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Posted by Tag One on Monday, May 14, 2012,
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Earlier this week, graffiti artist Kidulttagged Marc Jacobs's Soho boutiquewith the word ART in hot-pink letters, tweeting a photo of his work on Tuesday. Presumably grumpy Marc employees scrubbed down the storefront that morning, enduringcamera-phone photo shoots by gawking pedestrians, and then business continued as usual. But later this week, the label announced that they would sell hot pink "Art by Art Jacobs" T-shirts emblazoned with photos of the graffiti'd store. "Available now for $68...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, May 9, 2012,
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 Last night, the Marc Jacobs store in SoHo at Mercer below Houston was hit with a blast of graffiti by a graffiti artist apparently notorious for hitting fashion labels. This morning, after it was cleaned up, Marc Jacobs’ PR machine appropriated it for their own branding. Smart. The perpetrator was a French graf artist named Kidult, who apparently has a long lineage of blasting fashion labels with his stuff: 12 Oz. Prophet explains that Kidult has previously hit stores of Chri...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, April 19, 2012,
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TORONTO – Mayor Ford has declared a war on graffiti as the city launches a new initiative – a mobile app - for finding and eliminating graffiti across Toronto.
The app, SeeClickFix, puts the work of identifying vandalism in the hands of Toronto residents.
Residents are encouraged to download the app, and take a photo of the offending vandalism. The app finds your geographical position in Toronto and supplies that information ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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 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...
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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Nick Ralston CrimeJune 29, 2011 Spray it again ... RailCorp's Sean McQuarrie, left, and Kevin Rowe get to work cleaning Hornsby station. In the 2009-2010 financial year, the clean-up bill was $55 million. Photo: Kate Geraghty THE graffiti crews that deface carriages and cause extensive delays on Sydney's rail network battle on two fronts. The first war is with each other, as they try to outdo rival gangs for bragging rights. What motivates many crews, made up primarily of teenage boys and young m...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, May 15, 2011,
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It's now the second month since renowned artist Ai WeiWei was detained by Chinese authorities at the Beijing Airport, where he was to board a plane to Hong Kong. In the absence of any satisfactory information about the charges under which he is being held or his condition, his artwork is being unveiled in the West on schedule and Hong Kong artists have started a graffiti campaign asking "Who's Afraid of Ai WeiWei?" As theNew York Times reports, an exhibition of new work opened at the Neugerri... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, April 27, 2011,
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HOUSTON - If you’ve ever wanted to tag along with a “tagger,” a new documentary film may fulfill that wish. The preview of “Stick ‘Em Up!” packed them in, Thursday night, at the River Oaks Theatre. The film’s initial single showing was expanded to three, to accommodate the crowd. Director Alex Luster followed various graffiti artists as they did their thing all around Houston. The documentary focuses on a relatively new form of criminal self-expression called “wheat pasting,” wh... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, April 27, 2011,
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It's been sprayed on many walls in the GTA, and Mayor Rob Ford said he wants it gone as he launched a campaign Thursday to clean graffiti off the city's walls. He asked private business owners and city-run agencies to join his Clean Toronto Together campaign. Zion, who goes by one name, owns the Bombshelter, an art-supply store that is a hub for graffiti artists. He said Thursday the mayor needs to understand the difference between art and vandalism. "Every time you have someone buffing their wa... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 25, 2010,
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In most of Fresno, graffiti is viewed as an eye sore, an act of
vandalism. At the Chris Sorensen wall on Railroad, just north of
Church, it is a celebrated work of art, and artists gather to express
themselves with paint.
"I do it for the love of graffiti and art in general," said an artist
known as Doom41 who displays his art on the free-wall. Another artist,
Reken, said, "Graffiti has opened my eyes to a whole new world; it's
kept me away from gangs and given me a positive outlet... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, November 29, 2009,
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