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Never Heard of the “Good Samaritan” Killing the Stranger Posted on May 8, 2023 (May 8, 2023) by Ron Kuby in Culture&Features&Latest&Uncategorized

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Quick read: Last night, the @museumofcityny marked

Quick read: Last night, the @museumofcityny marked the 30th anniversary of Martin Wong’s groundbreaking donation: a comprehensive archive of 1980s-era graffiti art from some of the most notable writers in the game, many of whom were in attendance. Curated by MCNY’s @scorcoran74, the exhibit is now open and will run through August 10, 2025.

Loftier-artsy read: "Everything I paint is within four blocks of where I live, and the people are the people I know and see all the time," artist Martin Wong (1946–1999) once said. This quote reflects not only the sense of preservation that he had in his own work, but also the ethos that drove him to become one of the most significant collectors of early NYC graffiti art. At the time, this was not a popularly held view. In an influential research paper on the subject, authors Maryalice Sloan-Howitt and George L. Kelling write: "By 1984, graffiti covered every train car in the New York City subway. Every attempt to deter the graffitists had failed. Apologists saw graffiti as folk art; others saw graffiti as the premier symbol of the failure of government to protect citizens from the depredations of vandals and criminals."

Martin Wong saw it differently, he saw it for what it truly was: a vibrant, homegrown, art movement erupting on subway cars, walls, and handball courts, with some writers beginning to translate their work onto canvases. While the powers that be scrambled to scrub it off property and out of the collective consciousness, Wong was quietly building one of the most epic archives of work from some of the best to have ever done it.

That time capsule is now on display at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY). "Above Ground celebrates the 30th anniversary of Martin Wong’s donation to the museum and the 10th anniversary of MCNY’s initial City as Canvas exhibition," says curator Sean Corcoran. "This show offers a renewed and expanded look at graffiti’s journey from NYC streets to the most prestigious galleries around the world."

Graffiti in the ’80s was raw, loud, and chaotic—a perfect reflection of a city teetering on the edge. (please read the rest on www.animalnewyork.com)

📷: Herman Yung @doobybrain

Miami’s message to VITAS building owner: enough

Miami’s message to VITAS building owner: enough is enough! The city’s code enforcement board just pulled the plug on any more extensions to clean up the iconic, fully-grilled structure, reports @NBC6. ATOMIKO is credited with hitting the spot first, sparking a domino effect that turned the location into a graffiti magnet.

The abandoned monolith quickly became an international spectacle during Art Basel 2023, when writers from all over swarmed it like ants at a picnic, leaving no inch untagged. Now slated for demolition, local commissioners are accusing the owner of stalling and plan to cover up the “eyesore” with screens in the meantime. Good luck!

📷: @elomia_

(America/Me) billboard by @GlennLigon | 📷: @fom

(America/Me) billboard by @GlennLigon | 📷: @fomofeed

Knock out or decapitation? #TysonPaul 🖼️: @

Knock out or decapitation? #TysonPaul

🖼️: @thematthewwaite cc @comixposure @tidalwaveproductions

🗽💨: @GabrielSpecter 📷: Allan Molho @amolh

🗽💨: @GabrielSpecter 📷: Allan Molho @amolho4

Who did this? New and improved Cybertruck seen in

Who did this? New and improved Cybertruck seen in NYC. #fdt 📷: NYC Reddit | elmoisez15

Five decades after Leonard Hilton McGurr took the

Welcome to Hell!

Welcome to Hell!

An international cabal of anonymous creatives enli

An international cabal of anonymous creatives enlisted ANIMAL to help take out the trash in NYC for this very important Election Day by re-bagging hundreds of garbage bags printed with the orange menace’s face, and so we kindly obliged. It’s time to do the right thing, America. Vote!

Shout out to @bearmeetseagleonfire and all the co-conspirators who helped facilitate the effort. All photos by @han.alexander

Illustration by @natecepis commissioned by ANIMAL

Illustration by @natecepis commissioned by ANIMAL over a decade ago. #fdt

#Freights & #Monikers

#Freights & #Monikers

American Nazis held a second historic rally at NYC

American Nazis held a second historic rally at NYC’s legendary Madison Square Garden on Sunday, and it went just as expected. Speakers invoked racist tropes, talked shit about Puerto Rico and stirred the crowd into a frenzy about "migrants" stealing the jobs they’d never do. The ugliness going on inside was effortlessly mirrored on the outside as well, as imported MAGA devotees publicly divulged their most heinous thoughts and grievances, as they waited obediently, in blocks-long human pens, hoping for a chance to watch Donald Trump ramble on, like a tired carnival act.

At one point, group of out of state college kids could be overheard regurgitating every horrible thing they’ve read on 4chan or heard on social media. "The people who vote for Harris are retards," said a lanky white kid wearing a MAGA hat that had a tuft of fake hair like you’d find on those old school troll dolls. "People who vote for Walz are faggots." They all laughed and then the same dude asked if it would be funny to scream out "Kamala toe"? Election Day is November 5th.

Artist and activist @crackheadbarneyandfriends con

Artist and activist @crackheadbarneyandfriends confusing the hell out of MAGA as a Trump band plays just outside Madison Square Garden.

Rooftops and rappels #nycgraffiti

Rooftops and rappels #nycgraffiti

🔥🔥🔥RAMS DZEL PEAK DISTO EXR WERDS🔥🔥

🔥🔥🔥RAMS DZEL PEAK DISTO EXR WERDS🔥🔥🔥Those towers are easily 8 stories tall. #nycgraffiti

There’s an incredible new book about graffiti fu

There’s an incredible new book about graffiti futurist and visionary #Rammellzee. Edited by Maxwell Wolf & Jeff Mao and published by @Rizzolibooks, it represents "the first major monograph devoted to the artist’s life and work." Full story on www.animalnewyork.com

Photo credits in order of appearance: Silvia Menzel, Dave Tompkins, Seth Tillett, Estate of Rammellze, Mari Horiuchi

#GUS #REW #nycgraffiti 📷: @doobybrain

#GUS #REW #nycgraffiti 📷: @doobybrain

#SERF #nycgraffiti

#SERF #nycgraffiti

"MAGA bullet" (2024) by Gary @Taxali

"MAGA bullet" (2024) by Gary @Taxali

#GANE #nycgraffiti

#GANE #nycgraffiti

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