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 Street Art + Graffiti Photos, Images, Pictures, Video + More: From New York City & the World
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December 20, 2007Bast Robot - New York City
Well-worn classic wheatpaste by Brooklyn-based artist Bast in downtown Manhattan, New York City.
Photography gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera November 14, 2007Video: Adhoc Interview with SkewvilleGreat little interview clip with Skewville. June 08, 2007The 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.
Ivan Corsa Photo Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera June 04, 2007TWA + Dr. Strangelove by Bast, Soho, No. 3
Ivan Corsa Photo Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera TWA + Dr. Strangelove by Bast, Soho, No. 2
Ivan Corsa Photo Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera TWA + Dr. Strangelove by Bast, Soho, No. 1
Ivan Corsa Photo Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera 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." Ivan Corsa Photo "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. Ivan Corsa Photo "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. Ivan Corsa Photo "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. Ivan Corsa Photo March 15, 2005Street Art Ups in NoLIta: Bäst, Blue Monster + Kinky Sticker
Several layers of Krylon ups on this NoLIta building have been cannibalized by several more layers of wheat-pasted street art and promotional graphica. Here's the breakdown: the star here is the set of grenade images by the well-known Brooklyn street artist Bäst, whose work is partly covered by an anonymously authored blue monster cut-out and a cellophane promotional sticker for the Monterrey, Mexico alt-indie band Kinky. At the edges are the margins of a number of works by several artists who we can't identify. We once saw three guys quickly and surreptitiously (though very surreptitiously because we saw them) putting up posters at this very spot very late one night and the only thing we could ID of them was that one of them wore Bapesta sneakers and the other two wore Puma kicks. All three wore baggie hoodies. Hmm. Ivan Corsa Photo January 24, 2005Bäst on Prince St., SoHo
One of our favorite New York City street artists is Bäst, whose work has been featured here before and will likely appear again in the future. We snapped this recent work by Bäst on Prince Street in Soho, about a block from the Apple Store. This black-and-white wheat-pasted poster uses images of a man who looks a lot like 20th century British writer George Orwell and an anthropamorphic cartoon wolf. Ivan G. Corsa Photo August 05, 2004Hello! My Name Is Michael Caine
Michael Caine played secret agent Harry Palmer in a series of 1960's spy movies, and in doing so created the image of the "thinking man's James Bond." Here the renowned New York street artist Bäst has used Caine's image from the movies to create a quartet of posters, in effect an homage to the brainy spy, in the East Village. Bäst often appropriates images from pop culture and the news media and, as gallery directors and curators like to say, re-contextualizes these images within the urban landscape. The artist has also used images of Burt Lancaster, Saddam Hussein, and Peter Sellars in his collection of posters, which are usually black-and-white and repeated in a series along walls. According to U.K.-based designer Tristan Manco in his excellent book "Street Logos," Bäst started "bombing" with a graffiti crew in Brooklyn during the early 1980's. In the late 90's he re-surfaced in the street art scene with his iconic posters. Ivan Corsa Photo |
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