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In a small, largely abandoned village along the coast in Belgium, the walls are covered in graffiti. What began as an effort by the few remaining locals…
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When it comes to our cities, we all have an edifice complex.I first encountered this term, edifice complex, in a book of the same name by architectural…
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A couple of years ago, the Los Angeles-based graffiti collective known as The Seventh Letter put together a gallery exhibition themed around Muppets.…
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More than 40 years have passed since the beginning of the modern graffiti movement, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Heightened security in train…
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Graffiti culture maintains very few alliances with the non-graffiti world. It is, after all, a culture that celebrates the art of being both alienated and…
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China has a graffiti problem.Or, more specifically, The Great Wall has a graffiti problem.It’s not really surprising that people have visited the Great…
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America has had a fascination with hobos and hobo culture for nearly as long as these folks have been hitching rides on trains.The myth of the hobo, like…
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The names of graffiti writers are mutant words. Half-verb, half-noun, they distill both language and identity into concentrated archetypes: the trickster,…
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At its most basic, "tagging" is the act of writing your name on a wall, on a newspaper stand, on a lamp post, or, let’s be honest, anything else that…
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Wichita is relatively new to the graffiti game.While entire subway lines were being covered from end to end in New York City in the late '70s, the most…