Urban Art Association

@ bsimkin " I mean I always believe that great art is stolen art but Bast has a style no one can fully copy (not A.CE, Dain, etc)....Oh and I hope maybe Bast will release some prints again through his website as a result of this incident. Maybe it'll light some awesome fire under his collage building genius."

Yes please

I prefer RAE's work. One work tends to looks dfifferent from the rest. If you put most of Bast's work side by side they all look the same. Same composition. Same idea.

I don't understand why Bast is tagging/defacing/stealing other artists' works in Brooklyn since years but I definitely lost some respect for him if the whole reason is just because those works are "similar" to his.
This is in my opinion way worse than Robbo tagging over Banksy, even more if you think that Bast used to work at JFK Airport as a baggage handler and now his works sell for thousands of dollars a piece, it's not like he's struggling to build up a name in the scene because of others ripping off his style.
Also it has been proved before that many Bast works are very similar to Warhol/Basquiat/Bokov/etc so his works aren't completely original either.

I think because Bast had a really bad experience with a NY gallery who blackmailed him into doing another show otherwise he wouldn't get paid from sales from his website...so I hear anyway.  I could be wrong though.  Regardless, If someone slighted me,  I would create some "art" based off a google search of "Outsider Art", maybe give some away, spend an inordinate amount of time on some forums, and build up a story to convince people I'm a street artist.  That'll get people on my side.  

Just like Jeffrey and Philip Ashwin, they got on great until one got fat then it was like shit creek at their home,arguement city.

I like how there is solid evidence to support Rae's claim as opposed to speculation or furthering personal agendas.  Then again you are all sheep.

Since you clearly know Bast better than me (you still manage his website?) cna you help me understand his actions? how do you explain him tagging/defacing other artists' wall?
Even if he got blackmailed by a NY gallery (and you mean Brooklynite Gallery?) how does that justify him ruining Dain and Young & Sick walls?

Refreshing??

Or

Media playing ??

Mine arrived about a week ago. Upset to see that they rolled it pretty tightly and shipped it in a narrow tube. Sigh. Sometimes you just can't win.

That was more than a narrow tube if you bought from M&P - I didn't know they made them that small. 

The BAST piece in the Wooster show is an absolute corker!

they'll have to go a long way to top the Dassler brothers, now there's some impressive sibling rivalry!

quite hope this "feud" intensifies, might lead to some interesting, erm "collaborative" street work =]

i wish bast would paint over my work. be an honor.

......as expected Basquiat rocked up here last night FFS,bad mood on elm street?... dont ask!, threw the butter and Abernethy's at the wall then went and booted the television in,suddenly little Peter Doherty seems like a nice quiet house guest. Anyhow, Basq reckons both Bast and Rae are s**te, his words not mine.