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Atlanta Embracing Graffiti Artists
Atlanta BeltLine Embraces Graffiti Artists Amid Changing Urban Landscape
As graffiti morphs from real estate blight to urban amenity, Atlanta’s style writers are driving forces in a conversation about public art.
By Brentin Mock
bloomberg.com (Link to original)
Jun 01, 2024 01:15
The graffiti-slathered Krog Street Tunnel exists at a collision between old and new Atlanta. On one end, its entrance sits blocks away from the Sweet Auburn district, birthplace of civil rights legend Martin Luther King, Jr. and the site of his tomb. On the other end are Cabbagetown, once home to mill workers, and Reynoldstown, founded by formerly enslaved African Americans, both of which have undergone dramatic neighborhood change.
Scott Williams, 'greatest of all stencil artists'...
Scott Williams, ‘greatest of all stencil artists,’ dies at 67 (…
Read moreScott Williams: Inside Out Exhibit (2012)
Inside Out: Steven Wolf Fine Arts Recreates Scott Williams' Apartment Studio
Often considered a predecessor of "Mission School" street artists, Williams is most widely known for densely layered spray paint stencil murals.
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Xavi's Archive is Updated
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Decided to update Xavi's Stencil Archive this morning after seeing his "Tetris House"…
Read moreCashing in on Mainstreaming of Street Art
By Isabella Kwai
New York Times
3/31/2024
Isabella Kwai spoke to street artists, developers and real estate advisers from several cities for this article.
Julian Phethean’s first canvas in London was a shed in his backyard where he covered the walls with bold lettering in spray paint. When he moved his art to the city’s streets in the 1980s, it was largely unwelcome — and he was even arrested a few times.
“We had nowhere to practice,” he said. “It was just seen as vandalism.”
These days, the canvases come to Mr. Phethean, better known as the muralist Mr Cenz. Recent facades, which he shares with his sizable following, have included an abstract mural on a Tesla showroom and a portrait of Biggie Smalls, sponsored by Pepsi Max.
“I never would have envisioned that I’d be able to do it for a living,” he said.
Landlords wanting to attract young professionals once scrubbed off the rebellious scrawls. That was before…
Read moreHumorous Stencils Lighten Up Parking Spaces
‘You are not your car’: At this parking garage, every space gets a pearl of wisdom
Written by Astrid Kane Published Feb. 03, 2024 • 8:00am for the SF Standard
"You are one of the great lovers.”
“Relax. You’re already there.”
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”
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SF 2023 State of Graffiti Tagging
How SF is aiding businesses clean persistent graffiti
SF Examiner (Link, with maps and graphs)
A parklet, a storefront, a billboard.
Graffiti pops up across The City seemingly as fast as it’s removed.
The City launched a pilot program to help businesses clean up graffiti last November in a press conference that featured Mayor London Breed painting over graffiti scrawled over a vacant brewery in the Inner Sunset.
Less than a year later, graffiti still abounds in not only the Inner Sunset but other San Francisco neighborhoods as well.
The $2 million “courtesy graffiti abatement” program was funded for a second consecutive year in The City budget adopted by legislators and signed by Breed last month. It employs workers who will…
Read morePreserving traditional Komon stencil dyeing technique
Tokyo shop strives to digitize to preserve traditional Komon stencil dyeing technique
January 16, 2022 (Mainichi Japan)
LINK to article.
TOKYO -- A workshop in Tokyo that creates products using a traditional Japanese stencil dyeing technique called "Edo Komon" has launched a crowdfunding campaign to digitize and preserve the extremely fine patterns which are on the brink of extinction.
The dyeing studio Tomita Sen-Kogei Co. (Tomita Dyeing & Crafts Co.), located at the foot of a bridge over the Kanda River -- a…
Read moreKAVES Sues NYPD for Buffing His Wall
Renowned graffiti artist sues NYPD for painting over his street art
By NOAH GOLDBERG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (LINK)
JUN 01, 2021 AT 5:11 PM
A well-known graffiti artist is suing the NYPD for painting over his street mural, arguing that the police department’s recent citywide clean-up mission “endangers hundreds of valuable, recognized, and permitted artworks.”
Michael McLeer, 51, who also goes by Michael Kaves, filed his lawsuit as a class action, asking that other street artists join him in his battle against the paint police.
“Using an undiscerning eye and an obtuse brush, the untrained crew went out to blot out art from street canvases,” wrote McLeer and his lawyers in the suit filed Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court…
Read moreDiscussing Street Art, Ownership of Public Space in India
How unsanctioned street art complicates idea of 'ownership' of public space, and the inherent politics of art
Unsanctioned, therefore, uncensored street art makes for a viable platform for social commentary and political critique, giving space and form to public opinion.
Tanishka DLyma
May 12, 2021 11:04:17 IST
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This is the second part of a series on street art in India, and the issue of its ownership. Read the first part here.
In the month preceding India's fight against the coronavirus pandemic, a 40-foot mural was painted at…
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