Tag: Graffiti
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 […]
In Style Wars, the quintessential documentary about the early beginnings of graffiti and the City of New York’s attempts at battling its proliferation, there’s a particularly entertaining scene featuring an entire subway car that was painted with the words: “Dump Koch.” According to notorious bomber COPE2, that train was painted by SPIN TFS “on the […]
Japanese artists So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi created the above robot, which randomly creates artwork by moving back and forth while spraying paint at a wall. Designboom explains how the contraption works: The chaotic artwork is achieved through a single automated arm provisioned with a rotary encoder attached to the fulcrum of the pendulum. as the […]
What do The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The 400 Blows, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Mystic River, and Blade 2 all have in common? No, smart ass, not the fact that they are all fictional works filmed in live-action. Well, fine, besides that. The answer: graffiti. Thanks to this awesome Tumblr, you can […]
The Russian graffiti blog VIVACITY has released a trailer for Moscow Subway Chronicles, a docu-short featuring some of the proudest work of BUNT, UTOP, MDT and TERROR from over the past five years. Watch graffiti writers unhinge brick walls, crawl around subterranean tunnels and bomb entire train cars in hard-hat ‘n’ vest disguise like pros. Just in case you thought Russian subways were for performance art only. […]
For its latest art sale, online gallery Dirty Pilot has curated a show featuring black book pages from some of graffiti’s most legendary pioneers and train painters. With work from the likes of STAY HIGH 149 (RIP), SEEN, CES, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, GHOST, COPE2, and others, no introductions are really necessary. The pages range in […]
Adam Mansbach, the bestselling cool dad author of Go the Fuck to Sleep, recently approached the MTA with the ads for his new book Rage Is Back. CBS Outdoor promptly shut down his request to put that on the exterior of subway trains. They don’t want anything that looks like graffiti. To be fair, the book is about a graffiti writer […]
So, this is a bit conflicting. Here’s a recently released book from photographer Scott Hocking: BAD GRAFFITI. Ahem ahem. BAD GRAFFITI is a current photography series focusing on the vulgar, juvenile, poorly scrawled, often misspelled, ignorant, ridiculous, hilarious, bad-ass, so-bad-its-good, under-the-radar, and generally dismissed as shitty graffiti that I love throughout Detroit. For one thing, there’s a […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, NYC graffiti-bombing legend COPE2 shows us what a quick sketch of his wall piece looks like. I did this sketch pretty quick once I knew I was putting a wall together with several graffiti artists. If I’m just […]
