, and organized with curator Carlo Mccormick. Also on display will be previous work from Eric Firestone Gallery’s Nose Job show that took place last year featuring artist such as Aiko, Bast, Crash, Daze, El Mac, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Futura, Erik Foss, Tara Mcpherson, Richard Prince, Lee Quinones, Kenny Scharf, and many more. We suggest that if you are near Tuscon to not miss this event!

Source: Juxtapoz / The Boneyard Project

Retna teams up with Primary Flight and paints Brimstone in Wynwood District of Miami during Art Basel.

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Last month we told you about the Italian painter who turned a Piaggio P.180 Avanti into an art installation.

Now as part of a partnership between private jet charter and ownership firm VistaJet and Bombardier Aerospace, acclaimed street artist RETNA has hand-painted a unique work of art on the tail of a VistaJet Global Express XRS.

The $60 million luxury aircraft, an ultra long range corporate and VIP high speed wonder, will be the new star of VistaJet’s fleet of 31 private jets.

Drawing from a wide array of influences including gang graffiti, Asian calligraphy, Incan and Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Hebrew and Arabic script, RETNA’s vision is designed to be a new and unique “international visual language.

The high-flying work of art was just officially unveiled at EBACE 2011 in Geneva.

The project comes on the heels of VistaJet’s and Bombardier’s sponsorship of RETNA’s “Hallelujah World Tour,” presented by Andy Valmorbida and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, which launched in New York in February and will continue throughout the year in cities including London and Hong Kong.

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Last night saw the opening of LA graffiti artist RETNA’s Hallelujah World Tour in London and we at Hookedblog headed over to see if the show lived up to all the hype. The private view was held in the vast Old Dairy popup space in Bloomsbury tucked away in a little side street. Having previous hosted the Richard Hambleton exhibition back in November we were familar with the space and it’s location on Wakefield street which is just as well as out apologetic black cab driver didn’t know where the street was!

The show certainly did not disappoint, the vast space was packed with RETNA’s large scale works on canvas, paper and and various metal objects. We were a little skeptical but the stunning brush work in some of the pieces certainly justify all the hype this artist and his work has been receiving. The evening saw the London art crowd in full attendance along with London socialites, super models and fashion designers all making for a very flash evening. The show is running until the end of the month and we suggest you do not miss the opportunity to experience this work in person. Below are a selection of photos we took last night.

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