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An Apartment Made of Subway Cars

Ever wish your $2 million luxury apartment could be more like the subway? If so, have we got the place for you. Sotheby’s is selling a pretty gorgeous penthouse in New York’s West Village, designed by architect Adam Kushner, that features subway tiles and doors throughout. The MTA never looked so lovely. Drool over some more photos of the place at The Observer. (via)

 

This Was The Age of Innocence: 70′s Inner City New York

This Was The Age of Innocence: 70′s Inner City New York

 

Have you seen the works of Keith Haring? What about Kenny Scharf?? I would dare say that probably more of you have heard of them than DONDI, Duro, Hurst or Mickey 729. And without good reason for that should certainly not be the case. We should have heard a lot more about those graf ‘writers’ from the crews, such as The Odd Partners, that were actively bombing during the 70′s. The art historians and museum curators, or at least those interested in justice, should have been spitting out tomes and exhibits on these artisans instead of simply propping up the facsimiles thereof that came behind them and benefited from their genius. For it was these cats in those crews hailing from East New York, Brownsville, Bedford Stuyvesant, Hollis, Harlem and the South Bronx – inner city New York – who were the icons that established the precedents from which Haring, Scharf and several others literally sprung out and went on to make some serious seven figures off of.

Subway Art Exhibit Opening Night

Graffiti great James TOP, after work at 7 PM, Thursday, January 6 at Azucarera Gallery in Harlem, will convene a gathering of the greatest old school grafs plus the up-and-coming young turks (think Ale, Az, Jester, Josh 5, King Bee, Meres, Metro, Sen, Shadow, Slave, Soe, Stay High 149, Ton, Vase, etc. along with documentary photographers Henry Chalfant, Joe Conzo and Jamel Shabazz). On showcase will be some first rate Graffiti Art pieces and sneakers designed by these legends as well as the best-of-the-best sneaker designs from several recent competitions around the City. This will be a night to remember those good old days and blaze a new trail into the future.

 

Subway Art Exhibit Opening Night

Graffiti Legends /

Best-of-the-Best Sneaker Designs

 

7 PM, Thursday, January 6, 2011

Azucarera Gallery

414 West 145th Street

(Between Convent and Amsterdam Avenues on basement level)

Check www.azucareranyc.com for details

Take A, B, C, D or 1 train to 145th Street

 

Writer on tour (throwback edition)

T-kid the first time in Berlin, 1994. He was here for about a 9 days, i think. Adrian Nabi invited him and payed all the cost. He had to paint every day one or two pieces. Adrian Nabi planned everything out before. One Wall with Phos4 and Jay1, one with Shek and Poet, one with Wesp and Bisaz where Jay did also some characters, one with Inka,Rew and York, and so on and on. I think the only one who didnt paint with T-kid, was Odem. maybe because of false pride or politics. Most of the walls, where published in the first Issue of the Backjumps Magazine under the title: “T-kid boom’in Berlin”.
I can remember when T-kid after a week was saying: “When the fuck did i see something from Town?, i didnt had seen anything until now, only painting, painting…come on Nabi give me a break, only one day, some sightseeing maybe, this is a place of History over here”. But Adrian reply: ” Our Time is running out man, peoples are waiting for you. You have to paint as much as possible, so that people learn as much as possible”.
One of the last walls he should do was with the entire GFAcrew. Back then, consisting of Kage, Eso, Shek,Poet and Gina. But the weather maked a monkey wrench in our plan. It was heavy rainning and the Wall that was chosen, were to wet to paint. So Adrian called up one guy of NHS (Neukölln Hustlers), to ask them if we all could go to their Hall of Fame, dirrectly located at the S-Station Neukölln, wich has a roof. The Hustlaz agreed and so we finally painted together this huge wall in the 44 neighborhood with T-kid and also some members of TFB and NHS. I did an “Yesim” piece that day. There was also a huge crouwd of writers and kids out of the Neighborhood, on the Street watching the whole thing and messing around, while we where painting. But it was a great and funny day. The picture i took, shows T-kid the Legend from N.Y.C. (with a gun from Dos) with the original first Generation of the Neukölln Hustlers: Dos, Jame, Not1, Seol and Jone in 1994, wich Names became Street legends later, for different Reasons, in Berlin and especially in their infamous district of Neukölln. Good fellas Style

from
Berlin Flashbacks Part 3