Craigslist is pretty much the one-stop spot for everything you could possibly want: new apartments, better jobs, sketchy “massages”, drunk clowns, cheap bikes, or weirdos as crazy as you are. It’s not surprising then that this is where a 4 foot tall, 80 pound metal sculpture by REVS turns up after being ripped right off the street. We’ve got no love for the collectors (read: assholes) who jack REVS sculptures from the street, but it’s hard to understand why they wouldn’t hold on to this after the trouble of prying one loose.

Just 1500 bones and this baby is yours.

When REVS says, “I like people that just do what they do, whether it makes sense or it don’t” he’s describing himself and the persistence with which he’s made his name across the city. Whether pasting COST & REVS across the city, painting giant on rooftops, recording his life story on the subway tunnels, or welding metal sculptures on the street, REVS has consistently innovated with the biggest and baddest work in New York City. If anything doesn’t make sense, it’s that he’s kept the mystery all these years, while others sell sneakers, t-shirts and videos.

In the NY Times article by Randy Kennedy, REVS said, “Once money changes hands for art, it becomes a fraudulent activity.” Clearer copies of the photos we provided for that article can be seen here and here. Soon after the story ran, most of the sculptures pictured disappeared. Consider that as you watch REVS installing one of his metal sculptures, the 400 pound, Teenage Piece.