Graffiti history

The first NYC tagger to go all-city, TAKI 183 has achieved mythical status as the father of modern day graffiti. We were thrilled to meet up with him last week. Your name TAKI is -- according to what we’ve read -- a traditional Greek nickname for Demetrius, and 183 refers to the street where you lived in Washington Heights. How old were you when you first got your name up? And what was the first surface you hit? I was about 16. The first surface I remember tagging was the bus terminal on…

The ‘60s and ‘70s mark the birth of graffiti and street art; we see the cultures develop out of their infancies and take their first steps to adulthood.

There's nothing wrong with a little good, old-fashioned street graffiti as long as it's clever. And this is what this photo gallery is all about. This ...

At an art show for Risk recently I was asked who my favorite graffiti artist was. There was so many to name, it's kind of like asking what ...

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