graffiti

The annual block party also features street artists painting live, food and merchant vendors, giveaways and more happening over three blocks in Bushwick.

Tributes are still coming in to the late MF DOOM, including a big new mural at Toronto street art supply store Toronto Collective in the city’s Chinatown district.

Plus, watch Saint Vitus Bar’s streaming tribute to the late Power Trip vocalist.

Murals paying tribute to George Floyd have begun to spring up across the country, including in his hometown of Minneapolis, and now in NYC, too.

The free event includes hand-selected local food trucks, a merchant market of vendors selling original art, prints, jewelry, clothing and more, face and body painting, meet and greets with ”old school graffiti legends,” live-painting from over 40 street and graffiti artists, and, of course, live music.

Lilys have a new video for their song “High Writer at Home” from their classic 1994 album Eccsame the Photon Band, which just got an overdue vinyl repress via Frontier…

Those who have been in NYC for a while and have an eye for famous graffiti arists, or who read the March 2013 Village Voice cover story, have no doubt noticed the relatively recent and major return of nineties legend COST…

Usually, it is the street artists who work under the cover of darkness, hoping to evade police detection as they scrawl graffiti on property that is not their own…

“AUSTIN (KXAN) – Taggers have defaced one of Austin’s most iconic murals. The “Hi, How Are You” mural adorns a business wall on the University of Texas “drag” at the intersection of 21st and Guadalupe streets…

Close up, via EV Grieve, swastika included, below…