The official video for Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Ni**as in Paris” is set to debut tomorrow at noon. In the meantime here’s a “videojacking” of the track put together by a Parisian graffiti crew who go HAM in the Paris Metro with lyrics from Jay and Ye’s popular Watch The Throne track. Feels a bit like a Kidult job to us. What do you think?

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Kidult is back and has released two new t-shirts. The ‘YES’ tag on the Louis Vuitton Paris flagship store and the ‘KID’ tag on the Supreme New York flagship store have made it onto the new t-shirts by the artist. Entitled ‘Sperm’ and ‘Who Benefits From The Crime’, the tees are now available from the Kidult’s online store, each limited to 50 pieces.

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New York graffiti crew IRAK spent some time in Miami tagging a building in the Wynwood art district. Thankfully Martha Cooper was in place to document the action.

“IRAK spent a few days and nights bombing a Wynwood building located a little off the beaten track. Walk south on 2nd Avenue from NW26th Street and you can’t miss it. Only two sides of the building were finished when I left Miami a couple of weeks ago. One was tagged on black in gradations of white, silver, gray and black and the other on white in silver, gray and a bright orange which nicely coordinated with their T-shirts and shorts.”

Take a further look at the finished work after the jump.

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Graffiti artist Kidult has struck again. This time he has tagged the Paris flagship store of French brand Céline. The move comes as a response it seems, to the Spring 2011 campaign of the brand, which featured models Daria Werbowy and Stella Tennant, shot by Juergen Teller, posing with skateboard decks. As such, Kidult did not tag his usual ‘KID’ tag, but rather went with ‘SK8′.

Check out the full Céline Spring 2011 Skateboard Campaign after the jump.

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Kidult continues his spree of luxury vandalism with Louis Vuitton’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés store in Paris, this time opting for a YES tag. (PRINCE85)

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The still rather new Hermès Paris store, which was built in a former swimming pool, has been hit by graffiti artist Kidult. Rather than putting his ‘KID’ tag up, he this time covered both shop windows with a big ‘LOVE’. (Image via Skatepound)

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Shortly after the airing of ‘The Antics Roadshow’ produced by Banksy, Channel 4 was also showing ‘Graffiti Wars’, which “examines street art and graffiti, and the creative tensions and conflicts within this artistic arena.”

The documentary especially looks at the tension between the creatives and the general public as well as the state, as well as in between the members of the arena, on the example of Robbo and Banksy. Take a look at the 50 minute show here above!

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A new video documents the most recent hit of infamous graffit artist Kidult as he tags the Kenzo Paris store in a reaction to the brand’s Flower Tag perfume campaign, inspired by the graffiti movement.

Check out Kidult hitting the Supreme New York store here.

Read our interview with the artist here.

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Channel 4 presents the new ‘Street Tag’ iPhone app, which allows you to virtually graff any wall or surface, using your iPhone. The app basically turns your phone into a virtual spray paint can. You can tag anything you want and share your tag with the world, as well as geo tag it. You can download the app for free from iTunes.

Unfortunately you still need some skills in order to make these tags look decent.

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In May we reported about French graffiti artist Kidult vandalizing the complete front of the Supreme New York City flagship store on Lafayette street. This week the artist released a t-shirt on his website, featuring the ‘KID’ tagged store front. You can purchase the tee now from his site here.

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From Curated – “Banksy has posted images of his latest piece, located in Camden, which pays reference to fellow artist Tox. Typical, in so many ways, but nonetheless reasonably clever.”

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Off The Wall TV gives us a first look at Crack & Shine, a film that “will follow the lives of some of the leading figures in the graffiti world – showing the lengths they go through to practice their art & seeing what motivates them to do it.”

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Graffiti New York 80’s is up and running at Paris’ Galerie Jerome de Noirnont. The show features a who’s who of famed 80’s bombers: A-ONE, Jean-Michel BASQUIAT, BLADE, Bill BLAST, CRASH, DONDI WHITE, FAB 5 FREDDY, FUTURA 2000, Keith HARING, RAMMELLZEE, and TOXIC. As Curated puts it, “the show is all about the pioneering spirit of New York art during the decade.” We’ve been told that the above piece by Futura and Crash is going for 60,000 Euros.

On view through July 20, 2011 at Galerie Jerome de Noirnont (36-38 Avenue Matignon, Paris)

Photography: Mathieu Vilasco for Highsnobiety

See images of the entire show after the click.

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This morning a tweeting wave started about the vandalized Supreme New York flagship store. The entire front of the store is covered in a ‘KID’ tag, likely by French graffiti artist Kidult, who has previously tagged colette, JC/DC and agnes b in Paris. For now it is now clear if this is actually intended by the Supreme crew or not. We will most likely find out in the coming days.

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Robbo talks to Juxtapoz about graffiti, his ongoing feud with Banksy, and his return to the art world.

I ordered a Budweiser and anxiously looked at my mobile. It was 7:50pm on a Friday night and Robbo has agreed to meet me at the Princess of Wales pub in Primrose Hill, London*. This friendly little pub was filled to the rafters with people who had gathered to watch the world cup on the two TV screen at either end of the bar. I didn’t have a good view of the entrance so I grabbed my drink and went outside where I was quickly joined by Robbo – a huge stature of a man with shaved head, a white ‘Team Robbo’ tee-shirt which he had designed himself, shorts and trainers. I spent the next few hours learning more about this old school graffiti legend who has been thrust back into the spotlight. –Helen Soteriou

Read the interview at Juxtapoz here.

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When I was younger and creeping around downtown, I would notice these colorful, bold, and scrappy art instillations. Pepper has a habit of decorating his immediate surroundings, wherever that might be, with multi-colored paint splats, piled on discarded toys, and other purposefully arranged found objects. You can frequently catch him running around the city with his red shopping cart full of freshly discarded trinkets.

The print Peppers World, and the mural I painted on 7th and Mateo that it inspired, is in homage to his existence. I have enormous respect for those who can survive in such extreme conditions yet still be able to express themselves creatively.”

-Saber AWR/MSK, 2010

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Believe it or not, GRAFFOMAT is introducing a graffiti art supply vending machine. “Forget about the times where you would run out of paint in the middle of the night and there would be nothing you could do about it. Graffomat is here for you 24 hours a day, located easily accessible on almost every street corner in your neighborhood.” We can already see a few issues with this (i.e. who actually buys paint?) but a novel idea nonetheless.

Take a leap for more shots of the Graffomat – Graffiti Vending Machine.

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After LA, it seems like Banksy has hit San Francisco. First pieces of the iconic UK artist have started popping up, mixing his stencil style and sense for irony and strong messages with the art.

Take a further look at the new Banksy pieces that appeared on SF walls after the jump.

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London graf artist Pochoir supports the adidas Originals Five-Two 3 Project with this film.

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This morning, following previous news of Banksy’s show at his hometown Bristol Museum, BBC officially broke the silence with images and video footage of the show. Now we are able to present a video tour of the exhibit, which includes over 100 works, more than 70 of which are brand new, while many of the others, such as the painted toilets (or portaloos) have been reworked. With more of the amazing pseudo-political work we’ve come to love from the elusive, millionaire street artist Banksy, any visitors are sure to be pleased by his biggest show yet. The exhibition runs for 12 weeks and opens tomorrow, Saturday June 13, 2009 at 10am.

Have a look at BBC’s images from the Banksy Versus Bristol Museum 2009 show after the jump.