GammaBlog’s Top Ten in Street Art – 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008The street art I found most interesting in 2008 was sometimes found in galleries.
#10 – LAII’s enhancement of the Haring Mural Recreation
I have heard that the Haring Foundation was not pleased, but these additions by an old Haring collaborator added a lot of life to the memorial.
#9 – MOMO – Construction Shed Paste-Ups
Many of these paste-ups went up in the Lower East Side and East Village, all decorating the plywood sides of construction sheds.
They were all different, and looked like they were done with giant markers. They soon faded in the sun.
#8 - Street Art Collectors
This is why I don’t give street locations on most of my street art photos.
#7 – Banksy’s Crack Accountant
Banksy paid to display his message towards Wall Street on Broadway in Soho.
#6 Swoon’s LES Mural Abandoned
I saw new Swoon art on walls in Brooklyn and Chelsea, but this wall long maintained and updated by Swoon on the Lower East Side was untouched by her all year.
This skeleton angel boy recently pasted there is quite lovely. It was based on a famous Arbus photo.
#5 - Poets of the Paste
ELBOW-TOE, Armsrock, Gaia, and Imminent Disaster at Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn
#4 - A Maze
A Maze: the largest single collection of Stikman ever assembled, in a show with Celso, Infinity, C-Beauty and LAII.
#3 – The Toy Tower Comes Down
The Famous Junk sculpture by Eddie Boros in the Sixth and B Community Garden, The Toy Tower, was torn down by the city for reasons of safety.
My Baby – Eddie Boros and his Tower of Toys
#2 – Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
A jaw dropping, crazily ambitious installation by Swoon at Deitch Gallery in Long Island City. Seven hand made ships cruised down the Hudson for this show.
My video and photos of the opening
# 1 – Street Art in the 2008 Election
Shepard Fairey’s Obama became the default icon for the candidate.
genius
Noo leave it there! Ah well the good thing is that it reopens the wall to someone else…that Spock one is hilarious!
she looks so drunk on happiness
yeah thats about to fall off… i would be tempted myself.
It wasn’t falling off when she started. She patiently worked on it for about ten minutes. It was damp from all the rain.
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Happy New Year Gamma!
Happy New Year, Billikid.
Credit should also go out to late photographer Diane Arbus for this one. She is the one responsible for photographing the image of the child (right) with the hand grenade, shot in Central Park, probably in the 1960s.
Yeah, I should have noted that here. It is noted in the original posting before he left his wings behind.
Yeah, I saw that after the fact. It’s cool that so many people recognized that it was Arbus-inspired. Did you know that she lived for a time @ Westbeth?
Didn’t know that.
So wait, was the addition of the winged boy also by Swoon?
No, it was some other artist. Swoon hasn’t done anything on that wall in a long time.
Ok, thanks – just checking. I’m doing a "case study" for a paper and wanted to make sure I give correct credit!
And thank you for taking so many images over the years of this wall. I’ve got you credited as the photographer for each image I talk about in my paper. 