graffiti

“Basquiat has absorbed every trick in contemporary painting's book at an astoundingly early age. He's so precocious he's practically old before his time”

When a mysterious graffiti tag started appearing around New York, the Voice went looking for the artist behind ‘SAMO’

When the elusive British artist took to the streets of New York in October 2013, the Voice was right there each and every day

In 2013, Keegan Hamilton reported on the English provocateur’s trek through the streets of New York — and what local artists thought of it

‘Rammellzee: Racing for Thunder’ can’t help but summon nostalgia for a time when the city was rougher, more raw, its public culture infused with outer-borough grassroots brilliance and improvisational futurism instead of corporate programming

Nothing like a slick glamorization of the gig economy to crush your soul

The art world’s man of mystery bombed the Bowery to protest the imprisonment of Turkish artist Zehra Doğan

A judge’s award of $6.75 million to whitewashed muralists is great for schadenfreude but could complicate future relations with property owners

"Like conceptual art and Pop, graffiti questions the context in which art is appreciated. It renews the dream of work for its own sake, the idea of creation as a democratic process — in short, radical humanism"