Bloomberg to sign new anti-graffiti laws
December 29, 2005
The New York City Council has passed three new anti-graffiti bills which Bloomberg is no doubt itching to sign into law. Intro. No. 663-A amends existing law to mandate community…
Arresting Graffiti
December 23, 2005
In what was an extensive and coordinated effort yesterday morning, at least 30 Dallas police officers attempted to round up 10 persons with arrest warrants. In the operation, six graffiti…
The art of secular mystery
December 23, 2005
Stepping away from politics into another way of moving people through art, Paul from Eyeteeth links to an essay of his from February that asks the question: how can art…
A boot stamping on a human face
December 21, 2005
I’m sure by now you’ve all heard about the Bush administration’s four-year campaign of illegal spying on American citizens. Last Saturday, the NY Times broke the story that the National…
Mark Vallen on political art
December 20, 2005
Mark Vallen has a great essay up on his blog Art for a Change responding to Larry Beinhart’s recent article bemoaning the lack of “political” art in a recent group…
Stan ‘Tookie’ Williams, R.I.P.
December 15, 2005
As I am sure everyone knows, Stanely Tookie Williams was murdered by the State of California December 13th at 12:35 am PT by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison….
Call for Art: Cut & Paint 2
December 14, 2005
Cut&Paint: A Stencil Template Zine #2 Deadline: February 1st, 2006 Cut & Paint was a fantastic, 54-page poltical stencil template zine put together by Josh MacPhee, Nicolas Lampert and Colin…
DIY Park
December 12, 2005
Speaking of badass non-confrontational temporary street art, San Francisco art collective Rebar pulled off an incredible intervention last month by turning a parking space into a park. Armed with rolls…
Ellis G.’s chalk shadows in the NY Times
December 12, 2005
Brooklyn artist Ellis Gallagher got a nice writeup this weekend in the New York Times for his chalk shadow tracings: Mr. Gallagher heads out on foot or on his bike…
Good karma
December 9, 2005
This email from Shaun in Pittsburgh came our way via the Street Art Workers email list: I thought this was interesting, and a positive example of what happens when we…
Judith Supine wheatpastes at recruitment center
December 6, 2005
Political collage artist Judith Supine sent word of an impressive postering job at the Times Square recruitment office. You can check out a short video here. We asked about the…
Another fake graffiti ad campaign
December 3, 2005
Seems every other month another ad agency hires another street artist to push another useless product on behalf another billionaire corporation. And each time, this causes an online controversy about…