A Gaudy Parade of Possible Keith Haring Art Thieves, Update

Want to do your citizen’s duty? There’s a Village Voice gallery of typical nightlife soft-box flash-shots from last week’s party at the Hudson Hotel’s Good Units. Feel free to browse the myriad of glitter bespeckled club clowns to see whose leather panties could fit a stolen 6-foot-wide Keith Haring mural. Read more »

Haring Art Stolen By Either Careless or Crafty Drunks

Is the in-crowd getting shadier? A few of the 1800 guests at last Thursday’s Fashion Week after-party took off with thousands of dollars worth of Keith Haring tribute art. Featuring and autographed by the late artist’s celebrity buddies including the non-Lindsey-trainwreck-riding Ronson, the stolen prints were due at a Tokyo exhibit. Not any more. Read more »

Keith Haring’s Houston Street Mural Whitewashed

The Keith Haring tribute mural at the corner of Bowery and Houston Street is getting whitewashed today, the latest blow to the corridor’s public paintings. Unveiled last May in honor of Haring’s 50th birthday, the recreation of a shortlived 1982 piece at the same corner was commissioned by the Keith Haring Foundation, Deitch Projects and Goldman Properties, the owner of the tiny sliver of wall. It was only planned to last through this past December, which would have still been months longer than the original piece. The only question now is, what’s next for the wall? There are more than a few artists who could take care of sprucing up the blank wall, even in broad daylight. Update: Brazilian artists Os Gemeos are painting the wall next.
Photo by Emahn Ray

‘Keith Haring’ Attacks Meredith Vieira

So last week was the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and surprisingly, the event was pretty much drama free: no floats destroyed city property or caused any bodily injury. However, there was at least one unscripted moment in what is usually a highly regimented and perfectly planned run of show. According to this account, one of the parade operators holding onto Keith Haring’s newly unveiled float, “Untitled (Figure with Heart),” ran into a NBC broadcast booth, prompting a shriek from ‘Today’ show host Meredith Vieira. The crew later explained the mishap, which is a huge departure from the M&M incident in 2005, when the network failed to report on a light post that came crashing to the ground and injured two people. |Courant|

Thou Shalt Create

Keith Haring’s groundbreaking work, “The Ten Commandments,” will be displayed in NYC for the first time and for some uknown reason has been relegated to Deitch’s Long Island City gallery when it belongs in Manhattan. |SlamxHype|

Modifying Keith Haring Mural WIth Graffiti

So after two months, that Keith Haring mural on E. Houstin Street and Bowery was finally vandalized, sort of. A former collaborator of the pop artist, LA II, added his signature tags in the negatives spaces. |DowntownExpress|
More pagan relics get erected in the city. |NYCTheBlog|
Shitting on the sidewalk is not encourage. |Curbed|
The New York Times has a slideshow detailing Brooklyn’s Industrial side. But who cares, look how dope this graffiti is. |NYT|
Beautiful Loses on video. |WhatYouWrite|
Only 147 people in the entire world had a perfect view of the solar eclipse. |Space|
There is a difference between graffiti crews and gangs, but no matter, sounds way more sensational to leave that out. |SfGate|

MARTY Bombs Obama In Broad Daylight

The arrow marks the spot: MARTY catching a tag over Obama. Photo: Razor Apple
The battle for public space between graffiti writers and street artists continues. Semi-notorious bomber, MARTY, decided that he wasn’t going to let one of those now iconic, Shepard Fairey designed Obama posters obscure his long time spots for fill-ins. Taking cues from the street artist, he too struck at the optimal time: in the middle of day. He brazenly painted right over the presidential hopeful and the clever vandal even incorporated orange into his throw up—whether as tribute or as a camouflage to blend in next to the recently painted day-glow Keith Haring mural—our bet being on the latter. The high trafficked Houston Ave and Bowery spot, is a hotbed of activity and has a dedicated history of people going over each other, only this time, someone actually documented it. And not only did this photog get MARTY in action through four lanes of traffic, but also the three Obama supporting samaritans. They were not dispatched by Fairey, but voluntarily scrubbed, fixed, and then retouched it, restoring Obama the best they could. Head over to Razor Apple for the whole gallery of images and Shepard’s take on the infraction. |RazorApple|