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What Happened to Wolf Tits?
DNAinfo A 700-pound sculpture installed on a Gowanus sidewalk mysteriously disappeared last week roughly three weeks after it first mysteriously appeared, DNAinfo reports. The female wolf, made of...
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NYPD Takes Down Abe Lincoln-Loving Graffiti Artist
Image via jbrancaccio We get it. Some people don’t like graffiti (though the Museum of the City of New York would like to change that). As ubiquitous as the stuff is, the creation and dissemination of...
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The Best Quotes from the New York Times’ Profile of Hansky, the Banksy Parodist
Do you guys get it? It’s like Banksy, but like, with Tom Hanks! A guy who moved to New York to work in digital marketing ended up doing parodies of Bansky, and the Times is on it. Hansky and his pop...
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Was This Fort Greene Home Vandalized Because of Spike Lee?
Yeah, this isn’t the greatest screenshot. Blame Time Warner Cable on posting crappy online video. That’s what I do. It’s only been a couple of days since Spike Lee expressed his opinions on...
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Don’t Be Fooled: Bill Bratton’s Policing Policies Are Discriminatory, Too
Photo: Diana Robinson When Ray Kelly stepped down last year, it felt like such a significant step in the right direction after years of outdated and racially-charged policing. Months earlier, a federal...
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Brooklyn Heights #Blessed With A Gorgeous Guerrilla Mural
Photo: Instagram user peladanyc The saying goes that when one art project falls, another rises, right? While Clinton Hill residents cope with the devastating loss of the Broken Angel House, Brooklyn...
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Graffiti Complaints Up Everywhere Except Brooklyn
Lately, Brooklyn has been getting a pretty bad rap. Pedestrian and car deaths are rampant here. Our dogs are the scourge of postal service workers in the Tri-State area. And even thinking about riding...
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Here’s How Not To Get Arrested For Graffiti in NYC
Whether or not you’re a graffitist, street artist, noxious fume enthusiast, “building beautifier” or whatever you want to call it, we think it’s handy to have a healthy grasp on how not to get caught...
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Wall-(m)Art Will Frame Graffiti, Name You Owner
Technicolor Mouse, photo via Wall-(m)Art New York City is the place where the most harebrained, ambitious, and maybe even useless ideas will have their day. “If you can make it here, you can make it...
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Manfred Kirchheimer at BAM: Stations of the Elevated and Claw: A Fable
One of the earliest works of non-graffiti to consider graffiti as an art form is Manfred Kirchheimer’s 1981 film Stations of the Elevated, which opens today at BAM and will run through October 23....
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For Artist Don Rimx, Brooklyn Is Just Another Canvas
Photo by Guerin Blask This interview is part of our FRESHMakers series, a collaboration with Arizona-born, Brooklyn-based photographer Guerin Blask. For this project, Blask took portraits of New...
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Watch the Rise of New York City’s Graffiti Culture in This 1976 Mini-Documentary
In the crime-ridden New York City of the 70s, graffiti artists transformed subway cars, buses, billboards, and telephone poles into wild canvases. Made in 1976 for the BBC and recently dug up by...
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A Brief Visual History of Uncommissioned Street Art
Nick Walker, Mona Lisa, London, England, 2007 During the rise of New York City’s graffiti culture in the crime-ridden 70s, spraypaint-wielding kids were considered vandals by much of the mainstream,...
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The Artful Doorways of New York City, in Photos
Smooth, rectangular, and with a built-in frame, a doorway is a street artist’s perfect canvas. In his photo series Doorway Galleries, artist Adel Souto documents the spray-painted, wheat-pasted,...
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The 10 Best Views in Brooklyn, or: Brooklyn’s Best Instagram Spots
all photos by Dominique Stewart The best way to see Brooklyn is to cycle the streets with a camera and/or smartphone in hand, all in order to not only explore the various urban landscapes and oases,...
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Brooklyn Heights #Blessed With A Gorgeous Guerrilla Mural
Photo: Instagram user peladanyc The saying goes that when one art project falls, another rises, right? While Clinton Hill residents cope with the devastating loss of the Broken Angel House, Brooklyn...
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Graffiti Complaints Up Everywhere Except Brooklyn
Lately, Brooklyn has been getting a pretty bad rap. Pedestrian and car deaths are rampant here. Our dogs are the scourge of postal service workers in the Tri-State area. And even thinking about riding...
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Here’s How Not To Get Arrested For Graffiti in NYC
Whether or not you’re a graffitist, street artist, noxious fume enthusiast, “building beautifier” or whatever you want to call it, we think it’s handy to have a healthy grasp on how not to get caught...
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Wall-(m)Art Will Frame Graffiti, Name You Owner
Technicolor Mouse, photo via Wall-(m)Art New York City is the place where the most harebrained, ambitious, and maybe even useless ideas will have their day. “If you can make it here, you can make it...
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Manfred Kirchheimer at BAM: Stations of the Elevated and Claw: A Fable
One of the earliest works of non-graffiti to consider graffiti as an art form is Manfred Kirchheimer’s 1981 film Stations of the Elevated, which opens today at BAM and will run through October 23....
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