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#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

Rah rah America, something something. 📷: @sucky

Rah rah America, something something. 📷: @suckybat

#HOMESICK "My Keys Don’t Fit These Locks No More

#HOMESICK "My Keys Don’t Fit These Locks No More" #nycgraffiti

Buffed and rebuffed, Delancey Street (summer 2024)

Buffed and rebuffed, Delancey Street (summer 2024) #nycgraffiti

Snapshot #nycgraffiti

Snapshot #nycgraffiti

#DEK #dek2dx #nycgraffiti

#DEK #dek2dx #nycgraffiti

Queens Guy Found Guilty. 🎨|📷: @karinschall

Queens Guy Found Guilty. 🎨|📷: @karinschall

#Freights & #Monikers

#Freights & #Monikers

#AIDZ #UWONT #nycgraffiti 📷: @simontanderson

#AIDZ #UWONT #nycgraffiti 📷: @simontanderson

Underground art. #FAIPE #JEDI5 #nycgraffiti 📷:

Underground art. #FAIPE #JEDI5 #nycgraffiti 📷: @brotherezra

#SEV #nycgraffiti #sevtdt

#SEV #nycgraffiti #sevtdt

Delancey #nycgraffiti

Delancey #nycgraffiti

Miss Sara Rosen interviews photographer @weskn0ll

Miss Sara Rosen interviews photographer @weskn0ll about "Fading Smile," a book (published by printedmatterinc) that "documents what growing up in New York authentically looks like through a decade-long survey of a community of kids whose lives and experiences are unavoidably interwoven, creating a universe where everybody seems to be one degree of separation from ruining someone else’s life. Escape into a raw portrait of a world where everybody sells drugs, everybody writes graffiti, everybody cheats on one another and everybody cheats the system." Link up top to full story. 📷:©️Wes Knoll

One letter buffs are diabolical. #nycgraffiti

One letter buffs are diabolical. #nycgraffiti

Fall of 1981. That’s the year that Patti Astor o

Fall of 1981. That’s the year that Patti Astor opened the Fun Gallery with Bill Stelling in the East Village. What started out as a gritty, tiny basement storefront, quickly transformed into a legendary space where still evolving practitioners of graffiti became artists. Patti helped put the entire East Village art scene on the map and curated countless exhibits featuring work from the likes of DONDI, ZEPHYR, FUTURA, LEE, BLADE, FAB 5 Freddy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and many, many other accomplished painters. She did all this during an era when lots of New Yorkers had developed an extreme disdain for anything associated with what the city’s thoroughly bombed transit system.

In an interview with AMM, she recalled her "first official art event" that took place before the Fun Gallery even opened: "My first official art event occurred when FUTURA 2000 offered to give me a painting. I was still in my sixty-five-dollar-a-month, crumbling tenement on East Third Street, and I suggested he do a mural in the apartment instead. In the graffiti world, a mural was more prized and special than something that could be bought or sold. FUTURA was thrilled with the idea, so we decided he would blast out his painting in the morning, and in the afternoon we would have an art opening and barbecue."

The debut managed to attract attract curator Diego Cortez and gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, "in his perfect little Brooks Brothers suit," recalled Patti. "Delicately picking their way through the heaped-up garbage cans and numerous slouching, panhandling bums, Diego and Jeffrey headed toward the door! We all cracked up. Soon I was handing ribs to the art buyer for Citibank."

In another interview about her early beginnings, Patti said: "Fun Gallery was an accident. It was just a party that never stopped." And it never will. RIP Patti Astor! (1950 - 2024)

CAPTIONS: Patti Astor at Fun Gallery by Robin Holland, FUTURA & Patti at “art opening and barbecue.”, Kenny Scharf & Patti at Fun Gallery by Allen Frame, Patti dress, LEE flyer for Fun Gallery, DONDI & Patti during his exhibit at Fun Gallery by Martha Cooper, Patti & Keith Haring, Fab 5 Freddy & Patti, Patti 👑

Canal Street #nycgraffiti

Canal Street #nycgraffiti

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