Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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Calgary police are looking for the graffiti artist using the tag “AKOR.” He’s considered one of five worst graffiti taggers in the city.
Photograph by: Courtesy, Calgary Police Service
Graffiti in Calgary is down both in terms of the number of complaints and amount seen, according to police and city officials.
Bill Bruce, chief bylaw officer for Calgary, said complaints about graffiti on public property are down 14 per cent and on private property are down about 17 per cent compared with ...
Taki disguises the identity of two masters of the written script, at polar opposite ends of the social worlds. One writes about duchesses of his acquaintance in The Spectator column ‘High Life’, one wrote his name, ‘TAKI 183’ on a subway train in New York City for the first time in 1971, in strict fact copying his Harlem confederate JULIO 204, but in broad history becoming the first graffiti artist of the 20t...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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The new American fine art of graffiti comes alive with spoken word and an inspired crowd. The colors were vibrant and the sounds were uplifting as artists created visually appealing works that only a spray can medium could produce.
These performance and visual arts came together at Trenton’s annual Jersey Fresh Jam 2011, hosted by Vicious Styles Crew, on Saturday, August 20th. The show, held at the Terracycle, features graffiti artists from around the nation, while hip hop artists perform...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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Lindsay Lohan‘s first staring role since her release from house arrest is in the music video for Miggs’ new song, “Let the Games Begin.” In the video, Lindsay plays a model/actress by day. But by night, she is a “world famous street artist known for his social commentary,” even though authorities have vowed to arrest “him.” This is obviously an allegory for Lindsay’s life. Frontman Don Miggs expalins, “She hasn’t beaten her kids or cheated on her husband. She isn’t Tig...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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The mystery surrounding the recent killing of a 16-year-old graffiti artist by police officers in Bogota has caught national attention, including that of Vice President Angelino Garzon.
Commander of the Bogota Police General Francisco Patiño provided his official version of the event, which contradicts reports from the minor's relatives, W Radio reported.
According to Patiño, the police responded to a call about "a robbery on a bus. [The call] spoke of three men and one woman, one of them wit...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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Photo by Clayton Patterson
Kevin, left, and Troy Harris at Clayton Patterson’s gallery.
By Lincoln Anderson
The origins of rap and hip hop are firmly situated in the 1970s Bronx. But there’s another neighborhood that also lays claim to having written an important chapter in the story of what is today perhaps the planet’s dominant musical and cultural force: the Lower East Side.
Unfortunately, the L.E.S. has never gotten its proper due for the part it played in this vibrant art form’s evol...
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 –...
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The man who allegedly made off with the Calvin Klein/KAWS poster artwork was captured on a surveillance camera. NYPD Photo.
NEW YORK (AP) - Police are looking for a thief who removed a piece of graffiti art from a New York City building.
The New York Post says it's a 1999 Calvin Klein jeans ad featuring an acrylic image by artist KAWS, valued at about $100,000. It was hanging in a hallway of Complex magazine, a publication co-founded by ...
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 —...
Today, Hip Hop mourns the loss of one of its founding pioneers, Jeffery "KING KASE 2" Brown. Kase 2, as he was also referred to, was known as the "King Of Style" in the world of graffiti art. Featured in the classic Hip Hop documentary Style Wars, Kase 2 will be forever remembered for his elaborate artwork and overwhelming confidence in his abilities.
DJ Kay Slay, also featured in Styles Wars film, tweeted earlier today (August 14) in the memory of Kase 2. Kay Slay also said via his Twitter ac...
Banksy painted over Robbo's work. Spray-paints at dawn!
Before Banksy's work became the object of desire for champagne-sipping, canapé-snaffling hedge fund managers at auction houses' private views, there was something of the curled lip about street art. Indeed, for years it wasn't known as street art but graffiti - the painted defacement of walls. London in the Noughties saw the evolution of that view: there could be a legitimate artistic value of this sort of work. Howe...
Shepard Fairey's latest work has not been well received in Denmark. Last weekend, a group of angry thugs called Fairey "Obama illuminati" and then proceeded to beat up him and a friend after the opening of his exhibition in Copenhagen, leaving the world famous graffiti artist with a black eye and a bruised rib. Fairey refused to report the assault to the police--"The only thing I could see coming out of it was further media commentary like 'street artist whiner...
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Banksy is an urban artist who graffitis buildings and structures, mainly in the UK. Most of his graffiti art has a social commentary aspect to it and his artwork has become both sought after and valuable. For those of you who are fans of his work, The Custom Vinyl Shop now offers a selection of Banksy vinyl decals to put on your MacBook, which will either show your appreciation for art or make you look like a desperate urban hipster.
I once lived in a flat in London that had a Banksy graffitie...
A work (upper left hand corner) by French street artist Space Invader is on display at the 'Art In The Streets' exhibtion inside the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles on April 21, 2011.
The Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday that graffiti art helped it break attendance records.
The museum logged more than 200,000 visitors for "Art in the Streets" during its four-month run. The survey of the ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the graffiti wars, which, according to sassy new Bay Area documentary Vigilante Vigilante, are already in progress. Filmmakers Max Good and Nathan Wollman started their project a few years back with a provocative new theory: that a new breed of citizen vigilante – perhaps the street art world's version of a Tea Party activist – has taken upon themselves to supplement city graffiti abatement programs. These "buffers" (named after the common term for graffit...
Is graffiti unsightly? Certainly not to the more than 60 artists who gathered, spray paint in hand, for the FUA Krew BBoy BBQ last week in the heart of Rochester, North Clinton near Clifford Avenue.
The graffiti artists were joined by break dancers, emcees, and DJs for hundreds of community members to enjoy. FUA Krew, an international graffiti crew with local members, hosted the seventh annual event, which has spread to Philadelphia and Europe.
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Charged
Sean Baumgart
August 9, 2011
Police have charged seven people in the wake of a graffiti spree that targeted unattended trains during the January floods and resulted in a $113,000 damage bill.
Aged in their late teens or early 20s, the accused face almost 800 counts of wilful damage by graffiti after a joint police and Brisbane City Council operation.
They are all set to face court by early November.
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One of the accused, a 21-year-old from Coorparoo faces 324 coun...
When I was young I associated graffiti with gangs and crime. Now that I’m older, it’s probably my favorite form of art. I don’t know my way around a can but I do know my iPhone. And with Street Tag, I can use my iPhone as a can of spray paint. SO FUN.
What’s it do?
It’s an augmented reality app that turns your iPhone into a can of spray paint. You can set the color, width, and wetness of your paint and because it uses AR, you can tag graffiti ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 8, 2011,
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New Banksy work revealed online First Photo
The controversial British graffiti artist Banksy aka Robin Gunningham has posted a new work on his website ( http://www.banksy.co.uk/newoutdoors/index.htm) exploring the scandal which has engulfed News International over the past months. The exact location of the work has not been revealed, but it is thought to be somewhere in the Wapping area, near the headquarters of News International in the UK.
This is not the first connection that the popular a...
A group of juvie offenders start their first day in an alternatives-to-detention program by learning the ropes of graffiti art and culture Tuff City Styles Tattoo.Sean Myers, 21, works on his art.
Take a tattoo parlor, a spray can and a teen who made a few bad choices, add a little creativity and a positive push, and you'll end up with ... a second chance at life.
Today, the Daily News, in typical anti-street art fashion, published a story declaring a "crackdown on train graffiti vandals paying off, thanks to team of ex-cops." They patriotically applaud the dedicated NYC Transit Eagle Team for fending off the "old-school graffiti vandals" (who they believe can open the door to "bad guys intending to do much worse"). But one of these old-school graffiti vandals told us the whole thing is a bunch of baloney.
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 ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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Ever try and find the location of Banksy's work in London? It's a minefield. Well someone clever has come up with the solution. It is in the form of a virtual walking tour of Britain's most famous graffiti artist's work, with GPS to get you there. ArtLyst rates this highly. We find it easy to use and definitely the most comprehensive app on the market dealing with the artist's work. It does however take you to works that have been painted over by the council, so map out a route and check oth...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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Lizzy Himmel, B'klyn Museum/AP/AP
Thirty-five artists, inspired by Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, pictured in 1985, will be featured at the "Manifest: a Conjuration of Radiance," exhibit Museum of African American Cinema.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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Rowena Hamiltion at the Kid Acne exhibtion being held at the Millennium Gallery
Published on Monday 1 August 2011 00:12
SHEFFIELD’S most famous graffiti artist has returned to the city where he made his name for an exhibition of his creations featuring everything from pencil sketches and giant murals to vinyl sculptures of ghosts.
Kid Acne is putting on the free show at the Millennium Galleries on Arundel Gate, and is also taking part in a class and talk giving an insight into how he produces ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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In the last two weeks, Newark detectives have arrested three people for causing $3,500 worth of damage by spray-painting graffiti throughout the city, police said.
Those arrested:
» B****** C. T*****, 19, of Myers Road in Robscott Manor, who was charged July 15 with three counts each of graffiti and possession of graffiti implements, and two counts each of trespassing and conspiracy.
T*****, who uses the tag "TUNE," has been linked to tagging incidents in Newark totaling $800 in damage in the...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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First Posted: 7/29/11 03:29 PM ETUpdated: 7/29/11 03:29 PM ET
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It comes down to this: is graffiti art or vandalism? For 20 years, a single man with a spray can has forced Hamburg courts to weigh this very question. On Friday, a judge ruled it was in fact vandalism, sentencing the 61-year-old spray painter, who goes by the name "OZ," to 14 months in prison.
Referred by the courts as W****** F., the Hamburg resident has more than 120,000 graffiti to his name. These consist m...
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...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 3, 2011,
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[SOHH highlights a newly-released single each week and offers a unique look at the song. Today, former Roc-A-Fella artist Beanie Sigel breaks down the 5 elements of Hip Hop and explains why he chose to pay homage with the song "B-Boy Stance".]
Break dancing. Rapping. Writin' on walls and trains - graffiti. I did all that comin' up. Let's talk about Cornbread - a Hall of Fame graffiti artist from Philly. I was with the 5 Squad. Outta South Philly. I know my history.
MIDDLETOWN — After a year-long investigation, Middletown police have arrested a graffiti artist who has been plaguing the downtown area with spray paint.
Lt. Heather Desmond and Lt. Gary Wallace announced the suspect’s arrest at a press conference Monday. They said the suspect is now 18 but is being tried as a juvenile offender because he was 17 when he allegedly did the graffiti. Because of his juvenile status, police didn’t release his name or address, though they did s...
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First Posted: 7/29/11 03:29 PM ET Updated: 7/29/11 03:29 PM ET