Highline Hit By Poster Boy - WTF Is Street Art Anyways?

PosterBoy hit the Highline Park Fast billboard a little over a week ago and it looks like he has finally uploaded a video to his Flikr page. Check out that and more of his amazing work [HERE]

Highline Billboard is a Wonderful Example of Curated Art Space

While it isn't so much a democratically allocated public space, the once advertising billboard now curated in conjunction with the High line park in NY, is a wonderful example of advertising thats gone rogue and now a place for art.

Highline Billboard Hosts David Shrigley

New Work by David Shrigley at the Highline Billboard.

KID & PK Tags Gone Forever

On the way to my studio is the Highline. This abandoned track has recently been converted to a public park championed by the Friends of the Highline organization. In the process of dressing up this dilapidated track, they have begun painting portions of wall along certain sections. Two recent casualties of this action were a PK throwup and a KID throwup. I wrestle with graffiti's place in our public spaces, but I can definitively say these two pieces had grown on me over the years, and I mourn the loss of these woks. I know the Friends of the Highline are trying to clean and beautify this public space but their mistake was thinking these tags detracted from the visual landscape when in fact they added a rich texture and history to the wall that only becomes apparent through the grafitti's patina, the age of the spray paint, and the history of writing culture. What a shame.