7OCT13. Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC.
7OCT13. Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC.
7OCT13. Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC.
…At the very least, the information hotline is live (1-800-656-4271, #2). For someone who has totally convulsed New York City with what’s probably the biggest scavenger hunt in history, Banksy somehow managed to stay self-deprecating about his work.
The narrator on the hotline opens his description of the latest piece with: “Are you’re looking at one of the great artworks of the 21st century? If so, you’re in the wrong place. You should be looking at a stencil of a dog peeing on a hydrant.” For more:http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/10/banksys_third_a.php
3OCT13. 24th St & SW Corner of 6th Ave., Midtown, NYC.
3OCT13. 24th St & SW Corner of 6th Ave., Midtown, NYC.
“Hello, and welcome to Lower Manhattan,” the message begins, as elevator music plays. “Before you, you will see a ‘spray art’ by the artist Ban-sky. Or maybe not; it’s probably been painted over by now.”
This is the latest foray into street art by Banksy, the elusive British artist, and it is perhaps the most public and expansive of his works, taking over not just a patch of sidewalk or a shop wall but a whole city. Titled “Better Out Than In,” the exhibit was announced in his usual mysterious, pop-up fashion. For more of the story: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/banksy-announces-a-monthlong-show-on-the-streets-of-new-york/?_r=0
2OCT13. West 25th St between 10th & 11th. Manhattan, NYC.
Most of the street art of Icy and Sot, peppered with images that speak the international idiom of youth culture—skateboards, peace signs—doesn’t necessarily say much about the artists themselves. But there is the occasional piece, like the stencil of a man dressed like a beer bottle with the word “BEER” followed by “IS NOT A CRIME” in spray paint that gives clues to where they’re coming from.
The brothers, aged twenty-seven and twenty-two, hail from Tabriz, Iran, where they lived until they moved to Brooklyn last summer. As teenagers, their entry into street art came about from their interest (especially Sot’s) in skateboarding—a growing, though not yet particularly popular, pastime in Iran. They began putting up small stenciled works on the streets of Tabriz and posting the images on the Internet. Documenting their work was important, because the art would be erased within two or three days of being created. For more: http://narrative.ly/the-spirit-of-storytelling/icy-sot-conquer-the-art-world/
In the East Village:
At Bushwick Collective:
FREE:
Stickers:
Me and the Icy and Sot ‘boy’:
SEP13. New York City.
This Mona Lisa with Child on her back is a stencil I found this morning right off of Choquechaca. Artist unknown. 20OCT12. Cuzco, Peru. (iPAD, Instagram Lo-Fi Aspect)
