Bast + KH
Wheatpastes by Bast and KH on Crosby Street near Broome Street in SoHo.
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July 21, 2008
Bast
Bast wheatpaste of gun-toting mom and her kids on Crosby Street, SoHo.
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December 20, 2007
Bast Robot - New York City
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"
November 14, 2007
Video: Adhoc Interview with Skewville
Great little interview clip with Skewville.
June 08, 2007
The Story of "The Splasher"
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"
June 04, 2007
TWA + Dr. Strangelove by Bast, Soho, No. 3
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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
TWA + Dr. Strangelove by Bast, Soho, No. 2
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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
TWA + Dr. Strangelove by Bast, Soho, No. 1
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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
June 02, 2006
Context Shot - Bäst Werewolf Paste-up, NYC
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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Detail 2 - Bäst Werewolf Paste-up, NYC
Another detail shot of the Bäst werewolf poster. This one shows the artist's distinct moniker rendered at the top.
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Close-up: Bäst Werewolf Paste-up, NYC
Here's a close shot of the Bäst werewolf movie image paste-up at 11 Spring Street in NYC.
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Bäst Werewolf Paste-up, NYC
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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February 12, 2006
"Teflon Don" Gotti Paste-up by Bast - No. 1
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
"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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"Teflon Don" Gotti Paste-up by Bast - No. 3 Detail
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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"Teflon Don" Gotti Paste-up by Bast - No. 4 Detail
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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February 02, 2006
Detail 1 - Bäst Werewolf Paste-up, NYC
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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What is Street Art?
Many people know street art when they see it. But what it is and what it isn't sometimes is unclear and often debatable at best. A definition of street art may be helpful. According to the Wikipedia's entry on the subject as of July 11, 2008, Street Art is defined as follows:
Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations. Typically, the term Street Art or the more specific Post-Graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art.
Contact
Send your picture submissions and inquiries to Global Graphica at streetartnyc@gmail.com
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Many people know street art when they see it. But what it is and what it isn't sometimes is unclear and often debatable at best. A definition of street art may be helpful. According to the Wikipedia's entry on the subject as of July 11, 2008, Street Art is defined as follows:
Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations. Typically, the term Street Art or the more specific Post-Graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art.
Contact
Send your picture submissions and inquiries to Global Graphica at streetartnyc@gmail.com
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