Non Grata Performance Tour

I think Non Grata is a performance art group. This image looks like a snapshot from Burning Man.

Found in Soho.

Lost Chihuahua

It's been a few months since the last dognapping in my neighborhood. Someone suggested to me that these stolen dogs are being used for pitbull training. What a way to go. Adios, Chi-Chi.

Found in Soho.

Paris Hilton

This already great piece of Soho street art has been improved by the elements. A few months of rot and exposure only add to the meaning of the image.

I think this is Paris Hilton who I assume is named after the Hilton Paris hotel. That means that she could also have been named Stockton Hilton, Waco Hilton, or Newark Airport Hilton.

Lost Liberty

This is a combination of images. A series of "Lost Liberty" posters were wheat pasted to the exterior of the now closed Tennessee Mountain BBQ in SoHo. Then someone came along later and contributed a new image to the text.

The Lost Liberty posters are intended as protest, but the addition of new image introduces an ambiguity that makes art.

Rack Tag Hustle

Another tour through SoHo found more brilliant street art. In this piece, I love the combination of graffiti culture and the Weekly World News.

Live.

I found this bolted to a traffic sign on Spring Street in Soho. Soho used to be an artist's neighborhood. Now it's fancy boutiques.

The East Village used to have more of this sort of thing, but with every new luxury high-rise that goes up we'll see less and less artistic espression at street level.

Wealth lacks imagination, and uses its means to create the monotony of more wealth.