In the past several weeks members of VisualResistance have installed two more Ghost Bikes. Thus far this year has witnessed 21 deaths in the NYC bicycling community. Each loss profoundly…
Well, maybe not exactly. But he (borf) should! Graduate student workers at NYU have been on strike for two weeks now. In 2002, NYU Graduate Assistants (TA’s and RA’s) were…
I’m not big on holidays in general, and the whole Thanksgiving-to-Chistmas season, with its frantic consumerism, stressful travel, and insipid jingles tends to make me a mumbling misanthropic mess. But…
In August, our friend Mariel traveled from the U.S. to Mexico to join La Caravana de Artistas en Resistencia. This group of artists took a bus to Chiapas to paint…
I don’t usually write about this type of thing on this site, but a good portion of my non-art attention is devoted to civil liberties, online privacy, open-source technology, etc….
November 20th-27th there is going to be a ROAD TRIP FOR RELEIF to New Orleans organized by a radical group called Common Ground. Anyone and everyone should get in their…
Brandon Bauer sends word of an open call from the International Network of Artists in Resistance: In 2006 may the people rise with spray paint, voices, street theatre, stencils, drums,…
Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman is taking a hard tack against quality of life crimes, suggesting that corporal punishment be instituted for graffiti artists: “You know, we have a beautiful…
Via Charles & Ed, a great article on the “graffiti of disaster” in post-Katrina New Orleans: A can of spray paint was a crucial tool for New Orleans rescue teams…