Source: Stefano Bloch / Used with permission. Most nights of his adolescence, Stefano Bloch snuck out of his house with a singular goal: to spray-paint his nickname, Cisco, on billboards, buildings, ...

Known as the self-declared King of Style despite losing an arm and a leg in a childhood accident, early graffiti writer KASE 2 passed away two weekends ago, adding another famous name to the roster of ...

Leonard Hilton McGurr was a New York City kid, growing up on West 103rd Street and Broadway, when he first picked up a can of spray paint in the early 1970s. He adopted the moniker Futura 2000, and 50 ...

Attention graffiti fans and fiends: The New Orleans-based artist who calls himself READ is having an exhibition of what he calls “interior work” at an Arabi art gallery. The show, opening Saturday, ...

In October 2024, we’re walking around the Philadelphia Zoo with Daryl “Cornbread” McCray, the world’s first modern day graffiti writer. It’s the first time he’s been back since he famously graffitied ...

As a graffiti writer for over 30 years, your work predates the Internet era. When you started out as an artist, stories were passed through word of mouth instead of documented online. How will your ...

Back in the '90s, Derek Guy and his friends would hang out in train yards and study the graffiti on the sides of the parked trains, which were like colorful, exotic, rolling art galleries. The work of ...

I can still hear former MTA commissioner Dick Ravitch’s voice when he opined in 1982: “I’m not an art critic, but I sure know that graffiti is not an art form.” Famous last words, Dick. As I ride the ...

“Cause I’m playin ball or bobbin’ in the hall/ or just writin’ my name in graffiti on the wall..” – Rakim “My Melody” circa 1986 Very few of today’s Hip Hop enthusiasts understand the history and ...