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 Tuesday, April 10, 2012 In : Events
Urban art from NYC street artist Ghost.
Image: YLE
The work of graffiti artist Ghost is on display for the first time in Finland. A street art pioneer who got started in New York’s gritty subway tunnels, Ghost’s pieces are now thriving above ground—most recently at a Helsinki gallery.
Ghost’s “Then and now” exhibit opens Friday at the MAKE YOUR MARK gallery housed at the old Suvilahti power plant.
Since moving from trains to gallery walls, Ghost's aerosol art has attracted collectors...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 In : Artist
New York graffiti legend puts his mark on a Jaguar XK at the New York Motor Show
By Sam Hardy
April 2012
This is what happens when you leave aJaguarXK with one of New York's most legendary graffiti artists for a couple of days.
Produced by Mr Kaves – otherwise known as Michael McLeer – this one-off Jaguar XK was spray-painted ahead of theNew York Motor Showwith the intention of being auctioned off for charity.
The car was painted in just two days and features Kaves' unique artistic style, an...
A collection of graffiti artist Banksy’s work has sold for more than £400,000 (about $639,000) at the Urban Art Sale at Bonhams auction house in London.
Girl and Balloon was one of the more than 18 pieces sold Thursday, and it fetched £73,250—almost five times more than the estimated pre-sale price. The image was painted directly onto a cardboard backing of an Ikea frame.
The stencil painting Leopard and Barcode sold for £75,650. It had never gone to auction before.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 In : Charged
Steve Butcher
April 4, 2012
A graffiti tag used in evidence.
A SENIOR Victorian magistrate has slammed four men from an organised graffiti ''subculture'' syndicate as ''vandals'' whose Melbourne-wide defacings were a ''blight on our society''.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Dan Muling yesterday jailed J**** B***, 39, who offended over an almost 10-year period and who has prior convictions from more than 20 years ago.
Mr Muling dismissed a non-custodial order against B***, who painted his ''tag'' on 100 t...
Graffiti is a common site in the neighborhood around the Access Art Gallery in Denver – not inside, hanging on the walls – but scribbled, pasted or painted on nearly every dumpster and wall for blocks.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, April 2, 2012 In : Artist
Teenager's controversial death inspires illustrations by artist 'Justin Nether'
Baltimore street artist Justin Nether composed this mural,… (Handout photo, Handout photo)
March 30, 2012|By Mary Carole McCauley, The Baltimore Sun
Oversized illustrations of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin have begun to spring up on abandoned buildings throughout Baltimore, the work of a street artist protesting the death of the 17-year-old at the hands of a neighborhood watch volunteer.
PICO RIVERA — A gang member who was spraying graffiti when he was interrupted by a local woman, who was fatally shot moments later, was sentenced Thursday to 21 years in state prison for his role in the crime.
Norwalk Superior Court Judge Dewey Falcone imposed the term on Cesar Lopez, 24, who pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and admitted a gang enhancement.
Lopez was one of four people charged in connection with the Aug. 10, 2007, slaying of Maria Hic...
Graffiti and street artist Toofly painted the Strand Bookstore in New York City today. Above, we’ve embedded a snapshot of the work-in-progress.
The street art project will promote the release of XCIA’s Street Art Project: The First Four Decades, a collection of photographs taken by former CIA officer turned photographer Hank O’Neal. The book comes out tomorrow, and the publisher Siman Media Works will release an app version in April.
CAIRO—After Egypt's ruling military sealed off streets around Cairo's Tahrir Square with walls of imposing concrete blocks, a group of artists decided to reopen the avenues on their own—in the public imagination, at least.
On one of the walls, they painted an exact trompe-l'oeil reproduction of the street behind it, as if it were open. T...
A prolific, yet apparently nameless, graffiti artist behind one of the few tags we actually kind of liked was busted doing his bestBanksy-esque work recently. According tothe folks at Uptown Almanac, the artist (or tagger, if you prefer) has been "terrorizing" a couple blocks around 19th and Guerrero for the past few months before a neighbor with a camera spotted him practicing his craft in broad daylight at a construction site near Dolores Park.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 In : Artist
Article by: ULA ILNYTZKY
NEW YORK - The bohemian atmosphere of downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s had a huge impact on the art of Keith Haring, from his impromptu subway chalk drawings to his maze-like abstract paintings.
In a new exhibition that focuses on the late artist's early career, Haring's creative energy is instantly felt through his seemingly pulsating kaleidoscope-like designs.
"Keith Haring: 1978-1982" at the Brooklyn Museum includes 155 works on paper, 30 black-and-white subw...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 In : Artist
A sale of work by anonymous graffiti artist Banksy is expected to make hundreds of thousands of pounds when it is auctioned next week.
Among the highlights which will be offered for sale at Bonhams' Urban Art Sale in New Bond Street, central London, is a 2009 work, Girl And Balloon, which could fetch as much as STG25,000 ($A38,000).
Another work, called Leopard And Barcode, has a pre-sale estimate of STG80,000, while a screen print of Kate Moss could sell for STG50,000.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 In : Busted
Serial vandal avoids jail
A serial graffiti vandal was told to "bring your toothbrush" if he ended up in court again after claiming he was too drunk to recall scratching the word "brazen" on to the window of a Mandurah-bound train this year.
B****** L** E*****, 25, was fined $1000 after pleading guilty to criminal damage in the Rockingham Magistrate's Court yesterday. It was the third time he had been charged for tagging public property in less than two years.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 In : Celebrity
Not only is George Orwell‘s “1984″ a formidable classic on paper, it’s also iconic in film form as well. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Imagine Entertainment – the production house led by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard – wants to take another stab at it on the big screen.
Apparently they’ve been hunting down the rights alongside graffiti artist Shepard Fairey and LBI Entertainment’s Julie Yorn. It’s unclear why Fairey was involved in the process, since he isn’t trad...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 In : Busted
Updated: Thu Mar. 22 2012 16:51:22
Julia Parrish, ctvedmonton.ca
Edmonton police have laid dozens of graffiti-related charges against a 20-year-old man, for alleged graffiti offences in the area of 118 Avenue in north-east Edmonton.
Police have charged Jorden Hall-Coutu, 20 with 28 counts of mischief under $5000.
The charges come days after the City of Edmonton announced an audit of its ‘Record, Report, and Remove' program had found graffiti vandalism was down 43 per cent in one year.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 26, 2012 In : Charity
The art above is by local graffiti artist Shaun Baron (known as “MAD”), who had also been publishing The Infamous since 2010, “a nationally respected magazine made here and comprised of mostly all Philly writers.” Baron, at the age of 30, has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in various organs, and as an independent contractor, he has no insurance. As a friend of his let us know:\
He has two little kids … He’s operated a magazine at a loss for a while now that showcases Philly’s...
Recently, an online documentary called Don’t Bomb These Walls was posted to tell the story of the largest, most renowned graffiti art exhibit in the world – 5 Pointz in Queens, New York – and its impending demolition.I had a chance to visit 5 Pointz a few months ago, and later talk to a Milwaukee artist who’s painted at the soon-to-be-razed landmark. I wanted to capture its significance to the art and hip hop community and find out why people all over...
David Gonzalez/The New York TimesClifford Joseph Price, the British musician and artist known as Goldie, was invited to work on the mural by TATS Cru, the Bronx-based group that he befriended 27 years ago.
TATS Cru put out the call on Friday.
“Yo, Goldie’s in town. Want to paint?”
That was all it took to summon more than a dozen of the city’s best-known graffiti artists to an otherwise-desolate stretch of Hunts Point that in recent years has been turned into a 200-foot-l...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 In : News
Over two decades, San Bernardino Police Sgt. Dwight Waldo has drawn a bead on taggers — chasing them through alleys, recovering weapons from their hangouts and memorizing thousands of markings. What some viewed as petty vandalism became something more to him.
By Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2012, 4:39 p.m.
Reporting from San Bernardino—
The flood channel near Interstate 10 has been scarred by hundreds of graffiti tags and, like a wound that never heals, treated countless times w...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 In : Apps
One of the 277 vandalism sites, caused by juveniles, from in the past few weeks. | MCT Campus
During the past few weeks, five juveniles were charged for $25,000 in damages relating to 277 individual tagging crimes covering 3,580 square feet of Metropolitan Transit System property.
The accused vandals were located via Graffiti Tracker, a regional tracking system, in which pictures of tagged crimes are introduced to the database by GPS-enabled cameras to help identify matching types of graffiti. ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 12, 2012 In : Busted
A GRAFFITI-tagger caused more than $50,000 in damage to public property during a relentless 44-month campaign of vandalism in which he sprayed painted anything that caught his eye - including a dog.
C******* was jailed for 18-months after today pleading guilty to 339 offences of graffiti, 11 of wilful damage and one of cruelty to an animal.The court was told C*******, then aged between 20 and 23, spray painted his tag "PAWN'' on numerous trains and property belonging to Queensland Rail and the...
Stephen Powers, the street artist known as ESPO(previously featured on The Huffington Post), has made waves in the world of graffiti with his no-frills approach to lettering that hearkens back to Americana and authentic signage, but its his spot-on sense of humor that initially grabbed people's attention.
In "A Love Letter For You," director Joey Garfield gives us an insider's view of ESPO's projects and his transition from writing for himself to writing for...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 12, 2012 In : Apps
RETNA's Houston Street mural is so hot right now (Scoboco).
Twitter has trends, why can't everything? For those of you who ever wished there was an easy way to find out what graffiti artists are trending in a particular city (or worldwide), well, Gothamist's fearless publisher Jake Dobkin has come up with a site just for you. Using a variety of data sources GrafRank "ranks important graffiti artists around the world." It even maps the data!
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 12, 2012 In : Charged
The attorney for two alleged graffiti vandals had their trials pushed back several months, arguing city lawyers have blocked him from reviewing the evidence they have against his clients.
Arguing Wednesday afternoon before Chief Judge Crystal A. Gaines in Atlanta Municipal Court, Atlanta attorney Daniel Kane said city officials have stymied and stonewalled his efforts to see affidavits, witness statements and video images of graffiti tags.
Kane's clients — D****** G******* J****, 19, and C***...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 In : Events
Take a trip to NYC and catch two free Armory Arts Week events curated by our very own Frank Gerard Godlewski (a.k.a. Frank GG)
The first, Tribeca Loft Perspective(March 8, from 4-9 pm/March 9 − 11 open from 2-6 pm) offers a rare glimpse at a surviving TriBeCa arts artelier with a visit to a loft exhibit and a short video screening of “TriBeCa: Looking at the Gentrification from the Artist’s Perspective.” The documentary in progress focuses on the evolution of the predominantly artist...
The Huffington Post Andrew Reilly