The following guest post is by Houda Lazrak, a graduate student in Museum Studies at New York University.
This past weekend, Hanksy’s much-anticipated show, The Best of the Worst, drew hundreds of street art fans to the former Chase Bank at 104 Delancey Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Along with some of NYC’s most notable graffiti writers and street artists, Hanksy transformed the space into a NYC playground-like arena — with a skate ramp, a Chinese massage parlor and more wonderfully-engaging site-specific installations. Dozens of intriguing, overlapping pieces, paste-ups and stickers paid homage to street art, while, also, poking fun at the scene.
Magda Love and Hanksy and more
Meres and more
Russell King, Col and UR New York
Included, too, was a rather formally installed art exhibit in the wittily-titled Gag-Osian Gallery featuring some of NYC’s most popular street artists.
Mr. Toll at the Gag-Osian
El Sol 25 at the Gag-Osian
All photos by Houda Lazrak; pictured in the first photo are Frank Ape, Lexi Bella and Cosbe
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