The Realist Painter / Ruddy Taveras

Ruddy Taveras from the Dominican Republic has an amazing eye for what’s real. Some of the painters work can easily be mistaken for a large photo, when in fact they are hand painted… 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

FIVE / Montreal

A Soulful portrait done by Five. It isn’t usual a graff artist does a self portrait, so I assume this is either a legal artist or a portrait of someone else. None the… Continue reading

REVERT

An unusual yet cool looking style. There is something intriguing about watching indoor graffiti. In Asia, there is a lot of illegal graffiti in high rise buildings. Crisp white walls with color is… Continue reading

Toy Graffiti getting worse in Bronx NYC

Today there has been two articles from NYC about graffiti getting worse in the neighborhood of the Bronx. Sometimes it really looks like that the subject of graffiti sells. The more that graffiti… Continue reading

LOWER EAST SIDE: CES X REVOK

Whenever I’m in New York my home base is the Lower East Side, so for this next little teaser I chose the iconic Arlene’s Grocery as a backdrop. More importantly though, this clip… Continue reading

LRG Artist Driven / Bangkok

Debbie Partin / Freight Train Benching Documentarian

Debbie Partin spends her spare time benching freight train graffiti so that others can bench from the comfort of their laptops. Try benching some of her videos if have some time to spare.… Continue reading

OriginalFake KAWS Companion “Passing Through” Grey

With 2013 being its last run, OriginalFake releases a new KAWS Companion toy to the public called “Passing Through.” The toy finds the KAWS Companion sitting in a pensive state, with the lovable… Continue reading

New book documents hidden graffiti in Toronto

Hidden Toronto is a new book that explores the city’s inconspicuous places and the graffiti that’s found among them. The book’s fifty-two images are organized into three sections covering buildings, bridges, and watersheds… Continue reading

Another artist passed this week / Graffiti Artist P183 Reported Dead

A Russian street artist, whose mysterious style and politically charged messages led to comparisons to the British artist Banksy, has reportedly died. According to Russia’s English-language state broadcaster RT, the artist whose first… Continue reading

Jennifer Pawluck Arrested For Instagram Photo Of Ian Lafreniere Graffiti

A 20-year-old Montreal woman was surprised when police showed up at her home to arrest her for an Instagram photo she took of graffiti showing Montreal police spokesperson Ian Lafreniere with a bullet… Continue reading

Suspected ‘extreme graffiti’ vandal in Sacramento is identified / BUKET mentioned

Click pict for video. The Sacramento County coroner on Tuesday identified a man who died nine stories up an office building in what appeared to be an attempt at producing what’s sometimes called… Continue reading

Graffiti-Filled Gowanus Bat Cave Still ‘Open’ For Exploration

Urban explorers are a bit like children—if you tell them not to do something, it’s guaranteed they’ll try to do it. So when one such local explorer learned that developer Joshua Rechnitz sealed… Continue reading

Here is the bottom on percussion

Jaime Massieu is a master at all he lays his hands on, including the woman’s bottom. Smooth tapping and clean syncopation; this is truly the art of tapping ass. Not only is Jamie… Continue reading

Kenny Scharf

The unveiling of a Kenny Sharf creation; harmoniously interacting with the streets from which has bred the art form.

Ron English x Slash Limited Edition Bust Sculpture

Arguably best known for his flamboyant style ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash is more or less immortalized in this truly unique bust by Ron English. Based on the popular album artwork this artpiece… Continue reading

Crate Diggers / J Dilla

A good half hour retrospect on J Dilla. His music and legacy still influencing beginners to the heavy hitting producers.James Dewitt Yancey, better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee,… Continue reading

The Best Of L.A. Street Art / Los Angeles

Exhibiting work in the Los Angeles Arts District is a bittersweet homecoming for graffiti artist and painter Saber. When he was starting out in the art world in his teens – “just a… Continue reading

Dolk

R2D2 Getting some heat…

Jaguar Skills

It’s fair enough to say that this Dj is one of the slickest and wittiest in the Game of Hip Hop. Remixes and mixtapes are all worth copping, and often give you a… Continue reading

WA One / Kerala

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Love Me Graffiti DODOcase for Ipad

Made from genuine leather and constructed using traditional bookbinding techniques, this special edition Love Me case by artist Curtis Kulig for DODOcase is made to look good and stay sturdy. An elastic strap… Continue reading

Flip The Script / Jamal Nasir

There are many that want to pursue the path of producer, but it’s a path that is often laid with wack beats and terrible lyrics. There’s nothing like hearing a few boom bap tracks… Continue reading

The Hyde’s Asylum

The Hyde’s Asylum.

A Mesmerizing Slow-Motion Drive Down the Streets of NYC

Combining the capabilities of a high-speed camera with the basic idea that “there are enough [magical moments] happening every moment of any given day,” New York artist James Nares is currently captivating audiences… Continue reading

Black Book Blaze: BIO

 

Paul McDonough: “New York City 1968-1972” documents the quirky nature of New York street photography

Photographer Paul McDonough has a knack for catching passing, off-kilter incongruities on the New York City streets. He arrived in the city in 1967 and started taking photographs of unique moments happening around… Continue reading

A Mural Made From 85,794 Rubik’s Cubes

Toronto-based Cube Works Studio has constructed a giant mural of Macau, China’s skyline out of 85, 794 rubik’s cubes. The rubik’s cubes were meticulously arranged one at a time to create the 200 foot… Continue reading

Let The Arts Roam / El Mac + Retna