new york city Archive

Blade – King of graff [vimeo]


This has been online for 2 years.

In the early 80´s thousand of young people united on what they believed to be a quest toward painting the walls and trains in New York City.

One of these young people was a 15 year old boy from the Bronx, known as Blade.

During more then a decade, Blade spend days and nights painting subway-trains in New York City. More than 5000 in total. An achievement that later gave him the title – King of graff.

This is a portrait of Blade, a man who started out as a graffiti painter, and who ended up a great artist.

via writersbench.dk.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Here at dr,dk is a documentary about Jean-Michel Basquiat in French and English with Danish subtitles.

30-10-2011 21:00

I midten af 1970′erne var pop-art bevægelsen ved at drage sit sidste suk, fanget af den samme sjælløshed, kulde og samme materialistiske samfund, som det ville skildre og afsløre. En kunstart, som Andy Warhol rammende beskrev som ‘en kunst enhver kan lave’. i denne periode præget af dyb tomhed dukkede den unge afro-amerikanske graffitikunstner Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) op på kunstscenen med en noget anden og mere dynamisk historie.

via writersbench.dk.

Paze @ da bakery


From Da bakery NYC

Cope2: Worlds Famous Bubble!

6th of August – 6th of September 2011

Cope2 @ Halvandet in Copenhagen.
Via braskart. Facebook.

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GHOST RIS exhibition @ We are related

Photo from wearerelated.net

We are related are thrilled to present the graffiti legend Ghost, NYC and his first exhibition in Denmark.

Ghost was born in the Bronx New York in the mid 60’s. In the graffiti world he is known and infamous for his humorous and ground breaking paintings as well as the iconic “GH” throw up on and around the NYC subway system.

His colorful and satirical drawings and paintings are often celebrating underground comics and poster artists such as Rick Griffin, but with added elements of an LSD nightmare.

The opening is Friday May 7 from 19-22 where original art works and silkscreen prints are available for sale.
There will be music from the psychedelic 70’s on the turntables and cheap drinks in the bar.

Exhibition date: Friday May 7 to Saturday June 19, 2010.

Ghost website: http://www.cousinfrank.com

More on wearerelated.net.
Photo from wearerelated.net

Photographer Martin C. Fagerlund

Photo by Martin C. Fagerlund
Danish photographer Martin C. Fagerlunds put new content up on his website. The series most interesting from a graffiti point of view is probably “a.m.” and “steel”.

Steel – trains

I’vew always loved trains. When I was younger, doing graffiti, I was seriously drawn to these huge worms of steel, and I guess that feeling never really left me.

Via themcreative from Martin C. Fagerlund

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