Tag: Graffiti
Less than 24 hours later after it first appeared, the new Banksy that just went up on Allen Street in Chinatown has already been slightly tagged, pilfered, then fixed and tastefully altered with some stinging commentary. Late last night, hours after someone scrawled a tag near the piece, the Smart Crew descended on the spot. […]
For most graffiti artists in Beirut, the two stores in town are way too expensive. “You can find spray paint at any regular paint store in this city,” local graffiti artist PHAT 2 says. PHAT 2’s been writing since 2008. He’s 25 now, and runs one of the top crews in Beirut, ACK (All City […]
Giving signed dollar bills to newly-opened businesses has been a New York tradition for time immemorial. Of course, The Newsstand pop-up art/zine/record store — underground at the Lorimer/Metropolitan L/G subway stop — did this a little differently. Their good luck bills are signed by graffiti writers (and artsy personalities) such as CHINO, KUMA, NECKFACE, and […]
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 […]
Some well preserved graffiti is revealed at a construction site in Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It looks like the art of Chris Brown has evolved since we crashed his reception at the Opera Gallery in SoHo last year. Judging by the looks of his $90,000 Porsche that he decided to “art” because he can, the angry clowny scribbles have gone into full sloppy Kenny Scharf imitation mode, but angrier. Look […]
Issue 9 of artsy culture magazine King Brown is out and it’s dope. It features interviews with the likes of Dabs & Myla, Ed Templeton, NYCHOS, Ghostpatrol, HuskMitNavn, Unga (Broken Fingaz crew), Numskull, Vans the Omega, and Ozzie Wright, among others. One of my favorite staples of the limited edition mag that was founded by […]
New York graffiti writers MINT&SERF recently curated the exhibition “#PPP: None of Us Greater Than All of Us” at the ROX Gallery on the Lower East Side. Looks like a varied mix of media, from Clayton Patterson’s photos to Beni Zooted’s Untitled “self-portrait” of U.S. currency and plexiglass to the collaborative graffiti canvases of the Peter […]
Jeffrey Deitch is coming back to New York and he’s doing a graffiti show, sort of. It looks interesting. His highly hyped street art exhibit that one time was dampened by a questionable incident *cough BLU cough* and his overall stint as the director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art lead to questions regarding his […]
Last week, I took photos of graffiti in Alexandria. Similar to the graffiti around Tahrir Square (and all across the country), these aerosol-scrawled messages play an important role in the political conflict. Both sides use the street discourse to promote their cause, intimidate opponents, and voice outrage. In some ways, the art form parallels graffiti’s […]
