Showing posts with label graffiti art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graffiti art. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Long Island City Graffiti Mecca, 5 POINTZ NYC, The Day Before It Was Whitewashed

The graffiti destination in Long Island City called 5 POINTZ has been whitewashed by the owners of the building. Starting Monday afternoon, the owners painted over the colorful murals that once made this a mecca for graffiti artists. The old warehouse and former landmark for graffiti artists would eventually be razed and turned into luxury condos, after years of debate and legal wrangling. These photos were taken last Sunday, the day before the graffiti art was covered with white paint. 

Friday, November 1, 2013

"Bronx Zoo" By Banksy ("Better Out Than In" Day 30)




The penultimate piece by the elusive artist Banksy in his month-long residency in New York City streets is "Bronx Zoo." It is a graffiti painting of a growling wild cat resting on a railing, across the road from the Yankee Stadium. The wild cat is sitting on a pre-existing yellow painted line on a blue wall, located across the road from the New York Yankees stadium. The wild cat has markings are made up of graffiti scrawl and various protest symbols, including the famous Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). It's entitled "Bronx Zoo", it has been suggested the name is a pun on a nickname acquired by the baseball team nearly 40 years ago. The Yankees were referred to as the Bronx Zoo, because of the fighting between George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson. The street art is located at the junction of East 162nd Street and Jerome Avenue. It is part of Banksy's "Better Out Than In" exhibit, in which the artist left his works scattered across the five boroughs, drawing huge crowds, as well as vandals. Each day of October, Banksy unveiled new works of art around New York. The works were then announced on his website and posted to Instagram. 

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Swoon’s Hurricane Sandy Mural at the Bowery Graffiti Wall

Swoon’s mural at the Bowery-Houston graffiti wall is rather timely, channeling themes of Hurricane Sandy on this day the city and state are marking one year since Hurricane Sandy made landfall. The piece features an illustration of the A train (“rise above the challenge”), an allusion to the suspended subway service to the Rockaways, and a community message of “people helping people.”

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Banksy's Street Art in New York City


Artworks created by the mysterious British street artist Banksy have been appearing in various locations in the city after he announed a a month-long residency in New York City. Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti using a distinctive stencilling technique. His artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy’s artwork, when removed from its always pre-existing urban settings, has sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auctions. The artist has not shown his face or revealed his identity, aside from a shadowed interview in which his voice was altered in the award-winning biographical documentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop." Some of the pieces created here in New York City include "Concrete Confessional" in the East Village and a truck filled with stuffed animals with amplified toy animal noises called "Sirens of the Lambs" to highlight animal cruelty and factory farming.

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Revok and Pose Mural at Bowery and Houston Graffiti Wall

This is the new mural by MSK street artists Revok and Pose at the graffiti wall located at the corner of Bowery and Houston Streets in Lower Manhattan. The two-story masterpiece is a colorful collage of comic book stylings that doubles as a memorial mural. REVOK and POSE pay tribute to fallen street artists like Nekst, IZ, and Dondi. Images and text are painted around the spine of the phrase “Uphill Both Ways.”