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Consternation or Collaboration: Are Banksy and Robbo Engaged in a Good...
In 1985, a well-known graffiti artist known as Robbo colorfully tagged the underside of a bridge running over Regent’s Canal in Camden, North London. One of the first pieces to go up in London (and...
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Challenging Urban Disassociation: How Swoon’s Paper People Create Community
I first encountered Swoon peering out at me from a black doorway near the corner of Chambers Street and West Broadway during my senior year of high school (2005) on the way to my afterschool job. It...
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How Os Gêmeos Legitimized Street Art in Brazil
About this time last year, I sat down and made a list of all the art sites that I had always heard about but had never visited in the Lower East Side in downtown NYC. I had mentioned it to my friend...
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Yarn Bombing: A New Spin on an Old Craft
For those of you who haven’t heard (because your connection to the outside world has ceased due to the weather), we’ve experienced a number of substantial snowstorms here in New York City following the...
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The History of Getting Up and Going Viral: From TAKI 183 to BNE
A few weeks ago, I had written about the importance of knowing the roots of the graffiti movement in reference to some early films from the 1980s which had documented the start of graffiti in NYC....
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Living Exercises: Remove Hand When No Longer Strangers
Over the past few months I’ve been focusing more and more on graffiti and stickering, and perhaps as a result have been seeing less and less street art. In fact, I had almost forgotten that street art...
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