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What do skateboarders, graffiti artists and French post-structuralists have in common?Let’s start with the skateboarder. The sport that essentially began…
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Chaz Bojorquez has been called the O.G. Godfather of Cholo graffiti. He started writing graffiti in Los Angeles in the early 1960s-- his first letters…
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Since the early 1990s, the hyper-anonymous street artist Banksy has been upending our collective notion of art, vandalism and politics with both formal…
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If you ask someone what they think about graffiti, the possible responses are fairly easy to predict. They’ll either like graffiti, or they won’t, or…
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It’s really difficult to pin down what you might call a manifesto of graffiti writers. Graffiti is always a political act, insofar as it questions and…
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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…