Hands down, the Iraq Veterans Against the War(IVAW) are doing the most kick ass political and cultural work in the US today. For a year or so they have been…

My friend Stephanie has created an amazingly interesting and weird new project by opening a factory in Second Life! In an attempt to raise serious issues about the intersection of…

As if the war in Iraq wasn’t surreal and fucked up enough already (with televised “victory” events before the real war even started, mass public spectacles like the tearing down…

This came in the other day from The Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, who were instrumental in the fight to get the US to stop bombing the…

Colin Matthes recently completed a mural for Milwaukee’s IN:SITE temporary public art program. The mural is titled “Everyday Transactions: The Familiar Inconceivable”. The mural draws upon elements of the everyday,…

In October members of THINK AGAIN did some large-scale projections in Los Angeles for a project was called “The NAFTA Effect” organized by Outpost for Contemporary Art. THINK AGAIN’s mobile…

Recently in Massachusetts police used the networking website Myspace.com to find 3 graffiti artists that are suspected to have caused $75,000 worth of “damage.” Stoughton Police Officers “spent more than…

The Washington Post had a nice article a few days back on Philadelphia’s extraordinary public murals: White-haired Marian Custus peers out her door where a row of elegant townhouses once…

Via Charles & Ed, a great article on the “graffiti of disaster” in post-Katrina New Orleans: A can of spray paint was a crucial tool for New Orleans rescue teams…

Designer and all-around good guy John Emerson has an article in the latest issue of Communication Arts about designers who use collective or cooperative structures to collaborate and make a…

With the recent destruction of New Orleans, and the lawless aftermath there now exists an exetremely volatile circumstance. While the mayor declares a final evacuation to “forcibly remove” those that…

The big news in the street art world this morning comes from Washington, D.C., where three people, allegedly Borf and two friends, were arrested early yesterday morning. The Washington Post,…

As a sidenote to the previous post, folks who missed the Design of Dissent show can still get a glimpse of it, thanks to public broadcasting. Last week’s episode of…

Just got word that WBAI’s Rise Up Radio show will be doing a segment at 11am today (Friday) on graffiti and advertising. Cope2, who recently completed a billboard for Time…

Colin Moynihan has an article in the New York Times today about our ghost bike project and Time’s Up’s memorial stenciling project. It’s good that this issue is getting mentioned…

In Detroit, an artist will go to jail today. His crime? Recreating a Michaelangelo mural that includes a nude figure: He painted Eve as God created her: nude. And when…

It had to happen sooner or later. Technology similiar to that found in projects like Grafedia and YellowArrow will now be used to the buff’s advantage. Mirroring the interactive and…