Tag: Street Art
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 […]
Street artist Cirio just put up a new piece on McKibbin Street in Brooklyn, as it looks like on Google Street view. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMAL New York) […]
As we reported, Faile — with an assist from Colossal Media — was commissioned to create a giant mural in Hell’s Kitchen. As of today, it’s finished. Elements of the mural reference the building’s rich musical history, including the word “Imagine” up top. 321 West 44th Street is the original location of the Record Plant, a legendary […]
Colombian street artist Stinkfish tells ANIMAL that he is on his way to India after spending over a week in Nepal, where he was busy painting. “This was a 10 day trip I just finished,” writes the Bogota-born artist in an email. “The pieces are located in the cities of Kathmandu, Patan, Pokhara and Bhaktapur. […]
The ever-busy, Brooklyn-based art collective known as Faile was commissioned to do a massive mural on the entire side of a building in Hell’s Kitchen. Faile tells ANIMAL they created the design and that the masters of hand painting big stuff, Colossal Media, will be doing the execution–like the outdoor advertising company did with Greg […]
Stop by Gowanus’s Serett Metal Works in the next few days and you may catch a glimpse of a Banksy. Not because the artist painted an original work on the building, but because it’s the temporary home of a piece hacked out of a Los Angeles wall, taken, and sold by the shady Hamptons gallery owner Stephan […]
To help promote its new bike lot and outdoor public art spot, the Brooklyn Academy of Music will unveil a new mural by KAWS on Wednesday. According to the official press release: [T]he new park transforms an empty, underutilized lot into a new site for bike parking and creates a new platform for public art […]
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 […]
Hot Tea strikes again! The Minneapolis native took over the pedestrian pathway of the Williamsburg Bridge and strung colorful yarn from one side of the fence to another, about ten feet above the ground. Tall bikes watch out! You really, really shouldn’t be riding in the pedestrian path anyway, lest you want to get beheaded by a […]
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 […]
