In 2001, photographer Peter Sutherland began taking photographs of graffiti writers with their faces obscured for a collection of images that would later be compiled into a book entitled Autograf. Over a decade later, he’s sort of bringing the concept back and since CINIK was the first person he shot back then, he will also be the first to appear in the new series, which will be released one portait at a time in each issue of SNEEZE magazine.
Watch a pristine white wall get smoothly tagged over, and over, and over, and over in searing Montana black until the black engulfs a crisp-edged section like some graffiti Malevich square. Then, see the same, but the opposite. Read more »
“The street is my gallery,” says French graffiti artist KIDULT in a newly released video. He explains how “classy brands” are co-opting “street culture” and so he’s just paying them back. “Keep using something you know something about, and it will be a pleasure for me retaliate.” Which he does, quite well, with spray paint and his trusty fire extinguisher.
A graffiti writer hailing from France and wanted by authorities in two states, was arrested in early December at Newark Airport, as he was preparing to fly back to Paris, where he has a criminal record for painting stuff. And that’s how they caught him here. Read more »
Here’s an episode of the The Equalizer, an 80s TV series shot on the then gritty streets of New York City. As you can imagine, there was a lot of authentic graffiti in the scenes, which the person who uploaded this YouTube video artfully points out.
Since the ’90s, people have been kissing the tomb of Oscar Wilde and scrawling him love letters in red. It’s been a “cult pastime” at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Today, the restored monument was unveiled, its “graffiti” and lipsticked peck trails freshly scrubbed. A glass barrier “will surround it to prevent the kissers from causing further damage.” Aw? Read more »
It’s not just Banksy that the British academia has a sudden hard-on for — archeologists are now arguing to preserve the primitive “graffiti” scrawlings of the Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten, allegedly depicting the band and manager Malcolm McLaren on their ex-flat’s walls. Read more »
Lucky you, Laura Ortiz Vega’s canvas works are coming to the Lyons Wier Gallery, because these preview images don’t do ‘em justice. Photographing graffiti in her native Mexico City, Vega intricately recreates the street imagery with wool thread, ever-so-tightly laid together with the natural bees wax Cera de Campeche used by Huichol Indians. Read more »
A graffiti writer who used to do a little bit of work back in the day and then later became a cop, retired, and then started lightly tagging again, will begin trial as early as Thursday at Queens Criminal Court. Apparently, “NEO” has been forum-bragging about being a cop and “a cripple” with a cane, and left descriptions of his “graffiti-related activities” and his allegedly real birth date on his MySpace page. Read more »
This art-robot is a madman. Self-propelled on a motorized skateboard base, it’s rigged as a double-pendulum, swooshing back and forth, swinging its arm wildly and spraying layers of abstract, organic graffiti. Go, bot, go! Read more »
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