The film, “The Godfather”, is a great example of art and crime. In this film, the Mafia and its crime oriented behaviors are glorified into a film. This scene shows an epic point in the film where Michael Corleone, son of ‘Godfather’, kills a crooked police man and another mafia
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In South London a group of artist were jailed because they graffiti a wall. As you can see the picture includes a brown wall with a police officer taking a picture next to a dog and words being painted which is “One Nation Under CCTV”, by a teen in a
Mara Salvatrucha also known as MS, Mara, and MS-13 is one of the world’s most ruthless gangs. They are estimated to become even more of a threat than the mafia as the country’s most organized criminal network. Most of the members have tattoos in order to identify themselves with the
This article shows artwork collected by an art teacher within the prisons. Taking a closer look at the artwork, one can see many different aspects of life on the inside. You can see such emotion and sorrow within the drawings. One had a man half dressed in jail stripes, the
During Greek week our beneficiary was Chelsea’s Light Foundation in which our proceeds went to the foundation and we contributed to create this master peace in honor of Chelsea King. This young girl was murdered by a convicted sex offender and for that reason the Chelsea’s law was founded on
A 19th century Spanish fresco has been ruined after a good Samaritan attempted a DIY restoration of the artwork. Mendalism at its absolute worst.
From a recent Minneapolis Star-Tribune story: The tattoo on Jenkins’ [the dude pictured above; sadly, no pic of the tattoo itself] left bicep depicts a person holding a semi-automatic handgun with the barrel of the gun partially in the mouth of a pig, according to a criminal complaint. The tattoo
Nearly two years ago, San Diego artist Nicholas Nicholas coined the word “mendalism”. It happened on January 1, 2011 when he noticed that Brazilian artist Stephan Doitschinoff’s untitled contribution to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Viva La Revolución street art exhibition had been vandalized. The mural’s red ribbon
I came across this Tumblr in my feed and thought this would be an appropriate venue to tell people about it. It consists of reproductions from a book by one Danzig Baldaev. From the Tumblr’s “About” page: Danzig Baldaev was born into a prominent Buryat family; when only a child,
This video is a broadcast of a hip hop extravaganza in New York City put into place to raise money for a local graffiti artist who plans on turning himself in for one charge of graffiti. They discuss how they are aware that graffiti is a crime, but state that