TWIST and crew’s tag-filled masterpiece on Houston Street has has officially been bombed, hard! In photos posted on flickr earlier today, one brave young soul is seen painting a monster SACE tribute, in the middle of the goddamn day and presumably without permission using a fire extinguisher, while cameras snapped away. UPDATE: Semi-legal.

Dude even rolled out a plastic tarp so as not to mess up the sidewalk and offer one prop of credibility in addition to the painter’s jumpsuit. Here’s what the final product looks like:
(Photos: Sean Ganann)

Graffiti writers NEKST, ADEK, HAELER, and CHEW managed to sneak onto the roof of the Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, adding their egoistic embellishments as well as a tribute to SACE. Closeups below.

Photos: ANIMALNewYork

It’s been a while since we’ve seen any worthy tributes to SACE, but now RIME enters the fray with this striking piece.

Last night, the Cooper Square Hotel celebrated, not only the completion of its 5th street façade, but also it’s acceptance into the East Village. Thanks to the unifying powers of public art, the noisy hotel’s neighbors will no longer use dirty underwear and douche bags to signal their displeasure because they simply have none anymore.

Actually, that’s not true. But the wall painting by Joyce Pensato, Nick 1, Vizie and Shinique Smith was finished, and the hotel did throw a party, though feuding neighbors were likely not invited. |Curbed|

Photo by EV Grieve

An illicit tribute to graffiti writers has been vandalized, just days after going up. The lino-print portraits of IZ THE WIZ, TIE ONE and SACE have been mutilated, their heads lopped off and lacerated. Street artist Noh J. Coley plans to recreate his paper piece, which now illustrates why dead graffiti artists are rarely memorialized in anything but paint.

Photo by Noh J. Coley

After a series of tributes to deceased graffiti writers, street artist Noh J. Coley created a group tribute, reprinting his linoleum-cut portraits of IZ THE WIZ, TIE ONE and SACE. His “Sprayed N Stone” piecedepicts the trio of graffiti writers breaking through Heaven’s pearly gates, located in Queens.

Photo by Noh J. Coley

The artists hired to help the Cooper Square Hotel blend in, have been busy making it stand out. Joining VIZIE’s tribute to Dash Snow, Shinique Smith has covered the side of the building with her abstract calligraphy, Nick 1 is in the midst of a 4 train piece and Joyce Pensato is blowing-up her drippy painting of Homer Simpson.

Photos by Will Sherman/ANIMALnewyork.com

The Cooper Square Hotel is getting painted with graffiti in an attempt “to fit in with the edgy local art scene.” Four artists, Joyce Pensato, Nick 1, Vizie and Shinique, have been paid to paint the 5th street facade of the 21-story boutique hotel in various shades of grey. “All the work is going to be different,” Vizie tells the Post. Below his “Tropical Fantasy” tribute to Dash Snow, who overdosed at another swank hotel around the corner, an apparent portrait of Homer Simpson is taking shape towards the wall’s expected completion on November 10th.

Photos by EV Grieve and Curbed

Following all the domestically painted tributes to SACE aka Dash Snow, comes an Italian memorial. Fellow writer VIZIE brought back photos of a piece dedicated to the vandal in Rome.

Photo by VIZIE

Wow! Artist Noh J. Coley created these realistic street art tributes to graffiti writers Jonathan See Lim aka TIE ONE and Dash Snow aka SACE—both of whom died way too young although the circumstances couldn’t be more different. They were created using linoleum prints with acrylic wash on paper and posted up in Manhattan. |Unurth|

Photos by Noh J. Coley