Carol Chung reports on Ghetto Fab: The Photo-Graf Collection Public urban art!!… scaled down for your viewing pleasure. Last Thursday was the opening night of the month long Ghetto Fab: Photo-Graffiti exhibition. As the title implies, it contains photographs of graffiti mural art from the boroughs of New York City. The photographer, Jonathan Singer, is hailed as “The Ansel Adams of Graffiti Photography.” There are …
Eyebeam created a new web site at streetmemes.com to track street art, stickers, stencils, posters and visual memes (self-replicating ideas) that are posted, copied and mutated in the streets of New York and around the world. Very exciting, though I can’t help but wonder whether spelling it all out for the general public defeats the whole purpose of subversive and esoteric street art. Anyway, as …
The Wooster Collective, and Social Pest are introducing more people (including the mass media) to street art. Here are just a few pieces published in recent months. Urban Decor A Wall to Wall Tour of New York Street Art. Mike Epstein and Jake Dobkin present a photo tour for New York Magazine (including the image above) Painting the Town (Again). Rob Walker gives a little …
