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Bushwick’s walls touched up and crisp!

How it’s done. Even on cold days. Corner of Varet and Bogart.
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Renegade knitter strikes again

Corner of Clinton & Schermerhorn: This time with added fuzzies. Other side, smooth with tassles. Sighting of yarn of day over.
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Laser Knuckles; must get some; start writing.

This, from Graffiti Research Lab, creators of GML (Graffiti Markup Language); laser knuckles let you draw by simply pointing at, well, EVERYthing. Laser Knuckles (Prototype) from Evan Roth on Vimeo. Nothing is sacred; everything in the built environment is yours—to trace.* Got it from superb site, Urbanartcore, or rather, which is clear as day to read if you just [...]
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Tescia is the one flinging shoes in Bushwick…

Sorry it took me so long to pick this up. Tescia Seufferlein (sine-qua-non assistant to Andrew Ohanesian) does this shoe-based, glamour-inspired (?!) project all by her lonesome. Simple line: she flings shoes—and here, the really great and utterly readable Bushwick Daily blog reports: Read the rest of the piece here. Does she have an assistant or two, I [...]
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Street, observed, March.

Tree in sweater (trunk in scarf). Knitting intervention. Walls are adequate compensation for closed LES galleries on a Sunday. Truck-fitti, always a fave.
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Large-Format Street Art in L.I.C.

Check out my friend Pablo’s (and his friend, Dan’s) massive printout and pasteup project from this weekend in Long Island City, Queens:
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-fitti (Alternative to Alternative Street Art)

Truck-fitti: (I love that ray-artist. I just saw another “ray” today on a rollshutter in Bushwick.) Sidewalk-fitti (seen in Ridgewood): And, my extra-favorite: Curb-fitti! Call them Street Interventions in the Narrowest-possible Space! Gotta bend down to see that one—and not get run over in the process. And, you’ve gotta look sideways to see this one: Lintel-fitti:
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Banner day in Bushwick. Land where galleries and street art Rocks.

The location: Sugar gallery at 449 Troutman Street, in Bushwick. The artist: Jacqueline Lou Skaggs. The medium: “Oil on Penny.” they appeared, framed like little portholes, in the midst of pristine, circular mats, edged with distressed gilt frames on ‘moongold’ leaf. The setting: a salon-style gallery (namely, a private loft, generously opened to the Public) from 1–6PM on [...]
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Street Art, (dis)course: Discuss

As a writer, I’ve long been dedicated to Fine Art (painting, sculpture, installation, video) and perhaps, always will be. But I also think that this art—what’s commonly known as Graffiti Art or Street Art—deserves to be talked of in the language of high art, indoor art. (Hey: do you think I’m the person to do [...]
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Street Art: the discourse, as begun by Susan Farrell; continued by…?

Some of you may be aware of Susan Farrell, an academic out of the West Coast (U. of Oregon) who has been a champion of street art. If not, you should be! She’s well spoken and sincere; ready to be clear about what she knows about her subject—and what she doesn’t. Her enthusiasm for her subject—Graffiti, [...]
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