Elephants
Wheatpaste of elephants on building at the corner of The Bowery and Spring Street, in downtown NYC. In the frame is one of those giant Vote stencils and fresh "SIL" stencil.
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Street Art Photos + Videos + More: Daily Pix From New York City & the World
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August 20, 2008
August 18, 2008
Fitschen
Fesh stencil of a pistol labeled "Fitschen" on Crosby Street, NYC.
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Fitschen
"Fitschen" gun stencil on Crosby Street, SoHo, New York City.
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July 28, 2008
Floss Like Cash Monet
Stencil street art in SoHo, New York City.
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Floss Like Cash Monet
Clever, cheeky stencil message on Crosby Street, New York City. Fucking brilliant.
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July 21, 2008
Viva La Evolution
"Viva La Evolution" stencil with "Splasher" paint on Crosby Street, SoHo.
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Viva La Evolution
"Viva La Evolution" stencil with "Splasher" paint.
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Viva La Evolution
"Vive La Evolution" stencil with "Splasher" paint on Crosby Street, SoHo.
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July 15, 2008
Bill Murray
Bill Murray stencil in Reykjavik.
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Bill Murray
Stencil of Bill Murray in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Bill Murray
Stencil of actor Bill Murray in Reykjavik, Iceland. We love Bill Murray. He looks here like he did in the film The Life Aquatic.
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July 10, 2008
Praying Hands Stencil - 2
Close-up of Praying Hands stencil on Crosby Street in SoHo, New York City. Boo-ya!
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Praying Hands Stencil
Praying Hands stencil on Crosby Street in SoHo, New York City.
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Brooklyn UFO + Praying Hands Stencil
The legendary Brooklyn UFO strikes again on Crosby Street in SoHo, New York City. To the left of UFO is a stencil of praying hands.
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November 21, 2007
Time Magazine's "Art of the Street" Photo Essay
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.
November 08, 2007
Lost Liberty at Wooster St., Soho - 3
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On our iPod: Lily Allen - "LDN"
Classic kicks on our feet: Adidas "Stan Smith"
Lost Liberty at Wooster St., Soho - 2
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On our iPod: Lily Allen - "LDN"
Classic kicks on our feet: Adidas "Stan Smith"
Lost Liberty at Wooster St., Soho - 1
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On our iPod: Lily Allen - "LDN"
Classic kicks on our feet: Adidas "Stan Smith"
November 01, 2007
Video: Swoon Presents Her Street Art at MoMA - Part 2
October 31, 2007
Video: Swoon Presents Her Street Art at MoMA - Part 1
October 30, 2007
Video Clip About Swoon
Excellent video clip that looks at the evolving street art of the artist Swoon in the Lower East Side of New York City.
October 15, 2007
Sexy Girl Stencil in Tribeca - 5
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Sexy Girl Stencil in Tribeca - 4
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Sexy Girl Stencil in Tribeca - 3
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Sexy Girl Stencil in Tribeca - 2
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
Sexy Girl Stencil in Tribeca - 1
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Flight of the Conchords - "Inner City Pressure"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
October 11, 2007
Blue Anime Face Stencil on Label
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October 02, 2007
Royce Stencil in West Village
September 03, 2007
"Laser Guided Democracy" Stencil Art 1
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"Laser Guided Democracy" Stencil Art 2
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"Laser Guided Democracy" Stencil Art 3
Stencil art as political commentary in Soho, New York.
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"Laser Guided Democracy" Stencil 4
Political stencil art near the backdoor to the bar Puck Fair on Crosby Street in Soho, New York City.
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August 29, 2007
Video: Banksy Stencil on Wall in Israel / Palestine
Banksy at work putting up the now famous "girl with balloons" stencil on the wall that separates parts of Israel and Palestine.
August 28, 2007
Seattle: Post Alley - No. 5
Jess Eddy Photo
Seattle: Post Alley - No. 4
Jess Eddy Photo
Seattle: Post Alley - No. 3
Jess Eddy Photo
August 27, 2007
Seattle: Post Alley - No. 2
Jess Eddy Photo
Seattle: Post Alley - No. 1
Jess Eddy Photo
August 16, 2007
Video: Japanese Street Art - Sick Stencil Time-Lapse
Cool time-lapse clip of an artist creating a piece of stencil street art in Tokyo, Japan.
August 10, 2007
Barcelona: "BCN is Dead" - No. 2
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Barcelona: "BCN is Dead" - No. 1
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Barcelona: "BCN is Dead" + Siouxsie - No. 2
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Barcelona: "BCN is Dead" + Siouxsie - No. 1
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Barcelona: Siouxsie Sioux Stencil - No. 2
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Barcelona: Siouxsie Sioux Stencil - No. 1
More cool Barcelona street art: Here a wheat-paste stencil of British punk- and new wave-era music icon Siouxsie Sioux.
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August 09, 2007
Boom Box Stencil Paste-Up, NYC - No. 5
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Boom Box Stencil Paste-Up, NYC - No. 4
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Boom Box Stencil Paste-Up, NYC - No. 3
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Boom Box Stencil Paste-Up, NYC - No. 2
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Boom Box Stencil Paste-Up, NYC - No. 1
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July 30, 2007
Video: BCN Graf and Street Art Clip
Here's a short clip (set to a classical score) that shows a sampling of Barcelona (BCN) street art and graff, including some excellent stencil pieces and work that looks like that of British artist Banksy.
July 24, 2007
Video: Clip of Barcelona Stencil Artist "Olivia" in Action ...
This video documents "Olivia" in action as she creates her signature multi-color stencil of the Popeye character "Olive Oil." The artwork is developed off-site on paper and then put out on the streets of Barcelona as a wheat-paste piece on a door.
July 18, 2007
Barcelona: Video Camera Stencil - No. 3
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Barcelona: Video Camera Stencil - No. 2
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Barcelona: Video Camera Stencil - No. 1
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July 17, 2007
Video: Academic Commentary on Barcelona Street Art
July 16, 2007
Majorette Stencil in Barcelona - No. 4
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Majorette Stencil in Barcelona - No. 3
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Majorette Stencil in Barcelona - No. 2
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Majorette Stencil in Barcelona - No. 1
Large stencil with some graff and paste-ups in the Barri Gothic area of Barcelona (aka, BCN).
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June 20, 2007
Grand Street Scream, Soho - No. 5
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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"
Grand Street Scream, Soho - No. 4
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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"
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"
April 10, 2007
Kitten Stencil on Scooter in Lower East Side No. 3
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Deerhoof - "+81"
Kicks on our feet: Adidas "Beckenbauer" Sneakers
April 09, 2007
Kitten Stencil on Scooter in Lower East Side No. 2
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Deerhoof - "+81"
Kicks on our feet: Adidas "Beckenbauer" Sneakers
Kitten Stencil on Scooter in Lower East Side No. 1
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Deerhoof - "+81"
Kicks on our feet: Adidas "Beckenbauer" Sneakers
February 16, 2007
Blek Le Rat "Beggar" Detail, 11 Spring St., NYC
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Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera
On the iPod: Goldfrapp - "Utopia"
Kicks on our feet: Puma "Easy Rider" Sneakers
March 24, 2006
Banksy on Melbourne's Disappearing Stencil Art
There is an interesting article today in U.K. newspaper the Guardian about the changing urban landscape of Melbourne, Australia, as the city tidied itself in preparation of the Commonwealth Games. The clean-up is a result of an initiative to remove graffiti and street art. The report, titled "The writing on the wall," was penned by the well-known British street artist "Banksy." According to the story, Melbourne's effort to paint over its rich tapestry of urban art is enforced by the city's new official zero-tolerance stance on anything that constitutes graffiti. This includes stencil art for which Australia's second city has become famous internationally among followers and creators of street art. (Props to Robin for the tip.)
February 28, 2006
Detail: NYC "Girl" Stencil on West Broadway, Soho
Here's the detail of the sharply rendered, circular stencil portrait that we found on a lamp-post base along West Broadway (between Houston and Prince streets) in Soho yesterday evening.
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February 02, 2006
"Shapes" in East Village, NYC - #1 Detail
Here's the detail shot of "Shapes." Not your average East Village-graf, "Shapes" is a stencil-like splatter-work of red paint and sans-serif letters in all-caps. While the artistry and style is neither "wild" nor "hip-hop" by the standard of traditional techniques, this is a highly distinctive and original tag. Even though it's small, you can't miss it on East 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd avenues, a stretch of gentrified and expensive downtown Manhattan real-estate with practically zero graf but least a half-down Japanese restaurants.
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"Shapes" in East Village, NYC - #2 Context
And here's the wider, context shot of "Shapes."
Background Note
Not your average East Village-graf, "Shapes" is a stencil-like splatter-work of red paint and sans-serif letters in all-caps. While the artistry and style is neither "wild" nor "hip-hop" by the standard of traditional techniques, this is a highly distinctive and original tag. Even though it's small, you can't miss it on East 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd avenues, a stretch of gentrified and expensive downtown Manhattan real-estate with practically zero graf but least a half-down Japanese restaurants.
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January 24, 2006
CORRECTION: Neckface Twerps! "Lobster Roll" Sticker, NYC - Context
CORRECTION: The artist who created this sticker was misidentified in our original post below. The work featured in the image above is a "Lobster Roll" sticker by "Twerps!" We apologize to the artist and our readers for the error. (Props to Mikhail in NYC for setting us straight.)
2006-04-24
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Here's the wider, contextual shot of a recent Neckface sticker in Soho, NYC.
Background Note
The work of Neckface is among the most familiar array of street-art images in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York City. Neckface works in several mediums and is known for stickers and wall pieces featuring creepy characters who have little if any neck (hence the apt name "Neckface"). Neckface also often simply scrawls his name in large child-like lettering on the sides of buildings and other urban surfaces. But it is for his stickers that he is probably best known. These can be found in many major cities, including NYC, San Francisco and Tokyo. The Brooklyn-based artist is originally from California. He has exhibited his work in galleries throughout the world and has had his art (and himself) featured in magazines and newspapers.
Gear: Nikon Coolpix 3600 Digital Camera
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January 10, 2006
Brooklyn Street Art: Sharks on the Slope 1
Here's another shot, from another angle, of the shark stencils near the 7th Ave. subway stop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NYC
Background
The well-groomed and excessively gentrified (and real estate crazy) Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope isn't full of the street art and graf so common in other parts of New York's largest borough, such as Williamsburg. But the street art is there, tucked between apartments and brownstones, especially the further down the slope and away Prospect Park one heads. Such is the case of these wonderful stencilled silhouettes of sharks near the 7th Avenue F-Train subway station.
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January 02, 2006
Paris is My Baghdad
This phrase has greater resonance in light of recent riots in the suburbs of Paris and other cities throughout France, as well as ongoing events in Iraq. We found this phrase sprayed in English and Arabic on the asphalt outside the entrance to the Swiss cutural center's art gallery in Les Marais in Paris.
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October 14, 2005
Surface To Air, Paris - Logos
Here's a shot of some graphic design in the form of cool logo/symbols painted on the storefront of Surface To Air in Paris.
Surface To Air (or Surface 2 Air) is an underground-ish creator's atelier, art gallery, event space and boutique all wrapped up into one at very central Paris address in a right-bank neighborhood near Les Halles. Here is a shot of the iron-shuttered, graf-scrawled storefront from across the lane. Like Colette a couple of kilometers away, Surface To Air is a small mecca of under-the-radar creative cool.
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October 12, 2005
Paris: Street Art - "Spliff" Stencil 1
Here's a close-up shot of the "Spliff" stencil we found in the hot Paris nabe of St. Germain des Pres. As street art, this is subversive on a couple of levels. But what's really striking is its illustrative comic-book style and the location on the pavement next to a public telephone (see contextual shot below) in a hood with some of the most desirable and fashionable real-estate in the city.
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Tunes on our Apple iPod: "Guero" by Beck
Kicks on our Feet: BAPESTA Lime-pink high-tops
Paris: Street Art - "Spliff" Stencil 2
Here's a the contextual shot of the "Spliff" stencil we found in the hot Paris nabe of St. Germain des Pres. As street art, this is subversive on a couple of levels. But what's really striking is its illustrative comic-book style and the location on the pavement next to a public telephone (see close-up shot above) in a hood with some of the most desirable and fashionable real-estate in the city.
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Tunes on our Apple iPod: "Guero" by Beck
Kicks on our Feet: BAPESTA Lime-pink high-tops
September 24, 2005
NYC: "Mel Gibson" Stencil in Soho 1
We caught this awesomely fresh stencil of Mel Gibson at the bottom of a door on Prince St. in Soho, New York City. Seeing this gives us an idea -- what we'd really, really like to see is a stencil of Russell Crowe on the side door of the Mercer Hotel (that's where Crowe had his recent infamous telephone-throwing tantrum -- c'mon ... irony, people, irony.) Anyway, if you want to find this one, walk west on Prince from Broadway, past the the Apple Computer Store, towards Kid Robot. You'll find this on the left side of the street.
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NYC: "Mel Gibson" Stencil in Soho 2
A mid-dsitance shot of the Mel Gibson stencil on Prince St. in Soho, New York City. If you want to find this one, walk west on Prince from Broadway, past the the Apple Computer Store, towards Kid Robot. You'll find this on the left side of the street.
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NYC: "Mel Gibson" Stencil in Soho 3
Here's a close-up detail shot of a fresh Mel Gibson stencil on Prince St. in Soho, New York City. If you want to find this one, walk west on Prince from Broadway, past the the Apple Computer Store, towards Kid Robot. You'll find this on the left side of the street.
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June 24, 2005
Nomadic Museum by Shigeru Ban, New York City 10
NYC was recently treated to the work of experimental Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who is known for his use of low-cost, re-purposed and recycled materials to create stunning cleverly designed structures. These buildings can be built and torn down quickly. Pictured above and below in this Global Graphica series, is Ban's Nomadic Museum on Pier 54 in lower Manhattan. The Nomadic Museum was designed for a massive exhbition of photos and film by the artist Gregory Colbert. The structure is a long cathedral-like building that fills the full length of what was disused pier on the Hudson River. The museum's walls are made of box-car-sized shipping containers, which still bear the colors and logos of the shipping companies that once used them to ferry goods across the world's oceans and seas.
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June 12, 2005
Spooky Sunglasses Man Stencil
We don't know who this is. We don't know who the subject of this stencil is nor do we know the artist responsible for this work. But we like it. When we look at the person rendered in this image, we feel like we're look at some late Soviet-era East German spy hanging out in a Prague cafe waiting to meet his "secret" Czech contact. But this is the year 2005, so such a character would have shed the Cold-war look ages ago. Now he'd be clad with brand name logos -- a pair of Nike sneakers on his feet, an Izod Lacoste shirt on his back, and Diesel jeans on his legs. Go consumer culture, go!
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June 05, 2005
More Shephard Fairey: "Obey" Lightpost Stencil
We found this Obey stencil by artist/publisher/seminal guerilla-marketer Shepard Fairey on a light-post base in the Lower East Side of New York City. Fairey is, of course, the person behind all those Giant Has a Posse stickers of Andre the Giant that found their way stuck to surfaces all over the world in the 1990's. We love Fairey's work (including his recent Swindle magazine) and his ever-expanding visual vocabulary of icons and imagery.
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June 04, 2005
Marilyn Monroe in Chinatown
We love this stencil pattern of Marilyn Monroe on a red door in Chinatown. The Monroe iconography works on a couple of levels here, we think. Not only is Marilyn a pop culture icon due to her tragic celebrity as film actress and sex symbol, but she is also an icon of the pop-art era courtesy of Andy Warhol's famed silkscreen prints of her blown-up image, which the artist arranged in multiples on a canvas.
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May 31, 2005
Downtown Mars Rover Stencil
Here's a cool stencil we've seen all around downtown New York City for a long time. From Tribeca and SoHo to Chinatown and the East Village, this stencil of a Mars Rover-type vehicle is a regular reminder of NASA's mission to the mysterious red planet in the 1990's. But wait, maybe it's not supposed to be a Mars rover at all. Maybe the stencil is one of those remote control robots that are used for checking bombs. And notice the vehicle's probing, grappling arms are lifting a bag of money. Hmmm ...
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May 22, 2005
African Dude Head Stencil
If you're not looking carefully, you might easily miss this stencil as you're walking by it on the street because this work is really small. In that way and in the utter simplicity of it -- a man's head --this stencil is a subtle piece of street art.
Ivan Corsa Photo
May 11, 2005
Downtown Panda Stencil
If it's pandas you want, then it's pandas you shall get ... at least as far as this example of stencil street art goes in lower Manhattan. The stencil genre has become ever more visible over the past four or five years, with a lot of Australian street artists leading the way and exporting the creative seed to places like New York City, Paris and Tokyo. Though stencils are not uncommon, they are still a niche-within-a-niche as far as art goes. Other forms/media of street art and graf lead the way in terms of visibility at street level.
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September 08, 2004
Pray for Pills + Genghis
The stencil is the massage. Here's another one of those stenciled catchphrases you see around lower Manhattan. These slogans are sometimes ironic plays on words, tweaks of well-worn idioms, and sometimes stabs at political commentary. "Pray for Pills" is one of the more ominous and darkly