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It was published a while ago, but it’s still worth checking Time Magazine’s “Art of the Street” photo essay online. With photos by the artist WK Interact, the this street art feature is good albeit limited overview of current ephemeral art.

© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Photos

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On our iPod: Amy Winehouse – “Rehab”
Classic kicks on our feet: Adidas Gazelle

© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Photos

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On our iPod: Amy Winehouse – “Rehab”
Classic kicks on our feet: Adidas Gazelle

© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Photos

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On our iPod: Amy Winehouse – “Rehab”
Classic kicks on our feet: Adidas Gazelle

© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Photos

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On our iPod: Amy Winehouse – “Rehab”
Classic kicks on our feet: Adidas Gazelle

Great clip of artist WK Interact in action putting up his work outside the Eleven vintage clothing shop in Nolita, New York City.

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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Air – “Mer du Japon”
Kicks on our feet: Adidas “Marun”

Ivan Corsa Photo

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Air – “Mer du Japon”
Kicks on our feet: Adidas “Marun”

Ivan Corsa Photo

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Air – “Mer du Japon”
Kicks on our feet: Adidas “Marun”

Ivan Corsa Photo

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Air – “Mer du Japon”
Kicks on our feet: Adidas “Marun”

Ivan Corsa Photo

Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Air – “Mer du Japon”
Kicks on our feet: Adidas “Marun”

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”

Fresh ups of those black-and-white, life-sized graf-writer wheat-pastes by WK Interact at 11 Spring Street in Nolita, New York City. Classic stuff. Part of the massive wave of new work put up at 11 Spring St. by various New York street artists this past week.

Here’s a details of the boombox in a wheat-paste artwork by New York City artist WK Interact next to the 2nd Avenue Subway entrance at Allen and Houston streets in the Lower East Side. The neighborhood that is rapidly giving way to the development of luxury condos and apartments, as well as expensive restaurants and hotels.

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Here’s another awesome — and new — piece of wheat-paste artwork by New York City artist WK Interact. This work depicts a black-and-white life-sized dude with a classic old-school boombox (a.k.a., ghettoblaster). This artwork is next to the 2nd Avenue Subway entrance at Allen and Houston streets in the Lower East Side. WK Interact’s studio and shop is on nearby Stanton Street in a diverse and creative neighborhood that is rapidly giving way to the development of luxury condos and apartments, as well as expensive restaurants and hotels.

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The last in the series of life-size black-and-white wheat-paste ups by WK Interact at the corner of Chrystie and Rivington streets in the Lower East Side, in New York City.

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In this detail shot, note the visible Krylon brand can of aerosol paint and the vague but indeterminate branding on the sneaker — it could pass for the Nike “swoosh” at a glance or maybe the Puma mark.

This is yet another in series of life-size black-and-white wheat-paste ups at the corner of Chrystie and Rivington streets in the Lower East Side. The ups are by well-known New York City artist WK Interact, whose studio and shop are on Stanton Street near Ludlow, in the heart of what is now the ultra-hot real estate market for apartments and condos in the LES.

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Note the downward double-arm movement of the graff writer depicted in this up, another in the recently upped series of life-size black-and-white wheat-paste ups at the corner of Chrystie and Rivington streets in the Lower East Side. The ups are by well-known New York City artist WK Interact, whose studio and shop are on Stanton Street near Ludlow, in the heart of what is now the ultra-hot real estate market for apartments and condos in the LES.

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Two writers visible in this wide shot in the latest series of life-size black-and-white wheat-paste ups by well-known New York City artist WK Interact.

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In this detail shot, the graf writer is on the one-knee stance. This is yet another in series of life-size black-and-white wheat-paste ups at the corner of Chrystie and Rivington streets in the Lower East Side. The ups are by well-known New York City artist WK Interact, whose studio and shop are on Stanton Street near Ludlow, in the heart of what is now the ultra-hot real estate market for apartments and condos in the LES.

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