City as Canvas: MCNY Explores Origins of Graffiti Art
Once upon a time, before Banksy murals were making the covers of auction catalogues, what many today know as street art was viewed as urban blight. Martin Wong saw creativity ripe for collecting. A new exhibition brings together works from his trove and traces the evolution of the New York graffiti art movement. We tagged writer Nancy Lazarus to take a sneak peek.
Pictured above, an untitled 1984 work by Zephyr, a key figure in the transition of the writing movement from trains to canvas.
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