BEYOND THE STREETS, the premier exhibition of graffiti, street art and beyond, announces today that it will head to the art form’s epicenter: New York, on June 21, 2019. The show celebrates society’s most pervasive mark makers and rule breakers with a sprawling showcase of work by more than 150 artists from around the world.

Article originally published in the Beyond the Streets LA Companion book.

“The first painting I encountered that had an impact on me was ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte’ by Georges Seurat,” Nina Chanel Abney recalls. “I saw it as a kid while on a field trip at the Art Institute of Chicago...

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Walking through “Beyond the Streets,” the sprawling, adventurous show of diverse work by street artists housed in a 40,000-square-foot warehouse north of LA’s Chinatown, the opening scene of the seminal street art documentary Style Wars flickered into my mind. In it, a group of young New York graffiti artists stand in the street anxiously waiting for a subway train to pass on the elevated tracks above them..

Article originally published in the Beyond the Streets LA Companion book.

A few days before we opened Art in the Streets in April of 2011, New York City graffiti artist KATSU made this enormous, messy fire extinguisher tag on the side of MOCA Geffen...

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Anderson .Paak partnered with Beyond The Streets, to provide foster high school graduates from United Friends and The Department of Children and Family Services a day full of creativity, artistry, and empowerment. The event took place at a 40,000-square-feet downtown Los Angeles location comprised of street art, sculptures, and photography curated by graffiti historian Roger Gastman and was brought to the students by the Brandon Anderson Foundation, under the Paak House initiative.