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Browsing Archive: September, 2011
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
TATS CRU artist Hector (Nicer) Nazario was inspired to make art about the… (Richard Harbus for News) DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, September 15, 2011 After his only son was killed by a stray bullet last summer, legendary TATS CRU artist Hector(Nicer) Nazario began reflecting on his own childhood. He recalled playing freeze tag, using his imagination to transform bricks from abandoned buildings into toy cars, watching his sister sing into her hairbrush like it was a micro...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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Events
By Abbie Fentress Swanson : Interactive Content Producer The Richard Hambleton retrospective at Phillips de Pury & Company is only on view through Tuesday. But there's still plenty of historic graffiti around town to cast your eye over. With the help of graffiti aficionada Katherine Lorimer (who snaps shots of street art as Luna Park), WNYC has created a tour of five of the coolest and oldest pieces of graffiti around town. Scroll down to see our picks and check out a map of the spots here.  A m...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
BY KATE BRIQUELET The Brooklyn Paper Steve Powers is almost finished with his love letter to Brooklyn. For the past three weeks, the renowned graffiti artist has painted giant axioms on a decrepit parking garage on Hoyt Street — a project he calls a “Love Letter to Brooklyn” that is part of the city’s plan to spruce up the rapidly gentrifying Fulton Mall. But the artist, who works at night to avoid Fulton Street crowds, is staying mum on the project till it’s complete. Like opening a res... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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Celebrity
September 09, 2011 02:50 PM EDT Jim Carrey has been feeling his inner artist, aka Baba and expressed himself by spray painting graffiti on the street-side walls of his New York City studio. The actor has named the studio Church of FFC and is attempting to defy graffiti laws. The city painted over his first artwork, so he went out and painted it again. Even though he had to redo his artwork, he seemed to be being a good sport about the attempt to clean it up. While he may seem eccentric, this k...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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WANTED
The graffiti on the MRT train vandalised on August 17 was revealed yesterday, raising questions about who was responsible for the incident. Published in Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao, the blue graffiti seen in the picture is largely similar to that sprayed on an SMRT train in May last year. One obvious difference is that the words 'Jet Setter's' were spraypainted on the train carriage.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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Events
By Latoya Newman  INLSA Durban 05092011 Some of the artwork up for" Follow Your Art"Exibition being held at the Collective Gallery.PictureMarilyn Bernard A MILESTONE on the local arts scene was reached on Monday when Follow Your Art – a unique contemporary street culture exhibition – was launched at a local gallery. The Collective, an art gallery above Ike’s book store in Florida Road (below the Argyle Road intersection), is alive with an array of artistic offerings, from graffiti art to mi...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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Celebrity
Actor Jim Carrey seems to have discovered an artist within him, as he was spotted spraying graffiti art outside his New Yorkhome. He was pictured using a stencil of a Buddha's 'moment of enlightenment', painting it pink on the grey wooden wall of the property. Then he finished off the design with swirling blue and green patterns and the mysterious letters 'F.F.C.' scrawled across the wall, reports dailystar.co.uk. The actor was also seen admiring his handiwork, before he returned inside his ho... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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Artist
Renowned Newark native, Jerry Gant, is a visual artist, poet, performance artist and educator. He had his start as a 1980's street "graf" (graffiti) artist in New York City. His powerful street murals can be seen in major urban centers nation and worldwide: New York City, Boston, London but, most of all, in his city, Newark — "artists are friendlier here than in New York," Gant said. His mural at 450 Washington St. is the re...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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Charity
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Senior citizens in Germany are taking up an art form that probably isn't what most expect it would be. Gone are the days of knitting and crocheting as these older generations trade in their needles and hooks for cans of spray paint for graffiti painting. The country known as the Fatherland is seeing a whole new group of people taking up street art - in particular, graffiti. The people who are showing interest in it are not of a youthfu...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 26, 2011,
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Charity
 Picture: Artist Hector 'Nicer' Nazario (Courtesy of Hector Nazario / August 31, 2011) Earl Lugo, a coach in Azalea Park Little League, believes in heroes. He wants the youngsters from his working-class east Orange County neighborhood to believe in them, too. So Lugo recruited a childhood friend — professional graffiti artist Hector "Nicer" Nazario — to paint a large-scale...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 12, 2011,
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Busted
By BRIAN ENGLAR Tuesday - 8/30/2011, 6:04am ET A California woman arrested over the weekend for painting graffiti in downtown Frederick was convicted in 2010 on felony vandalism charges in connection with a well-publicized rash of graffiti incidents throughout San Francisco. K******** B**** D*****, 25, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., was acquitted in October 2010 of felony hate crime charges -- the graffiti often included her nickname, "KKKatie," as well as backward swastikas and anarchist slogans, a...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 12, 2011,
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RIP
The body of a graffiti artist is recovered from Christies Creek at Morphett Vale. Picture: Chris Mangan Source: AdelaideNow A YOUNG teenage boy attempting to graffiti a Southern Expressway bridge in Adelaide's south-west has fallen to his death early this morning. It is understood the youth slipped from a narrow ledge on the side of the bridge, falling on rocks in Christies Creek below. The body was discovered by a pedestrian walking along the Morphett Vale creek about 8am (CST). Police say a bac... Continue reading ...
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