BNE Backlash

Posted on: December 29th, 2009 by

BNE ATM

Street writer BNE has taken over not just Manhattan, but many metropolises worldwide.  Closer to home in the Lower East Side, though, every imaginable surface is covered in simplistic “BNE Was Here” stickers, whether it’s construction plywood, ATMs, or light posts.  All is fair game.  So popular is this brand, that Animal currently has had an exhibit of BNE’s artwork on display for the past month.  It ends tomorrow night.

BNE Fire Box

But now there appears to be a guerrilla backlash of sorts.  Many of the stickers in the neighborhood have been marked up with black ink, X’s and otherwise.  Enemies abound, it seems.

BNE Scribe

“BNE Gallery,” 11 – 6 PM Daily, December 10 – December 30, 595 11th Avenue (between 44th & 45th Street), Manhattan

  • Anonymous

    BNE was here and wrote this comment.

  • Terry

    I don’t mind taggers with some skills and vision like Judith Supine. But BNE and Neckface and their ilk aren’t doing more than playing in their own shit and forcing the rest of us to witness the results. I’d like to take both of them by the scruff of the neck and say something like “Motherfuckers you have no talent, you don’t even rudimentary skills and you’re making my neighborhood look like shit. There’s a reason no one will pay you to do this shit and you have to do it for free, and it ain’t because of politics or “the man”, it’s because you’re no good at what you do.”

  • http://dubblex.blogspot.com/ DubbleX

    BNE has got mad ups but lacks in style and creativity
    DubbleX
    I am a spray can with a wall of possibilities
    I shoot out in all directions and tag up infinity
    With a psychedelic kaleidoscopic of eternal hope
    I float through time with my rhyme
    I walk backward thru my past lives
    And understand there is only one day
    One minute one second one small tick of the clock
    That’s why I got to rock the spot non-stop
    I am swirls of Jackson Pollock paint spilling and exploding in a black universe
    Streaking light years past the sun I am lost and found in a vortex the ever-drifting DubbleX reaching for the apex
    Shake up this Rustoleum Aerosol spraying graffiti like Van Gogh Picasso and Miro

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