Corporate vandals not welcome: a followup
September 29, 2005
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…
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Street Art & Graffiti
Many of us have done it, some continue to, and we all love seeing what people all over the world are posting on the street. Ojeda lives on!
September 27, 2005
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…
Ghost Bike for Jen Shao
September 19, 2005
On Sunday, September 18, members of Visual Resistance created and installed a ghost bike memorial for Jen Shao, a 65-year old grandmother killed by a hit-and-run driver in the financial…
Corporate vandals not welcome
September 14, 2005
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 end of “graffiti news” in Gaza
September 2, 2005
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…
Buy Crack Here
August 30, 2005
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…
Space Invaders Under Attack
August 10, 2005
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…
Quote of the Day: Hop Louie
August 9, 2005
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…
“I’m not an art critic, I’m a cop.”
August 5, 2005
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 in the West Bank
August 5, 2005
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…
The Borf Conspiracy Continues
July 27, 2005
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…
Borf Lives
July 22, 2005
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…
Andrew Morgan’s Ghost Bike Replaced
July 18, 2005
There’s been some rumors and confusion about this, hopefully this will clear things up: Last week, we got word that Andrew Morgan’s Ghost Bike had been removed. After asking around,…
Philly Mosaics
July 1, 2005
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…
Ghost Bike Project in the Daily News
June 20, 2005
An article by Elizabeth Hays about the Ghost Bike project appears on the Daily News website: Memorial outlines bike death BY ELIZABETH HAYS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A 10-speed bicycle,…
Corporate Graff
June 18, 2005
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…
Ghost Bike Project
June 16, 2005
In memory of Liz Padilla, a 28-year old bicyclist killed last week, VR members created a small and somber memorial in Park Slope. The night before a memorial ride led…
Street Art Workers: Call for Art
June 14, 2005
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…
Carbon Based Forms- Trees grow in Brooklyn
May 20, 2005
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…
The Buff in Vancouver
May 10, 2005
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…