B.N.E., the Graffiti Writer, Gets a Manhattan Exhibition – NYTimes.com

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Trent
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Making a Name for Himself, With Just 3 Letters

B.N.E., a surreptitious graffiti writer, painter and “sticker,” is the focus of an exhibition sponsored by an ad agency.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/nyregion/09bne.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

The postcard-size stickers bearing the three simple black letters are affixed to mailboxes, phone booths, signs, walls, parking meters and streetlights, mostly in New York and Japan, but also in Bangkok, Prague, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur. He goes through 10,000 stickers a month. In 2006, B.N.E. so blanketed San Francisco that the city’s mayor, Gavin Newsom, offered a reward of $2,500 for information leading to his capture.