ILLMATICAL: What motivated you to start working on this book? KR.ONE: When I started getting to know Don1 and started to speak with him in detail about his era and his work I became re-inspired. I say re-inspired because I… Continue reading →
by illmatical In the year 4050, in a far universe, in the galaxy of aerosol dreams where each planet is protected by an atmospheric layer of vivid multicolored wild styles and throw-ups, in… Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Tom Herck always includes high standard with his art concept, along with social and phylosophic matters in my work. He currently has dropped a new video and it includes some new works that… Continue reading →
Artist Zear goes through Argentina painting silver classic, crisp burners. Repping for New York and the Argentinian culture. Zear [New York City] has been painting for many years and is currently working on… Continue reading →
In his latest project, photographer Leland Bobbé captures New York’s neglected wall art — ripped and tattered posters plastered on buildings around the city — using only his smartphone. “I find that the… Continue reading →
People have been making graffiti for millennia. Street art is a new term, dressing up a once-reviled practice for the age of MFAs and grant applications. A conservatory sensibility is evident in the… Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
This video [filmed at the legendary landmark 5 Pointz in New York City] is a tribute to graffiti, graff legends, and the old school paint of choice: Krylon! Cope 2, Meres are some of… Continue reading →
The third annual CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival takes place in James Town on September 7 and 8. The festival is produced by ACCRA [dot] ALT and a host of collaborators across the city… Continue reading →
Recently spotted this truck rocking on the streets of Kowloon. Buket and Yumoh have been putting in some work for sometime, and still going strong.
Under cover of night, in 2008, Banksy, the pseudonymous British artist, stencilled a mural on a wall of a gas station in Los Angeles: the silhouette of a girl holding a basket of… Continue reading →