Priscilla VazquezLee Quiñones will be responding to readers’ questions about his life and work.
This week, Lee Quiñones,
an artist who emerged from the subway art movement of the 1970s, will
be responding to readers’ questions about his life, work and the
evolution of graffiti as art in New York City.
To ask Mr. Quiñones a question, please use the comments box below. His first set of answers will appear in City Room on Wednesday.
Renowned
graffiti and tattoo artist Mister Cartoon and two East Coast graffiti
artists, Cope2 and Sen2, recently bombed three MetroPCS stores in
Harlem and the Bronx in New York, to promote the partnership between
Sanctioned by Mister Cartoon and MetroPCS.
We have footage and photos of the three artists brainstorming,
marking their territory on the stores with their signature art, briefly
speaking with the police who paid them a visit during their creative
session, and gracefully ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010
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Busted
CLIFTON – Alleged graffiti artist D***** B******** was arraigned in the
city municipal court Friday morning on 18 charges of criminal mischief.
B******** replied with simple "yes" when asked if he understood the
charges by Judge Scott Bennon.
He was charged with spray painting the tag NARK on walls, buildings
and highway barriers, Bennon stated. B******** allegedly painted the
graffiti from July 2007 to December 2009, totaling about $25,500 in
damage.
... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010
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Busted
Friday, 26 Feb 2010 05:14am
A man has been charged with 16 offences relating to the graffiti and malicious damage of 14 RailCorp trains.
The 38-year-old Croydon Park man was arrested and charged yesterday
afternoon (Thursday 25 February) following a five-month investigation
by the Rail Vandalism Task Force.
It is alleged the man caused more than $10,000 damage to 14 trains and various RailCorp property over the past 10 years.
He has been charged with 15 offences of malicious damage an...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010
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News
Last year, Artnet Magazine’s Charlie Finchpredicted that the High Line
would lead to rising rents, sounding the death knell for the Chelsea
gallery scene. While this has not yet happened, the well-liked aerial
greenway is arguably having an antiseptic effect on the arts
neighborhood, with Exhibit A being the recent destruction of a storied
graffiti mural on West 23rd Street, in keeping with a city program to
spiff up the buildings around the successful park. The prominent
"REVS/COST" mura... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010
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News
By MATTHEW NEWTON
In March 2009, graffiti artist HERT was arrested in Pittsburgh on 69 misdemeanors and four felony counts of criminal mischief.
For the last several months, I’ve been working on an article about
the increasing number of graffiti prosecutions in recent years. In the
past, graffiti artists arrested for tags, pieces, and throw-ups were,
moreover, fined and sentenced to court-ordered community service. But
in recent years, astronomical restitution and prison time h...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 22, 2010
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Old Skool
The thick Brooklyn accent resonates through the cell phone. Almost immediately, graffiti artist Mike “Mr. Kaves” McLeer begins illustrating a place only a few have known.
“It’s like being inducted into a secret society of juvenile
delinquents,” his raspy voice dictates. “You pay your dues and learn
before you ever set foot in a tunnel. It’s 10 and 11 year old kids
training each other how to be vandals and outlaws.”
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 22, 2010
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Busted
SANTA CLARITA - Sheriff's
officials announced Wednesday the arrests of four teenage boys
collectively believed responsible for causing more than $150,000 in
tagging or graffiti vandalism damage in the Newhall area in just under
a year.
One of the teens, a 15-year-old Newhall boy, is suspected
of being involved in 240 such incidents, with damage estimated at more
than $100,000, according to a statement released by the Santa Clarita
Valley sheriff's station.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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News
COMMERCE, Calif. (CNS) --
A 22-year-old man was locked up today after scratching graffiti on a
glass door of a Commerce building where about 100 law enforcement
officers were attending a class.
J***** V****** of East Los Angeles was booked on suspicion of
felony vandalism and jailed in lieu of $20,000 bail, according to
sheriff's Lt. Mark Richards of the East Los Angeles Station.
The crime at the Commerce Aquatic Center in the 2500 block of Commerce
Way occurred about 4:30 p.m. Friday, D...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Busted
Vandalism - The spray-painted bedroom walls of a 16-year-old boy
match up with a rash of graffiti plastered throughout several southside
neighbourhoods, police say.
The teen has been charged with more
than 25 graffiti-related offences in Queensland, Deer Run and Canyon
Meadows. The neighbourhoods have been heavily hit with spray painting
and tagging since October, police said Thursday.
Last week,
police searching the teen's Deer Run home found 23 cans of spray paint,
50 pens, numerous sketchboo...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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New Laws
By DIANA KUYPER Special to The News-Sun
Village officials hope a new portable wireless camera system will
deter vandals and prevent graffiti, an ongoing problem throughout the
village according to interim Police Chief Gary Bitler.
The Village Board on Monday approved purchasing a flash cam digital vandalism deterrent system at a cost of $6,800.
"We
will target one area and install the real camera and three fake cameras
and nobody will know where the real camera is located," said Mayor...
It’s official: D******* B******
aka Utah, is finally a free woman, after sitting down for a 6 month bid
on Rikers followed by an additional sixer in Boston. Debt to society
now served and free to admit that she is indeed the infamous daredevil
that has adorned the world’s trains and walls over the last 10 years,
the 27 year old student and artist is ready to take on the internetz
with ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Legal Graffiti Art
by Trina Mannino
After
taking Alexandra Beller’s class at the Dance New Amsterdam studios, I
plopped down on the lobby’s couch and noticed Mike Rimbaud’s bright
burlesque paintings above me. Looking closer, I noticed that the
paintings weren’t only two-dimensional depictions of burlesque dancers,
but that the images seemed to shimmy right off the canvas. I could see
the dancers swiveling their hips and feel their soft breaths from pouty
lips. I found it strange that the paint...
Buffalo police say an over inflated ego helped them catch a suspected serial graffiti vandal.
Just
last night alone, this appeared on a building at Pearl and Allen
Street.The same purple was used on the side of this brick building
around the corner on Elmwood. Then, minutes after a witness saw someone
painting this on a city control box at Main and High, police arrested
23-year-old Jacob Wiles with six cans of spray paint.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Legal Graffiti Art
Pete Bainbridge
February 03, 2010
A
graffiti artist who was once jailed for spraying his street art
initials on railway bridges is now seeing his name in lights – thanks
to X Factor twins Jedward.
Thomas ‘TJ’ Dolan, 22, was given a 15-month sentence after he was caught painting graffiti around Manchester and Cheshire.
But
he carried on with his art after his release and went on to be invited
by duo John and Edward Grimes to work on the video for their debut
single.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Busted
Prosecutors charged a man Thursday who is suspected of causing nearly $8,000 in graffiti damage to the San Antonio Dam.
M****** K*****, 24, was charged with one count of felony
vandalism in Fontana Superior Court after he was witnessed spray
painting graffiti in the waterway area of the dam on Tuesday in San
Antonio Heights, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's
Department.
Deputies found K***** in possession of numerous cans of spray
paint and a gallon of red household paint, she...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Busted
Thursday 28 January, 2010
Police officers from the Upper Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team
joined forces with their British Transport Police colleagues to arrest
a local man on suspicion of being the ‘Hoax’ graffiti vandal.
In August 2009 Mytholmroyd train station was covered in graffiti bearing the name ‘Hoax.’
Further damage was caused to the Calder Holmes Park in Hebden Bridge with the same ‘tag’ used.
A joint investigation was launched by PC Ryan Stockton of the Upper
... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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News
Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010 3:00PM - 7:30 pm
January 26,
2010 - "Hip Hop 4 Haiti" brainchild Queen YoNasda, granddaughter of the
Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan along with (32) other cities
will host hip hop fundraiser concerts nationwide for victims of the
January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Activist and Concert Coordinator,
Beautiful SeeAsia and Jessica "Jayda" Jacques (of Haitian descent),
star of NAACP's 2010 Image Award nominated documentary "Brick City",
founder of New... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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News
Graffiti vandals stop smiling — you’ll soon be on candid camera.
Fed up with hooligans destroying residential and business property
with graffiti, the city will be installing new technology likely next
month to help catch them in the act.
Bylaw boss Bill Bruce said the cameras, installed at graffiti
trouble spots throughout the city, will be able to detect who is
committing the crime through high resolution photos and aid
investigations.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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News
Back in October, Fox News host and habitual shit-stirrer, Sean Hannity took L.A. graffiti artist Saber to task (video here) over artwork created as part of Organizing for America’s “Health Care Reform Video Challenge.” In a video titled “Saber Speaks,”
the L.A. graffiti writer used the American flag as a visual focal point
— painting over it in brief time-lapse footage set to the beat of a
hospital heart-rate monitor. (The monitor eventually flatlines, much
like the current ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Legal Graffiti Art
January 21, 2010
Shepard Fairey, the graffiti artist and illustrator famous for his
Barack Obama “HOPE” poster and “Obey Giant” graffiti campaign, recently
unveiled his latest piece. Titled “Eye Alert,” the print offers a
pretty damn striking yet ambiguous critique of America’s healthcare
situation: an angular faced woman stares at the viewer, the irises of
her eyes a pair of skulls, while she cries tea...
Priscilla Vazquez Lee Quiñones will be responding to readers’ questions about his life and work.
