Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A heavily tagged subway car in New York City in 1973. By the mid-1970s, most standards had been set in graffiti writing and culture. The heaviest "bombing" in U.S. history took place in this period, partially because of the economic restraints on New York City, which limited its ability to combat this art form with graffiti removal programs or transit maintenance.
United Graffiti Artists (aka UGA) was an early American graffiti artists collective, founded in 1972 by Hugo Martinez in New York City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] UGA was the first organized group of writers, and the first to promote graffiti as a high art.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... American graffiti artists (170 P) C. Graffiti in California (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Graffiti in ...
Cast members Ron Howard, Mackenzie Phillips and more look back on George Lucas' nostalgic classic, which opened 50 years ago Friday.
Graffiti in the Jordan Creek Tunnel under Downtown Springfield on Thursday, July 18, 2024. The city of Springfield is beginning a project to daylight the creek this fall. "Jordan flows into Wilson ...
Infamy (2007) – a feature-length documentary about graffiti culture as told through the experiences of six well-known graffiti writers and a graffiti buffer. New York, New York (1976) – an episode of the BBC documentary series Omnibus, telling the story of graffiti in New York, as told by New Yorkers themselves.
Graffiti has played an important role within the street art scene in the Middle East and North Africa , especially following the events of the Arab Spring of 2011 or the Sudanese Revolution of 2018/19. [42] Graffiti is a tool of expression in the context of conflict in the region, allowing people to raise their voices politically and socially.
JA began painting graffiti in New York as a teenager, [2] and by 1985 was known for his work on the city's trains. [3] JA One took on his tag in 1986. [4] In response to the MTA's clamp down on train graffiti, initiated under the leadership of David L. Gunn, [5] JA One spearheaded the movement to take graffiti bombing onto the streets. [6]