Tag: Street Art
Ten years after Los Angeles officials placed a moratorium on the creation of new murals, City Council is now being asked to vote on a law that would welcome them back into the city’s landscape. The ban, which began sometime in 2003, was largely in part due to the increased use of these murals as […]
The cartoon-inspired work of the young and nationally recognized Austrian street artist NYCHOS is the subject of a recently opened solo exhibition at Brooklyn’s own Mighty Tanaka art gallery. The show, titled ‘Silly Slicesophy‘ features a selection from the artist’s latest body of work–– in which he focuses mainly on depicting some of Disney’s most instantly recognized […]
England’s seaside resort The Grosvenor has come up with a fantastic way to protect their prized Banksy mural, estimated to be worth $775,000. No one is going to chisel it out of the wall or haul it off for sale or drill through it or tag it. No one is going to see it either: The decorating team has […]
During the day, this London piece by international street artist Above is an unassuming Banksy-like knockoff–a stenciled man, floating upside-down on a wall, one of his arms outstretched. At night, its true nature comes out. A streetlight illuminates the wall, casting the shadow of a nearby sign just under the man’s hand. He’s a breakdancer, […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, New York graffiti bomber turned fashion designer CLAW talks about her process for designing and installing the window displays at Lord and Taylor on Fifth Avenue. Usually I never work with a sketch or a completely planned out idea, but […]
Of course you would. First Street Green, a majestic art-and-garden-oasis tucked away in the chaos of the East Village right off Houston Street, is seeking artists to paint murals on the plywood walls of First Park. Ideas and volunteers are also welcome. More, from their website: Each selected artist will be assigned a site within […]
Here’s an ingenious billboard intervention from the California Department of Corrections, a confusingly-named art group out of the Golden State. The piece flips the Pacific Rim tagline, “To fight monsters, we created monsters,” on its head, emblazoning each of the film’s giant robots with the names of a U.S. security agency–NSA, CIA, FBI, and ICE–and placing the […]
These lovely devilish clowns faces were brought to you by Paul Insect and Sweet Toof, two well respected street artists out of the UK, but through the magic of stop animation, you never actually get to see them in action. “A quick thing made on a hot day in London 2013,” reads the video’s pithy […]
Street artist Buff Monster has been busy painting walls in Brooklyn lately using his signature pink color scheme. We showed you the collaboration he did with HOACS and just the other day he finished another wall at Bushwick Collective, a sort of outdoor gallery on Troutman Street between St. Nicholas and Wycoff Avenues. “Not bad […]
Stockholm-based artist Herr Nilsson turns that nagging old damsel in distress trope on its head with his latest street art series, “Dark Princesses” that has been making its rounds online. Lurking around street corners, our favorite childhood Disney princesses await unsuspecting pedestrians with cocked guns and sharpened knives. About time these ladies take matters into […]
