December 7, 2005
wooster
I first heard about The Wooster Collective several months ago, when a Wooster-affiliated British artist named Banksy was discovered to have hung his art surreptitiously in several big-deal NYC museums. When asked why he did it, Bansky replied:
“I thought some of [the paintings] were quite good. That’s why I thought, you know, put them in a gallery. Otherwise, they would just sit at home and no one would see them.”
The Wooster Collective is a site dedicated to all manner of “street art”–from graffiti to posters to Bansky-style “subversive” art–from around the world. My favorites are the photos of “billboard liberations,” such as this one from Sacramento:
I’m also partial to Invader, from Paris, who works in Rubik’s cubes:
The site has also devoted a ton of space to long rants against the Sony corporation, if you’re into that sort of thing. And, really, who isn’t?