Tag: Graffiti
Here’s the “MARTY” mural that graffiti writers LADY PINK, HOW, NOSM, FREE5, TERROR161, CRASH, DAZE, BIO, and FREEDOM finished over the weekend. The mural was a surprise birthday present for legendary graffiti photographer Martha Cooper, who told ANIMAL that “It was more awesome than awesome.” It’s only there for a few days, so take a nice, […]
Today is Martha Cooper’s birthday. In tribute to the stalwart graffiti photographer, LADY PINK, HOW, NOSM, FREE5, TERROR161, CRASH, DAZE, BIO, FREEDOM and other graffiti writers are currently working on this mural, to be finished later today. The mural was a surprise. They told Martha to come by 12 and there it was. “It’s more […]
According to a 2012 survey by the Straphangers Campaign, subway stations’ conditions are pretty much the same or improving since the year before. The survey sampled 251 platforms at 120 stations. The only factors that got worse were water damage and graffiti, which was found at 27% of examined stations (up 7% from last year). […]
Bronx-born “Godfather of Graffiti,” SEEN, known for his full-color, top-to-bottom throw-ups on New York City subway cars dating back to 1973, has been undergoing a radical departure from the street style he helped pioneer. For his latest work, on view right now at Fabien Castanier Gallery in California, he weaves thick layers of drips and […]
ANIMAL loves F.A.T. artists so much, you know? But here’s F.A.T.’s street artist Katsu braggingabout tagging in Minecraft, all like “The future of graffiti for me will be in the form of black hat tactics” and “MINECRAFT offers me a way to connect with my untainted inner youth and create expressions of criminal activity without the police […]
In December, Houston-born and worldwide recognized graffiti writer NEKST passed away. The prolific art-bomber left him mark in countless cities and eventually aligned with LA’s mighty MSK crew. After his death, NEKST tributes began popping on streets from Houston to New York City and beyond. And now he has been immortalized online by one of […]
The Santa Eulalia — an austere, barren-walled, neo-Romanesque church located outside Barcelona — recently had its main dome re-done. Father Ramon Borr commissioned graffiti writers RUDI and HOUSE to add some color and novelty, an idea that came to him last year “surfing the web,” he explains to Gerry Hadden. Even though the press is […]
In 2008, Parisian artist/nightclub owner André Saraiva was commissioned for an outdoor mural on the Galerie Enrico Navarra, and chose an unsubtle message to send: I Don’t Give A Fuck, in all caps and his signature hot pink hue. A new video–hilariously released five years after the fact–documents the deed, complete with André taking off […]
Increasingly, more and more auction houses are becoming receptive to selling work by street artists, but they usually do so by folding a few lots into their contemporary art sales. But not at Doyle New York. They let the street art genre stand on its own and for their inaugural auction last October, 70 percent […]
Artist Jay Shells — who our readers know from putting up uncanny “subway etiquette,” telling the cops to clean up after their horses and gloriously punking Fox News — is getting married, yey! His proposal was perfectly appropriate: “RACHEL WILL YOU MARRY ME?” in five graffitied rooftops on the Upper East Side. “I was definitely going to paint the proposal […]
