Tag: Street Art
When Insa isn’t photographing hot girls on fixies, he’s painting street art murals with day-glo colors that are impossible to miss on walls and buildings around the world. Insa has also been known to paint multi-layered murals, taking photos along the way to build a stop-motion gif-like video. The video then becomes a stop motion […]
There’s a wall on Kenmare Street off Mulberry Street that’s so heavily bombed, it looks more like a section of the Berlin Wall in its last days than your typical NYC graffiti. The sheer amount of spray paint appears as if it took years to accumulate, with layers upon layers of tags and throw-ups applied […]
The Olympic Restaurant on Delancey and Essex has been on a month-to-month lease for awhile, but now it seems certain that it will be demolished in the next few months and one of the best pieces put up (legally) by Parisian artist Invader is likely to get destroyed along with it. UPDATE: Invader’s spokesperson reached out to […]
Art magnate Banksy finally has a fully functioning website again. The homepage of www.banksy.co.uk now sports a black and white illustration of a dying Dumbo surrounded by militants that fans may recognize from the parody video he released on day 6 of his Better Out Than In residency back in October of 2013. For that […]
In today’s Metro, there’s a front page story about “Graffiti-Free NYC,” a program that employs “low-to-moderate income New Yorkers” to traipse around the boroughs and buff graffiti for property owners, free of charge. According to the paper, these “Graffiti Warriors” have cleaned off 170 million square feet of tags, outlines and throw-ups since 1999. For […]
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 […]
Adam Void has been traversing America’s underground for most of his life, and since 2003 he’s been capturing it in Polaroid. This series documents “the beginnings of the Carolina’s graffiti scene, 2006-10 era Brooklyn Street Art/Weirdo Graffiti underground, Baltimore and Philly’s warehouse squat culture of the early 2010’s, and hundreds of pictures from America’s back roads; […]
For Bushwick Open Studios 2014, the Bushwick Collective added a few more murals to the already street art-laden landscape of Troutman, Jefferson and Wyckoff streets. We caught Adam Fu, Vers, Solus and others in action over the weekend, but here the completed murals. This year, the Bushwick Collective also held a gallery show, featuring canvases by […]
When a piece of stenciled art on plywood appeared in Bristol last month affixed to a public wall near the Broad Plains Boys Club, its leader Dennis Stinchcombe couldn’t be certain it was the work of Banksy. The piece depicted a man and woman staring into their cell phone screens, mid embrace, and although it […]
The New York Post reports on the staggering proliferation of graffiti in the city that must be driving the new police commissioner insane. According to the tabloid, there was “211 more graffiti complaints this year compared with last year,” noting how “that’s about a 5 percent spike citywide, from 3,956 to 4,167.” A whole 211 […]
