STREET ART of OAXACA - Around the Centro
Around the center of Oaxaca are what many refer to graffitti. Much of it is, but there is also Gang monikers (X3 or 13 meaning Southern California), street art and art put up the a group of skateborders who also have a website which when I remember to get it, will include it at this site.
‘Graffiti’ Glitters at the Brooklyn Museum
Enlarge Akiko “Shiro” Miyakami, a nurse visiting from Shizuoka, Japan, puts the
finishing sprays on a legal mural off Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York.
In the 1980s, graffiti artist Sandra Fabara went by the alias Lady Pink. She says she considered the subways “a rolling canvas.”
All Things Considered, July 2, 2006 · In New York, crime is down and rents are up. And like other American cities undergoing wide-scale gentrification, a walk through today’s New York offers sights of clean streets as much as mean ones.
Graffiti — the city’s most famous symbol of urban anxiety — no longer grows like ivy on the subway trains. City authorities won that battle in the late 1980s. Still, it’s lodged deeply in the city’s psyche. And for the moment, it’s firmly ensconced in the Brooklyn Museum, in an exhibition simply called, “Graffiti.”
Most of the 22 works in the “Graffiti” exhibition feature spray paint on canvas, and come from the early 1980s. The show runs through Sept. 3.