Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, December 18, 2012,
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The artist of a controversial mural in the Wagga Wagga CBD says removing it would encourage graffiti.
The
City Council is holding off painting over the 19 metre street art style
work in Fitzmaurice Street, after more than 300 people signed an online
petition supporting the mural's retention.
Moving picture: Graffiti artists
Scott Coleman and Seb Humphreys with the colourful Steam Ranger in
Victor Harbor yesterday. Picture: Simon Cross Source: The Advertiser
GOOLWA'S beloved Cockle Train has been transformed into a rolling
mural with Australia's first officially commissioned railcar aerosol
art. "It's a canvas in motion," artist Scott Coleman, aka KAB1...
Meg Richards (left) and Tara Naidu, who design graffiti . Photo: Eddie Jim
Thirteen-year olds Meg Richards and Tara Naidu are learning
valuable lessons on the job about what it takes to run a small business.
The pair have recently become business partners and launched the
website for Graffiti Soles, creating custom-designed artwork on shoes.
Year eight school student and aspiring artist, Meg, says: “I
came u...
Kids are often natural artists, and the Children's Museum of the Arts
in SoHo is developing a new program to cultivate the next generation's
creativity. NY1's Natasha Ghoneim filed the following report.
On May 26, a group of 25 employees from the creative team of an advertising agency in the city came out on the streets to paint the walls that line the Senapati Bapat Marg in Parel.
Last month, members of the creative team of an advertising agency painted the walls at Tulsi Pipe Road as part of a corporate social responsibility initiative. Pic/ Atul Kamble
They didn’t paint anything objectionable as a mark of protest against the system. Neither did they paint something that could be perceived...
Olek isn’t the only graffiti artist yarn-bombing the Lower East Side these days. Meet HOTTEA.
Delancey & Eldridge
Within the last few days, three different chain-link fences around the neighborhood received some 3D letter-work that spells HOTTEA in different variations. There’s one on the perimeter fence at the vacant 157 Ludlow Street lot; another outside the lot at the northeast corner of Eldridge and Delancey; plus one for the dearly departed Billy’s Antiques on East Houston.
Burns Court, where the controversial artist MTO has painted a rather safe “Mister Hood” on Denise Kowal's building at 530 S. Orange Ave.
By ERICA NEWPORT
SARASOTA - As a final gesture to Sarasota, graffiti artist MTO left his mark with an innocuous mural hours before heading home to Berlin, this time in true street-art style on a building at Burns Court.
“He had to be more careful and quicker with this piece,” said Denise Kowal, owner of the building holding the mural, dubbed “Mister H...
It's the most important question most men will ever ask in their lives, so the pressure is usually on to do it in style.
But while most men opt for a romantic holiday and getting down on one knee, artist Tommy Daguanno got up a ladder to propose to his girlfriend - after popping the question on a giant graffiti mural.
The creative artist and cinematographer decided to surprise girlfriend Tizzie Ozkendo by spraying 'Marry Me Tizzie' in huge green letters on a wall in downtown Det...
Several New Jersey street artists painted a mural on the side of an Elmwood Park deli to help raise awareness for Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old killed in Sanford Florida on Feb. 26. Martin was shot by a neighborhood crime-watch resident and has raised national attention. While many residents of Elmwood Park support the art and the message, there are some that believe the mural does not belong in the town. Town officials are forcing the building owner and artis...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 29, 2012,
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Hanana Fleming
CAMERON BURNELL/FAIRFAX NZ
BLOWING UP: Street artist Mikaere Gardiner aka Eno has been commissioned to paint a number of large scale works around New Plymouth.
Once labelled a graffiti vandal, Mikaere Gardiner is transforming into an authorised street artist.
A number of his murals have appeared around New Plymouth recently but this time, unlike when he gained notoriety as mystery street artist "Eno" 10 months ago, the art has been commissioned by building owners.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 29, 2012,
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DENVER (CBS4) – Denver International Airport is spending nearly $300,000 for what’s known as “street art,” or graffiti, but none of the money is going to Colorado graffiti artists.
Instead, DIA selected two artists from California and one from Brazil to receive the money, even paying for an immigration lawyer to help get the Brazilian artist to Denver.
“Our selection committee did not choose Colorado artists. They felt the three artists who did create this work in the end were the bes...
Photo credit: AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee | A tour group walks through the Wynwood Walls gallery as they make their way through Miami's Design District in search of the city's best graffiti art, all while on a Vespa. (Jun. 30, 2011)
Celebrated graffiti artist David Choe has once again tagged Facebook.
Choe became infamous in Silicon Valley for allegedly being commissioned to spray-paint sexual graphics on the walls of Facebook's first Palo Alto office in 2005 by the company's founding president, Sean Parker. (If that really happened, though, it has been airbrushed out of the official Facebook history). Choe painted less -- ahem -- colorful murals for Facebook's next digs in 2007, this time at the request of Chief Executiv...
John GarciaOne of John Garcia’s original renderings of the controversial mural.
When The Local published an article about the Biggie mural on the wall of The Brooklyn Love Building, readers commented that the post had inaccurately reported that graffiti artist Lee Quinones had completed the mural on the Brooklyn Love Building by himself. The Local subsequently published an update crediting Parsons student John Garcia and graffiti artist James Quinn, better know...
East Nashville Christmas wall: Local Graffiti artist Troy Duff rings in the Christmas season with a Chrismas Mural near Eastland Ave. in East Nashville.
Troy Duff spray paints his annual Christmas scene on a fence at Eastland Avenue and North 20th Street in East Nashville on Nov. 26. / Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean
Banksy has waded into the child sex abuse scandal of the Catholic church with a sculpture of a priest with his face obscured called Cardinal Sin.
The graffiti artist’s piece is a replica of an 18th-century stone bust, which has had its face sawn off and replaced with a mosaic of bathroom tiles to replicate the pixellation effect used on TV to prevent identification of victims of sex crimes.
Announcing his indefinite loan of the piece to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Banksy ...
A'shop, a Montreal collective of graffiti artists, is determined to bring art and colour to a city that "has way too much grey." Recently it completed a city-approved, five-storey mural: anArt Nouveau-inspired takeon Our Lady of Grace.
"The idea was to step out of our comfort zone and show the public what graffiti artists can be capable of," A'shop's Kris Wilk told My Modern Metropolis.
"There is an amazing amount of quality work being produced within Montreal's gr...
Is this a sign of the times? Graffiti spotted and sanctioned in Singapore --the mind boggles.
Graffiti in Singapore is normally a no-no.
This is the country that put American Michael Fay and Swiss national Oliver Frick away for their spray painting antics.
But Cyril Phan -- better known by his street tag, Kongo -- has managed to steer clear of the Singapore police despite tagging a giant piece of graffiti on Hermès’ new Scotts Square store hoarding.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, December 14, 2011,
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In the 21 July 1971 issue of The New York Times, Richard Goldstein wrote an article on the subculture that was gaining momentum in New York City. He profiled Taki 183, a male graffiti writer whose tags had been blazoned across subways and street corners. Goldstein also briefly mentioned that "he has spawned hundreds of imitators ... including Barbara 62" – who would go on to become one of the most influential female figures in street art.
For Goldstein, the idea of a serious female graf...
Brenna Walton“Legendary graffiti artist Lee Quinones pays homage to Notorious B.I.G. and Che Guevara with his latest mural.
Lee Quinones, one of the founders of New York City subway graffiti movement from the mid-1970s, finished a mural last week. He described the work as equal parts memorial to Notorious B.I.G. and artistic homage to a famous pop art print of Che Guevara.
He also incorporated a piece of personal history into the painting — his abiding love fo...
Thirty years ago, the NYPD cared more about bullets than bombing, so graffiti artists were able to participate in a renaissance that delighted the public while infuriating the city and the MTA. The since-adopted broken window theory of policing has made tagging a serious offense, but one former graffiti artist wants kids who are caught to channel their efforts into a type of art that's legal. Rafael Perez, AKA TATU, the leader of the legendary XMEN crew, has started Paint Straight,...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, November 26, 2011,
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Rachel Williams and Peter Warrington with their children, Frankie and Rosa, at the corner of Metropolitan St and Enmore Rd, Newtown. Picture: CRAIG WILSON
WHEN a graffiti artist drew about 50 cats on walls throughout Newtown, he could never have imagined it would result in a popular children’s book.
But Marrickville couple Rachel Williams and Peter Warrington kept spotting the cats while walking their daughter in the suburb.
“Rachel started photographing the cats,” Mr Warrington said.
Mak1one, a Cape Flats born grafitti artist, puts the finishing touches to his set at the Baxter Theatre in Rondebosch, for David Kramer's latest 'musical comedy' production: 'Some like it Vrot'. The 36 year old artist has been painting for many years and works closely with the Heal the Hood NGO and helps youngsters stay off the street and be creative through grafitti art. PICTURE: THOMAS HOLDER
There is a breathtaking mural – a genuine Montreal masterpiece – painted by Montreal’s year-old A’shopcrew, at the corner of Madison and Sherbrooke Street West in N.D.G. that has been turni...
In keeping with its Miami roots, Wynwood Walls, the outdoor street art museum that helped revolutionize this downtown industrial neighborhood, is not so much getting a facelift but full-body cosmetic surgery, complete with touch-ups, new murals, and a host of tweaks intended to make her even more of a stunner.
Top graffiti artists from around the world including El Mac and Tats Cru have taken to the streets of Bristol for the See No Evil festival as they create Britain's biggest street art.
Artists work on a piece for the See No Evil art project in Bristol. Picture: PA
Using ten multi-storey buildings as their canvases, the artists have descended on Bristol city centre for the event.
Among those taking up residency for the See No Evil event is LA artist El Mac and New York-based muralist Tats Cru –...
A subway vandal-turned-acclaimed graffiti artist has transformed a construction site into a canvas of spray paint — and neighbors in the South Slope are giving it mixed reviews.
On Friday, Mike “Mr. Kaves” McLeer — a Bay Ridge-based graffiti bomber — morphed a drab 90-foot wall into a vibrant mural with a “Honeymooners”–themed (sort of) on Seventh Avenue and 19th Street.
The temporary mural — which will stand for only couple months until a beer garden opens there this fall —...
The aim of The Hive Gallery has always been to create art without boundaries. The gallery will continue the tradition of showing cutting-edge visual art with “Gettin’ Up, Gettin’ Down,” opening Friday.
The show, sponsored by Uprok, features the art of Kier Defstar, Trent Call, Bet So, Dusk Raps, Troy Henderson, Mitch Henrie, Lucky Seven, Shae Petersen, Blake Palmer, Chase Estes, Chew, C.J. Monroe and others. The exhibition has been organized by Salt Lake City native Jonathon Baker and ...
Next to the dozens of plaques and music awards on Swizz Beatz’ wall, one might also find a wide array of fine art pieces as well. From Jean-Michel Basquiat to Keith Haring, Swizzy’s love for art started while he was very young. Growing up in the South Bronx, Swizz was intrigued by the graffiti art on walls and subway trains.
As he grew older, this love turned into an eclectic taste for many different types of artwork. This also translated into h...
A Brooklyn artist who grew up doing graffiti now embraces the fine art world without leaving the streets too far behind. NY1's Arts reporter Stephanie Simon filed the following report.
You can take the artist out of Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn out of the art. Michael "Mr. Kaves" McLeer was once a graffiti artist on the streets of Brooklyn, but now that he is having his first solo gallery show in TriBeCa, his work brings the neighborhood with him.
Jimmy Lugo got in trouble for scrawling graffiti,… (Mark Bonifacio/News)
BY ERIN DURKIN
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Brooklyn teens took their tags from walls and subway cars to a Fort Greene art gallery Wednesday.
Ten kids arrested for graffiti had their work on display after finishing Paint Straight - a city Probation Department program that teaches young vandals legal ways to hone their art. The program had its first gallery show at Shop Talk and Art Gallery on Lafeyette Ave.
FORD ADMINISTRATION SAYS NEW GRAFFITI PLAN WILL PRESERVE PUBLIC ART, BUT IS IT JUST LIP SERVICE?
BY BEN SPURR
To hear Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker tell it, the mayor’s graffiti strategy will turn Toronto into an urban artist’s paradise. Business leaders will work hand-in-hand with disadvantaged youth to create public murals, while tags and gang signs will be buffed away before the spray paint dries.
“I didn’t think this was going to come out this well. I thought at the beginning of th...
(Allen McDuffee - Washington Post)When Google puts on a conference, it’s a show. For people who typically attend academic or policy conferences (or even most other professional conferences), it was apparent that the Summit Against Violent Extremism was being led and produced by a technology leader. From the video productions on the dual large screens to the colored lighting to the thumping musical interludes, the conference was meant to dazzle.
Discount Dave's furniture store gets REO-vised wit...: In part of a week-long celebration of hip hop in Lansing, graffiti artists created new pieces for REO Town during the Deluxe Graffiti REO-vised event. Discount Dave's furniture store joined in on the fun and allowed the artists to paint the building.
Lady Aiko is among the street artists who have traveled to Los Angeles for a MOCA exhibit on the movement.
Aiko Nakagawa, a.k.a. Lady Aiko, has installed a street mural at Mateo and 7th Streets in L.A.’s Art District. With her is Martha Cooper, whose photograph was the inspiration for the work. The mural is part of the local art project called “LA Freewalls.” (Photo by Sally Levin)
By MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS Rafu Entertainment Editor
In his 1966 song “A Poem on the Underground Wall,” Paul ...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
The
reason we do murals is it reduces the graffiti in the neighborhood. I
say, 'You want to come in and help me color this in?' Automatically, the
kid ties into the mural." GRASP program assistant Johnny Santos
(RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post
)
The
exterior walls of a one-time Denver lumberyard have become a legal
canvas for graffiti artists to spray-paint their creations with the
owners' blessing.
"I've always wanted to paint it," graffiti artist Trevor Peters said of the vast south wall of McElheran's furniture store. Businessman Jeff McElheran says he plans to regularly change the graffiti splayed across the 17-by-five-metre brick wall.
Photograph by: Chris Schwarz, The Journal, Edmonton Journal
Some might think him a victim of vandalism. Jeff McElheran is really more of a patron of the arts.
In a classic tale of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," the local businessman t...
NEW YORK — Fourteen teenagers on probation for graffiti offenses got to show off what they could do with their painting skills — legally.
The teens displayed their artwork Tuesday in an appropriate setting too — a Brooklyn courtroom. They were part of a program called Paint Straight that is designed to give graffiti artists an outlet for their creativity that does not involve defacing private property. Paint Straight is part of the New York City Department of Probation’s Brooklyn Fami...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 13, 2011,
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The other night, teams of graffiti artists fanned out across Baltimore in the middle of night and tagged hundreds of public spots. According to a Sun report, they hit City Hall, shopping malls, libraries, and even schools. Besides spray cans, rags, and flashlights, the perpetrators had one other thing—permission.
It might seem odd, or even unprecedented, that the city and surrounding counties would sign off on such a massive conceptual art project involving so much public property, but I gue...
On Broadcast Lane, tucked behind Cabbagetown’s shops and studios, a cop walks his beat.
Among the trash bins in the alleyway, Constable Scott Mills points to graffiti-covered brick, drips of neon paint on the concrete curbs below. But he’s not lamenting the delinquency of the larger-than-life letters and motifs as you might expect. He knows each one’s maker by name: This one is a Bubz original. That one is Phade’s. He points to them like a proud father.These are his surrogate kids – ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
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EnlargeStar-Ledger StaffChristopher Velazquez of Newark, left, and Elijahday Warner of East Orange work on a wall mosaic as Kate Dowd of Newark GlassRoots works high on the scaffolding painting around a mirror installation at the Greater Newark Conservancy. (Jerry McCrea/The Star-Ledger)Murals help beautify, celebrate Newark gallery (11 photos)
NEWARK — For years, the community-building organization La Casa de Don Pedro has gone about its work with little fanfare from a slightly shabby brick...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
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A RENOWNED graffiti artist is set to work his magic on the Woking Ypod centre.
Mark Bajade, known professionally as Mister Batlow, has announced plans to rebrand the youth centre, as well as teaching youngsters a few tricks of his trade.
Bajade, who has built up an eclectic fanbase in London for his original work in the capital over the past seven years, will be completely repainting the interior design of the Ypod and helping to teach an all-new graffiti workshop starting next month.
Giorgio Mardinian commuted to Abu Dhabi today for the second time this week to spray-paint a wall.
The self-proclaimed graffiti addict and his fellow artists worked on a huge mural on Yas Island, commissioned to complement the hip-hop musical stylings of Nelly Furtado, who will perform in the capital tonight.
It was the second of two days of graffiti festivities led by the British artist Tom "Inkie" Bingle.
It may not be the underground canvas that some graffiti artists dream of - the side of a ...
Although Braulio Batista is proud to see his students' artwork on display at the Visual Arts Center, he also thinks it's kind of amusing.
"It's actually the first time we've had a teen exhibit." Batista said. "And it's just funny to see that the first time that we have a teen exhibit it's graffiti."
In an effort to show the lighter side of graffiti, the Visual Arts Center is currently exhibiting The Fine Art of Graffiti, which features the works of the young artists in Batista's class. The subj...
"We did a collaboration piece for an in-store artist signing and were
just amazed on how our work looked together and we both just looked at
each other and I think we both knew we had to do more. This piece we
did for Hurley is just that. Two friends that used to do graffiti over 2
decades ago coming together again with newfound skills and maturity
doing it again!" - Nathan Ota
A GRAFFITI artist has been brightening up subways with local youngsters on a police-backed project.
A*** B**** has been decorating the tunnel by Llandudno Junction playing fields. Former Ysgol Bryn Elian student A***, 36, of Old Colwyn, said: “The theme for the tunnel was sport, activities and music.”
Next month, he’ll move on to one in a subway near the Weekly News office, working with 20 pupils from Ysgol Nant-y-Coed in the Junction.
Headteacher Arwel Roberts said: “The children are lo...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 26, 2010,
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Rebel Diaz: Community centred
Rebel Diaz make political hip-hop for the people
Rebel Diaz is a politically engaged hip-hop trio from the Bronx, New York and Chicago that voices the struggle of the diaspora, from Chile to the Caribbean.
Rebel Diaz consists of Teresita Ayala (known as Lah Tere) and brothers Rodrigo Venegas (known as RodStarz) and Gonzalo Venegas (G1), born of Chilean activists. The trio position themselves within a history of political resistance through music and question the sh...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 26, 2010,
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ON Monday morning, the street artist known as Blek le Rat, considered the godfather of stencil graffiti art, set out to create his latest work on a wall opposite the Standard Hotel on West 13th Street.
Mr. le Rat (né Xavier Prou) has been spray-painting his tag on monuments and street corners since 1981, and because what he does is usually illegal, he uses stencils to be speedy. He was working more leisurely on Monday, s...
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Bronx, one local photographer recently shared her photo archives of an
art gallery that many say made a difference in the borough. NY1's Dean
Meminger filed... Continue reading ...
WINDSOR, Ont. — Unsightly graffiti is being replaced with
colourful murals by a group of young spray painters who have found a new
artistic outlet.
Marco Boskovic and his team now create
thoughtfully planned-out pieces of art.
"There are a lot of kids
out there who are in a lot of trouble because of this kind of stuff and
the only reason is because they have nowhere else to paint," said
Boskovic, 22.
The alley behind ICI Paints on Tecumseh Road East
was once covered with the motley wo...
PITTSFIELD -- Four local men are trying to bring
graffiti art out from under the bridges and into the limelight --
legally.
Solomon Stewart, 34, one of four artists in the Berkshire
Graffiti Network, said the group has been doing graffiti art for more
than 15 years. And earlier this week, they finished a mural on an
exterior wall of the A Mart convenience store on North Street.
Berkshire Graffiti Network's other members include David Healey,
Timothy Greenleaf and Gabe Bell, who is...
For some reason, the rules never meant anything to David Choe growing
up. As a matter of fact, the rebellious Korean-American graffiti artist
could care less about his grades or the law. Instead, the troubled young
truant would play hooky and shoplift to ply his craft day or night on
walls all over the City of Los Angeles. This meant that he had no
problem stealing cans of spray paint and trespassing in order to deface
public or private property.
THE first major
purpose-built skatepark in the city has been covered in graffiti ahead
of its official opening – by a group of professional artists.
• Graffiti
artist Aaron Sinclair tries out the new skatepark Picture: Ian
Georgeson
The long-awaited skatepark within Saughton Park has
been spray-painted with a variety of colourful images of skateboarders,
in-line skaters and even Arthur's Seat.
The artworks decorating
the walls of Saughton Skatepark – the larg... Continue reading ...
Atlanta painter and tattoo artist Miya Bailey reaches for a photo
album on the floor of his Castleberry Hill studio and opens it to a
random page. The album's full of photographs that Bailey shot in the
early '90s of graffiti pieces layered so dense on wall after wall, they
form a continuous texture, an endless tapestry. There's prototypically
East Coast wild style writing with its sharp angles and indecipherable
lettering, but also 3-D bubble letters and exaggerated, cartoon
characters all i...
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 Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
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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...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 10, 2010,
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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.
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...
On the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival, January 21, organizers announced the surprise world premiere of Exit Through the Gift Shop, the first feature film by the infamous British graffiti artist known as Banksy, to take place on January 24.
In
the last few days, mysterious street art has surfaced on buildings in
Park City, Utah, where 17 inches (43 cm) of snow has fallen in the ski
town.
Exit Through the Gift Shop follows a Los Angeles-based French filmmaker
who documents the secr...
Graffiti artists now have another space to play. Self-professed copyright violator and vandal Evan Roth--who also happens to be an artist and co-founder of F.A.T., a Brooklyn-based R&D lab for the public domain, and artist/developer Chris Sugrue created this app that allows graffiti artists to create and database multidimensional tags.
If you ask iconic New York City graffiti artist Phade (better known
as Shirt King Phade from the legendary Shirt Kingz) about the current
state of hip-hop, he'd more than likely tell you it's alive and
breathing and resides in the Bronx, New York.
Whether you agree or disagree, Phade has been around the culture for
decades and just like any other passionate hip hop fan is entitled to
his opinion. But the difference between Phade and your average fan is
Phade has lived the...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, December 30, 2009,
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Artist
Mike Ballard has been given free rein to transform an entire gallery
into one giant installation - because the space is to be demolished for
Crossrail.
Every surface of the Arts Gallery in Davies Street,
Mayfair, has been covered with images, including of ancient Egyptian
rulers, comic book superheroes and prehistoric cave art. The floors,
walls and ceiling merge into one work.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 19, 2009,
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By Matt Van Hoven on Nov 18, 2009 05:32 PM
BNE, a graffiti artist known the world over for blanketing entire
cities with his tags, is coming to New York for a showcase, with the
help of Mother New York and culture blog Animal New York.
"There are a few reasons why BNE interests Mother. BNE has
single-handedly created a globally recognized and valued brand in the
new social economy. Bearing that BNE has no product to sell, it's
amazing that his presence in Flickr photo galleries a...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
In :
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By BRANDON GUARNERI and MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN
Last Updated:
5:46 AM, November 1, 2009
Graffiti vandalism is apparently so cool that an East Village hotel has decided to fake it.
In a wacky attempt at earning street cred, the swanky Cooper Square
Hotel has commissioned four graffiti "artists" to tag the Fifth Street
wall of an adjacent building it recently bought.
One of the
taggers, Joyce Pensato, was going to town yesterday on her section of
the mural, w...
Know why I warm to graffiti art made with symbols, signs and forms more complicated than a common set of letters?
I don't feel like I'm just getting a whiff of some self-aggrandizing
scribe's ammonia-like chemical scent. Call it my preference for
representational arts/my prejudice against
dog-discharge-to-claim-its-space tagging arts.
Of course there's a difference between tag-scrawling a signature real quick and burning a layered piece in wildstyle letters. I just want you to know where m...
A piece of graffiti by Hong Kong's self-proclaimed "King of Kowloon"
has sold for a record 500 000 Hong Kong dollars (R480 954), auction
house Sotheby's confirmed on Wednesday.
The piece by the late Tsang Tsou-choi, featuring rows of Chinese
calligraphy on canvas, attracted fierce bidding in Sotheby's Asian art
auction Tuesday.
It finally went to an unknown telephone bidder for more than seven times its predicted sale amount of 70 000 Hong Kong dollars.
It must be nice to have friends as kind and brilliant as those of Los
Angeles graffiti artist Tony Quan. And Quan must be a great guy (and
artist), to boot. Since 2003, Quan has had Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS), a disorder that renders its sufferers largely paralyzed, while
allowing them full use of their minds and eyes. As they hated to see
their comrade incapable of any longer writing his tag, TEMPTONE, they
gathered in Southern ... Continue reading ...
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