“These Systems Are Failing.”

“Trump wrapped in the flag (not the Constition)—Pence carrying a (blasphemous) bible.”

Thx Edward Snowden.

I worked on this mural last week in order for it to be ready for today, Mexican Independence Day. I teamed up with graffiti writer “Homie” who did a super…

More photos of the 4′ x 6′ prints that Jesse Purcell has been printing in his Toronto studio and that I have been helping to co-organize with the People’s Climate…

It takes a lot to regenerate my interest in street art. Often it takes being introduced to someones work who is pushing the genre outside of its boundaries. This is…

Roger and Mazatl are in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, to participate in some of the events taking place around the 20th anniversary of the emergence of the…

It has been some months since my good friend and collaborator AIRE and I got to go on a trip to Chiapas where we got to collaborate with several organizations…

This past Spring semester I taught a studio class called “Printmaking in Urban Spaces” at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The course was described as such: “This course will focus on…

This just in (or inbox):   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 23, 2013 – San Francisco, California Corrected Billboard Supports U.S. Military at Guantanamo Bay The California Department of Corrections…

In mid December of 2012 I was lucky to travel to Chiapas to collaborate with a number of Autonomous organizations and projects with an amazing group of committed graphic workers…

Graffitimundo is an organization in Buenos Aires. They are producing a documentary about art and activism called White Walls Say Nothing.

Here is a short text that I wrote about the work of Rafael Trelles in the book Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons edited by Therese Quinn, John…

Since moving to New Mexico I’ve been working with a project called Friends of the Orphan Signs. This collaborative project was started by Ellen Babcock, who saw potential in the…

A new documentary is coming out about about popular resistance to the corporate domination of our visual landscape. I don’t know much about it, but it looks interesting, and debuts…

Al Jazeera just ran a great illustrated story on graffiti in Libya, check it out HERE.

In an article published yesterday in the Guardian UK (read HERE), it’s come out that Shepard Fairey didn’t receive the welcome he would have hoped for on his recent trip…

This just in from the California Department of Corrections: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 1, 2011 – San Francisco, California Liberated Ads Salute America Following the Death of Osama bin…

Covering contemporary art movements across Mexico, Armed with Art examines the integral nature art plays in creating cultural spaces of resistance and change. A great short film about various collectives,…

This weekend, with crucial assistance from Shaun Slifer and Kevin Clancy, I put up some prints on the Murphy building in Sheraden. A post office, corner store and laundromat in…

Image by LA-based artist Eddie Colla Colla has provided one of the best reviews of MOCA’s blockbuster show “Art in the Streets.” So far critical writing and reviews on the…

Strangely enough, there have been savage attacks on the picturesque streets of beautiful San Cristobal de las Casas. Chiapas. The perpetrators wheat pasted posters and images of old forgotten stories…

Photo: Graffiti artists collaboratively paint a wall in Santiago during the multi-day Planetta Graff festival Our buddy Andalusia just had this great article on the Planeta Rock hip hop fest…

Thanks to Jason Urban for giving what’s going on in Wisconsin more exposure over at Printeresting! Most of us are watching events unfold in Wisconsin from a great distance but…

The massive labor demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin have reached day six and some patterns have emerged that are as recognizable as they are unexpected. First and foremost, this is a…

The folks at Occupied London have set up a site for some comrades in Cairo to post on-the-ground updates about what’s going on in Egypt. There are also a bunch…

I recently completed and installed a mural of Carlos Cortez.

Regular viewers of the Justseeds blog will remember Nicolas’ essay on the censorship of street artist Blu‘s mural, a short while back. Recently a group calling itself LA RAW have…

By Lush, from rebel:art. The above is a humorous piece about the commodification of street art. A handful of the work is clever, while other pieces can be easily critiqued,…

In February 2009, the Pentagon decided to lift the two-decade long ban on photographs of flag-draped coffins. Somewhere down the line the military brass reasoned (or was forced to admit)…

A friend just forwarded me this link to a design called Looptagger. Some folks figured out a really clever and quick way to spray stencils. Check their How-To on their…

Here’s part 2 of the Signs of Change sneek peek! Check out the book HERE.

Check out the back story to this piece HERE, it’s very cool! A meta-wheatpaste about the budget cuts in the UK.

My new book Signs of Change is launching here on Justseeds this morning, and I wanted to give you all a peek inside!! Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s…

The folks at the Rozbrat squat in Poznan, Poland have put up another great guerrilla billboard. (For some background, go HERE or HERE.) This one reads: “Olympics Instead of Bread—New…

Chicago, IL – “Operation Exposure: War is Trauma” hit the streets of Chicago on Monday November 15th. This collaboration between the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and veterans and supporters from Iraq…

Just got this from a friend in Poland. Folks connected to Rozbrat, the longest running squat in the country (in Poznan), took some billboard real estate for their own use….

I just got a note about a cool site focusing on Latin American street art. It’s called SMNR, and you can check it out HERE. The image to the right…

I’m not sure what one might call this, its created before it could be considered a reappropriation. The Yes Men, Rainforest Action Network, and Amazon Watch install bunk Chevron advertisements….

This just in: California billboard correctors have been hard at work again, this time with a round of billboard alterations aimed at defeating Proposition L, an anti-homeless initiative which would…

Here is a video of the mural Chris and I rocked out, in four hours, just before the DUMBO Arts Festival. Chris Stain No Longer Empty is a not for…

Chris Stain recently caught this from the windows of Amtrak in upstate NY. Evidence of one of our adventures years earlier. Silver paint don’t fade…

Looks like Wichita, Kansas just passed a broad and sweeping bill outlawing all kinds of “graffiti tools.” Below is the text of an article from the Wichita Eagle found HERE,…

After we finished the First Stage of a Climate Change Graphic Campaign titled “Ante la Destruccion Ambiental, Organizacion!” where we screenprinted 11 different posters at the ECPM68 in Mexico City….

My friend Mathew Curran just got back from a productive visit to Madrid, he’s got a short video of the process of cutting a huge stencil, painting it, and pasting…

The much anticipated sticker exhibit PEEL HERE just opened this weekend, July 17th, in Los Angeles and will be up for two weeks. The show is organized by Sticky Rick,…

While in London for the Anarchist Bookfair last year I got to meet a smart new street artist named Xylo. In a city where street art had gone just as…

My friends in BS.AS.Stencil and Run Don’t Walk have teamed up with fellow stencil artist Malatesta to install “Sindicato” at the BSAS gallery Hollywood in Cambodia. This is one of…

Street artist Pivo has posted about an interesting new piece she has done in southern France about refugees from Spain in the 1940s. A nice, subtle wheatpaste addressing the troubles…

We got a nice email from street artist Back East a couple days back, he sent some flicks of recent work he put up in Arizona criticizing the recent immigration…

Dan S. Wang and I recently collaborated on a print to voice our opposition to the Arizona Immigration Bill SB-1070. Copies of the print are available here and most of…

But it doesn’t have to be. Read up.

New Mural on top of the RDAC BX rooftop, painted by DASIC. You can catch a good glimpse of it by taking the Bruckner Expressway through the South Bronx, look…

MQ-1 Predator drones kill civilians. This great wall of screen printed street posters is up around the corner from my house.

John Fekner just passed this video along to us, a remix of a piece from 1981. To read more info, go HERE.

One of my favorite old school stencil artists, Anton van Dalen, has a (relatively) new website up, which collects a lot of his work, including an incredible selection of his…

Must be Milwaukee to have an art show at the site of an old beer factory. Last Friday night (4/16/10), numerous Milwaukee-based artists did projects and exhibited work at the…

My friend Charlie just sent along this link to images of a new ad intervention against H&M on behalf of the Campaign to Boycott and Divest from Israel. Check out…

Eric “DEAL CIA” Felisbret Graffiti New York Abrams, 2009 Contrary to the title, this book isn’t just one of the seeming endless herd of books called “Graffiti ______” (insert just…

IVAW taking mud stencils to the recruiters in Madison, Wisconsin from Dan S Wang on Vimeo. Dan S. Wang has shared some incredible video footage of an IVAW mud stenciling…

and the street art is made with red clay. A number of Justseed’s members are in Philadelphia this week installing three different shows at three separate venues across the city…

link to an article on how a mural wall on Beatty Street in Vancouver was wiped out by the Olympic/gentrification machine. The comments posted with article express the frustrations the…

Last November Dara and I were in Berlin, and I took a lot of photos on the street. Berlin is one of the few cities of been to that still…

Our friend Klutch has recently expressed his dissatisfaction with the first year of Obama with this “Hopeless” print. To be hopeless assumes you once had hope, which might be a…

Last week, on Jan. 19th, two groups from St. Petersburg, Russsia, Autonomous Action and Anarchist Artists, carried out a large scale street art action on the outside of the State…

New drag queen stencils from San Francisco street artist Jeremy Novy. “This project is intended to bring gay imagery into a homophobic subculture, covering hateful and distasteful graffiti in our…

These guys jusst put up a cool mural in Williamsburg, check out more info at BrooklynStreetArt.

This popped up in the inbox today, you may recognize some Justseedsers. Creative Violation documents the exploding underground art form of the street stencil and explores its roots in political…

Photo by Philipp M. Rassmann/NYC Street Memorial Project Pablo Pasarán Saturday, August 8, 2009 Age: 26 Location: 35th Avenue and 21st Street Astoria Queens , NY United States Pablo Pasarán,…

While generally bored by recent street art output (or the lack thereof), I’ve always been a fan of Poland’s M-City, and his interlocking and evolving urban stencil grids of buildings,…

28 degrees and snowing is ideal conditions for……… mud stenciling! Here are photos of a Chris Stain stencil image from Reproduce and Revolt put up in Milwaukee by his co-conspirators…

I’ve always been a fan of the street artist El Tono, and his ability to adjusts and morph his simple geometric line patterns to the different social contexts he works…

Creative NYC bike advocates repainted a bike lane removed from Bedford Ave. a couple days back, and the video of the action’s been posted: I guess a couple of them…

A cool short video of Iraq Veterans Against the War putting up mud stencils in Ft. Hood in October:

The good folks at BrooklynStreetArt.com sent along this cool video of stencil artist Logan Hicks putting up a large scale mural in Brooklyn. Check out the video below, and an…

Justseeds members Chris Stain and Swoon recently traveled to Stavanger, Norway to participate in the Nuart Street Art Festival. The folks that organized the festival are creating a documentary and…

Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today has just been released by PM Press! A brand new book which collects 200 political prints from 200 different international artists. Loosely based on…

Here’s some wood blocks Chris is working on for the install of the project (above), and my latest hand painted sign is below:

Here’s Chris and a couple students up on ladders sketching out the cityscape backdrop we’ve built in the gym. Man, these ladders are scary! And here is the cityscape getting…

It is pretty common knowledge at Justseeds that I’m a complete ice cream addict. I’d eat it 3 meals a day if I could. So my eyes lit up when…

Chris is following his usual themes of the importance of the individual’s experience and the struggle of daily life. Here’s some new work that will be on view at Art…

This just in! New York City has changed it’s long-standing policy regarding graffiti removal. It used to be that building owners had to call the city to have graffiti removed,…

Here’s a video a friend produced of the Boomcrash Collective’s contribution to the Public Ad Campaign’s billboard whitewash last Sunday. boomcrash from dgoats on Vimeo.

Iraq Veterans Against the War have adopted mud stencils in their tactics! It has been inspiring to see how the technique that Jesse Graves popularized through his website has been…

Guest blogger Ali Gitlow sent us this great new interview with NYC street artist Dan Witz, check it out!: Brooklyn-based artist Dan Witz has been contributing his unique brand of…

BoomCrash Collective Sunday, October 25th was the Public Ad Campaign‘s second whitewashing and takeover of unsanctioned billboards in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Public Ad Campaign acts on the assumption that public…

This stencil has been up for years in Milwaukee and makes me smile every time I see it.

Jesse Graves did a mud stencil workshop last Friday and one of the stencils put up in Milwaukee was my “Pitbulls Are Nice” image from the Cut and Paint zine….

This just went up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, recrafting one of my old pieces into commentary on the development crash, and the condo skeletons littering the landscape. See more econo-collapse street…

Just a quick shot of a poster in Mexico City using the art of Rini Templeton. Her work is still getting around! If you don’t know about Rini, check out…

Photos of some recent stencil work from San Francisco street artist Jeremy Novy. Jeremy was a long-time Milwaukee artist and consistently put up great work in the Cream City. Now…

Shawn Gilheeney just sent along these great photos of his exhibition Decaydence at Unsmoke Systems in Braddock, PA:

If you haven’t checked it out already, David Ellis and BLU have created a collaborative timelapse video while partaking in the Fame Festival in Italy. COMBO a collaborative animation by…

This just in from Not My Government: Paul Barron’s community memorial mural of Gary King Jr. was buffed by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transport) September 24th, 2009. The mural was…

YZ just sent these images of faces they put up in Paris. Interestingly, one is of William Casby, who was one of the last living African-Americans that had been born…

Chris Stain, Shaun Slifer and I are all featured in Creative Violation, a cool short film about street stenciling made by Andrew Stevenson that’s quietly been making the rounds at…

Annice Jacoby for Precita Eyes Muralists, ed. Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo Abrams, 2009 I gotta say, at the first crack of the spine of this book I was…

A stencil grafitti direct action aimed at counteracting concerted effort by US Military to recruit in minority and poor neighborhoods. “We are a group of anonymous culture jammers. This action…

John Fekner just sent me a link to a great photo collection he recently put up of his stenciled car husks. John started painting slogans such as “Decay” on the…

Paper Politics, a show I curated of political prints from around the world, is opening on Friday in Richmond, VA. Please come by and check it out if you’re in…

Chris Stain and Armsrock are pluggin away, with a a handful of breaks, over at the Ad-Hoc Art Gallery. They are making a collaborative installation in the gallery and hanging…

Friend, Paper Politics contributor and Reproduce & Revolt artist David Loewenstein has just installed a cool series of window installations at the Power and Light Building in Kansas City. David…

Its summer in NYC, and despite June having the 2nd most rainfall on record dumping on NYC 23 out of 30 days, Chris Stain was able to paint with some…

The Aberdeen Poster Collective is another UK poster group I’ve stumbled across online. This crew is from Aberdeen, Scotland, and appears to have had their heyday in the early 2000s….

Check out the latest video about the Tamms Year Ten mud stencil action in Chicago that took place on June 6th. More info: www.yearten.org/ mudstencils.com/

Mud stencil video by Gretchen Hasse. links: http://www.yearten.org/ http://mudstencils.com/

Lori Waxman wrote an insightful article about the recent June 6th mud stencil event in Chicago for the online and print publication New City Chicago. Below is her text and…

On Saturday, June 6, 2009 in Chicago, local artists partnered with the Tamms Year Ten coalition to protest state-sanctioned torture at the supermax prison in Southern Illinois. And they did…

My friends in San Diego have finished 2 more amazing walls on their La Entrada Project. Check out the videos below, and the project here. La Entrada Project – Wall2…

Chris Stain just sent me this photo of a mural he painted with his long-time pal Billy Mode. They took advantage of the nice weather in Brooklyn to put up…

Bernard Herman receently sent these photos over of a nice set of stencils that showed up one morning on the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus. Not sure who…

Louis E.V. Nevaer & Elaine Sendyk Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca Mark Batty Publishers, 2009 As far as I know, this is the first book out that exclusively focuses on the…

There are a few flicks of a piece that Billy Mode and Chris Stain painted last week over on SlamXHype.com

Last Saturday I was lucky to be able to take part (at least marginally) in a great project organized by the Public Ad Campaign. Dozens and dozens of artists and…

The recent Justseeds install in Milwaukee included a public art component. Here are examples…

Art & Politics: Russell Howze/Stencil Nation Wed. April 15, 7:30pm, Free CounterPulse 1310 Mission St. (near 9th) San Francisco, CA 94103 With dynamically illustrated perspectives across the art form, hundreds…

My friend Rutger from Amsterdam just sent me these great flics of some street art from Barcelona. I’m not sure who the artist is, but these are really, seemingly nice…

Chris Stain and Billy Mode spent a mild Sunday evening painting a wall in Bed-Stuy. Folks in the neighborhood were intrigued and expressed support to the artists as they worked…

I recently was asked a series of questions by about why there is so little right-wing street art by Paul Schmelzer (editor for the Minnesota Independent) for his Eyeteeth Blog….

After the Justseeds install, I took off for Mérida, Yucatan. I just got in yesterday, but I haven’t seen any exciting (street) art, yet. Send me a shout out if…

We are not in the least afraid of making a mess…..

Here’s some photos of day three of the Justseeds install “Which Side Are You On” that opens at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Thursday, March 5th. Slowly but surely it…

…stay tuned..three more days of work until the show opens on Thursday, March 5th…

The Justseeds install in Milwaukee is off to a roaring start. 15 plus members from the collective and a host of Milwaukee friends are busy working on the six day…

My friends WERC and Geraldine (who I went to Mexico with back in October), have been working with a great team of artists on an exciting new project in San…

So, here is the English version of the article I had published in Zapruder magazine. This is a much longer version, very much still in process. I’d love to hear…

I saw posts for this action on a few blogs and thought I should re-post it here. This blog has the whole series: http://nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2009/01/keep-austin-zombie-free.html

My friends over at Not My Government have been consistently churning out political posters and anti-police brutality propaganda for years. Head over to their site and check out what they’ve…

This story was published in The Olympian on January 14, 2009: Mixed​-​marti​al-​arts champ​ion charg​ed in olympia wa. graff​iti case By Jerem​y Pawlo​ski OLYMP​IA — Prose​cutor​s have charg​ed Olymp​ia mixed​-​marti​al-​arts champ​ion…

I have recently been asked about why it is that I dislike Shepard Fairey. Its actually not that I dislike Shepard as a person, its more that I have a…

Our friend Marco delli Santi from Rome’s House of Love and Dissent just sent over this design he created, he’s planning on printing them out of mirror sticker paper and…

The Illicit Exhibitions blog has just posted an interview with our very own Chris Stain. You can check it out here.

This piece appeared yesterday in the South Bronx. The wall faces the Bruckner Expressway, a highly used elevated highway passing through the Bronx. My pal Anomalous compiles a lot of…

Lots of new prints makin it onto the electical boxes these days, here are a few recent examples…

I’m excited to share that I recently had an article I wrote translated into Italian, and published in a great journal called Zapruder: Storie In Movimento. Zapruder is a non-academic…

My friend Sam Sebren sent along a cool new stencil he’s been working on that he wants to share with the world. Just click on the image below, drag the…

Here’s some flicks of an evolving roller piece on a building on 3rd Ave. in Brooklyn, down the street from my office/studio. First: Second:

Chris Stain has a bunch of new work up on Dirty Pilot! Some great stuff, including new large-scale cut wood pieces! Check it all out here.

Public Ad Campaign is now in a blog format. It highlights contemporary public advertising issues and ramblings about public space. publicadcampaign.com

After three-year hiatus, a new Cut and Paint stencil template zine is now available! This time around we (Josh MacPhee, Colin Matthes, Nicolas Lampert) traded in the headaches of attempting…

Fans of the Celebrate People’s History posters and REPOhistory will likely enjoy this project based out of Toronto. Artist Tim Groves spearheads the Missing Plaque Project, which involves wheatpasting text-based…

Our friend Marc Moscato sent along this link to an interesting story/conversation unfolding around a attempt to combat perceived racism through street art in Portland, OR. The story centers around…

These posters were wheatpasted over 3 years ago in Providence Rhode Island and they are still weathering well. The key is a combo of 3 parts wheatpaste with 1 part…

Liam O’Donoghue an article online that continues the discussion/critique of Shepard Fairey thats been ongoing online over the past 6-9 months. He’s posted his piece “Shepard Fairey’s Image Problem” on…

Here’s a time lapse of the ups and downs of our inflatable church!

So the Spectres of Liberty project went great! We inflated our 35 foot tall church and had over 200 people come hang out, watch the animation on the outside and…

Here’s another great batch of images from my trainspotter friend in the middle of the country. There’s no confusing what these trains are saying.

Madrid based street artist El Tono just sent out an announcement about his recent travels in Latin America, including posters he made in Brasil using this traditional Brasilian printing system…

Long time friend Russell Howze, who has been running StencilArchive.org for years, is about to release a new stencil book that looks really promising! It’s called Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community…

I just got these great photos of new freights from Max in Minneapolis:

We got an email awhile back from SpY in Madrid, who sent a link to their new website, which is a really nice and clean look at some of their…

For the Seeing Green show, Susan Simensky Bietila (who co-organized Drawing Resistance and frequently contributes to World War III Illustrated) created the mural “28 Years of People Power” dedicated to…

My friend Heather Rogers went on a trip to Brasil a little while back doing research for her new book, and just sent over these great photos of graffiti down…

These little guys have been showing up in the streets of NYC over the past couple years, and we just got an email from their maker. Here’s what he has…

We just got an email in from folks who have posted a site where you can find all the legal graffiti walls to paint all over the world. Pretty cool…

Justseeds readers likely need no reminder of the importance of politically engaged street art, yet it is always good to hear when work put up in the streets not only…

‘nuf said.

I think this little video clip from Brasil has been making the rounds, but it’s well worth taking a peek at, so I’m reposting here. It’s amazing what a little…

This is a series of photos we received related to Street Theatre events in San Francisco and Berkeley. They are connected to an ongoing “Make Art, Not War” action Tuesdays,…

My friend Sam just sent me this link from Queerty.com to an interesting interview with Avram Finkelstein, one of the members of Gran Fury. Gran Fury was a creative/graphic collective…

I’ve long thought that the Billboard Liberation Front, beyond being one of the longest running billboard alteration groups, is also one of the smartest. Rather than simply playing off corporate…

Critical thinking and dissent in street art is becoming as rare as politicians who reject corporate America, free trade, prisons, and the two-party system. Recently, a Chicago art show, Go…

I had some serious questions about Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto project in Bethlehem (like the point of Faile’s boxer piece, which flattens out the Palestine/Israel conflict to a simple equation of…

A beautiful new poster from my favorite Portland wheatpaster, this one is up near Portland State University.

I found these engraved brass cobblestones on sidewalks throughout Cologne, Germany, when I lived there a few years ago. The stones are memorials to residents of buildings that were displaced…

We discovered a free and easy way to make temporary graffitt. (It’s like henna tattoos). We had pieces of snowy ice that we drew on the street with. Fun!

Just got a note from Mad One in Pheonix, AZ. He’s curating a street art sticker art show in Phoenix and is looking for stickers to be sent in from…

This just came through the inbox from the Wouter Osterholt en Elke Uitentuis in the Netherlands, seems like a cool project: Speaking Through Walls We’re looking for people that can…

Seeing Nicholas’ post of that Chicago project reminded me of this- one of my favorite street art projects in Detroit- or ever, really…. This is, I believe, the old United…

Milwaukee-based artist Jesse Graves created a number of mud stencils that he recently put up on sidewalks and the sides of buildings. Below is his “how-to-guide” and a link to…

This just landed in our inbox: The Southern California Library, in South L.A. will be hosting Making Our Own Art Histories, a series of art exhibitions as an effort to…

Justseeds is having its first annual meeting and retreat in Pittsburgh this weekend! And while we’re here we ran into some amazing political street art. The Howling Mob Society has…

Excited to see this in my inbox, the crew over at Not My Government are trying to put together a Bay Area project similar to the Street Art Workers: In…

We live in a very, very strange world. The Street Art Workers have had a little blurb about them published in the Oct/Nov issue of the Indian edition of Elle…

My friend Bettina recently sent me this list of links to stories and images of graffiti in Baghdad. Most of them are old, back from the beginning of the war…

Josh and I spent a short 4 days in Berlin. We went to this beautiful city primarily to look at the poster collection at the Papier Tiger Archiv. Papier Tiger…

While in Århus we were lucky enough to meet Abdul and Mia, both photographers from Capetown, South Africa. They were excited about the Justseeds project, and told us about what…

We took a day trip to Århus (the 2nd largest city in Denmark, but still fairly small) thanks to Barbara and the great folks of Rum46, an artist group and…

Icky and I are traveling around Europe and have been meeting with some great people and learning about some amazing art and activist projects. Here’s our first missive about a…

This landed in the inbox today: The 1st New Britain International MURAL SLAM Calling all vagabonds, graffiti artists, muralists, scenic painters, air brush artists, and activists! The 1st International Mural…

I saw an interesting story posted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the other day. It concerns a building in Downtown Milwaukee known as the Sydney Hih Building. The Sydney Hih…

No Need For Sleep is an exhibition of original art and zines by artists from around the country. This exhibition celebrates the artists, their independent productions, and the do-it-yourself culture…

Im currently in Daytona Beach, FL and there isn’t a whole lot to do late night, so I was sitting with my computer in front of the TV. Now I…

Recently in the Lower East Side some signs were affixed to street posts as part of the 10 Days of Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. 10 Days of Solidarity with…

Following up on his trip to Beirut two weeks ago, Arofish traveled through Aita al-Shaab, South Lebanon this week and set up an interactive mural for residents of the city….

For decades, teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, have conducted strikes to demand educational reform from the federal and state government. Some of the teacher’s demands include living wages, sanitary schools, text…

On Saturday, July 29, members of the Borf Brigade threw a roving street party in Washington, DC. Agents Q and fi5e from the Graffiti Research Lab built a bike-mounted sound…

There’s some great pics of Milwaukee street art in the VR photoblog, courtesy of Brandon Bauer and Nicolas Lampert. See here: — Milwaukee street art — More Milwaukee street art…

Milwaukee like many cities around the country has been seeing a condo boom in the past few years. Gentrification is redefining the character of long established neighborhoods, driving up housing…

New Yorkers throughout this City’s diverse communities this morning awoke to messages calling for justice and equality for immigrants throughout the United States. The messages, including “No Deportations”, “Legalization for…

The Gothamist recently posted a story about a festive day of street chalking, which was ruined by a pair of self-righteous snitches and some bored police officers. An eyewitness and…

Last weekend, a few of us ventured up to the Chelsea headquarters of the infamous Graffiti Research Lab and helped build 600 or so LED throwies. GRL agents Q and…

From Q-Branch comes word of another geek graffiti project from the Graffiti Research Labs — Electro-Graf: An electro-graf is a graffiti piece or throw-up that uses conductive and magnetic paint…

Michael De Feo aka the flower guy is teaching a class called “the tools of street art” for kids age 7-10 at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield,…

Artist, graffiti analyst and bad ass mother fucker fi5e sends word of a new geek graffiti project developed deep in an underground laboratory on 21st St: LED Throwies are an…

Josh MacPhee’s excellent stencil template zine Cut & Paint has finally gone digital, thanks to John Emerson of Social Design Notes. Click over to CutAndPaint.org and you’ll find over 40…

Don’t know how we missed this one, but NY1 had a funny story about some parody subway ads that take a shot at Peter Vallone: They look like the real…

Ed Hay may spend most of his time cleaning up graffiti from the railway cars for the CN. But, for the past six years during his “break time” he has…

A while back, I asked my friend Salvador to take some pictures of political graffiti during his trip to Chile. Salvador is back and he has brought 26 pictures of…

Submitted without comment: If Tony Blair wants to know what drives young vandals to cover walls with graffiti, he won’t have far to look. His own grandmother would have been…

Speaking of things I wish New York City councilmembers would do: Mike Ferner, a former Toledo councilman and one-time mayoral candidate, was arrested yesterday with his brother for spray-painting anti-war…

The New York City Council has passed three new anti-graffiti bills which Bloomberg is no doubt itching to sign into law. Intro. No. 663-A amends existing law to mandate community…

In what was an extensive and coordinated effort yesterday morning, at least 30 Dallas police officers attempted to round up 10 persons with arrest warrants. In the operation, six graffiti…

Brooklyn artist Ellis Gallagher got a nice writeup this weekend in the New York Times for his chalk shadow tracings: Mr. Gallagher heads out on foot or on his bike…

Political collage artist Judith Supine sent word of an impressive postering job at the Times Square recruitment office. You can check out a short video here. We asked about the…

Seems every other month another ad agency hires another street artist to push another useless product on behalf another billionaire corporation. And each time, this causes an online controversy about…

Just found an article from the LA Times that gives an example of how cities are criminalizing graffiti — not as vandalism, but as a style. Even commissioned murals will…

Legacy Queens councilman and Giuliani-wannabe Peter Vallone Jr. is once again dragging his favorite scapegoat around the city’s newsrooms: The scourge who has been defacing buildings, vehicles and trees across…

A few weeks back we wrote about a new sticker campaign called Corporate Vandals Not Welcome. The stickers target advertisers who use techniques cribbed from street art in order to…

September 23rd marked the 137th anniversary of the insurgency of Lares in Puerto Rico, the attempt to gain independence from Spain in 1868. While the pro-independence movement celebrated, FBI assassins…

Following up on previous entries about corporate incursions into the street art world, there’s a new sticker campaign we’ve been noticing around downtown NYC. The stickers, reading “corporate vandals not…

The Israeli pullout from Gaza has mostly been shown in the American media through dramatic images of Israelis being evacuated from the settlements. As usual there is much less media…

Reader Todd emails a fascinating story: I’m a social worker for Children’s Protective Serives here in Pittsburgh PA. I’m also a fan of street art, going through the city, often…

Will at SixSquare.com writes about the recent wholesale thefts of Space Invaders pieces in Los Angeles. He writes movingly of becoming obsessed with and attached to a particular artist’s creation…

Today’s quote comes from Swedish street artist Hop Louie‘s version of a standard vandalism-is-a-crime legal disclaimer: It´s illegal to voluntarily paint something nice on a grey wall just because you…

Man, just when Banksy had you feeling free, the New York Times has a report on the city’s new Citywide Vandals Task Force, the merger of the NYPD and transt…

Banksy recently made a trip to the West Bank, where he painted massive images of escape and freedom on the 25-foot high “seperation wall” the Israeli government built to divide…

Your Mind Better Be Blowing and Soon. has two updates on the decentralization of Borf. Somewhat in the spirit of Subcommandante Marcos’ famous self-description, Borf’s first communique begins: Borf is…

Below is one of the more intriguing e-mails we’ve ever gotten — looks like some folks in D.C. are taking on the idea raised by one of our commenters to…

Your Mind Better Be Blowing and Soon has wonderful photos of Isaiah Zagar‘s mosaic murals in Philadelphia. I happened across Zagar’s South St. murals in Philly a few years ago…

Founders and long standing members of TATS CRU got their start painting trains in the Bronx over twenty years ago. Today, TATS CRU has established itself as a legally legitimate…

We’re kickin’ off a new project with the Street Art Workers (SAW), a national collective of printmakers, stencil artists, graffiti writers and designers who use the streets for art and…

On Arbor Day, April 29th, a group of artists in Brooklyn placed some “bling” vanity necklaces around 50 or more trees, on Bedford Ave,from N4th-N10th St. The project is called…

Janna from Style in Progress sent us a link to a fascinating article in Toronto’s NOW Magazine about the Vancouver city government’s plan to send out “clean teams” to buff…

Os Gemeos (“the Twins”) have been making a mural out in Coney Island the last few days, and a Visual Resistance member has been fortunate enough to get out there…

If you click on only one link today, let it be this one.

This is a few weeks old by now, but fi5e’s comments on the city’s anti-graffiti campaign are probably the best I’ve read anywhere: I was just reading the website for…

The New York Times has a short article in the Metro section today about Darius Jones’ street installations, focusing on his kissing street signs in Carroll Gardens. Good quotes from…

4 new People’s History Posters have been created by artists Aprille, Brandon Bauer, Beith Pucinella, and Swoon. Don’t just hang them on your walls at home. If you’re feeling motivated,…

Ever since I became aware of the All City Council campaign, and our “6 Questions for Fi5e”, I’ve been a frequent visitor of Fi5e‘s blog. Fi5e has been busy making…

Two of the deservedly famous REVS sculptures recently featured on Untitled Name and Wooster Collective are gone. Rode through DUMBO on my bike this afternoon and the two best pieces…

If you read nothing else today, don’t miss Wooster’s post on Banky’s escapades in New York. The New York Times article is full of the condescending elitism you’d expect, but…

Josh MacPhee’s radical distro site,

From Newsday: N.J. trio accused of leaving graffiti on `The Gates’ Police had no trouble locating three men suspected of scrawling graffiti Saturday on four of “The Gates”: the trio…

New York isn’t the only place where The Buff is pushing into overdrive. Five teenagers were arrested last week in Grand Rapids, Michigan for tagging on a commercial building, and…

Today the Wooster Collective featured an amazing project called M-City: M-city in a first place is a play with the form and space of the city, played on the walls,…

Street art love in the photolog. Other themed posts include: Dust Graf and Bike Graf….

Some tragic news from the Globe & Mail: When Bardia Bryan Zargham got serious about graffiti, he chose Alpha as his tag and set about painting all over Toronto. That…

On my daily Google News crawl, I was amazed and delighted to find that stencil artist BORF is making quite a splash in Raleigh, North Carolina. From the local Eyewitness…

From the New York Post: Miguel Camacho, 29, of Forest Hills — who uses the graffiti tag “VAMP” — was given 60 reasons why scribbling on public property is still…

Lots of press on Bloomberg’s scare-mongering, scapegoating new campaign tactic: From CBS News: “On the theory that people can and will judge a book by its cover, Mayor Bloomberg is…

Mayor Bloomberg’s annual “State of the City” address on Tuesday passed without much comment, but a disturbing highlight for us was his promise to create a new anti-graffiti task force,…