Tag: Graffiti
Subway graffiti pioneers CRASH and DAZE have just finished their collaborative mural on Mulberry Street for the L.I.S.A. Project. Both started painting trains in the mid to late 70s and by the 80s, were part of a small handful of artists who were able to transition from transit property to the galleries. To this day, they […]
Last week, Brazilian art duo Os Gemeos completed their biggest mural project to date. The twin brothers, who are known for painting elaborate designs on enormous walls, embellished six industrial silos in Canada at the Ocean Cement manufacturing and distribution plant for the Vancouver Biennale. The structures stand over 70-feet tall and served as the […]
Rosella Best, 36, was arrested on Monday for allegedly tagging police cars, vans, scooters, and a school in Brooklyn with anti-cop sentiments. The messages “Nazis=NYPD” and “NYPD pick on the innocent” were discovered on PS 31 near Lorimer and Meserole Streets. Other spray-painted statements included “NYPD pick on the harmless” and “a wrongful arrest is a crime.” The NYPD says that […]
Sometimes a bunch of writers just like to get together and paint. That’s what happened last week as CYCLE (interviewed), DUG, ZIMAD, KING 157, ATOMS, VERS and SIEH collaborated on a production in Bushwick. Click through the gallery above to see all the pieces and if you’re in NYC, you can check them out in […]
The NYPD has launched an investigation to find the person who spray painted powerful sentiments onto the 94th Precinct in Greenpoint, a police cruiser outside the building and PS 31. The Daily News reports: “NYPD = NAZI,” one hate message read. “NYPD Picks on Harmless People,” said another. The suspect also wrote “NYPD” next to a swastika. […]
NECKFACE, a graffiti artist who gained widespread popularity in part due to his easy-to-read work on the street, just released two new prints. The alcohol themed art, entitled “Chase You???” ($200, limited to 200 pieces) and “Are You A Beer???” ($175, limited to 125 pieces), come signed and numbered with certificates of authenticity. They’re both […]
On Monday, we flew our remote controlled flying camera — call sign ANIMAL Three (RIP ANIMAL One RIP ANIMAL Two) — over 5 Pointz to take one last look at the mammoth aerosol complex where graffiti artists have been painting legally for over 20 years, before it’s reduced to rubble. The official demolition began last week, when a […]
Taking the “broken windows” law enforcement theory to absurd extremes, New York State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, of Queens, has voiced his desire to ban a toy called Kidffiti. The kit sold at Toys R Us includes stenciling tools. Sprayable chalk that imitates spray paint is sold separately. “Graffiti is just the first act of vandalism. It oftentimes […]
After a “nasty accident with a plate glass window” Beriah Wall tells ANIMAL that he “became interested in insignificance. How small and worthless could an object be and still communicate?” The 67-year-old artist has been making his signature clay coins since 1977, creating hundreds of unique issues, leaving them all over the city and earning him […]
Like other major urban centers, the city of St. Louis is teeming with graffiti. Some of it’s amazing, some of it sucks. In between covering the protests in Ferguson, here’s what we came across in a desolate warehouse, at an abandoned train yard, and along a legal (flood) wall on South Wharf Street known as […]
