Maybe you’re not really a street artist, but you like artists, and you like streets. These things are like your homies, and you would happily pour a little out for them. And maybe the only time you threw something up on a wall was when your stomach rejected that Snapple martini you mixed in a […]
Art In the Streets is kind of a funny name for an exhibit that all happens inside the pricey, heavily guarded, air-conditioned walls of a museum. Obviously this art isn’t in the streets at all. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. It’s in the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, in downtown Los Angeles, with […]
A face and respiration sealing mask like this exists because droppin’ bombs ain’t just for armies anymore. And I mean that in the most pacifist rebel way. Because now in this thermoplastic rubber face mask with full sealing, a graf writer can throw up a piece in peace, and breathe easy — literally. Get one […]
French street artist and photographer Ozkar Gorgias celebrated his 12 years of graffiti artistry by photographing all the sneakers he wore while creating his art. Each sneaker represents one of those dozen years spent jumping fences, scaling walls and climbing bridges, and the work can be found above (a larger shot in the gallery below). […]
A peek into the art of train writing in Berlin, Unlike U: Trainwriting In Berlin tells the true behind-the-scenes story of underground graf writing in Berlin — specifically, their obsession with focusing on trains. Sure we’ve shown videos where kids bombed an entire train in 3 minutes (damn!), but this documentary by Henrik Regel & […]
Adding another graffiti-focused book to his resume, Roger Gastman’s latest, Tools of Criminal Mischief, might just be his best published anthology yet. The book is a project he tackled to follow the history of graffiti and its writers throughout the century, starting as far back as the 1940’s with hobo train art, carrying through 1970’s […]
The thing that most bugs me about this whole BLU mural getting whitewashed is not really the beauty or fantastic nature of the mural itself. To be honest, the mural was so straightforward that it almost bordered on obvious. But that’s not the point. When you ask an artist to paint you a mural — […]
A graffiti artist who has taken on a serious challenge for herself, Mad C has just completed her momentous 700 Wall. A member of the Bandits crew, who’ve dedicated themselves to creating graffiti art across as many nations as possible, Mad C is a street artist whose passions lies in writing and painting. The 700 […]