Brooklyn’s Habana Outpost owner Sean Meenan commissioned a mural for his restaurant that would “unite the community,” blending the image of Notorious B.I.G. and revolutionary Che. Cue drama! Who gets the artist credit? CERN who painted the actual mural, Lee Quinones who painted the actual pigeons or a 21-year-old Parsons student who submitted the original design? Read more »
Internationally travled street artist ABOVE has outfitted a mannequin in classic yuppie attire, bagged his head and hung him above his Occupy Wall Street-themed mural in Wynwood, Miami. There he sways, briefcase dribbling dollar bills, over I-95, inscribed below with “Give a Wall St. banker enough rope and he will hang himself.” Grizzly. Looks more like an execution than a suicide, we’d say. Is there any way to make this more disturbing? Yes. Fox News has cropped the context out for you, because “This Is NOT Art … It Is Sick.” Obviously, it cannot be both.
Since Shepard Fairey and his mural first took a hit in Copenhagen last month, “the mural continues to get vandalized regularly.” Fairey wasn’t planning on fixing his mural (again) and called the initial attacks “senselessly barbaric.” Regardless, they keep on coming. Read more »
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)
Just before Easter, street artisans disguised as road workers installed a 10-by-10-foot stained-glass mosaic under a train bridge north of San Diego, east of Highway 101 in Encinitas, home to the famous Swamis surf break. Surfboard-riding “Save the Ocean” Mary looks like it cost $1000 in art materials to make and arranging all those detailed, little jagged glass parts looks labor intensive. 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)
The word from EV Grieve is that after getting bombed twice, someone is trying hard to prevent the thrice with surveillance of the block, just to keep a public mural safe. Outrageous! We’re not sure if all these cameras are real or connected to anything, but the Hole Gallery just told ANIMAL that they had nothing to do with installing them — it was the doing of Tony Goldman, property owner of the building. Looks like vandals may have a new target at the wall that’s not Kenny Scharf. (Photo: EVGrieve)
Days after the ritualistic bombing of his mural, Kenny Scharf, who’s currently in LA, tells ANIMAL that an anonymous friend went over the tags with squiggly echoes of the colorful wall underneath. Read more »
NYC graffiti writers defied Kenny Scharf’s expectations and less than a month after it was completed, tagged his mural on Houston, their footprints hidden by post-storm snow gusts. More photos below. Read more »
Kenny Scharf’s mural on Houston Street is starting to come to life in the form of trippy faces oozing off the wall like good LSD. Here’s a photo of him working on the wall earlier today. (Photo: @Drew Malcom/twitpic) Read more »
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