Os Gemeos mural in Coney Island!
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…
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,…