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City Buffs Legal Mural - Toronto
Mural artist Joel Richardson was paid $2,000 by the city to do a mural on a city-owned wall on Dupont just west of Lansdowne. On Tuesday, somebody -- apparently the city -- painted over it, likely as part of Rob Ford's graffiti eradication campaign.
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Artist Joel Richardson says the city has painted over a popular Dupont St. mural that it paid him $2,…
Read moreHong Kong Graffiti Challenges Chinese Artist's Arrest
Hong Kong Graffiti Challenges Chinese Artist's Arrest
by Louisa Lim
May 4, 2011 (from NPR)
The Art of the Buff in San Francisco
The art of clearing taggers' work in San Francisco
Monday, February 21, 2011
Nobody knows more about graffiti than Joe Padilla. The paint-shop supervisor for the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, Padilla oversees graffiti removal for all of the city's 220 parks.
A San Francisco native, Padilla, 50, was baptized at Mission Dolores and grew up at 15th and Noe streets. He lives in…
Read moreSpray Paint and the Buff: Bad for Air Quality?
2022 UPDATE: This post gets a fair amount of traffic via Google searches for spray paint and air quality issues. Glad you stopped by! Recently, Stencil Archive has added other posts about spray paint and environmental/health issues: a long read on aerosol pollution from Mongabay, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for Belton and MTN 94 paints, and an article on aerosols from National Geographic. Read on and get informed. - Stencil Archive
Paint it green
Do graffiti artists express themselves at the expense of our air quality?
If You Spray, You Pay
If you spray, you pay: What the law says
Saturday, December 26, 2009
(Original article here)
Stencil art painted on public or private property without permission is a crime, but Washington law treats stand-alone graffiti differently than graffiti laid down by gang members or followers.
Paint, scribble or scratch your mark on property where it’s not wanted, and you can be charged with malicious mischief in the third degree — a gross misdemeanor that carries a fine of up to $5,000 and a jail term up to one year.
The state’s anti-gang laws can apply if the graffiti is carried out under the auspices of a street…
Citizen Caught While Stenciling to "Cheer People Up"
The hearts of the matter: Brandon Hughes’ art puts him in court
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Original Article Appears Here
Brandon Hughes stenciled 12 pink hearts on Wenatchee public property last year in an attempt to “fill the city with love.” He later scrubbed away his handiwork, but still faced a malicious…
Graffiti Discussion on SF Radio
Ah. So much for not being an early riser. I missed the initial discusson on KQED about graff in SF.
Hopefully they'll post a mp3 of the talk soon here.
For now, ther's a discussion going on in the forum here.
Guess this is leading up to the "huddle" that's happening later today on Kearney St.
Still not sure if the huddle will spark anything new on the topic beyond "call police, paint over, call police."
NY Times: Fairey Not a Crook
Graphic Content | Shepard Fairey Is Not a Crook
By Steven Heller Here is the original post, with picsSteven Heller, a former art director at The New York Times, is a co-chair of the MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts and a…
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