The latest artist to be interviewed by Zak Smith on The Rumpus is Anthony Lister. Here’s an excerpt:

Zak Smith: Can you grab one or two of your paintings and describe the situation that inspired it?

Anthony Lister: This piece, titled HOLY MOLY (mixed media on canvas, painted 2008), is based on a story about Britney Spears’ sister having a baby. I initially painted a picture of a pretty young woman with a baby spitting lottery balls out of its vagina as if to suggest that children are a metaphor for the Holy Grail. It is a painting about fertility, miss-guided youth and predators within social networks and in the media.

You can read the full interview here.

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More from Klone here.

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FatCap is a long story. Some of you have been browsing this blog for over a year now, (and hopefully enjoyed it), while other were aware of our 10 year-old graffiti website FatCap.org (launched in 1998-1999). Anyways, we’ve been doing editorial covering of graffiti for over a decade now, and we are about to make the biggest step we’ve ever done as far as our passion is concerned.

Indeed we are going to release a brand new version of both FatCap.com and FatCap.org. The two websites will be unified, and powered by the same technical basis, but both will remain slightly different as for the content. FatCap.com will be in english, and will have a strong focus on the graffiit in the US, Australia, and Canada. FatCap.org will have a much stronger European focus, and will be published in French, the country where all started from us.

This new version has been quietly in the works for two years now. It represents a huge amount of work, and we really hope you guys will like it. We built it so it can be a structured basis for information about graffiti and street-art. You will of course enjoy loads of pictures, but also artist and photographers pages, a massive video section, many articles, and basically everything you could ever dream of on a graffiti and street-art website.

That’s pretty much everything we can say, even if we’re dying to introduce you to this amazing piece of software and design, but we want it to be all ready and dressed up for primetime. In the meantime, we’ll spend the summer working hard to get this ready for early September, so if you are a journalist, or like writing articles and taking street-art pictures wherever you are (but especially in the US), tell us. If you’re a photographer and would like to benefit from a quality exposure, tell us too (send us your flickr if you’re on it). And of course, if you’re an artist, keep getting in touch with us, via Twitter, Facebook, or email. We love to hear from you, and we plan on making a lot of new interviews.

We’ll keep you posted very soon.

Sydney Davies (syd [at] fatcap . com) & Vincent Morgan (vince [at] fatcap . com)

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