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You Go Girl Graffiti
We're digging the "you go girl" graffiti around New York City. Discosalt has some interesting info on the tags... I See "You Go Girl"

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Art From The Heart
Where My Girls At
You Go Girl!

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When Graffiti Attacks
Street art meets pedestrian in NYC... Gotcha!

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Street Art Fantasy Land
Graffiti Under Bridge

Captured by A Test of Will

Tagging Graffiti in NYC
A fun guide from Gridskipper that tags some of our favorite artists... New York Graffiti Identification Guide

Claw

We couldn't help notice the image used for Claw is of an LA piece, above is Claw graf from NYC with Miss 17, also featured.

More NYC Graffiti & Steert Art

Graffiti For U & Me
When friends visit New York City, they're often surprised to learn that much of the graffiti they see around town is "legal". From massive art exhibits to designated mural walls...

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The city allows graffiti in public spaces, especially in run down areas, to add color. "Legal graffiti", for the kids, to make them happy, and their neighborhoods less drab.

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Graf Party
Red Hot Wall
Illegal, Now Gone
NYC Steals Thunder

Images from A Test of Will's collection of Assorted Graffiti. Another favorite below...

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Street Art Fantasy Land
Two greats things about street art are demonstrated in this wonderful work by Chewie. How it can turn overlooked urban spaces into hidden galleries, and the imaginative way the artist's use the surroundings to add to the fantasy... Skelewags

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Click to see the full images...

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Petroglyph Street Graf
Inventive Sewer Art
Roar of Thunder
Skewville

Images via Chewie. Link tip via Neatorama

Peace Out
Have a rocking New Year's Eve, see you next year!

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You Are Beautiful

Peace graf by Mercurialn on Flickr. More NYC Graffiti Underground

Graffiti Mural Found in NYC
A cool story from beginning to end, a legendary wall with tags from Futura, Fab 5 Freddy and Basquiat was found during building renovations and will be on display - Holy Grail of Graffiti Found in NYC!

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Photos we've taken of NYC graffiti that's now gone...
West Side Graffiti Mecca
Rivington Street Color
Bowery Breakdown
LES Still Life

Buddy used to love this one.

Signs of Expression in NYC
Writing on signs is a fascinating form of expression. It's an easy and anonymous way to voice social commentary and often the messages are funny and poignant, from pooping on people's dreams to waking them out of them... Signs Defiled

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A great site capturing important messages, simple truths and everything else in between - Signs Defiled!

The signs speak the truth...
Will Farrell's Elf Posters vs. Pissed Off NYers
Kate Moss Dressed By An Unknown Artist
Mini Kiss Mania Hits New York City!

Graffiti in New York City
As much of New York City's renegade spirit disappears around us, it's nice to see graffiti is alive and well in some spots and still giving the city color... New Pieces at N13th

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More colorful shots at A Test Of Will

Graffiti Down the Street
Graffiti Springs Eternal
Graffiti Under Bridge

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Street Art Sticks
Street art stickers cover an old truck in NYC, by Theory Propaganda. Check out the Flickr page to see each sticker & artist identified!

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Old School NYC Stickers & Flyers
Can Real Graffiti Be Legal?
It's All In The Placement
Graf Springs Eternal
Bombshell

Another great collection of stickers below...

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Street Art Down the Sewer
From the inventive minds of Sao Paulo street artists..."for at least a year, a few enterprising young artists who post under the Fotolog name 6emeia have been beautifying the city’s storm sewer openings with their cute and clever cartoon paintings"... Street SmArt

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More at 6emeia's official site and Brasile, Tombini d'Artista

The Architecture of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo's "Prehistoric" Grafitti

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Bombshell
Powerhouse Books has released BOMBSHELL: The Life and Crimes of Claw Money. An amazing scrapbook of photos and graphics from NYC's legendary graffiti artist and cutting edge designer. It's a rich banquet for the eyes, filled with color, sparkle and ingenuity!

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Claw Money's Official Kick-ass Site
Order BOMBSHELL at Amazon!

LA Times: Claw Money Launches her 'Bombshell'
Village Voice: Claw Money Honey

More on Claw Money and BOMBSHELL...

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Graffiti Under the Bridge
Filed under "How'd they do that?!!" (shot on the West Side Hwy)...

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Neckface off the Williamsburg Bridge
New York City Graffiti & Steert Art

Local Color
Deluxe gate art from the Lower East Side of NYC... (more below.)

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Grafitti and street art from around the Bowery:
Stay wild
This means war
Sreet art at large
Stanton St color
Dumpling run
A Skew

A tree grows in the city below...

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Walart
A fantasy filled wall of street art from the great New York City photo site TestOfWill. Check out the other half.

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Graf packing district
Attention to detail
East Village color

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Graffiti Springs Eternal
If you didnt catch the final graffiti & street art show at 11 Spring Street this December, the internet "Springs" eternal with a fantastic amount of excellent coverage. Step inside the exhibit below...

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Shady Art
Test Of Will spotted some interesting street art around town, we like the sundial effect... Double shadow

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NY street art at large
Wish we saw more of this
Thundercut's amazing crossing signs

Truck Graffiti
In NYC, delivery trucks hold some of the best graffiti art and joyous images around! It's a movable feast for the eyes. Jim and Karla Murray have a fantastic set of shots called Van and Truck Graffiti NYC

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Via the Gothamist's Beautiful, Lost Storefronts of New York

Street Art on Cars
Graffiti Truckin' NYC
Nightmare on Orchard Street

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Graffiti is pretty
We know graf is supposed to be all hard core and stuff, but sometimes it's just pretty...

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Color blast - Greenpoint graffiti captured by A Test Of Will

Skullduggery in Dumbo
Greenpoint parking lot graffiti
Artist Banksy hits Brooklyn Museum of Art

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Local color
Colorful street art from the Lower East Side of New York City...

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Petroglyph street art
Graffiti down the street
Bowery breakdown

More photos below...

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Graffiti is art from the heart
Infamy, a film we saw last year at the ResFest has been released on DVD and it's fantastic! a must see for anyone who wants to know more about this conflicted urban art form. It's a movie that answers the question "Why do they do it?" and takes you deep into the wide diversity of the art, style nuances, street rules and passion and pain behind it. It stars our friend Claw and she kicks-ass.

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Acclaim for Infamy:
Graffiti Cinema Turns Moody (NY Times)
On the Streets, Graffiti Is Making a Name for Itself (Washington Post)
'Infamy' Profiles Monuments Of The Streets (NY Post)

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Graffiti down under
The graffiti of Centre Place, Melbourne

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"I feel like a lot of us are searching for art...sometimes you just have to let it find you...stumbled upon this alley in Melbourne, Australia looking for a place to eat" - Searching from Okiboi

Colors pop on gloomy day
Messages underground
Bowery breakdown

Legal graffiti
Can real graffiti be legal? not really. The outlaw element of hard core graffiti is at the heart of the culture and art. But legal outdoor graffiti exhibits are still amazing in their own right and provide a fantastic canvas for some beautiful work. The 5 Points warehouse block in Queens, NY is a great example...

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More photos and info below...

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Graffiti down the street
Took these pics the other day on Eldridge St in NYC on our way to get some dumpings. A continued shot of this block is below, the garbage sign is the divider, you can see it in both shots.

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A sign
Snapped this old billboard off a back road in Columbia County NY, them's clever folks upstate...

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Buying an old house in the Catskills
Favorite Columbia County farm stands
Why we go upstate on the weekend

Skullduggery
Digging this great photo of graffiti in a bed of abandoned debris, shot in Dumbo (Brooklyn) recently by Lasadh.com...

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Shooting DUMBO


Petroglyph street art
Buddy admires some "petroglyph" street art in the Lower East Side.

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Shots of Buddy checking out graffiti around NYC...
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Beaver
Pissed at door
Buddy's tag tour
Raw Dog

Another shot of the petroglyph style graf below...

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NY Graffiti & Steert Art
New York City is the graffiti capitol of the world!...

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- East village graffiti
- Bowery breakdown
- Graf packing district
- Drug territory or art?
- Rainy walk in the LES
- Buddy's tag tour
- Roar of Thunder
- Night walker
- Eldridge street art
- Ludlow street art
- New York doorways
- Street art at large

This means war
Tags over tags over tags, that's some serious shit.

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same spot, new graf

Messages Underground
The Gothamist pointed us to an cool site... "stop whatever you are doing and check out the urban exploration galleries at Netherworld Online". We took their advice and spent an hour cruising the great vphotos at Netherworld Online - our favorites are the incredible shots of illusive underground subway grafitti, the mood and lighting is fantastic...

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Riverside Tunnel
Hell's Kitchen
The Far Division
Central Cut

(Photos copyright: Netherworld Online)

Fukc Corporate "Street Art"
Wooster Collective, GammaBlaBlog and Flickr users have been tracking the backlash and defacing of Tats Cru's grafitti work for the Sony PSP that's been seen around NYC...

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Some interesting before and after shots.

Wired is reporting San Francisco is seeing a similar attack, awesome.

(Photos via GammaBlaBlog and Wired)

CMA's take NYC flava
caught this on the way to work today - all along 42nd Street around Bryant Park are new signs for the CMA Music Awards (being held in NYC this year) - and they totally copied Thundercut's crossing-sign art in their imagery!...

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check out some Thundercut's cool work around New York:
- Roar of Thunder
- Street Art to the Highest Power
- Thundercut's official site

Daily Art
Streetsy keeps blowing our mind with their daily photos of street art around NY (and the world.)

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(photo credit: Streetsy)

influential
cool graf and street art shot from Krispy on Flickr...

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lost art
those handmade signs that people put up when they've "lost" something have become the a hot form of street art. Procrastination has photos of a couple he saw... "Screaam!" and "Love the L Train?"

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Update: Jerry sent us a note that these fliers might be part of a School of Visual Art thesis project.

stay wild
snapped this new street art on the corner of Stanton and Chrystie this morning, love the way the panel at the base of the street light is used as a frame...

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stop by Wooster Collective and Streetsy for great street art photos! or cruise Cityrag's NY Grafitti and Street Art section.

marked
with Kate Moss's recent bad turnings (coke scandal, dropped by Chanel) we remembered a photo we took last April and thought it was a funny omen of things to come...

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street meat
we've been a fan of Jake Dobkin's amazing collection of street art and graffiti photos for a while, appearing in both his Flickr street art site and on his mesmerizing photo site BlueJake! and now he's launched the excellent Streetsy - "a daily street art site. Our goal is to create the largest curated street art site on the web. Each day, I post 7-10 pictures of street art." it's becoming a daily stop for us more here.

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you can view the site by: cities, recent tags and frequent tags - like these... Swoon, Haculla, DarkCloud

same spot, new graf
a new HOST tag on Allen below Stanton. here's the same spot & shot in February

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from the street
great photos of new graf and street art from GammaBlaBlog...

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- The Candle Building in Soho (above)
- Os Gemeos in Williamsburg
- Storker in the Lower East Side
- DeLaVega in the East Village

street art on cars
on E. Houston last week... looks like street art is moving to cars...

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graf party
TestofWill snapped some great photos of Marc Ecko's graffiti street party last week...

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(photo credit: TestofWill)

layers
A Test of Will is a great NYC photo site that's always spotting cool stuff around the city, like these awesome "floating graffiti" shots...

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soho street art
when we first started reading blogs a few years ago, GammaBlaBlog quickly became a daily visit for us, and still is. lots of vibrant NYC photos of street life, people, graffiti and more; like this great shot of a Rich Jacobs Mural on Elizabeth St. in Soho. check it out.

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attention to detail
here's a cool graffiti site in the making... a webpage depicting the details of major walls in NYC. excellent, colorful photos. we gave the site creator a shout, he'll be adding more and updating frequently, and humbly notes "It is the street art which is fantastic, I just point and shoot!" the shots below are from the Parking Lot series (shot near Greenpoint), but check them all out - each set is great!

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cross & grow
cool street art spotted by Towleroad's photo correspondent Dave G.

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roar of Thunder
our friends at Thundercut have some brilliant new work out there! great shots from their site...

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- awesome Thundercut Boombox shot
- more cool Thundercut photos

gated art
many of the store gates throughout NYC are covered with cool art, but you rarely get to see it because the gates are pulled up during the day (when the stores are open.) here's a nice one from the LES...

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it's all in the placement
fun with stickers on the streets of NY.

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Bowery breakdown
many of the East Village's oldest and coolest building were recently demolished to make way for the Avalon Chryistie's additional complex that extends several blocks north of the massive main structure (seen in background.) knowing this beauty was coming down, we snapped a couple shots to remember her by.

Bowery.

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the building (and graf) in the second photo in this post are also gone

eldridge street art
some shots taken between Stanton and Delancy on Eldridge St. in the LES...

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a skew
Skewville put up a very cool big mesh barrier piece on Allen St a couple weeks ago. it was gone the next day, but we caught a shot...

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more temporary street art:
Skewville work on the GammaBlaBlog
Work by Darius Jones

Buddy likes Beaver
Buddy checks out some street art in the East Village...

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street art at large
zooming in on some street art on a small section of wall on Rivington near Chrystie in the LES...

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it will all be gone soon as this formerly abandoned building has been recently renovated into apartments. it's amazing the way things are always changing in the lower east side. here's a shot of the same building we took a year ago, with just a couple tags (you can still see the GOV tag peeking out in the shots above)

barren Bleecker
most of the length of Bleecker St is packed with shops and restarants, except the last couple blocks on the east end. they have a strange, quite vibe. virtually store-less, but full of graffiti and peeks at NY past...

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neckface begins!
love Spinach Dip and check his site often, but it took our friend Tale of Two Cities to point us to SD's fat scoop on this awesome new tag by Neckface. it's so cool we had to jump on TOTC's wagon and join in and "share this instant classic Neckface tag just off the Williamsburg Bridge"...

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(photo credit: SpinachDip)

His name is Lepos. He is not from here.
from the fabulous GammaBlaBlog comes the tale of Lepos - "His name is Lepos. He is not from here. And is lost and is friendly." Some very cute and funny street art appearing around NYC... keep an eye out! (and check out the GammaBlaBlog for more of his journey)

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Lepos in Toronto. and Sean sent us a link to a great Lepos shot he took on east 11th st. this weekend, and sent us a link to an awesome page of Lepos spottings on Flickr!

(photos above from the GammaBlaBlog)

fresh graf
one of the things we love best about the Lower East Side is the fresh street art that pops up every day. couple days ago we noticed WK had just hit a spot we'd recently photographed, adding some cool new wheat paste images. and Wooster's got some great shots of him throwing it up.

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true elf false
more cool stuff from George... "Someone did this great graffiti on our block to a couple of posters that have been up since thanksgiving. Makes you think...is Elf true or false...and why can't the talented Will Ferrell make better movies?". it also makes us think - dam, we love New Yorkers!... better take down those 6 month old movie posters, or we'll take matters into our own hands. (9th Ave and 22nd St.)

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writing on the wall
must try harder, must-try-harder.

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writing on a bus stop, Ave A and 2nd St.

it's all in the detail
a stretch of colorful graffiti along Forsythe, near Rivington

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lynch a scenester
LES graffiti, Chrystie near Stanton

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ludlow street art
graffiti & street art covered building on Ludlow...

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the great GammaBlaBlog sent us this link on the artist of the work in the top photo - WK Interact. check out more NY work on their site. or better yet, GammaBlaBlog has many awesome photos of WK's projects that capture the art and street scene around it.


hanging out
jeans hung on a window gate in the LES. street art or donation?

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maybe both, either way it's kind of moving

Nightmare on Orchard Street
scarrrrry graf on a truck on Orchard

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and fuck yeah!... Wooster turned us on to an amazing street artist from crooklyn this week - only 2$.

dogged
Buddy pissed at door (we told him it says "fuck HOT dogs", but he was still pissed)

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fashion graffiti
bus stop Channel ad with cool shirt added by an unknown artist

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("coco mademoiselle" is part of the ad, the stuff on her face is part of the graf. it says "i'r kiss on mars"?)

Claw hits Cali
New York graffiti artist Claw hit South Central L.A. this past week and sent us this fresh photo...

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this weekend we stashed all of CityRag's graf photos into one section - check out the new NY Graffiti and Street Art category!

outlaw rocker infiltrates music stores
cool little follow-up on the great story about the artist Bansky putting up his own works in 4 of NY's top museums... we were talking to our musician friend Joe about it and he told us he's been doing the same thing with his CD's for years! he goes into music stores around the city and leaves his CD's. files 'em himself into the correct genre, alphabetized and all. just for the fuck of it. even has his friends try and buy them once in a while. (and he credits a friend for the idea, maybe it's happening all over!) Dam, we love anarchist artists.

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outlaw artist infiltrates 4 of NYC's top museums
hot off the press from the Wooster Collective... A Wooster Exclusive: Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums (All of them)

Over the last couple of days, a British pensioner has visited four of New York's Most Famous Museums...
The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Museum of Natural History. In each museum the pensioner surreptitiously installed a piece of artwork.

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Fucking amazing, visceral, stuff that makes us feel good to be alive and kicking in NYC today!

big blue dumpster
every once and a while we fall in love with a dumpster...

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and Amy from NewYorkology has her own dumpster romance going.

old school NY stickers and flyers
here's a cool page of stickers peeled off walls in the LES in the mid 90's. some great design and imagery. if you were in the EV or LES back then, these stickers will give you a wicked flashback! (for us they include: some designed by friends, places we used ta hang, a couple for friend's bands, even one for a company we used to work for.)

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and check out this killer site called: What is Hip Hop? that features inventive "Old School Party Flyers" from back in the dayz when hip hop and rap were just starting to break...

"These Cats Worked on big Art tables and had all the tools to make these flyers by hand including those Rub on Letters, wax Machines, exacto knives, Graph Paper and many other tools that are extinct today in the modern artwork world."

(both links above via BoingBoing)

les (almost) still life
Essex and Rivington
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new york doorways
history, street art, grafitti, tags, stickers, decay; NYC doorways are living, changing works of art...

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LES still life
Allen St. below Stanton.
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Buddy's tag tour
in addition to dog markings, Buddy likes to check out the street art and tags left by humans...

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if these walls could talk
Pictures of Walls is a cool photo site of street art, poetry and maybe a few hidden messages written on walls... "The wall is the weapon of choice for the unarmed civilization" (via Wooster)

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it's growing fast! there's so much great stuff out there - they could do a section for just NY alone.

heart felt messages
snapped these tags/messages in Williamsburg yesterday. looks like some people are gettin it and some people aren't in the 'burg tonight...

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Chound

this post goes out to b-day boy Pete T, the valentines-day-massacre himself.

hard times tonight
HardtimesHard Times - an art show for tsunami reflief - opens in Dumbo tonight. over 50 kick-ass artists have contributed work, all being sold for $100 or less. tonight's opening starts at 7:00 and features DJ's, free beer and a live collaborative painting project. just $5 to get in and it's for a great cause. (via Wooster)

night walker
street art in the Lower East Side, from a packed block on Rivington near Norfolk...

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some great shots and unfolding story from a walk in Brooklyn -
Making Sense of a Long Walk

drug territory or art?
both. street art and street life commingle on a lamppost on Eldridge St. in the Lower East Side.

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Running down what’s behind hanging sneakers

artist workspaces
Wooster Collective is running a fascinating series of shots of artist workspaces. below are highlights from the first four parts, each filled with photos... Artist Workspaces #1 , Artist Workspaces #2, Artist Workspaces #3, Artist Workspaces #4, Artist Workspaces #5, Artist Workspaces #6

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tag city
been snapping lots of street shots lately. here's a bunch of tags n' street art snapped in a short walk...

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for amazing street art from NYC and around the world, stay tuned to the Wooster Collective.

wanna know what it's like to live in the East Village?... the GammaBlaBlog does a great job of capturing little snips of daily life that are raw and real. and there's a KILLER Street Art collection, that's nicely organized in categories for viewing (Marker, Messages, Murals, Paint, Pasted Paper, Sidewalk Art, Stencils, Stickers, etc)

and on the Gothamist.com today there's a report on the Graffiti crack down in NYC

local color
east village graffiti

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squirrley
we liked this squirrel graf on Ludlow Street and snapped it a couple weeks ago for those squirrel lovers out there. and then mining our new favorite site, WoosterCollective.com, we spotted this cool profile of the artist!

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street art to the highest power
holy shit! WoosterCollective.com is THE BOMB! we'd seen this site linked around but never dove in until today... a "A Celebration of Street Art", it's PACKED with tons of fantastic shots of street art, graffiti, website links, news, the latest parties and openings and great writing. but what really blows us away is the depth and breath of coverage, with several new posts daily, and beautiful and amazing photos from all corners of the world. we've spent hours on it and have barely scratched the great stuff to be seen. this is one fucking brilliant and passionate site!

we'll be checking in often and profiling some of their amazing stuff, starting with this one we loved by Thundercut...

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from Wooster Collective: "A few months back we put up a series of photographs of some very clever and really fun remixed WALK / NO WALK signs by Thundercut... So this week we were very pleased to see that Thundercut is back out on the streets of New York... As you can see in the photo, the placement is fucking perfect as Thundercut's Rocker signs are at both ends of New York's famed CBGB's club. Really nice work."

(photo copyright Wooster Collective)

up to our neck with face
sometimes when you become aware of a tag, it starts to follow you around. in the 24 hours since this post...

we spotted a possible Neckface snapped by great site PeaceDividend.com on a parking meter in Berkeley (that went up the same time as our post :-)

and a triple-whammy... posted on the Avalon Chrystie Bld last week, then last night we snapped the shot below of a strange Neckface tag attack on the same building, and just now caught that Curbed put up a nice juicy post on the Avalon Chrystie

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it's hard to tell if either of the tags above are the real deal. an interesting cultural phenomenon is that Neckface and other graf tags get imitated/copied around the world. here's a killer