After All These Years, NECKFACE Can Still Make Me Giggle Like a...
So NECKFACE is a pretty popular guy. How embarrassing that I had no idea who he was until I started this blog. In retrospect, he’s actually probably the first tagger I ever consciously encountered....
View ArticleFarewell Deitch: New York City Will Never Be the Same without You
Dear reader, I have a terrible confession to make: I have been putting off writing this post for as long as this blog has been in existence. I had first discovered Deitch in 2008, while researching...
View ArticleChallenging Urban Disassociation: How Swoon’s Paper People Create Community
I first encountered Swoon peering out at me from a black doorway near the corner of Chambers Street and West Broadway during my senior year of high school (2005) on the way to my afterschool job. It...
View ArticleThe Underbelly Project: A Dream Finally Realized
I’ve been riding the NYC subway lines for nearly a decade now and must admit that sometimes, when I’m waiting for a train, I look into the darkness of the tunnel and have an urge to jump down and...
View ArticleHow Os Gêmeos Legitimized Street Art in Brazil
About this time last year, I sat down and made a list of all the art sites that I had always heard about but had never visited in the Lower East Side in downtown NYC. I had mentioned it to my friend...
View ArticleYou’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone: A Plea for the Proper Documentation of Street Art
One of my most memorable experiences with public art was a mural, a regular fixture on my bus route throughout my middle school years. It depicted a pleasant rural spring scene with plenty of cherry...
View ArticleYarn Bombing: A New Spin on an Old Craft
For those of you who haven’t heard (because your connection to the outside world has ceased due to the weather), we’ve experienced a number of substantial snowstorms here in New York City following the...
View ArticleLiving Exercises: Remove Hand When No Longer Strangers
Over the past few months I’ve been focusing more and more on graffiti and stickering, and perhaps as a result have been seeing less and less street art. In fact, I had almost forgotten that street art...
View ArticleHow Connoisseurs Justify an Inherently Illegal Act: Does Legality Undermine...
After reading my joint review of Stations of the Elevated and Style Wars, Tony, a longtime friend of mine, asked me a very good question (I bet you thought I forgot about it!). After assuring me that...
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