Even Doze’s mecha-bot can’t stand the smell of the Lower Haight… 

Dropping in on the ever-frigid Bay Area (where summer doesn’t officially start till October and lasts exactly three weeks) for a millisecond, it’s good to see our favorite piece from DOZE GREEN is still livin large in the LOWER HAIGHT, even if our boy Doze is now officially a citizen of the world as he traverses the globe on the never-ending spiritual road trip that is his career. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Mr Supine’s free art floatie steers away from New Jersey…

NYC’s (well, Brooklyn, actually) chartreuse-loving street anonymous art phantom JUDITH SUPINE has reprised his last summer’s attack on the vaguely toxic East River by sending yet another color-screaming art floatie out to sea this weekend. No word yet as to whose hands the diving beauties ultimately ended up in, but one thing’s for sure, it’ll probably turn up in some high-end street art auction sooner than later. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Checking in on the City of Fog it’s nice to see Supertouch buddy SWOON getting her ups with this new piece at 24th & Hampshire…

Art sure attracts a crowd. Now someone take these people clothes shopping…

Time keeps on slippin into the future…

Hot off his massive installation at England’s TATE MODERN and his general huge-scale bombing of London, French photographer and street artist JR has just completed his latest epic project, “Los Surcos de la Ciudad” (“The Grooves of the City”) in Spain. Seeking to tell the tale of the ancient Spanish Mediterranean port city of Cartagena in the region of Murcia through the faces of its oldest residents, the 25-year-old artist spent three days photographing the city’s elders and then transferring the giant-sized portraits onto the city’s walls both new and old and in various states of decomposition. Completed in time for the city’s 14th annual The Sea Music Festival, the grand narrative project helps reaffirm JR’s assertion that “the facades and walls with all their cracks and grooves can tell the story of a city” and so too can its inhabitants. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Fafi’s girls back on the job in the streets of Paris…

Supertouch roving reporter JASON NOLAN’s been a busy man in the couture capitol of the world this month and sends back this peek at the state of wall art in the streets of Paris including new work by FAFI alongside spots by SPACE INVADER, SEEN, MR ANDRE, LUDO, BUE, FEFE TALAVERA, and a slew of wheatpaste & stencil miscreants. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Looks like being considered a Muslim is the least of Barack’s 99 problems now…

It seems that Supertouch’s own RON ENGLISH can’t catch a break. After gifting the residents of Boston’s South End with a 100 foot long rainbow “Abraham Obama” wheatpaste poster mural depicting the image of presidential hopeful BARACK OBAMA melded with the portrait of America’s 16th president, the city’s residents are crying for its removal. Not on political or even aesthetic grounds—though the installation has polarized viewers on both topics—but for the hundreds of illegal posters that have since popped up on walls around the city. Installed legally to commemorate the opening of Boston’s GALLERY XIV political art show “A Politic,” it seems our resident Popagandist made plentiful black & white copies of his hybrid portrait available free of charge to the show’s attendees who have since taken it upon themselves to plaster the images on nearly every flat vertical surface around town. With the gallery fielding angry calls from the Mayor’s office and MSNBC reporting nationally on the event, it seems young Abe’s days might be numbered. Enjoy it while you can. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Barack Obama with Amanda and Shepard “Hussein” Fairey in LA…

While we assumed that Supertouch’s own SHEPARD FAIREY would be getting the official “First Artist” nod for his campaign artwork once BARACK OBAMA takes office, we’re as shocked as anyone to find out he’s chosen the LA street artist as his VP candidate (although Jesse Jackson was a front runner). The pair met in Hollywood last week for a covert strategy session where this photo was taken to commemorate the event. And no that’s not background noise in the photo, it’s stardust in the air. Well, actually, glitter. Obama is serious about his party favors…

Inspired by the popularity of Shepard’s “Hope” campaign posters, Barack has started a little stickering campaign of his own…

Will the real “BONSKY” please stand up?…

In an effort to thwart bootlegging and the resale of his illegally placed street installations, national living art treasure, knight of the Queen’s court, and minister of tourism BANKSY (Sir Banksy, to the common man), has just established an official certification board to authenticate his artworks prior to resale. Yes, you read that right. Appropriately named “Pest Control,” the Banksy-appointed committee has declared that all major resellers of his work must consult them first before any secondary market work can be considered truly authentic. A member of Banksy’s camp reports, “The works are made for specific sites, and taking them is tantamount to theft. That is why Banksy has approved this authentication system. He certainly doesn’t want the people who’ve removed them making money out of it.” This move comes after three inauthentic works attributed to Banksy went on sale at Bloomsbury Auctions in London without prior certification. And so turns yet another incredible page in the grand work of performance art that is Banksy’s career…