Street Art

"The Hippest Street Artist Since Banksy" Installs Himself in Times Square

Times Square was wickedly crowded today, nothing out of the ordinary. But there were more faces in the crowd that usual. Hundreds of black and white posters of peoples faces were pasted all over the corner of 47th Street and 7th Avenue. It looked pretty damn extraordinary. The spectacle was the bra ... More >>

The Return of Cost: The Tag Machine is Back

One of the nineties' best-known graffiti masters returns to the streets

A HAIRY SITUATION

The Moustache Man Tells All

The Return of Lencho

Bidding for Banksy: Street Art Goes Up for Auction

Shepard Fairey Must Do 300 Hours of Community Service for Obama 'Hope' Poster

You might know Shepard Fairey. If you don't, you probably do or at least haven't realized yet. The Los Angeles man behind Obey and one of the stars in street artist Banksy's mockumentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop," has risen to fame in the contemporary art world, partly because he created one of ... More >>

Sucklord "Jerk of Art" Street Art Appears Downtown

It's been a monumental week in the Suckadelic quest for world domination. Last Wednesday, the Sucklord found himself unceremoniously banished from BRAVO's Work of Art, after the endearing reality-TV character failed to impress judges in a street-art challenge. The masked Voice cover star's immediate ... More >>

Q&A: The Sucklord on Graffiti, His Work of Art Failures, and Why He's Like Darth Vader

The SucklordEarlier this year, New York magazine's culture blog, Vulture, asked Work of Art co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker, after this season's shooting had started, if she foresaw any breakout characters. She laughed. "Um, I suspect there might be one." The one is Sucklord, who went from the de ... More >>

Q&A: Chicago Artist Michael Tewz on His Work of Art Elimination, His Buddy Sucklord

BRAVOTewz on Work of Art One of the more intriguing aspects of Work of Art, the BRAVO reality show we've been following, is that the show's producers chose a handful of cast members who'd already had a presence in the world, whose self-propelled careers could exist apart from the reality-television ... More >>

WANDERLUST

Two nomads settle on Brooklyn

NYC Crocheter Olek's Gallery Show: "The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal"

Esther Zuckerman​It's been an Olek kind of week! After she made the Village Voice a present, Jen and I headed to the opening of her show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery last night. It's called "The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal," a variation on a Pablo Picasso quote appropriated by t ... More >>

Here's the NYC Subway Map as an Erect Penis, Excited About Osama Bin Laden's Death

​See, by flipping the standard subway map 90-degrees, Manhattan becomes a big dick, thrilled by the death of Osama Bin Laden. (For an extra "ew," the train lines are veins.) The project is the work of the street artist Beast, who calls the work "Unexpected Improvements," probably in reference ... More >>

Dog Eat Dog Lost & Found

The Lower East Side trio's music gets rescued from the No Wave depths

Owner Says Queens Graffiti Mecca 5Pointz Will Stay For Now, But Not Forever

5Ptz.com​When owner Jerry Wolkoff originally announced plans to bulldoze Long Island City graffiti mecca, 5Pointz, street artists and hip-hop fans alike were crushed. Over the years, 5Pointz has become a landmark in the world of NYC art as a warehouse dedicated to the cultivation and curation ... More >>

5Pointz, Queens Graffiti Warehouse, to Be Bulldozed to Build High-Rises

Subaquatica.com​Just as it seemed like street art was experiencing a rush, New York City developers have announced that Queens' own graffiti warehouse, 5Pointz, will be bulldozed. To the dismay of street artists and hip-hop fans alike, the "graffiti mecca" will be replaced by high-rises.

Banksy Bails Out Russian Artists, Is Becoming Modern-Day Folk Hero

​Mysterious British street artist Banksy just bailed out of jail two members of a Russian art collective called Voina, which means "war." Leonid Nikolayev and Oleg Vorotnikov awaited trial in a bed bug-infested St. Petersburg prison for four months until Banksy swooped in and paid their bail. ... More >>

Is Banksy's Identity for Sale on Ebay?

​"If you win this auction I will mail you a piece of paper revealing the true identity of "Banksy": This according to Ebay seller daigroandujo, who leaves us public folk only six more days to elbow our way to the prize of an English man's privacy. Perhaps the morning trudge from bed to bathroo ... More >>

Park Slopers Ponder Perplexing Existential Questions Wrought by "You Would" Graffiti

One of these messages is confusing. Photo circa 2009. ​The New York Post notes some strange goings-on in the nabe of Park Slope, where "You Would" tags have apparently never ventured...until now. Graffiti artists have begun to write all over traffic-control boxes and other "blank canvases" wit ... More >>

Year in Film: The 2010 Voice Film Critics' Poll

The results are in

Jesús Nuñez Part Two: Spanish Wines and Cheeses, Best NYC Restaurants, and Tripe

Jesús Nuñez​One of the most interesting fall openings is Jesús Nuñez's Graffit on West 69th Street, which will open in November. Nuñez is well-known in Spain for his Madrid restaurants, Polenta and Flou, where he offered avant-garde, imaginative dishes like a deconstructed Spanish tortill ... More >>

HEAD TRIP

Street artists create their own brand of portraiture

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

Shepard Fairey recruits youngsters

FOOD FIGHT

The tastiest Election Day

Ten Pioneering Pieces Of Hip-Hop Street Art

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Triple Self Portrait. All images courtesy the Eric Firestone Gallery.​Street art has enjoyed a steady resurgence in rap over the last few years, with Kanye West and the Clipse jostling to let KAWS design their album and magazine covers, 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes appearing ... More >>

Exit Through the Gift Shop, Brought To You by Banksy, Sort Of

SPRAY IT, DON'T SAY IT

Jef Aerosol hearts Jay-Z

BROOKLYN'S SON

Street artist isn't really there

OFF THE WALL

Chris Stain brings the streets indoors

J’AIME GRAFFITI

Marie Antoinette would be all over this

CAT AND MOUSE

Cops and artists face off

FLOAT ON

Help Swoon get to Venice

ON THE BLOCK

Carve up a print just like Swoon

KAWS HE SAID SO

The interventionist on consumer culture

GUERRILLA GALLERY

UK street art hits the Bowery

PIECING IT TOGETHER

The writing on the book is open for suggestions

JE NE SAIS GHETTO

The French are in the 'hood

Off the Wall

Street artists go indoors for Ad Hoc’s exhibit

IN THE BUFF

A monster of a show, with toys

CREATIVE TIMING

A party for struggling artists

Drawn and Quartered

Sidewalk Chalk Artist Fights NYPD Harassment

The New Insiders

At Brooklyn's Ad Hoc, street artists throw off their hoods and try working in a gallery

The Indoor Streets

Banksy hits a New York art gallery. Maybe.

The Alien Invader

Is a guy from Minnesota the new king of New York street art?

Graf Life

An impromptu museum pops up as street artists seize a building they once illegally tagged

American Graffiti

Flashy talk, sparkling points of light, and personal logos

Graffiti vs. The City (Again)

Marc Ecko wins suit; will throw NYC graffiti block party tomorrow

Be Your Own Pundit: Skills for Combating Corporate Media

Public Notice

Psychogeographers Navigate New York City's Changing Landscape

Railroad Apartment in Tenement