The Bowery Wall in New York has been seeing a lot of paint in the last week. The short-lived 70th birthday wall for Martha Cooper has been followed up by the work of Crash a.k.a. John Matos, who completed the wall in just two days. A very large Popeye can now be seen greeting commuters on Houston and Bowery.

Doyle NYC's "Young Artists/Young Collectors" auction takes place is this week on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. See a preview of works for sale here by artists COOP, KAWS, Swoon, Futura 2000, and CRASH after the jump . . .

We just got opening night photos of the Roger Gastman curated Blurring the Lines: Crash, Freedom, and Risk at Corey Helford Galley in Culver City. The artists, and and curator, were in attendance.

Obviously, the legendary names and artists of New York City were a big part of the story at MOCA's "Art In the Streets," with Futura, Martha Cooper, Blade, Henry Chalfant, Fab 5 Freddy, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Crash, and Freedom having major spaces in the Geffen building, as well as younger talents that later emerged like Dash Snow. More after the jump . . .

To coincide with Levi's Film Workshop inside the Geffen Contemporary where the Art In the Streets exhibition is taken place, Levi's has collaborated with artists in the show to create limited-edition artist designed Trucker Jackets. The series will feature Andre, Chaz Bojorquez, CRASH, Keith Haring, KR, Neckface, Lady Pink, REVOK, Kenny Scharf and Shepard Fairey. More after the jump . . .

John "CRASH" Matos, who we profiled in our new April 2011 Art In the Streets Issue, has a new solo show, Paintings With a Hidden Agenda, opening at Addict Galerie in Paris on March 25, 2011. It will be Crash's first exhibition in France in over a decade, featuring spray paint on canvas works. More after the jump . . .

April 2011 marks a special issue for Juxtapoz Magazine, as we were asked by the MOCA to create a companion issue to the first major instituitional retrospective of street art, Art In the Streets. As we documented street art to a wider-audience of fine art, tattoo, pop-surreal, and illustrative art enthusiasts over our 17 years, we wanted to create an extended dialog and history with graffiti and street art pioneers. More after the jump . . .

The Small Gift / Sanrio 50th Anniversary exhibitions and events have long ended, but Graff Supply has available for the first time outside of Small Gift Miami special limited-edition prints by past Juxtapoz feature artists: POSE, Anthony Lister, and CRASH. Images after the jump . . .