graffiti : 18 Articles

People in Washington Heights are angry that the Department of Transportation painted over murals and graffiti on a subway tunnel. The DOT says they will issue a Request for Proposals for a new project to "transform" the tunnel, with $25 million allocated for the project.

Hu/Lie was completely fascinated by the culture of skateboarding and hip-hop in the 1990s. He saw in it a lifestyle made up of freedom, self-transcendence, transgression and creativity...

Banksy, an underground artist originally from the Bristol, UK scene, has been spreading his politicized, subversive and daring graffiti since the 1990s, although, only since 2005, has media interest become aware of the value of his point of view, made extremely fascinating also by the willingness of the "controversy artist" himself to conceal his identity, an action that seems to us to conform to the most natural attitude of superheroes...

machOne believes that art should be emotional: it should provoke a reaction, a thought or a conversation. machOne often tries to paint expressions of emotion, or suggestions of sexuality...

The relevance of Jean-Michel Basquiat's creative flair continues to be felt within contemporary art, expressing itself through the work of artists, who, driven by the same impulse of denunciation, strongly desire to give voice to the unresolved dramas of racism and marginalization...

The street artist never stopped creating her legend on Paris's walls, on dilapidated facades, under a street lamp, on a dead end, or a poorly lit pavement.

The following selection of large-format works of art from Artmajeur's collection aims to demonstrate how the originality and independence of contemporary art has often been the result of inspiration drawn, more or less unconsciously, from the most important artistic currents in the history of art of the past...

Banksy is the most well-known street artist in the world. Recently, a landlord in England pulled one of his murals from the side of a building to sale it. A few months before, actor Christopher Walken, character in "The Outlaws", painted over an original Banksy for a scene.