Click on a press item below to read WikiPages Grand Society Antiques & Gallery - 'Marking it Up' Berliner Literaturkritik Heimat ist da, wo man weg will Daily News Hunts Point's Tats Cru graffiti crew to take city to court for covering 'art' Gothamist Sharpton Urges Harlem to End "Stop Snitching" Trend Daily News Hunts Point-based graffiti arts TATS CRU lend urban cred to Lord & Taylor SEAK: Graffiti and Street Art Diary Künstler Kollegen aus New York zu Besuch The New York Times Walls of Art for Everyone, but Made by Not Just Anyone Gothamist Graffiti Irony MIT Graffiti artists TATS CRU visit MIT Scion Installation Scion Art Tour BNET 2004 Ad e-flux International Artexpo Shows That Art Is Everywhere The New York Times Graffiti with a German (and Bronx) Accent Daily News Fans Show Much Love for Big Pun MTV New Big Pun Mural To Mark Anniversary Of Rapper's Death The New York Times Extending the Life And Lore of Graffiti The New York Times Mural Painters Arrested but Then Released Daily News Taggers Freed After Tribute to Rapper OKd Daily News Memorial for Rapper New York Magazine Guten Tag HUNTS POINT-BASED GRAFFITI ARTS TATS CRU LEND URBAN CRED TO LORD & TAYLOR Publisher: Daily News By: Bob Kappstatter Published: July 15, 2008 We're not quite sure what Samuel Lord and George Washington Taylor might say from their graves about it, but the display windows in their Yupscale Fifth Ave. department store now have a distinctly urban Yo! Yo! look, with some famed Bronx graffiti artists in the Lord & Taylor house. That's thanks to some imaginative corporate souls there who brought in five artist members of the Bronx-based TATS CRU to paint their graffiti take on urban scenes as backdrops for displays of Gucci, Prada and other designer goods, with the exhibit running through July 27. TATS CRU's professional muralists are all veterans and offspring of those irksome subway car "public art" projects from the 1970s and '80s. These days, they're commercial artists, having transformed their "hobby" into an aerosol art form and advertising medium. Operating out of their Hunts Point base, they've produced work which has wound up in collections in the Smithsonian, in advertising campaigns and on the walls of hospitals, museums, schools and businesses across the globe. TATS CRU members of the Spray Can Art movement are Wilfredo Feliciano, aka BIO; Hector Nazario (Nicer); Sotero Ortiz (BG 183); and the twins, Raoul Perre (How) and David Perre, aka Nosm. "They gave us a direction, pretty much New York images," said BIO, "and I think we pretty much strayed a little bit from there - like the Brooklyn Bridge arches shaped like spray cans." All Images and Articles are Copyright of the Publisher View Publisher's Link