Tag: Murals
Ever since Taylor Swift was declared the city’s new Global Welcome Ambassador, the internet (and New Yorkers) hates her even more than it already did. And what better way to celebrate her looming internet death than a RIP mural on the Lower East Side by Chico? The muralist, whose real name is Antonio Garcia, has […]
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 […]
Days after Robin Williams took his own life, aerosol tributes to the funnyman started popping all over the world, from Belgrade and Dublin to Los Angles and Brooklyn. And now, Manhattan. The latest RIP wall was done by LES throwback and mural king Antonio Garcia, better known as “Chico.” The portrait style piece which sort […]
A mural honoring Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri was painted on the side of a business in North St. Louis. The tribute was done by artist Joseph Albanese and commissioned by Signature Screenprinting according to the St. Louis Dispatch. It’s a “dedication to the Mike […]
Renowned graffiti artists GHOST and GIZ kicked-off ANIMAL’s Pub(lic) Art project by painting this very loud and colorful opus on a wall in Hell’s Kitchen at 44th Street and 11th Avenue. The owner of McQuaids Restaurant & Pub is graciously allowing us to curate the space, with no strings attached. Our plan is to cycle in […]
At first glance, this corner on Allen and Division Streets in Chinatown looks like many others in the area, but it’s part of a legal graffiti installation by Smart Crew that completely blurs the traditional notions of “vandalism” and “art.” Sure, the SABIO fire extinguisher tag, and the CASH4, STU, and CHE tags above are illegal […]
World famous artist Banksy doesn’t often condone people taking his work from the street and selling it, but apparently he has made an exception for the Broad Plain Boys’ Club in Bristol. According to the BBC, Banksy sent a letter to Dennis Stinchcombe and told him, “Do what you feel is right with the piece.” The letter was […]
Today saw the unveiling of Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic today, a new Ed Ruscha mural on the High Line. The piece, a riff on a pastel-on-paper Ruscha piece from 1977, will be on display at West 22nd Street — across from the iconic COST/REVS roller — until May of next year. The text is definitely more […]
After showing some love to Sunnyside and Red Hook, NYC graffiti collective Smart Crew — specifically DCEVE, SNOEMAN and ELMO — just finished up a legal mural for Chinatown on Sunday. But it wasn’t easy. “It took me three years to secure this wall,” says DCEVE to ANIMAL. “I had to go with a Community […]
It’s hard to believe that H.R. Giger’s horrifically terrifying ‘Alien’ has been haunting our collective conscious for over three decades now and yet still finds new ways to penetrate our brains. The latest iteration of the cult classic comes by way of a mural teeming with the hard to kill creatures and other oddities in […]
