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AS expertly packaged exhibitions of Cézanne, Leonardo, Miró and van Gogh crowd monumentally into museums this season, you may feel the urge to dash out to the street for open air and the buzz of art-meets-life traffic.

You’ll find both this month in “Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, where boulevardiers, sidewalk salesmen and long-distance trippers of several generations will converge with their tales of the road.

Read more here….The New Season - Art - Outside Inspiration Inside Galleries - Museum Shows Look to Nontraditional Mediums - NYTimes.com

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It’s not art August 28, 2008Two so-called graffiti “artists” were recently arrested for a 6-month-long spree of vandalism across Europe (”Is graffiti art?” News, Aug. 23). And now, all of the graffiti artists are getting all weepy and defensive and are trying to portray themselves as being misunderstood and oppressed. Well, cry me a river. When will they learn that it isn’t the style or medium that people hate, loathe and despise so much? It is the fact that they are committing a crime by spray painting on someone else’s property! That is why graffiti artists are reviled so much. Until they grow up and learn to respect the property of others they will never be considered artists and will forever be considered just a bunch of common vandals.

—John Videll Chicago

It’s not art — chicagotribune.com

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - New Haven officials hope a new law that makes it illegal to sell spray paint to minors will be just the thing to clean up the city.

The New Haven Board of Alderman overwhelmingly approved the new law Tuesday. It puts spray paint in the same category as cigarettes in outlawing sales to minors.

Alderwoman Erin Sturgis-Pascale says the law is aimed at reducing graffiti, which she calls a “very serious blighting influence.” The law was conceived at the suggestion of the city’s anti-blighting agency. The new law shifts responsibility for cleaning graffiti from property owners to the city.

The law doesn’t include any sanctions for businesses that violate it. The board says it may modify the law to add punishment if it becomes necessary.

New Haven bans spray paint sales to minors — amNY.com

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NEW YORK - A New York City gangster has been sentenced to life in prison for killing an 18-year-old who drew graffiti on his turf.

Bloods gang member Bernard Small received the maximum penalty Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder.

Prosecutors say Small and three other Bloods members beat Humberto (um-BEHR’-toh) Carol in March 2007 after they found him vandalizing their Brooklyn turf. Carol wasn’t a gang member.

After the beating in the Brownsville neighborhood, the 26-year-old Small shot Carol twice, killing him.

NYC man gets life for killing teen graffiti vandal — amNY.com

 “Hopefully, this was a lesson well learned,” said Capt. Charles McEvoy, commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct.

Read more here……..Queens Chronicle - Police apprehend ‘Sum Z,’ most wanted graffiti vandals

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My homie SUE ONE has been around for a while in the graff world. He is one of those cats that is non-stop on the grind. He creates a prolific amount of work and as is the case with many graff artists these days, he is on the come up. Finally, the graff scene has been embraced by the mainstream. This will of course be a blessing and a curse in many ways, but for SUE ONE, it seems to be all gravy.
» Interview here……..VOCAL TONE: Artist, SUE ONE Format Magazine Urban Art Fashion

SUE is a contributer to Streets Are Saying Things and curates the ‘Street Grind’ Elite Online Gallery…

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Check it out here…….Dirty Pilot - Featured Artist Prints

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City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. has called upon Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown and his Manhattan counterpart, Robert Morgenthau, to take strong action against two Woodside residents who were recently arrested after they returned to the United States after fleeing to escape arrest on anti-graffiti charges.

“These are not a couple of teenagers causing a little mischief,” Vallone said, referring to Danielle Bremner and Jim Clay Harper. “These are career criminals who have destroyed property all over the city and possibly all over the world. They are real criminals and they deserve real jail time.”

Vallone (D- Astoria), chair of the council Public Safety Committee, said the pair were arrested last week at separate airports, Bremner at O’Hare in Chicago and Harper at John F. Kennedy International, after they had reportedly fled to Europe to escape arrest here.

The lawmaker said law enforcement sources reported the pair spent three months tagging in several different countries, including France, and both currently face criminal mischief and burglary charges for their illicit graffiti efforts in train yards throughout New York City. New indictments are expected from their activities in Queens, Brooklyn and The Bronx, Vallone said.

More here….Vallone Calls For Tough Penalties Against Globe-Trotting Graffiti Vandals | www.qgazette.com | Queens Gazette

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For a good six years, the mysterious Swoon has been pasting her evocative and eye-catching cut-outs on walls around town, slowly and steadily establishing herself as one of the more intriguing street artists in the game. The work eventually won her gallery showings at prominent venues like Deitch Projects, where she returns Sunday with a solo show at the gallery’s Long Island City satellite. The installation is part of a bigger, collective project called Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a flotilla of floating sculptures that set sail from Troy, New York on August 15th.

Interview here…….Gothamist: Swoon, Artist

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