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Fresh art work by Bast on Crosby Street in SoHo. It’s the first new work by the artist we’ve seen in the neighborhood in a long, long time. Where have you been, Bast?

New York City street art: “Dopey” wheat-paste art work by the Brooklyn-based artist Bast.


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New York City street art: Detail of “Dopey” wheat-paste art work by Bast.


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New York City street art: Close-up of multi-eyed “Dopey” wheat-paste work by Bast.


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More classic New York City street art by Bast from a few years ago. This one use character imagery from the Disney animated feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”


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Street art from Bast in New York City. Love it.


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Fresh paste-up by Bast in SoHo, NYC.


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Fresh stuff by Bast in SoHo, NYC. Bast never fails to impress us with his cut-and-paste, black-and-white collages wheatpastes.


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Wheatpastes by Bast and KH on Crosby Street near Broome Street in SoHo.


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Bast wheatpaste of gun-toting mom and her kids on Crosby Street, SoHo.


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Well-worn classic wheatpaste by Brooklyn-based artist Bast in downtown Manhattan, New York City.


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Photography gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
Music on our iPod: Blur – “Coffee and TV”
Sneakers of the Day: Puma “Easy Rider”

Great little interview clip with Skewville.

Since late autumn 2006, around the time of the final, great explosion of street art at 11 Spring St. in Nolita, in downtown New York City, we started to notice that a lot of work by some well-known street artists was suddenly being defaced with splashes of paint. Works by Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Faile and many others were attacked with bright colors of paint that appeared to have been intentionally splashed on to the work. The paint never covered the pieces completely — the underlying art was always identifiable. The mysterious person(s) defacing the art was dubbed “The Splasher.” The atttacks continued through the winter and spring months that followed. Only recently have we noticed that “The Splasher” has slowed down.
New York Magazine chronicles and investigates the mystery in
a recent article. The irony of the Splasher’s attacks is that they amount to a form of vandalism upon vandalism itself. Most street art is destruction of property in the eyes of the law. The paint splashes can also, as some have pointed out, be construed as an act of art in and of itself, as a crude, shocking commentary upon the street art it targets.

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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: The Rakes – “22 Grand Job”
Kicks on our feet: Adidas “Marun”

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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Air – “Mer du Japon”
Kicks on our feet: Vans “Plaid” Slip-ons

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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Air – “Mer du Japon”
Kicks on our feet: Vans “Plaid” Slip-ons

Ivan Corsa Photo

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Air – “Mer du Japon”
Kicks on our feet: Vans “Plaid” Slip-ons

A wheat-paste-up in SoHo, New York City, by the Brooklyn artist Bast. Love the cut-and-paste mashup of the old Pan Am airlines logotype and the images of actor Telly Savalas as the character Kojak, from American television detective drama of the 1970′s.

For some context, here’s the wider view of the Bäst werewolf paste-up. Here you can see a stretch of the Elizabeth Street wall of 11 Spring, which is always covered with lots of street art, graf and installations.

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Another detail shot of the Bäst werewolf poster. This one shows the artist’s distinct moniker rendered at the top.

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Here’s a close shot of the Bäst werewolf movie image paste-up at 11 Spring Street in NYC.

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