Street Art

There are no memorials to the five victims of Jack the Ripper in the East End. But there’s little danger of the sites being fogotten. Each year, thousands take a tour of the little-changed back streets where the Ripper persued his grizzly hobby. Over the …

Words of wisdom on a wall near Finchley Road.

OK, we put our hands up. We’re guilty of talking about Banksy far too much, and even making the occasional factual error about his work. But here’s a mega-blooper from the mainstream press. See this classic Banksy piece from Rosebery Avenue? It’s been there for …

#Codefc. An unlikely tag for a graffiti writer. Nonetheless, some chap has been spraying this (or, as here, just ‘code’) onto London’s walls for several years, usually accompanied by the image of an old-fashioned video camera. The camera logo is often seen around the Shoreditch …

Is this the face of the UK’s most famous graffiti artist? (After sagittal inversion and colour enhancement to make him fit into his own artwork.) A reader tip-off led us to an article on Complex.com, purporting to show elusive artist Banksy. The Bristol-born wall sprayer …

The biochemists out there will be wondering why someone’s daubed a giant start codon along the railway tracks. For everyone else, ATG, otherwise known as ‘Ahead of the Game’, are a collective of graff writers who seem to spray predominantly in the north-west of London. …

These four unlikely bedfellows were found on a post outside the Globe Theatre. The maudlin chap to the right is easily identifiable as an UnderWaterPirate. UWP’s creator, from Philly, takes up the backstory: UnderWaterPirates is a species of sea life from the deepest darkest parts …

Now I know my ABC, won’t you come and spray with me. These typographic shutters have been around the Shoreditch area for AGES, but we couldn’t resist featuring them in the wake of the Brooke Shields Alphabet mystery. The letters were created at least a …

See comments for major corrections to this post. Another Banksy bites the dust. Some nobber at TfL decided to paint over the famous Pulp Fiction image in which Jackson and Travolta clutch bananas in place of guns. The work near Old Street tube had been …

And by ‘random’, this week we really do mean random. OK, so it’s just a shitty bit of scawl on City Road, but is there anything more behind the message ‘Brooke Shields Alphabet” that we’re not getting? Is it some kind of advert for the …