The art of riding in New York City
Some of what makes New York City street art so abundant is graffiti, but even the NYC DOT appreciates it enough that they actually have an official urban art program.bikeportland.org
Hutt taggers take risks to new heights
Safe City officer Adrian Peoples told the council's city development committee last week that the style originated in New York in the wake of successful anti-graffiti campaigns. The taggers realised that those removing graffiti were hamstrung by safety ...www.stuff.co.nz
Moustache Man: New York's most famous graffiti artist
Once an anonymous tagger and now NY's most infamous graffiti artist: Moustache Man is food for thought! Moustache Man: confessions of a graffiti artist, by Patrick Waldo, Wednesday November 21, 9:30 PM. @ Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 307 W. 26th ...www.examiner.com
New Mural Goes Up On Houston Street In Wake Of Sandy
Right after Hurricane Sandy departed New York City, graffiti artists (and twin brothers!) How and Nosm began work on their Houston Street mural (you know the one).gothamist.com
The new walls of fame
Street art and graffiti, as we know it today, originated in New York City in the 1960s as a way for gangs to mark their territory.www.hindustantimes.com
NY Artists Take Art Basel
From December 6th to 9th, the group will debut, The Warrior's Dream, a leading contemporary cultural force centered in New York City. This exhibition ... From design to photography to music to film, graffiti and fine art, this collection is a true ...joonbug.com
Students collect items for Hurricane Sandy victims
This week students will collect gloves, winter hats, blankets, socks of all sizes, T-shirts, coloring books and school supplies, to be given to students at the Graffiti Community Ministries in Lower Manhattan in New York City. For dropoff, the facility ...www.knoxnews.com
Gas rationing and shortage fray nerves in New York City
Gas rationing and shortage fray nerves in New York City. By The ASSOCIATED PRESS ... NEW YORK - A gasoline shortage caused by superstorm Sandy forced 1970s-era rationing on New Yorkers Friday, adding a fuel-gauge obsession to their frayed nerves and ...www.nwherald.com
The 2012 86th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is Tomorrow
This year, the balloon "Companion" by New Jersey graffiti artist KAWS joins Blue Sky Gallery series. New York City residents and tourists will undoubtedly flock to Midtown Manhattan for a view of the parade and its iconic balloons, and parade also airs ...www.allmediany.com
Free for All: "Flying Solo," It's a Wonderful Life and New Video from China
Panoramic photographer, and former Best Photographer winner in Houston Press Best of awards 2011, Chuy Benitez had a "right place/right time" moment when he stumbled onto an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City recently. As police unexpectedly ...blogs.houstonpress.com
The Worst Cities In America For Your Lungs
Living in New York, where "all the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray," they put their thoughts of escaping to a west coast paradise to music.www.forbes.com
Street artist KAWS reaches new heights
All of the usual suspects were there - familiar faces to the millions of people lining the streets of New York City and watching at home on TV, in a turkey day tradition: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.www.cbsnews.com
Kenny Scharf, Halloween in Brooklyn
His work is all over New York City, and it seems to pop up in the oddest places. And not just on the infamous Tony Goldman-owned wall at Bowery and Houston, which has had a cast of rotating acclaimed artists, starting with Keith Haring; and more ...www.examiner.com
The Mysterious Mr. Rechnitz
Light sneaked into the derelict former powerhouse on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn through broken windows and time-torn holes in the roof as Joshua Rechnitz inspected layers of graffiti, squatters' abandoned tents and moldering bikes made into an ...www.nytimes.com
Spray Can Messenger: Aerosol Arabic Brings Ornate Islamic Graffiti to Urban Walls
In addition to displaying works in his home nation of Great Britain, he's traveled to the Middle East, America, and New Zealand to create his own unique style of urban graffiti for public display. He uses his art to highlight social issues, such as the ...knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
Myanmar welcomes Obama with graffiti
AP IMPACT: Will NYC act to block future surges? AP IMPACT: Will NYC act to block future surges? By JEFF DONN Associated Press If you think Sandy was just a 100-year storm, imagine one just as bad - or worse - every three years.www.whbf.com
Photos: Hurricane Sandy – One Month Later
Tire tracks from heavy machinery are seen in the sand in front of homes damaged during Superstorm Sandy in the Queens borough region of the Rockaways in New York November 27, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson. Men, who said .... NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 27: A ...photos.denverpost.com
Secret New York oddities
The ghostly Freedom Tunnel, a subterranean train tunnel that stretches 50 blocks south from 122nd Street on the Upper West Side, was abandoned soon after its construction in the 1930s and became a shantytown for hundreds of New York City's homeless. A ...www.bbc.com
Scarlett Johansson Lifts Her Shirt To Show Off New Tattoo
Fuzi's work is done in his own "ignorant style," which, according to his official site, is "an ironic twist and self-confident assertion" that he began in the mid 90s after discovering the book "Subway Art"; about New York City subway graffiti. The ...www.starpulse.com
Life in Gaza's Courtyards: Displays of Pride and Sacrifice
By JODI RUDOREN / The New York Times. GAZA -- The graffiti on the cinder-block walls deep in the Sijaya neighborhood of Gaza City chronicles the recent history of the Jabari family. Inside a courtyard, there are faded remnants of "Congratulations from ...www.post-gazette.com
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