Through May, The Threat of Chance, featuring the work of Josh MacPhee, Billy Mode, Chris Stain and The Polaroid Kidd, will be on display at Ad Hoc Art (49 Bogart Street, Brooklyn). The gallery is built out into a railroad shanty town full of paintings, stencils, photographs and signs. A handful of photos are here, but you can’t fully appreciate it unless you explore it in person.

Click here for more photos of the The Threat of Chance.

Untitled photo sandwich by Joana Kelly.

Along with MORAL’s fire extinguisher tags we mentioned the “house on a house” painting in Williamsburg. It turns out to be the work of Miss Tint, who has compiled a video of her/his house and tic-tac-toe paintings called “Kid Drawing Made With a Fire Extinguisher”.

People are always calling graffiti artists childish without having any real hard evidence. Well now they do. Join Miss Tint as s/he sprays numerous kids drawing using a fire extinguisher on walls throughout New York.

As Bucky pointed out, “What you’re looking at is not ’street art,’ it’s pure, unadultured vandalism by way of fire extinguisher.”

Deathbowl to Downtown – The Evolution of Skateboarding in New York City looks at skateboarding’s “epochal shift from the parks and pools of the 70’s, to ramp skating in the 80’s, to the street ascendancy of the 1990’s as seen from a New York-centric perspective.” The film will debut in New York City this summer, and nationally in the fall. [Gothamist]

Photo by C-Monster.

+ The Threat of Chance, featuring a railroad shanty town built by Josh MacPhee, Billy Mode, Chris Stain and The Polaroid Kidd, opens tonight at Ad Hoc Art. The show will be on display through June 1st. (7PM at Ad Hoc Art, 49 Bogart Street, Brooklyn)

+ Chief Magazine’s spring photography showcase, Best and Brightest, opens at The Arm. Rev McFly is bringing the noise. (7PM at The ARM, 281 North 7th St. (between Havemeyer and Meeker), Brooklyn)

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Photo by Supertouch.

To the disappointment of all the would-be street art entrepreneurs with dollar-signs in their eyes, a Banksy stencil on East 12th Street and Avenue A was painted over recently. At a time when some stencils and paintings by Banksy are being protected and auctioned off (building included), Supertouch gleefully photographs someone painting over the Little Bo Peep stencil that went up last November. If it makes you feel better, the piece was already covered by a concrete repair job on top of the wall. That means the buff job was more of a prep service for the next artist or vandal to come along, in this case, whoever spray painted a neighborly reminder that “You are under surveillance.”