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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....

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Farewell 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...

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Challenging 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...

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The 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...

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How 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...

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You’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...

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Yarn 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...

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Living 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...

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How 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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