Faile Wall
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
This has been up for awhile but this was the first chance I’ve had to see it. The distortion comes from the photo being an Autostitch panorama, knit from four photos.
A Last Refuge for Pasted Paper
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Since 11 Spring was buffed. This building at Wooster and Grand, once a candy factory but now gutted and awaiting some other fate, has been one of the last refuges for pasted paper street art in Manhattan. Jay Maisel’s building on Bowery and Spring is still going strong. You can also find a small pasted facade on Mercer Street and small pieces stuck up all through SOHO. But the Rivington Street spot where Swoon had a mural for some years, was buffed and now is occupied by a sprayed on tag. You can also find some paper off the West Side Hwy in the 20′s. There must be pastings somewhere in the Meat Packing District but I haven’t checked recently. I guess I should include the legal wall at Houston and Bowery to complete the tour.
Muffin Milk Paste
Friday, September 30th, 2011
I started seeing the tag “Muffin Milk” scrawled on walls around the neighborhood this past February. It is so incongruous, making illegal graffiti with such an innocuous concept, that it makes me laugh. Now it looks like the tagger has gone on to something else. Mickey Mouse body and is that a Nike swoosh?
Faschion Shoot
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Speak now or forever hold your piece. A Lipbone Redding photobomb.
Birds in Hand
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
New bit of pasted paper on the Bowery.
JR on Essex
Saturday, July 9th, 2011
Or at least I assume it is a JR.
JR Paste-Up replaces Kenny Scharf Mural
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
You can still see a bit of Kenny Scharf‘s colors on the side of the wall. JR is noted for his politically themed ultra-blowup photos. “Lakota, North Dakota” will highlight the Standing Rock and Pineridge Native Reservations — some of the most important Native American reservations whose impoverished and forgotten communities have suffered unspeakable hardships. – Goldman press release.
You need to be on the south side of Houston Street to really see the image, up-close it is hard to read. I think the vertical white stains are an excess of paste.
Bowery Boogie has photos of the transition, links and story..
Poland Spring Air
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Competing with Eviair.
