Adding to the devastation caused by ‘Irene’s’ NYC stopover, is this shocking photogtraph taken at the Bowery Mural early Sunday. The rainfall mercilessly drenched JR’s work to the point that Kenny Scharf’s mural appeared to be making a comeback. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
Chinese artist Lui Bolin – famous for seamlessly camouflaging himself into urban scenery – began disappearing into Kenny Scharf’s mural today before it gets replaced with a “large-scale participatory art project” by French street artist JR on Thursday. (Photo: Santos Henarejos/Flickr)
The Art in the Streets exhibit now comes with graffiti fashions. Ten MOCA x Levi’s jean jackets feature MOCA-exhibited Andre, Chaz Bojorquez, CRASH, KR, Neckface, Lady Pink, REVOK, Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf (yes, it’s the mural) and Keith Haring (sans consent, obviously). Read more »
After enjoying a relatively long reprieve from vandalism, the Bowery Mural has once again been enhanced. According to LES mainstay Clayton Patterson, graffiti writer and Keith Haring collaborator who has never been given due credit, LAII, tagged the wall sometime last week. He says Team Scharf quickly fixed it. Then on Monday night, REMO once again returned to king the spot (The above photo shows what the wall currently looks like.). Read more »
January 29th: Mural fixed, again! (Photo: David Boyle/flickr)
This weekend, Kenny Scharf worked on his mural and voila! It’s all restored and ready to be bombed again. Just kidding, there’s cameras and now, according to EV Grieve, a 24-hour security guard, so one will ever hit it again. Just passing its two month anniversary, this is the second time the wall has been repainted by Team Kenny. Take a quick walk back through time below to see all its transformations thus far. UPDATE: The security guard was only hired for a few hours while Scharf’s paint dired. Read more »
Kenny Scharf returned to his defaced mural on Houston Street earlier this evening and began renovating it with spray paint. Last week, the artist told a reporter who doesn’t credit others properly, that he would fix the wall, despite the high probability that it will be repeatedly vandalized, “If it gets hit once, it’s all downhill after that. If there’s another blizzard, they’ll just do it again.” (Photo: @Shyvonne/plixi)
Artist Kenny Scharf opens two shows in two of Paul Kasmin Gallery’s spaces today. The wildly different exhibits are open to the public and even well behaved graffiti writers are invited. Read more »
Someone particularly playful insane stuck around the storm long enough to build a snowman and get caught on the surveillance cameras snooping the street around Kenny Scharf’s mural on Houston Street at the Bowery. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
While it’s common knowledge that the New York Post often rips off story ideas from local blogs—just ask editors from Gothamist, EV Grieve, New York Shitty, Vanishing New York, Sheepshead Bites* and a handful of others—their latest article on the bombing of the Bowery mural, which was basically lifted from several ANIMAL posts, was particularly egregious. Read more »
EVGrieve confirmed that the security cameras installed to protect Kenny Scharf’s mural on Houston Street are hooked up and currently surveilling the wall and therefore, the public space in front of it as well. Smile!
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