Graffiti News & Blog

The article below comes from the Denver post (here).  This is an interesting story and a fresh look at how some city is trying to keep graffiti “under control”.  At least the professor mentioned in the article seems to understand something about graff (i.e. differences between tagging/ graffiti art).  Anyways, interesting read. Oh yeah … [...]

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Interesting story out of Queens where some people are fighting a “War on graffiti” … which sounds like they’re really just cleaning up graffiti and giving some kids a mural to help work on.  It’s not clear whether they’re fighting a “war” on tagging or graffiti art … but I gotta think the approach would [...]

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Graffiti Art Artists from the UK (that aren’t Banksy) The article from the UK Independent highighted 6 UK graffiti art artists (I believe they are all UK based) that I thought are worth highlighting. Paul Insect Insect’s Pop-art inspired street art / graffiti art has rapidly risen in profile. Last year, Damien Hirst rel=”nofollow” snapped [...]

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Image via Wikipedia  A group of south London graffiti artists were jailed last week for up to two years for defacing public property. Yet as they begin their sentences, their work is to be championed by a New York gallery. By Arifa Akbar and Paul Vallely  – The Independent Wednesday, 16 July 2008 On the [...]

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The UK Daily mail had an article on July 12th claiming to expose Banksy.  I am in NO position to validate or refute the claims, but it is clear that the UK Daily mail has a bias referring to the alleged Banksy as a “nice-middle-class boy” and a “former public schoolboy”.  It makes you wonder [...]

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