Upper Playground has been supporting street artists in its stores and galleries for ten years, so it only makes sense that they would start stocking the tools to make the art. At the Upper Playground web store's new department for…
Continue Reading →[caption id="attachment_14018" align="alignnone" width="550" caption="Photo from Black Rainbow Extraordinaire Magazine"][/caption] Although Brazil's famous graffiti export Os Gemeos have gone from painting streets in Sao Paulo to castles in Scotland, they deserve more than a few solo shows given to them…
Continue Reading →We've covered a lot of graffiti artist doing a lot of amazing things, but Knitta Please is one for the books (blogs?). Magda Sayeg began the graffiti group three and a half years ago to tag with knits instead of…
Continue Reading →I've been a Parla collector and fan for years-- since he came on to the mainstream art buying radar in a big way at the Art Basel Cityscapes exhibition in Miami a few years ago, his work (and the prices)…
Continue Reading →This weekend's bank holiday in London is almost over, so you better hurry if you want to have a chance to compete with elusive graffiti artist, Banksy. The Cans Festival opened up a half mile of unused tunnel behind Waterloo…
Continue Reading →Several months ago, we about lost our crap when we heard that Beautiful Losers "“ the museum exhibit-turned-most brilliant coffee table book ever bound by mechanical means "“ would soon be joined by another extension of arty rectitude. Beautiful Losers,…
Continue Reading →While the political process can often be filled with a lot of hot air, sometimes that air is actually the winds of change a-blowin'. As we've shown you before, those winds of change have proven capable of inspiring some pretty…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo artist Eduardo Kobra shares a hip-hop influence in his graffiti training, but beyond that, forget about drawing any other similarities between him and his contemporaries. While they're bombing the town with imaginary characters, Kobra has been working on…
Continue Reading →You may not know the name Greg LaMarche, but if you count yourself as a connoisseur of urban artwork, then there's a good chance you're familiar with his work. LaMarche spent his early days spraying tags in the streets of…
Continue Reading →Thirty years ago, when graffiti was withheld the respect of the subtitle "Art Form," a twelve year-old Vulcan hit the subway cars of New York with his collection of wildly colored paintcans. Over thirty years -- and countless walls, trains,…
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