Braid

Rooftop supergraffiti

Giant graffiti on top of a Chelsea warehouse, as seen from the Highline.

Anonymous Arts Recovery Society

John Freeman Gill writes about the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society in The Atlantic. Photo by John Bartelstone.

Far earlier than just about anyone else, Ivan C. Karp recognized that many of New York’s late-Victorian stone and terra-cotta facade ornaments—keystones, plaques, and friezes, even those that embellished tenements and rowhouses—were artworks in their own right. Spurred to action by their wholesale destruction at a time of galloping development, Karp spent several years scooping up the forsaken fragments by himself, before joining forces with a few friends whom he led on clandestine raids of demolition sites. In homage to the immigrant artisans who had created the unsigned ornaments, Karp named the group the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society.

And the Anonymous Arts Museum in Charlotteville, NY:

Anonymous Arts Museum
606-610 Charlotte Valley Road
Charlotteville, NY
Open Sundays only from 10 am - 3 pm. Free.
607.397.8606

More abstract graffiti

On top of the Williamsburg Bridge

This plaque on the bridge is popular spot for graffiti. It's always hit or miss.

Seneca Sawmill

I love spray-painted logos on lumber.

Electric Powered

An electric city bus.

Decorative grating

Chinese insignia on delivery van

Pupusa del Coyote, by Irvin Morazan

From Bartered States: Contemporary Art from El Salvador at the Bronx River Art Center.
Images lifted from Tattfoo.

Nick Caruso

Nick Caruso is a tattoo artist working in Brooklyn.

Messhof

Independent game creator Mark Essen (AKA Messhof).
His game Flywrench is on at the New Museum right now, as part of "The Generational: Younger Than Jesus."