Tag: Street Art
Street artist David Anasagasti aka “Ahol Sniffs Glue” has filed a lawsuit accusing American Eagle Outfitters of unlawful infringement of his intellectual property — on their website and social media, in ads and billboards, and around their stores — without permission or compensation. In one of the sloppiest corporate appropriations we’ve seen in a while, American […]
Poster Boy is staying busy since adjusting a Chelsea parking lot billboard to read “WTF is street art anyway?” In mourning Eric Garner, the 43-year-old Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a plainclothes officer, the artist took to altering a police vehicle with a much more somber statement. On Flickr, he accompanied the image […]
Over the last few weeks, KET, Vor138, Rubin415, Bisco Smith and others treated nine5 gallery’s white walls as blank canvases. Last night, ANIMAL joined the party to check out the finished work at the “Group Ink” show. The finished art, dubbed “uncurated, unregulated, and unsellable” by the gallery press release, was a bright congregation of tags and colorful indoor murals. “It’s not […]
Last week, a billboard advertisement for a parking lot in Chelsea was mysteriously altered with bucket paint and it appears to be the work of public space-altering artist Poster Boy. A video was uploaded to his Flickr on Thursday showing the modification. The advert originally read: “WTF is alternate side of the street parking anyway?” […]
According to Catey Shaw’s viral-baiting “Brooklyn Girls” video, Brooklyn girls wear “boots in the summer,” “wait for the L train” and “rule the island” of, presumably, Manhattan? They also “break the rules,” as signified by all the dancing that the girl from Virginia is doing in front of the numerous murals in most of the […]
Unlike ANIMAL’s “Listen In” series which asks bands to create playlists, The Bomarr Blog, has its own unique twist: It asks street artists to create playlists (and posts them along with a Q&A). Site editor Matt Valerio has compiled over two dozen “Background Noise” profiles thus far and has no plans on stopping anytime soon. […]
On one day during Banksy’s “New York residency” in October, the artist set up a street vendor stand selling “spray art” canvases for $60 a pop. Two of these canvases have sold at Bonhams, clocking in at $214,000. A woman from New Zealand who purchased Kids on Guns (2013) and Winnie the Pooh (2013) –and was later mailed a certificate of […]
Someone went over COPE2’s Bowery Wall mural, but this time it wasn’t a writer seeking fame. It was Goldman Properties, who owns the spot. This weekend, Goldman Properties erected scaffolding in front of the entire wall, to prepare for construction at the former location of Billy’s Antiques. Plans indicate that the new building will be 28 […]
Unlike many street artists in New York City, Jerkface is a native. Born in Queens, the whimsical 32-year-old makes it a point to never take himself too seriously. As of recent, he has painted several nostalgia-inducing murals* so ANIMAL asked him a few questions about this latest series. In the past few months, you’ve done […]
The Welling Court Mural Project entered its fifth year last week. For 2014, more than 80 graffiti and street artists painted over 100 spots. Curated and organized by Ad Hoc Art, it first launched in 2010 as as a way to “slay some aesthetic blights” and continues to expand. With each passing year, more and […]
