The History of the XMEN Crew
Tatu, the founder of the crew breaks it down on Art Crimes. Read about it here
Shepard Fairey Tuesday: Graffiti Proof
Apparently, after some sandblasting and the application of anti-graffiti coating, Studio Number One is becoming a buff spot.
Shepard Fairey was quoted through an email saying…
“When graff seeped into the raw brick it was very difficult to clean, the building is historic and I love and want to protect the brick. The city was never any help with removal. Graffiti is par for the course.”
Well, it is a nice looking building.
via, The Eastsider LA
“Os Gêmeos, bring graffiti art to its Rococo phase.”
Roberta Smith gives an excellent review of Os Gêmeos‘ new public art installation in New York.
Banksy’s Cats and Dogs
This piece is really fresh. Great shot by Romanywg
Banksy was in Africa
And he painted some great graffiti including this young African with Peaches Geldof. Some nice shots via the Banksy Flickr Group and Unurth.
via, Elisa Carmichael
Ironlak Team Usa
Augor, Enue, Ewok, Jaes, and Pose.
Writers sponsored by a spraypaint company, it doesn’t get much better than that.
video by We Are Supervision
Picture of the Day & the Weekly Round-up
This Week…
Bicycle safety never looked so cool
Shepard Fairey’s portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi was moving
Picasso drew with light (that’s not ‘light graffiti’)
and since we’re only focusing on the happy
Stoned Wallabies made crop circles (waiting. for. video.)
Oh Snizzle! Summer Reading!
Graffiti art. It’s bold. It’s thrilling. And it can get a girl into serious trouble….
Raised by her single mom (who’s always dating the wrong kind of man) in a struggling California neighborhood, Angel Rodriguez is a headstrong, independent young woman who channels her hopes and dreams for the future into her painting. But when her entry for a community mural doesn’t rate, she’s heartbroken. Even with winning artist Nathan Ramos — a senior track star and Angel’s secret crush — taking a sudden interest in Angel and her art, she’s angry and hurt. She’s determined to find her own place in the art world, her own way.
That’s when Miguel Badalin — from the notorious graffiti crew Reyes Del Norte — opens her eyes to an underground world of graf tags and turf wars. She’s blown away by this bad boy’s fantastic work and finds herself drawn to his dangerous charm. Soon she’s running with Miguel’s crew, pushing her skills to the limit and beginning to emerge as the artist she always dreamed she could be. But Nathan and Miguel are bitter enemies with a shared past, and choosing between them and their wildly different approaches to life and art means that Angel must decide what matters most before the artist inside of her can truly break free.
Or a double-team ensues…
Whole in the Wall: 1970 – Now
This opens tonight and features a slew of known names. Juxtapoz has a preview and there is more info after the jump
Taki 183 returns!
On July 21st, 1971 the headline ‘Taki 183′ Spawns Pen Pals appeared in the NY Times. On May 13th, 2009, Taki 183 got a website. The first two lines of the Times article read as such “Taki is a Manhattan teenager who writes his name and his street number everywhere he goes. He says it is something he just has to do.” I didn’t want to pay for the rest of the article but, you can (or if you’re smart, download it from his site or peep it after the jump.) I am more concerned with spending my money on one of the spraypainted prints that are for sale on his website. Yes, that tag above is original, and spraypainted by Taki himself. True graffiti history.
Chaka
This Saturday in LA
I’m Still trying to figure this one out…
I think only a french graffiti artist could pull this off seriously, and Belvedere is trying to nail this downtown thing. So big ups to Andre for getting Belvedere to promote graff, and money well spent to Belvedere for, well, spending money.
Pose MSK
Chicago’s own, Pose has been mesmerizing us with an insane color palette featuring letters and characters that put mostly everyone to shame. Thankfully being the nice guy he is, Pose gave us the total spectrum of work to provide to you in slideshow format. Start taking notes.
More on the man himself over at We Are Supervision, and cop some of his prints here
The Gray Ghost gets gaveled
From The Times-Picayune
“the Gray Ghost…pleaded no contest Tuesday to the charge of criminal trespassing in New Orleans Municipal Court Division D.
He received a 60-day suspended sentence for overpainting a graffiti-style mural on the corner of Press and Burgundy streets in Bywater on Oct. 22. Under the conditions of the suspended sentence, he can no longer remove graffiti without first getting the property owner’s OK. City and state properties are also out of bounds without permission.”
