The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) plans to spend over $1 million on graffiti removal and prevention this year.
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Artist Spray-Paints Massive Graffiti on New Museum
It’s unclear how “Acer,” as the anonymous artist is known, evaded the museum’s security officers and surveillance cameras
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How Chronicling Street Art Works Against a Culture of Commodification
This culture industry perfects the mechanisms for the wholesale destruction of art not beholden to establishment narratives.
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From Graffiti to the Gallery, Futura Talks About Art
After 32 years, artist Futura is back with a solo exhibition in New York, his hometown where he first developed his reputation as a graffiti writer.
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Banksy Grafitti in London Underground Accidentally Removed by Cleaners
An employee of the London Tube noticed “some sort of ‘rat thing’” a few days ago and cleaned it off.
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Protesters Demand NYPD Drop Graffiti Charges Against 67-Year-Old Journalist
The protesters demand the NYPD expunge Jill Nelson’s record and to cancel her summons for a court appearance in August. Last month, she was arrested and detained for hours after writing “Trump=Plague” in washable pink chalk in uptown Manhattan.
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A Gripping Memoir Dives Into LA’s Graffiti Subculture of the ’90s
Artist and scholar Stefano Bloch has written a story that is personal, but also a primer on graffiti’s history and artistic and social import.
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“Bird God ” Tagger: My Great-Great-Grandfather Told Me To Do it
| Denis Shelagin, the man accused of spraying the cryptic graffiti “Bird God” on Grand Army Plaza’s arch in Brooklyn, said in court that he was instructed to do so in a 1960 letter from his great-great-grandfather. Shelagin also claimed that he was trying to raise awareness about pigeon killings, the New York Post reported. In a court appearance on Monday, Shelagin said that he was worried that he would suffer harm if he didn’t fulfill his great-great-grandfather’s command. Read the full story here.
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Man Graffitis “Bird God” on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Arch
The graffiti writer was arrested after stealing a crane to tag the arch. The NYPD and the public are still puzzled about the meaning of it all.
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A Touching Portrait of Martha Cooper, a Legendary Chronicler of Graffiti
Martha: A Picture Story, is the first documentary that focuses on the life and career of one of the most important urban photographers of the past half-century.
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The Clandestine Cultural Knowledge of Ancient Graffiti
Today we are used to thinking of graffiti as subversive or illegal, but ancient people didn’t necessarily see graffiti in this way at all.
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As Bogotá Transforms, a Movement Grows to Safeguard the City’s Street Murals
Plans to restore and paint 2,500 houses in Bogotá’s historical downtown area of Candelaria are clashing with graffiti artists whose colorful murals have transformed the area and brought tourists to the neighborhood.