The latest happenings from BEYOND THE STREETS and our family of artists, including events, exhibition openings, stories and articles from the worlds of graffiti and street art.
There is a dichotomy at play in his newest exhibition in the Los Angeles space, Shattered Glass, curated by Melahn Frierson and AJ Girard. The works are given space to breath, almost as if they exi...
Quickly the name TAKI 183 became more noticeable through the entire city than any other graffiti writer at the time. While most writers stayed in their neighborhoods, TAKI 183 went “all city.” Most...
On April 5 -10, 2021 the traditional contemporary art world collides with the emerging blockchain art community for a group exhibition across the metaverse. META_VS aims to inspire a new generation...
In the spring of 1985, an anonymous band of activists instantly scandalized the art-world establishment with a series of wheatpaste posters purposefully plastered all over the streets of New York’...
In 1995, Chicano street photographer Estevan Oriol held a now-famous photo session in which he asked a Latina model with a fierce set of claws to arrange her bling-gilded fingers in the shape of tw...
The conventional story of the history of American graffiti is that in the mid to late 1960s, young people started writing their nicknames on walls in Philadelphia and New York. Among them, CORNBREA...
HuskMitNavn’s painted characters draw us in with smiles but have tensions behind them that are quite real. He can dial these tensions up or down depending on the circumstance, of course. He has don...
Art and graffiti have often served as voices of the marginalized and oppressed. Today we’re thinking back on Chicago’s legendary ‘Wall of Respect,’ which was located at the corner of 43rd Street an...
"I’m very versatile. I can do all kinds of different art and I have to survive. I don’t consider myself a graffiti writer. This is a label that’s imposed on me. I haven’t done illegal graffiti...
Interview by Troy L. Smith / Introduction by Sureshot La Rock
“The King of the Hip-Hop Flyer,” heralded the shows of hip-hop’s earliest pioneers with handbills painstakingly made with Prestype lett...
Artists FAILE and Fine & Raw artisanal chocolatiers are excited to present their second annual limited edition Valentine’s Day charity collaboration, Romance Magic. A lovely way to share yo...
