After surviving the veganless hell that was Rikers Island and doing another six months in Boston, Danielle Bremner aka UTAH aka the globetrotting female graffiti writer who wreaked international havoc is FREE! CLAW asked her a bunch of questions about graffiti, jail, and her future plans, like blogging! Now that she can proudly show off and take credit for all her exploits, it was inevitable. |Blogue|
Photo: UTAH
Selling bongs to minors is now illegal in Utah. Wait, it wasn’t before? |TSLT|
As promised, authorities in Utah have been removing Banksy’s Sundance work at a feverish pace and even managed to hike into City Creek and buff his Osama piece, leaving ugly gray splotch marks instead. Mormons, figures.
Before: danneskj0ld / After: Dan J. Richards
Moving away from the streets of Park City and Salt Lake City, a new piece by Banksy featuring America’s favorite terrorist popped up in the very natural surroundings of City Creek—for the record, Mormons gotta chill with using “City” in every location name. Also, good luck trying to cut this one out and sell it. Far away shot below. Read more »
Globetrotting graffiti writer UTAH is heading back to jail for another six months. Recently released from vegan unfriendly Riker’s Island, the Queens-based writer was sentenced this morning in Boston Municipal Court after pleading guilty to more than a dozen vandalism charges. According to the Boston Herald, she was also ordered to complete five years of probation, undergo a mental health evaluation and make restitution payments. And like convicted vandal Shepard Fairey, the 27-year-old vandal was ordered to stop messing with Boston, except she’s been banished entirely. |Boston Herald|
Photo by Jaroh
Globetrotting graffiti writer UTAH has been locked up for months, but she was only officially sentenced today for her crimes in Queens. In a press release, the District Attorney’s office trumped the previously announced sentencing covering her charges throughout the boroughs: $10k in restitution to the MTA, a six month prison sentence on the vegan unfriendly Riker’s Island, as well as five years probation. Additionally, the announcement offered insight into the preferred tools of the trade for “so-called graffiti ‘artists’ and their ego-driven vandalism of public property,” as Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown puts it: Read more »
A word of warning to vegan graffiti writers: don’t get caught in New York City. Graffiti bomber turned designer CLAW paid a friendly visit to UTAH, who is recently incarcerated on Riker’s Island, and twitters: “She said it’s not so bad, like a ghetto sleepaway camp. Suave shamps. She is starving b/c she is vegan. No tempeh on the island apparently.” According to the Department of Corrections, inmates with special dietary needs have to go to the clinic and get the nutrionist to issue a special id card. Apparently that’s easier said than done. Read more »
Yesterday in a Manhattan courtroom, “globetrotting graffiti artist” UTAH plead guilty to charges for tagging subway cars and was sentenced to six months in jail. As part of her plea agreement covering cases in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, the Queens-based writer will also pay $10,000 in restitution. Graffiti related charges are still pending against UTAH in Boston, as well against her boyfriend, ETHER, who she was arrested with last August when they returned to the States from a European bombing tour. |NYDN|
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Globe-trotting graffiti writer UTAH was in a Queens court yesterday to face charges for tagging trains that could put her in prison for up to 7 years. The Queens-based writer made international headlines last August when Chicago police arrested her at O’Hare airport with her boyfriend ETHER, as they returned to the States from a European bombing tour. Now she’s facing charges in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Manhattan where she copped a plea last month, plus Boston where she plead not guilty. Even France wants a piece, though they’ll have to wait their turn.
Photo by Jaroh.
After getting scooped up at Chicago’s O’Hare airport in August after coming off a international bombing spree in Europe, public name writing artist UTAH pleaded not guilty to 33 counts of graffiti in Boston, after “desecrating historic Back Bay with her artistic upchuck.” Fundamentalist Anne Swanson, chairwoman of the The Graffiti NABBers, hates the letter based vandalism and claims it has nothing to do with art the way she defines it, “It’s pure ego.” And she should know, Swanson does have a degree in fine art after all. However, not even the anti-graffiti zealot is capable of wrongly characterizing the outlawed art form as much as the journalist writing the piece who describes graffiti writers as “terrorist taggers.” |BostonHerald|
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