Secret Walls x Havaianas 2015

Did American Eagle Just Rip Off a Miami Street Artist? | VICE

Some old Greek guy once said that the law is reason, free from passion. If that old chestnut held up under scrutiny there’d be a lot fewer pissed-off humans hand-pounding license plates in… Continue reading →

Experience Michael Alan’s Living Installation

A Critical Advisory to the Creative Class of NYC: Experience Michael Alan’s Living Installation, Immediately.   There are artists and visionaries, creatively brilliant minds on all sides of me every day in this… Continue reading →

BANKSY ART IS GETTING ROBBED OFF LOCATION

LONDON — Elusive street artist Banksy says he has nothing to do with an auction of several of his works taken from walls and valued at up to $1.68 million. A statement on… Continue reading →

Banksy Auction has ‘Kissing Coppers’

A mural created on the side of a building by the elusive British street artist known as Banksy sold for $575,000. Dozens of other graffiti-style works were offered at the Miami auction being… Continue reading →

Michael Alan – A Candid Interview with the Genius

Recently we caught up with Michael Alan and discussed doing a candid interview with him. Here’s what we put together from the Artist and wanted to share. For Michael Alan, art is a combination… Continue reading →

Mark Bode’s Batch of Lizards

The first batch of lizards arrived today! Now I need to get them numbered and boxed up to start shipping! There are still a few of the edition available so email to nepenthes@comcast.net… Continue reading →

Bieber Graffiti should be Illegal

Singer Justin Bieber has been asked to clean up graffiti left on a hotel wall in Australia. The singer spray-painted cartoon faces on an external wall of a Gold Coast hotel earlier this… Continue reading →

Graffiti Going Legal in Ontario

Calling all artists…spray paint artists, that is. Now is your chance to step up to the plate and show your stuff. No, not on mailboxes, power boxes or waste collection bins. This is… Continue reading →

As Legal Graffiti Disappears

The masked artist hovering over the Bronx sidewalk is but a phantom. The cinder block wall on West Farms Road near East 172nd Street, which for years was a gallery of graffiti murals, is… Continue reading →

Before and after photos of New York’s graffiti mecca 5Pointz

New York’s historic graffiti mecca 5Pointz was erased early Tuesday, with a majority of the artwork being painted over with white paint. The five-storey warehouse complex in Queens had been a popular gathering… Continue reading →

Towering Gallery Full Of Art to Be Demolished: La Tour Paris 13

One hour.That is how much time street art enthusiast Spencer Elzey had to himself inside the largest gallery of street artists and graffiti artists ever assembled specifically to transform a building for a… Continue reading →

Graffiti No More at New York City’s 5 Pointz

Queens’ graffiti mecca is no more. The extensive aerosol art on 5 Pointz — an internationally renowned haven for urban artists — was quitely painted white early Tuesday morning. The Davis St. building… Continue reading →

Bomb It 2 / Street Art Film

It’s been a little over five years since I reviewed Jon Reiss’ documentary Bomb It, a film that I called “easily the best documentary on graffiti history and culture throughout the world that I… Continue reading →

Seen and Ces Rare Photos / New York Graffiti

Here are two photos of a subway car displaying works by the Legendary SEEN UA and CES [ Tuff City ]. This a subway car that was painted in 1998 and is possibly… Continue reading →

Melbourne Gets New Coat / Australian Street Art

One of Melbourne’s iconic graffiti lanes was given a dramatic makeover on Sunday, but it only lasted 45 minutes. Artist Adrian Doyle used 150 litres of a single colour of paint to cover… Continue reading →

Forget the House! Chris Brown Covers His $90K Porsche in Graffiti / Graffiti News

Practice makes perfect, that’s what Chris Brown always says. OK, we don’t know if he really says that or not, but he does seem to be pushing his artistic boundaries. Just over a… Continue reading →

Reefa Mourned By Hundreds / Miami Graffiti

Florida making headlines again for their sensitive law approach on handling young teenagers. Hundreds of friends and supporters of an 18-year-old graffiti artist who died after being shocked by a stun gun during… Continue reading →

Meres goes to his Room – 5 Pointz / NYC Street Art

Meres is a super special individual that has one of the biggest artistic hearts, and a giving soul. He has been running 5 Pointz for many years, and the work that he has… Continue reading →

Trayvon and Zimmerman Graffiti / Street History

Graffiti as a form of expression has always been revealing, and honest. Most of the time, it is the same as a photograph. A specific moment captured in time. Art  or a statement… Continue reading →

Chris Brown Loses Graffiti Lawsuit – House Is Being Painted / Los Angeles Graffiti

Chris Brown’s graffiti painted house is currently receiving a bland makeover. That’s because the R&B star never received permission to paint the house with graffiti artwork. After complaints were filed by Brown’s neighbors… Continue reading →

Rasko / Russian Street Art

Rasko and Swamp blaze a wall by the rails. Related articles Russian Rocker Rasko / Graffiti Video (streetsaresayingthings.com)

Action Bronson – Legend in the Making / NYC Music

Browsing through my twitter tweets a year ago, I received a tweet from my man Dante Ross referring to rapper Action Bronson as one of the best rappers to succeed. I gave Action a… Continue reading →

Banksy Graffiti Taken Off Wall, Sold For $1.1M – Critics say ‘Slave Labour’ belongs to the community

Banksy mural taken from a wall in north London was sold for over $1.1 million at a private auction last night. The picture, “Slave Labour,” of a young boy sewing Union Jack flags,… Continue reading →

Brooklyn, the Remix: A Hip-Hop Tour / NYTimes Article

New York Times has recently posted an article about Brooklyn‘s historic Hip Hop history. It has been a long time that I have hoped to see an article of this sort publicized in… Continue reading →

Artists howl as developer moves to tear down Long Island City graffiti palace 5Pointz / Graffiti Mecca

Long Island City artists are demanding a local panel block a plan to tear down a world-renowned graffiti mecca to make way for a luxury housing project. G & M Realty intends to… Continue reading →

5 Pointz will live in old Location / Good News

LONG ISLAND CITY — The developers who want to demolish Queens graffiti mecca 5Pointz to make way for a set of residential apartment towers say that a space will remain in the new… Continue reading →

Judge says Sid Vicious street art breaks copyright/ Mr Brainwash

The Los Angeles-based street artist Thierry Guetta, better known as Mr Brainwash, has lost a copyright case involving a 1977 photograph of the punk rock musician Sid Vicious shot by the British photographer… Continue reading →

Street art: Top ten spots to see street art and graffiti in NYC / TimeOut New York

  In the early 1980s, kids battled Mayor Koch over end-to-end burners and broadside rollers, but much has changed in the 30 years since the documentary Style Wars blew the cap off NYC’s… Continue reading →

‘Gimme the Loot’: Tagging graffiti on the Big Apple

Fans of the New York Mets are familiar with the “Home Run Apple”: Every time a player scores, the giant fruit rises up from just outside center field to mark the occasion. A… Continue reading →