(UPDATED 3-25) In the latest twist to semi-anonymous sticker bomber BNE’s already confounding Saturday t-shirt launch—originally heralded as a “collaboration between BNE and Banksy”—BNE has admitted that street art fans who plunked down $80 for the still blank t-shirt in the hopes of snagging a piece of art history, had “NOT purchase[d] a Banksy t-shirt.” […]
ArtRank™ (formerly known as Sell You Later) is a web site for collectors that suddenly went viral mid-construction, busting through its mysterious veil of mathematic algorithms and insider knowledge. Its detailed index “Quantifying the Emerging Art Market” provides metrics-based suggestions to collectors on whether they should buy, sell or liquidate works by hot and emerging contemporary artists. ArtRank™ identifies prime […]
Last year, a federal court upheld that New York City can limit the number of artists who are allowed to sell work in public places like Battery Park and Union Sauare. A group of activists are fighting that decision, and have asked the Supreme Court to hear their case, but the city is vying to […]
See Banksy? You’re not the only one whose work is getting ragged. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Your data should belong to the NSA,” reads a new billboard on West Broadway near Canal Street. There’s no indication of who put it up–just that phrase, all-caps, against a plain white background. It’s the kind of sly commentary one might expect from Banksy, if he wasn’t busy painting dogs peeing on things. A similar […]
It didn’t take long for graffiti to spread across the pond. The underground art form that was birthed in the train yards and streets of NYC in the late 1960s and flourished in the early 1980s quickly made its way to London. “Everything that takes off in New York, comes here about a year or […]
During the day, this London piece by international street artist Above is an unassuming Banksy-like knockoff–a stenciled man, floating upside-down on a wall, one of his arms outstretched. At night, its true nature comes out. A streetlight illuminates the wall, casting the shadow of a nearby sign just under the man’s hand. He’s a breakdancer, […]
You’re looking at VAMP, the London graffiti so prolific a judge recently called his work “industrial in scale.” He tagged trains, walls, and bridges all over the city, logging hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages and earning the respect of the local graff scene and the ire of the police. He also had […]
A cheeky artist needles the favorable status Banksy’s work gets in London. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Sk8room is a new online store devoted to collecting and selling skate decks festooned with images by renowned photographers, graffiti writers, and street artists. Their catalog is full of heavyweights–check out examples from Damien Hirst, Shepard Fairey, and Banksy in the gallery–and they’re debuting with a set of original pieces from Belgian animal artist […]
