The Wooster Collective recently featured video of a piece of street scultpure by Joshua Allen Harris. It could be describe as kinetic pneumatic art, and features an inanimate pile of material attached to a subway grate. When a train passes in the tunnel beneath the grate, the upward flow of displaced air fills the material and produces a medium-sized bear. The continued flow of air makes it appear as if the bear is actually......

Toward 2, by kerfuffle & zeitgeist at flickrToday on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired on East 51st St. and Clarkson Ave. in Brooklyn, shots fired at Flatbush Ave. and Ave. I in Brooklyn, and more shots fired at the Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Brooklyn. Philanthropist and Chairman of the Modell Sporting Goods Company, William D. Modell, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. Walk with love: Thundercut wishes a belated Valentine's Day......

At around 11pm we got a text message from a friend at the Shepard Fairey opening in DUMBO, saying that the "Splasher got caught at the show tonight". So far the information we're hearing is that two guys attempted to set off a stink bomb at the show, but were stopped by security. It remains to be seen if the stink-bombers are the same guys who set off a stink bomb at the Faile......

The Wooster Collective has photographs of wheatpastes from Columbia's Student Coalition on the Expansion and Gentrification that call attention, "in tongue and cheek fashion, Columbia's condemnation of Manhattanville as a 'blighted' neighborhood." Benign animals, explaining eminent domain in street art? That's gold! This complements news about yesterday's SCEG protest on the Columbia campus. The group organized a rally with students and local residents to call Columbia's South Lawn "blighted" since dirty snow has been......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: hazmat condition on Wall Street and water main breaks in Soho and Tribeca. Just great: WNBC's Jonathan Dienst reports, "The FBI said it believes a violent fugitive who kidnapped his girlfriend and threatened to use his military explosives training to blow her up in a building may be now hiding out in Queens." Love it or hate it, the new New School building on the corner of 14th and......

Click for full-size timelapse shot. The Wooster Collective 11 Spring Street project finally opens its doors tomorrow. It'll be open from 11-5 from Friday to Sunday, on the corner of Elizabeth and Spring. We've been spending a lot of time inside the building over the last few weeks, and speaking frankly, it's probably the best collection of international streetart and graffiti you'll ever see in one place. So if that's your bag, definitely stop......

The opening of the 11 Spring Street Wooster Collective project is still a couple of weeks away, but the building has already been transformed by artists from all over the world. Check out some of the stuff going up on the outside walls: There's tons of stuff happening inside as well-- Obey was painting a huge wall on the ground floor yesterday, and WK, Faile, Thundercut, and others have also been doing huge pieces. We've......

Wooster Collective's 11 Spring Street project is in full swing. We went by yesterday, and they graciously allowed us to tour the empty warehouse. The place is amazing-- huge, empty floors surrounded by windows, with no interior beams. The roof has a 270 degree view of downtown and Nolita. While the interior of the building is off-limits to the public until next-month, if you're in Nolita today or anytime in the next few weeks,......

We're been covering the streetart renaissance at 11 Spring Street for the last couple of weeks-- new pieces are going up every day, and the new owners of the building seemed to be endorsing the work. Last night, we had a chance to catch up with Wooster Collective, the preeminent streetart website, and asked them what was going on. They told us that the new owners have asked them to curate the decoration of......

It's been a couple of months since we found out that the mysterious building at 11 Spring Street would be converted into condos. Graffiti fans around the world instantly went into mourning, as the walls of 11 Spring have long been considered one of the finest streetart galleries in the United States, and redevelopment indicated that they'd soon be erased. But not so fast! Wooster Collective seems to be sponsoring a new project at......

When walking the streets of New York, Gothamist is always aware of where we're stepping as we never know when we're going to ruin our sneakers with a step into a nice batch of dog feces. One fellow New Yorker doesn't avoid the fecal matter like we do - she actually stops to photograph and write about it on her blog New York Shitty. We can unequivocally say that there's now a blog for everything.......

Whoa-- apparently the prolific and insanely talented NYC street artist Swoon has three pieces up at the Museum of Modern Art! Wooster Collective alerted us to the "Printmaking Now" show, which runs until September 18th: Oversized cut-out figurative prints by Swoon (American, b. 1977) appear on three walls of the Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries. Printmaking is essential to Swoon's practice: the linoleum cut and woodcut techniques provide the bold lines......

If you're in the West Village or Chelsea today, swing by one of these happenings: 1. Trish Grantham billboard painting: "With the help of up-and-coming artists, Visa is transforming a Greenwich Village intersection into a cornerstone of art and expression. As part of a multi-day project, ground-breaking artist Trish Grantham will create a one-of-a-kind billboard mural under the banner of a Visa's newest ad, "Life Takes Expression." Below Grantham's mural, Visa will also showcase......

Wooster Collective spotted this amazing exterior on 4th Street, between Avenue C and Avenue D. It was painted by Cern and Cekis from Chile. Check out more of their painting at ArtCrimes. Their style is similar to Os Gemeos from Brazil-- you might remember them from when they were in New York last year. Semi-related: NYU is having a show of Israeli graffiti and related art. The opening is at the Brofman Center tonight......

The city council has recently passed a new graffiti law-- it goes into effect on March 29th. If you haven't heard about it yet, here are the important details: - Law affects buildings with more than six units - Fines up to $300 if landlords don't clean property after written warning - Landlords have 60 days to respond to warning before fine - Can't be fined more than once every 6 months - City......

A couple of weeks ago, we published a fairly controversial editorial ("Corporate Graffiti Sucks Balls"), calling out the Sony Corporation for dirtying up our city with their PlayStationPortable graffiti advertising campaign. A few days later, Secondary Screening picked up the story-- and their story got Digg'd a few thousand times. Wired noticed, and wrote an article about the controversy yesterday. And of course, our friends over at Wooster Collective have been covering the story......

Picture of a live turkey in Battery Park courtesy of Gothamist Contribute user. - A convention hell that more New Yorkers would like: Democratic National Convention in 2008? - All the crazy stuff is happening in Chelsea, as a drunk firefighter crashes a stolen truck into storefronts; a NY1 employee helped apprehend the driver in the midst of where the Olive Stone movie was filming - Ron Guidry is back as the Yankees' new......

Animal Magazine's 6th Issue comes out this week-- and Bucky was nice enough to messenger us over a copy, since we unfortunately missed Animal's "Save Krucoff" themed party at BLVD on Wednesday night. The magazine is beatuiful and glossy and filled with pictures of scantily clad girls-- but we were interested in one feature in particular: a series of interviews with some of our NYC blog colleagues. Our favorite quotes: Joey Arak (Curbed): "People......

- The Village Voice gets director Victor Buhler (he did the documentary Rikers High) to do a feature about the kids getting their GEDs at Rikers - The teachers' union is going to vote on the new contract with the city - The Apiary talks to Neil Swaab, whose cartoon Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles, was yanked from the NY Press - A reason we don't want malls: A woman falls from the second floor of a......

We love finding little unique pieces of art hiding amongst the city streets where you least expect them. Tonight be part of an intimate conversation with two environmental artists who are responsible for some of these pieces, Darius + Downey. This conversation will directly follow a screening of the film, Public Discourse - a documentary about public installation art which features Darius + Downey along with dozens of other influential street artists. Marc and Sara......

Earlier this week, our own Jake Dobkin launched Streetsy, a street art website. Sponsored by the Wooster Collective (and with tech help from Eliot Shepard), the goal of Streetsy is create the largest curated archive of international street art available online. So, break out your digital cameras and cameraphones because you can contribute your pictures by joining the Streetsy group pool on Flickr.......

If you're a fan of street art, tonight's discussion at McNally Robinson (50 Prince St) in Soho might be of interest. Moderated by the husband and wife team behind the Wooster Collective, the online resource for street art around the world, The City as Collaborator: Documenting Contemporary Art on the Street panel will focus on how street art has grown and contributed to the city. Other panelists include: Kelly Burns, the driving force behind the......

Just two weeks after Gothamist was wondering about graffiti artist Revs' steel sculptures, the NY Times has a great story that sheds a little more light on Revs and his attitude about art. Randy Kennedy's article gives more detail about the elusive Revs, such as how Revs has shunned the "worlds of conventional art and commerce" by not becoming a graphic designer or youth brand marketing consultant and what Revs was doing with his subway......

- LA architect Thom Mayne, who has some NYC projects, wins the big architecture prize - A commuter photoblog, Expres Train - Quintessential New York entertainer Bobby Short dies - Wrapping the Flatiron for advertising - A recipe for Craft's parsnip and crab soup from Eating In - Mayor B trails Freddy in the polls - Who are the luminous walkers outside of Tweed Courthouse? - Subway delays 'r' us - A review of......

The Wooster Collective has the exclusive on Banksy's recent exploits in New York City. And by exploits we mean hanging his own art up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, and American Museum of Natural History in true counter-Thomas Crown Affair fashion. Amazing. And what Gothamist loves is that the each museum got its own different piece of art work (a Tesco soup can for the MoMA, a......

Jose Serrano has made a hilarious 5-minute video entitled The Future Beautiful: Skewville, about a team of graffiti artists who throw fake wooden sneakers up on poles around the city. The guys spout on about graf, sneaker-bombing, and the art establishment- they've actually managed to create a whole philosophy based around chucking fake shoes! You can watch the video on INdTV, where it's competing in the Pilot Project Competition. For more about Skewville, check......

The Wooster Collective has a great podcast featuring Darius Jones, one of the great New York streetartists. He's been doing a series of pieces featuring lamp-posts and street lights leaning in to kiss each other- and apparently he has just installed a new one somewhere in North Brooklyn- write in if you spot it! Darius' work reminds us of two classic shots featured in the Bluejake Love series: cones in love (by Jason Kottke)......

The Mayor outlined his anti-graffiti plan yesterday, saying, "Graffiti is something for which our administration has zero tolerance...[it's] an invitation to criminal behavior." He formally announced that the antivandalism units of the NYPD and transit police would combine to form a graffiti-crime fighting unit, an idea mentioned and started last summer. The Times reported that since the formation of the new unit, there's been a 20% increase in arrests, contributing to a 78% increase......

Street art gets the drill down from the NY Times today, with a look at the emergence of people who use paint, wheat paste, and more to create a version of art beyond grafitti. Reporter Kirk Semple speaks to Swoon and Obey Giant's Shepard Fairey, as well the Wooster Collective, about the lofty motivations, but the author of INY, Kelly Burns, sums it up well, "[Breaking the law is what] people really love about......

Gothamist was glad to find out that no, we weren't crazy (this time) and in fact, it was the Modest Mouse song "Gravity Rides Everything" from The Moon & Antarctica that was on a Nissan minivan commercial. Deviated Septum confirmed this and alerted us to the fact that "Gravity Rides Everything" had also been used in a beer commercial. Well, you got to sell out some time... we'll check in again when Built to Spill......