KEITH HARING - LITTLE PENIS DRAWING, BIG PENIS ART

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Dick doodles (which are oh so silly when dashed off by drunk teenagers) are worthy of attention by serious collectors when whipped out by a penis scribbler with gallery cred. This is clearly seen in an exceptional work by Keith Haring, "Original Erect Penis Hand Drawing over Warhol Stamp " (this really is the title, love the accuracy!).

 As described at the terrific art auction site Zarts, "This great Keith Haring penis drawing is drawn with black sharpie over a small Andy Warhol ‘Flowers’ stamp. The stamp itself reads "The Estate and Foundation of Andy Warhol" and is dry-mounted on museum board. A great piece that combines two of the greatest Pop artists. As Haring rarely drew explicit images, this is much rarer than most."

Haring spent a lot of time making art in the NYC subway system, and to the art critics here at NYD it's obvious that he learned a great deal from the pecker on poster defacements so commonly seen there. Although we usually imagine Haring synthesizing the wild and rampant spray-can graffiti styles of the day, this tiny tool tag highlights how much he owes to the ubiquitous sharpie boner sketch.

Our thanks go out to Keith Haring, a great artist, a serious student of graffiti, and an obvious aficionado of New York dick.

BE PROUD OF YOUR DICK, OR DICKS

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We at New York Dick feel that there is no reason to hide a healthy and complex interest in the "phallographic arts", absurd yet insightful penis drawings have a rich history our culture and they should be celebrated. So what better way is there to show that your copy of NYD doesn't represent a meaningless interest that only appeals to you than to present along side it two other amazing books that help put the phallographic fringe in context.

The American outsider artist Henry Darger never fails to intrigue, amaze and shock. Retro sci-fi child soldiers, war, murder, executions, natural disasters, strange and seemingly banal collage/drawings, obsessive and near psychopathic imagery and writing, it's all here, all unbelievably strange. And the crazy footnote, most of the characters featured in his colossal work of graphic fiction "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion" are young girls with pre-pubesent sized penises, amazing. There are many books on Darger but among the best is Henry Darger by Klaus Biesenbach, published by Prestel USA, a very rich area to explore, spooky but high-brow.

And on a lighter and more low-brow note is Superbad: The Drawings. Superbad (the movie) was a big success for the team of Apatow/Goldberg/Rogan/et al, steady work for sure but by far the most groundbreaking aspect of the movie was the slight detour in the story that informed us all about the common and perfectly natural desire to draw penises on everything in sight. Seth explains to Evan (the characters, not the writers, well sort of) his youthful penis drawing compulsion, "when I was a little kid I kind of had this problem, and it's not even that big of a deal, something like eight percent of kids do it, but whatever". Truthfully, in one way or another it's probably a lot more than eight percent, and we at NYD are really pleased about that. A book of the penis drawings (as concocted by David Goldberg, brother of the writer/producer/character) was published to coincide with the release of the movie and it is awesome. It's a small book, funny, strange, not too weird, just weird enough.

Don't be bashful about displaying New York Dick, and keep that penis drawing bookshelf heavy with weird, funny and amazing wee wees.

PRIME BANKSY, OR NOT

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Is it art, political statement, or vandalism? Is it even a "real" Banksy? Is it even a "real" story? Debate continues. One thing we know for sure, it really is a representation of a bifurcated hairy scrotum framing the staid and proper doorway of Number 10 Downing street thus presenting it to an amused world as a seven foot penis.

This scrotum/penis defacement isn't on a New York City subway poster but the spirit is deeply in tune with the sentiment of NYD. New York gets the meaning of a big dingus in a meaningful place, The Poke gets it, and now in a manner of speaking No. 10 Downing Street gets it too.

Our thanks go out to this unknown street/photoshop artist, even if the story is fake the feeling is real. Take a look at the article posted by The Poke for more details.