Thanks to budget cuts, the New York City Department of Transportation has stopped its graffiti removal program. Good, cause graffiti is cool.
Graffiti Artists Speak to Donald Trump's Tenants
This graffiti appeared in the wee hours of Monday morning, directly beneath a Trump-branded Manhattan apartment tower.
Shepard Fairey Arrested in L.A., Wanted For Vandalism in Detroit
Street artist Shepard Fairey, most famous for his iconic (and controversial) Obama “Hope” poster, was arrested last week in Los Angeles upon returning to the United States from Europe. Fairey is charged with vandalizing 14 different buildings in Detroit.
Watch a Graffiti Drone Tag This Six-Story Tall Kendall Jenner Billboard
Kendall Jenner’s mug was tagged by a gleeful and highly illegal drone in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Wired reports. The drone, rigged so that it could carry a can of red spraypaint, scribbled a few lines onto the young reality TV star’s face before being pulled down by its designer, artist KATSU.
Police "Hurt" by Vague Anti-Cop Graffiti of Angel with Gun
If there's one thing we learned in 2014, it's that political cartoons are awful. Doubly so if your name is "Banksy" and triply so if your name isn't "Banksy" but you wish it were, like the aspiring satirist behind the piece seen above, which reportedly "has many outraged" in Detroit.
Cost, New York's Best Known Street Artist, Was Arrested in the Act
The graffiti artist COST—whose illegal black-and-white posters are inescapable in New York—was arrested Sunday in the Meatpacking District.
Guy Whose Claim to Fame is Jailing Panhandlers Is Mad About Art Exhibit
New York City is the birthplace of graffiti, a globally beloved art form. It is also the birthplace of the "Broken Windows" theory of policing, which has succeeded in arresting a lot of panhandlers and subway dancers. Which is worse, do you think?
The 5 Pointz warehouses in Long Island City, Queens, once a vibrant global mecca for graffiti art, will be turned into the least artistic high-rise condo towers you have ever seen.
"No Illeagles Here" Anti-Immigrant Graffiti Is Sublimely Terrible Art
As the national debate rages over what to do with the tens of thousands of Central American children who have flooded the U.S. border in recent months, one Marylander was brave enough to take a stand.
"It's better to tag somewhere that already looks like crap," and other tips for not getting arrested for graffiti in New York City.
Dead Whale Washes Up in New Jersey, Gets Tagged By Frat Bros
A 15-foot Minke whale washed up in New Jersey, and it wasn't long before someone notified the authorities. And by "notified the authorities," I mean "spraypainted a fraternity logo on the dead whale."
Only Officially Sanctioned Clit Art Is Allowed at Art School
Santa Fe University of Art and Design boasts that it helps students to "develop their full artistic identities." Unless that artistic identity is not officially approved by the administration, in which case EVERYONE WILL BE PUNISHED. Especially if there are clits involved.
5 Pointz Has Been Killed
[Queens graffiti mecca 5 Pointz was painted over last night, to make way for condos. Sickening. Photos via Animal NY.]
Banksy's newest NYC piece (and perhaps the last of his month-long stay here) is on the side of a warehouse in Queens. It's made out of balloons. And here is the inside story of Banksy's first NYC show a decade ago. The fuss was somewhat smaller then.
Today's new Banksy NYC piece is a robot stenciled on Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island.
Here is a thoughtful article, in the New York Post, about the "complex prestige game" that informs the New York graffiti community's disdain toward Banksy: "'Street art' is associated with whimsy and even gentrification—things the mainstream considers socially good, or at the least, nondestructive."
The newest Banksy NYC piece is on 153rd St. in the South Bronx, and already getting tagged up, naturally.
Woman Whose Pug Tinkled on Banksy's Art: "Dogs Are The Original Taggers"
On Tuesday, a ferocious vandal urinated on Banksy's flower-bursting Twin Towers stencil, as a cluster of awestruck humans watched. The culprit's name is Freddi, he's an eight-year-old pug, and his caretaker is Elisa Casas, a lifelong New Yorker who was also cast on the Sundance Channel reality show Girls Who Like Boys…
Banksy's newest NYC piece is a silhouette work in East Williamsburg. A graffiti writer who tagged the piece was "caught and beaten up."
