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Entries Tagged as 'Street Art'

Eye on the Street: Wolf Thing

August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A number of these stencils have popped up around Williamsburg of this kind of Big Bad Wolf with Wings thing. We’re not sure of the identity of the artist, so if you know, do kindly inform in the comments section.

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Eye on the Street: Judith Supine

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

This work from Judith Supine is up on a building on N. 7 Street that had been a magnet for street art (and graffiti) until it was cleaned a couple of months ago. This is the first work to reappear there.

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Eye on the Street: Dain Explosion

July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

A lot of work by Dain has been wheatpasted up around Williamsburg in recent months. This is an installation (on a constantly changing board) outside a gallery on Berry Street.

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Eye on the Street: Obey & Post No Bills

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

There is almost nothing we can add to this juxtaposition of street art from Obey and the directive to Post No Bills. It comes from Berry Street in Williamsburg.

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Eye on the Street: Toxic Dept.

July 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There are many facets to this work by Obey that is on S. 1 Street in Williamsburg between Kent and Wythe Avenues. It’s attached to the Streb Dance Company’s building, which is surrounded by the ongoing construction of the 80 Metropolitan project. What’s of interest in this case and renders it more than average street [...]

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Eye on the Street: Obey + Lightning

June 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This Obey poster, which has been decorated with the always popular pink cloud and lightning bolt, is on Dunham Place near Broadway in South Williamsburg.

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Eye on the Street: Hand Over Foot

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

This hand and foot comes from a door on N. 8 Street in Williamsburg.

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Eye on the Street: Child’s Head

June 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

This is another work by Dain, whose work currently is everywhere in Williamsburg. This is from Berry Street.

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Eye on the Street: Another Dain

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Many works by Dain have appeared in the Burg over the last couple of months. This one is on N. 10 Street near Berry.

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Eye on the Street: Boxy

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

This box just popped up on some ugly new construction on Union Avenue in Williamsburg, which itself, is quite boxy. The art is the most colorful thing about the puke-brick colored building.

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Eye on the Street: Wythe & N. 5

May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s another piece of art work that has appeared and been bolted to a street sign post in Williamsburg. This one is one N. 5 Street near Wythe. We don’t know who the artist is.

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Eye on the Street: Heart Vandalism w/ Rowboat

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments

This recent addition to the Williamsburg streetscape comes from Berry Street on the side of the Mill Building. Streetsy identifies the artist behind the rowboat as nickwalker.

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Eye on the Street: N. 8 Street

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Versions of this art, which streetsy.com identifies as thirdeye, have popped up in a few places around Williamsburg. This and some other pieces are also identified as the work of Peripheral Media Projects.

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Eye on the Street: Stencil

May 18th, 2008 · No Comments

There are a number of these in Williamsburg, around S. 4 and S. 5 Streets, particularly on fences around the various local condo projects.

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Eye on the Street: Faux Reel & Runner

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

On the left is a little something from Faux Reel. We believe the right hand dance is FKDL. They’re on N. 6 on a fence around the site of the former Faile Wall.

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Tags: Street Art · Uncategorized · Williamsburg

Eye on the Street: Tricky Dick with Roach

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

The chances to see Richard Nixon street art are few and far between, so this Tricky Dick from Williamsburg is appreciated. It’s been up for a while and acquired some things like the roach on the forehead along the way.

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Eye on the Street: Dancer

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments

A number of works by this same artist (FKDL?) have appeared around Williamsburg in the last week. This one is from N. 6 Street where there are at least two.

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Eye on the Street: Dain Door

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

A lot of work by Dain went up around Williamsburg in the last few weeks and we’re still catching (and catching up with) some of them. This one comes from Berry Street near N. 6.

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Eye on the Street: Stencil

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

We’re not sure as to the origin of this stencil or its exact age, but it’s one of a series around Williamsburg.

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Eye on the Street: The Painter

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

This Fauxreel work–compete with the scraper positioned near some peeling paint–comes from Manhattan Avenue and Skillman in Williamsburg. More Fauxreel tagged work in Jake Dobkin’s flickr stream via streetsy.

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Eye on the Street: Heel

May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

These Chihuahua posters have popped up around Williamsburg in both English and Spanish. UPDATE: This ain’t no street art. Per a reader: “The Heel posters are all over Hollywood too. I did some digging and discovered they’re a viral marketing campaign for Disney’s fall movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua.” Read more about it here. [...]

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Eye on the Street: Another Dain Head

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Many works by Dain were wheatpasted up in Williamsburg recently, like this Jackie O and this JFK. This is one that has been up for a bit, we think, but that we came across yesterday and hadn’t posted. It’s on N. 9 Street.

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Tags: Eye on the Street · Street Art · Uncategorized · Williamsburg

Eye on the Street: New Burg Faile

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

This relatively recent Faile piece (which is one of a group of three of the one) can be found on N. 10 Street near Berry in the Burg on a door that has been a popular street art spot on and off over the years.

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Eye on the Street: Senator

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments

This art comes from Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, where it’s affixed to the construction fence where the “Gateway to Williamsburg” a new residential building with street level retail will go up.

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Art Attack #2: Third & Bond Mural Action Shot

April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We found artist Pasqualina Azzarello working on her mural at the development going up at the corner of Third and Bond in Gowanus. She has been expanding the huge mural and even extending around the construction trailer. Brownstoner has been running weekly posts about the development. The latest has some renderings of the design from [...]

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