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more about #graffiti more comments → eatsshootsleaves: Before we start breaking out the examples of squeaky clean hip-hop, let's just remember that hip-hop can be about having to strong arm a ho and al... more » City_Dater: Hip-hop. Over. As soon as 'mainstream' theater people get excited about some aspect of popular culture, it's a safe bet that no one else cares about i... more » Buttafooco: I think I just committed a foul in the rear of my exposed Marc Ecko underwear. I wonder if he'd be eligible for funding since his hip hop culture empi... more » Niko Bellic: I'd think that the conservative forces would be fine with the guns and the glocks part at least. Probably wouldn't object much to homophobia or misogy... more » Smitros: Oh, Rocco, nice way to serve up a wedge issue going into the midterm elections. Also, don't at least some hip-hop arts have a viable commercial base ... more » Foster Kamer: I think they're talking about family friendly rappahs. I'd book this guy for my bar mitzvah. #hiphop more » blix: The first recorded art criticism occurred in Lascaux, France. "Who fucked up this perfectly good cave"? #thehighline more » downlow: What about the awesome ghost ads? (first photo) I think it is a shame those are being painted over as well. They are such interesting links to our pa... more » TH42: Haha, "an already attractive wall." Rarely have I ever seen a blank wall and thought to myself, wow, that is a very attractive wall. The reason peopl... more » thatgirlinnewyork: and now ed norton and the ubershtupped "friends of the highline" will ask all the neighbors to pay for it. again. we lived with it thus far, so no, we... more » PropSword: Neck Face's rebuttal. more » tewkesbury: oh, UGH, it looks like the exterior wall of a water park now! The question of whether or not graffiti is art seems way less important than the questi... more » BettyCrocker: Some graffiti is art. Keith Haring is proof of this. And like any art, some of it sucks. The shitty stuff is The Broken Window Theory come to lif... more » lobstr: Make no mistake, there's nothing that excites taggers more than a fresh blank slate. No untagged 10 linear feet in NYC is safe for long, suckas! #the... more » Sir Thomas More: Those commenters are probably people (or person) that never have (has) been to the Highline, or NYC for that matter, or seen a graffiti (except maybe... more » -
#shutupnilla
Why Does Obama Want to Pay Hip-Hoppers for Their Violent Sex Talk?
The new head of the National Endowment for the Arts says that he'd like to explore government funding for hip hop culture, including rap and graffiti. Whoa, whoa. Does he know about the hoes? More » -
#wackthings
Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
The High Line was once a grimy set of abandoned train tracks. Now it's a fancy park for fancy people. So the fancy people want to scrub all the graffiti off the surrounding buildings, lest it hurt their fancy eyes. More » -
#therealissues
Barren Urban Gutter Reclaimed
One of the biggest (if not the biggest) graf pieces in America—a 57-foot high, one-third mile long "MTA" on a concrete ditch in LA—is being painted over. Finally, a clean concrete ditch. [via Animal NY. Pic: Flickr] -
#crime
YouTube-loving graffiti artist Cyrus Yazdani will spend over 4 years in jail for spraying paint.
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#bookclub
Banksy Doppelganger Selling Robot Book
Gawker friend R. Nicholas Kuszyk, the Williamsburg-based robot artist who occasionally fools the world into thinking he is Banksy, has a new book about, yes, Robots, so why don't you pick it up? Art sample photo below! More » -
#hypocrisy
Shepard Fairey, career vandal, applied "anti-graffiti coating to the walls" of his LA gallery. Wack.
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#retrospectives
The Art of Dash Snow
Dash Snow, who died last night at the age of 27, took Polaroids, wrote graffiti, made collages and installations, and jacked off on newspapers (and was aware of how that was perceived). A dozen of his artworks, below. More » -
#andnowhesdead
Iz the Wiz, Legend
Iz The Wiz, a graffiti legend since the 1970s, died of heart failure in Florida last night. He started in NYC and went all-world. Blogue has details and a retrospective of his art. -
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#publicitystunts
Shadowy Group of Chavs Out to Destroy Banksy
In 2007, NYC had "The Splasher," an anonymous pseudo-intellectual prick who went around defacing street art. Now England has its own pricks who've decided to deface Banksy murals. Unless it's an elaborate hoax. More » -
#artists
More Neckface Face!
Yesterday the formerly-secret face of awesome (suck it, haters) street artist Neckface was revealed to the world. Now we have, possibly, two more photos, which is kinda interesting, I'd say: More » -
#banksy
Banksy (Rats) NYC
Semi-anonymous street art legend Banksy reportedly collaborated with a sign-painting company on this mural, which went up last weekend in Soho, NYC. He likes us—he really likes us! At least the rats among us. [via Gothamist] -
#scarlettjohansson
ScarJo's Private Life Revealed In Graffiti
Blonde actress megastar Scarlett Johannson has been accused of drug use by a random graffiti tagger! But there's even more to the imaginary rendezvous; what did you and the busty Tom Waits fan do after the party, random graffiti tagger?: More »
