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Wednesday, March 23, 2011 4:54 PM EDT An iconic hub of graffiti art in Long Island City may soon be razed for luxury high rises, but one elected official believes it is far too early for panic.
5Pointz, the graffiti mecca on L.I.C.’s Jackson Avenue, is the latest target for developers in the western Queens neighborhood – as building owner Jerry Wolkoff expressed interest in redeveloping the land and building two 40-story condos in its place.
An outcry fr... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Auction
Auction Features One-of-a-Kind Work that Inspired the Tumi TAG Limited Edition CollectionNEW YORK, March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tumi and renowned graffiti artist John "Crash" Matos have partnered to launch the "Tumi TAG" charity auction to benefit AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA). Launching today on Artnet.com, the auction will feature the exclusive untitled graffiti work that inspired the new Tumi TAG Limited Edition Collection. Global online bids will be accepted on A... Continue reading ...
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Sean Corbett Photo Tagger Revenge works on a piece in New Haven.You can still drive up and peek in through the locked chain-link fence for a quick glimpse at what Fame City once was. You see sprawling 20-foot color walls and bushes pushing through. Its beginnings are the stuff of legends, but most agree it began in the early ‘90s. Today, it's a street art graveyard. Fame City, crouching behind a Burger King on Boston Avenue in Bridgeport, was among the largest and best ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Graffiti TV
If you’ve been walking around the Mission, Tenderloin or Nob Hill, you might have seen huge block letters showing up on walls and shutters. EINE's, a.k.a. Ben Flynn, Work Around San Francisco EINE's piece at Mission and 22nd Streets in San Francisco.
Credit: Summer SewellIt’s the work of London-based street artist EINE, who painted the 26 letters of the alphabet around these San Francisco neighborhoods and painted one large work, "We Rock Hardest," above the KFC restaurant on Polk and E...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
His work was noticed by artsy folks in Silver Lake and downtown Los Angeles. In 2006, he made his professional debut when an art show in San Francisco included his work. A gallery in Long Beach followed suit. After that, his canvases were exhibited in Los Angeles, Ventura, Philadelphia, Berlin and Bucharest. There were group shows and solo shows.
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Busted
 Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. commends the 114th precinct for arresting three graffiti vandals wanted for over 50 tags in Astoria.
A***** M******, 21, and M**** A**********, 20, were caught while tagging a McDonald’s restaurant at 22-50 31st St., across the from Vallone’s office on March 5, at 8:30 p.m. Although M******’s tag, DEC, remains on the storefront, Vallone has notified the 114th Civ Op to clean the establishment along with a list of other damaged property. On March 8, police... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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News
With the future of a Queens landmark is uncertain, it's becoming even more of an attraction. Dozens gathered Saturday at the 5Pointz building in Long Island City, which has been a public art gallery for graffiti for more than eight years. But the building's owner, Jerry Wolkoff, wants to redevelop the land. With more than 300 different works on the building, artists say it provides a space for graffiti like no other. "It is kind of like the epicenter for graffiti,” said one visitor. “My jaw ju...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Busted
A "GRAFFITI king" has been charged with over 100 offences, including defiling Brisbane trains during the floods. A special police taskforce caught the 20-year-old at Milton Rd this month and found incriminating images on his camera.
It led them to arrest him for 130 cases of graffiti dating back to January 2008.
The "tag" he used had been taunting police for years.
The major arrest comes just days after police caught another train graffiti vandal, who was picked up spray-painting trains during th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Busted
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CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - Just one day after Corpus Christi police plead with citizens to not turn a blind eye to graffiti crimes and vandalism, there are results. About 2 AM this morning, dispatchers got a call about some suspicious teens in the 16 hundred block of Trojan at Greenwood. Police caught up with the pair, two 16 year old boys. One they say was armed with a black paint pen and both were covered in black and silver ink. Police say a quick search of the area ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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RIP
Chico Garcia painted a mural featuring officers of District 2 to honor the tragic death of Cpl. Mike Roberts.
A mural honoring fallen Cpl. Mike Roberts and other members of the Tampa Police Department District 2 Headquarters was unveiled Tuesday afternoon during a ceremony led by Mayor Pam Iorio. Roberts was killed in the line of duty after stopping a suspicious person. He left behind a wife and young son. The artist, Chico...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Charged
SANTA CRUZ -- An 18-year-old responsible for more than 160 graffiti tags in Santa Cruz County in recent months was sentenced to 270 days in jail and ordered to pay more than $20,000 in restitution to the victims, a Santa Cruz County Superior judge ruled Wednesday. A******* J***** pleaded guilty on Feb. 7 to three counts of felony vandalism and seven counts of misdemeanor vandalism. Prosecutor Jason Gill said in court Wednesday that J****** had essentially stolen thousands of dollars from his v... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Busted
A graffiti artist has found himself getting tagged - a 17-year-old has been arrested for allegedly spray painting several structures in and around Winnipeg. Officers conducted a search warrant Tuesday at the south St. Vital home of the 17-year-old, who is facing six counts of mischief under $5,000. The affected properties include businesses, traffic control boxes and the floodway overpass on St.Mary's Road since 2009, police said Wednesday. It's the second time in recent months police have charg... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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News
Page last updated at 09:01 GMT, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 Newsbeat's US reporter Sima Kotecha visits a New York graffiti artist's studio, to see what fashion in the Bronx is all about. The artist, who makes custom one-off T-shirts, explains how matching trainers and t-shirts are a big trend in New York. Sima also spoke to people in the Bronx to hear what they thought about how to look good.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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News
It could truly be the end for the iconic 5 Pointz graffiti mecca in Long Island City: the graffiti-caked artist space may soon be bulldozed and resurrected as high-rises, restaurants and retail stores. The building's owner, developer Jerry Wolkoff, told the News that he met recently with city planning officials to discuss replacing it with two high-rise residential towers and up to 1,300 rental units. He also said his plans include a mix of shops and restaurants, a... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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New Laws
LOS ANGELES—Authorities are creating a database that will be used to store photographs of graffiti vandalism, enabling investigators to track hot spots where such activity is on the rise, they announced Friday.The city currently spends $10 million a year cleaning up graffiti, and last year painted over 31 million square feet of vandalized surfaces. Clean-up crews are being equipped with smart phones and told they must photograph any graffiti they are going to remove. The images, which include... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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Events
Brian Donnelly didn't make it home last night.
The Brooklyn artist, better known asKAWS, may have left his native Jersey City after high school, leaving only his name on brick walls behind, but he return... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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Events
 Chu for News Murals fill the walls of Rebel Diaz Arts Collective, in a former candy factory in Mott Haven.The hip-hop community center - housed on the second floor of an abandoned candy factory under the Bruckner Expressway - oozes youthful energy. Swirling graffiti covers the walls of the center and rap music throbs from a c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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Charged
Police have charged 89 people during a two-week crackdown on graffiti, vandalism and associated antisocial behaviour. The youths and adults arrested were facing a total of 301 charges after the first phase of Operation Eraser, a year-long crackdown on vandalism which costs the community about $25 million a year to clean up and fix. Det-Sen. Sgt Brad Royce said 60 of those accused of damaging buses and trains were under 18, with six of them facing a total of 145 criminal damage charges. One 16-ye...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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News
It is one of the great mysteries of the art and pop culture world: Who is Bansky? The British graffiti artist has never been photographed, until now, possibly. A man believed to be Banksy was caught working on a piece of art in Santa Monica, California that is believed to have been done by him. 
Wearing a pulled-down green cap, the man climbed a ladder to the top of the old container on the side of a highway in Santa Monica on which was written, "This Looks A Bit Like An Elephant." Banksy is know...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 2, 2011,
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Charged
New York — A Brooklyn graffiti vandal got tagged with a 42-count indictment Thursday for using acid to etch his "GEAR" and "G7" markings into Queens bus shelters. A******** T*******, 19, faces four years in prison for causing $5,100 in damage to 21 glass bus shelters in 2009. "We will not allow such individuals to mar the beauty of our city or threaten to return us to the days when our transit system and our highways and buildings were covered with graffiti," said Queens District Attorney Ri...
 The enigmatic graffiti artist Banksy was nowhere to be found at the 2011 Oscars last night. And Justin Timberlake thought he could pull a fast one on us! Before presenting the Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short Film awards alongside Mila Kunis, Timberlake jokingly admits, “I’m Banksy.” When an A-list celebrity like Justin Timberlake acknowledges your existence and wants to be you, you must be pretty awesome.
Banksy’s documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop follows Frenc... Continue reading ...
Eight Smart Crew members, all Ivy League graduates, collaborated on an Ivy-themed mural in New York City.
In an abandoned lot in Queens, N.Y., a stark grey brick wall is splashed with spray-painted images in striking shades of crimson, brown, green and white. Upon closer inspection, viewers find that the eight graffiti images serve the unexpected function of paying tribute to the Ivy League schools. For their Ivy wall project last fall, Smart Crew — a Queens-based gr...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 2, 2011,
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Charged
Graffiti: Batchelor tagged his own police cell after being arrested for defacing public property. Pic: © STV A graffiti vandal was caught red handed after he left his distinctive signature on a police cell door after he was held over a similar incident. R***** B*******, 17, was arrested after police caught him using black shoe polish to mark a bus shelter with his graffiti signature REZM. But when police custody officers let him out of his cell at Tayside Police’s Dundee headquarters, they no... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 2, 2011,
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Charged
 Text Size  Click image to enlarge Some of Seth King's graffiti handiwork can be found on a freeway sound wall in north Columbus. He must remove the vandalism after serving his one-year jail sentence. |
A 19-year-old graffiti vandal will have plenty of time to reflect on his pending date with scrub brushes and paint brushes in the Clintonville, Northland and the University District.
S*** K***, also known by his tag name as "Seed," of Pontiac Street in North Linden... Continue reading ...
Retna, the 31-year-old artist from Los Angeles, opened his first New York solo exhibition last week, and I got to see what it’s like to be an artist at the peak of his powers. Retna, whose real name is Marquis Lewis, comes from a graffiti background. The nom de plume – derived from a Raekwon song – was originally given to a friend. “I gave him a sketch, and he went and battled some dude and he lost,” Retna said previously in an interview with Upper Playground. “He wasn’t even sup... Continue reading ...
BY RUXANDRA GUIDI February 21, 2011 SAN DIEGO — All taggers have a street name. Kyle Boatwright, is known as "Sain." Sain is a shy but prolific tagger who recently served six months in jail for vandalism. When he got out, his case made headlines in the graffiti world. It took investigators 11 months to track him down, and police say his $87,000 settlement is the largest in recent history. Sain is now taking a weekly graffiti class in a San Diego art school. ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 2, 2011,
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Events
WRITTEN BY ART GALLERY PR THURSDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2011 12:18 Zevs, Liquidated CBS, Liquitex on canvas, 48 inches square, New York 2010. Image courtesy of De Buck Gallery. NEW YORK – De Buck Gallery has announced its grand-opening show, which will run from Feb. 24 through April 7, will feature the French graffiti artist Zevs (pronounced “Zeus). Titled “Liquidated Version,” the show’s theme interweaves unconventional street art methods, with a pointed critique on high finance. Zevs artw... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 2, 2011,
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Street Art
 An artwork on a Los Angeles wall reputed to be done by the British graffiti artist Banksy - Graffiti artist Banksy has been causing mischief in Los Angeles as a series of stencils have appeared in the run-up to the Oscars.
The shadowy art guerilla is thought to be behind the images which have been sprayed on walls and billboards, including a pyromaniac Charlie Brown and a cocktail-swigging Mickey Mouse. Banksy is up for an Oscar next weekend wit...
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