Tag: Graffiti
As first reported by EVGrieve, a bunch of graffiti artists were busted in the East Village on Wednesday while painting a rooftop. The New York Post named CASH4 as one of the five who were arrested and since he was the only one ID’d by the tabloid, we’ll keep it at that. In 2012, CASH4 […]
It was done by CETE and VEW, two graffiti artists born and raised in New York City. ANIMAL got in contact with the outlaws over email, via a trusted source. For obvious legal reasons, they didn’t give us their real names or ages, but were more than happy to discuss their creative exploits. After all, […]
Snowy weather provides optimal conditions for graffiti artists to get up and lots of them have been using the recent winter storms to do just that. But they’re not just hitting walls and roll-down gates. They’re painting the holy grail of graffiti: New York City subway cars. UPDATE: Another train was painted with a Spy […]
Christopher Morris is best known for his photographs of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Chechnya and the drug war in Colombia, but in the 1980s, he was a 22-year-old photo agency intern from Florida. These are some rare, recently-discovered, previously unpublished photographs on Time LightBox today. This is how he got his start. A […]
“I wanted to surprise my girlfriend with a special and unique proposal,” writes Bart, the person who painted a graffiti-style marriage proposal viewable from the High Line this week. “Rings in champagne glasses and one-kneed proposals in Central Park — it’s been done and frankly isn’t my style.” The piece took an hour and a […]
Online graffiti gallery Dirty Pilot has some new art for its ongoing “Black Book Masters” series. This exhibit features eye-popping work from writers such as SKEME, TRACY 168, SHAME, CRIME 79, GHOST and CES. And it’s for sale, for not that much. I put some of my favorites in the gallery above. Click here to […]
In the above mini documentary, MOCAtv takes a look at the late graffiti legend NEKST and the graffiti scene in Detroit. There’s some footage of the big NEKST tribute going up on the side of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, which we’ve covered before, as well as remembrances from fellow writers REVOK and POSE […]
Snowstorms are important weather happenings for many graffiti artists. With the NYPD busy doing mundane tasks which require them to sit in heated patrol cars and occasionally flash on their lights and sirens, there’s not a lot of enforcement going on. This gives vandals plenty of opportunities to take advantage of otherwise hard-to-hit spots. Or […]
As originally reported on Gothamist, what appears to be a new Banksy has popped up in Queens. Heidi Trenholm, 24, was walking through near the Woodside-Elmhurst border when she “saw a man wearing construction gear loading something into a rental truck,” then noticed the piece, partially obscured by a blue tarp on the wall. UPDATE: Banksy has confirmed […]
The tradition of vandalizing Banksy’s art quickly after it goes up continues and the street piece he revealed on Saturday, depicting a forlorn-looking priest, has already been modified. The work, dubbed “ […]
