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Iz the Wiz at Tuff City

php15xdnLPM.jpg On June 17th the legendary graffiti artist Iz the Wiz died, but just five days prior to that he was back in the Bronx tagging up a mock subway car. The work is at the Tuff City graffiti and tattoo studio and was meant to be endlessly repainted over by different artists, but it will now remain as Iz, if you will. Back in the day he would tag his name in bubble-letters all down a train, and he said: “You would have these pieces running like this 10 cars straight. When that hit the train station, bam! Impact. No doubt about it.” Tuff City employees aren't sure how they'll preserve Iz's last piece just yet, but they told CityRoom they are considering "donating them to a museum, making them part of a traveling exhibit or disassemble them for galleries." Check out some images from Iz's show, and from his memorial at Tuff City, here.

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  • hoodlum

    A work is only art if you have permission?

  • ides_of_march

    No permission needed if you buy your own damn canvas.

  • maevemealone

    I think I like some of the memorial pieces better than IZ's actual work. Or, at least that repeating IZ on the train panel is not working for me so much as everyone else's work.

  • ides_of_march

    Talentless vandal.

    If you want artistic merit, google some names like Vermeer, da Vinci or Michaelangelo to name but a few.

  • Kingpin

    More glamourising of graffiti taggers.

    Bet you those punks who defaced Bethesda Terrace would've got a front-page Obituary if they'd died in the process of being arrested.

  • Splicer

    "Art".

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