Global Graphica

Here’s a series of images showing fresh paste-up work by one of our favorite hands in the New York street art landscape, the Brooklyn-based artist Bäst. This old-school werewolf movie image is on the Elizabeth Street side of the corner tenement known as 11 Spring (the building faces Spring Street), in Nolita, downtown Manhattan.

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Here’s a close-up of an awesome color paste-up by the artist Bast (or Bäst) in Chinatown, New York City. The subject of this wheat-paste work is John Gotti, the late, convicted NYC crime boss who was dubbed the “Teflon Don” by the media. This black-and-white version of this artwork appears in Nolita, a few blocks to the north of C-town and Little Italy, where Gotti managed his business out of a storefront “social club.”

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“Teflon Don” Gotti Paste-up by Bast – No. 2 Context

Here’s the wider shot of the “Teflon Don” Gotti wheat-paste by the street artist Bast in Chinatown, NYC.

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The artist’s signature moniker, Bast,” is detailed here in the same font he uses in all his work and with the “a” in Bast rendered with an umlaut.

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We love details like this “TEFLON” tag and the New York Yankees logo in the lower-right corner of this Chinatown street artwork by Bast. The poster is a portrait of John Gotti.

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Here’s a detail of a message at the foot of the Bäst werewolf wheat-pasted poster. It reads “la polizia non basta,” which we believe is Italian and translates roughly as “the police are not enough.” (Any readers out there who can confirm this or clarify? Drop us a line.)

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