For the past few months, images like this have been showing up in New York subway stations. This is the work of vandal/artist Moustache Man. Moustache Man is known for one tag, and one tag only: He has gone around the New York subway system, covertly scribbling the word “moustache” in a distinctively curly hand over the upper lips of people pictured in advertisements. Everyone from Cameron Diaz to Mila Jovovich has been getting the moustache treatment, and you know what? I kind of dig it. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who gets a kick out of it, either. The tag is whimsical in a Magritte-esque, “This Is Not A Pipe” sort of way, and it’s made subway riding into a scavenger hunt (and who doesn’t love a scavenger hunt?). Perhaps more importantly, though, this is the kind of vandalism that I find hard to view as actual vandalism. Yes, technically speaking, all street art is vandalism; but that doesn’t mean it can’t be Art-with-a-capital-A at the same time. More »