Menu

Sign up for updates! Join our newsletter!

© 2025 BEYOND THE STREETS. All rights reserved.

News & Media

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.

NEWS & MEDIA

From Vandals to Vanguards, This Exhibition Shows the Evolution of Graffiti Artists

Graffiti art has grown up. This decades-long evolution from vandalism to a respected art form is chronicled in the new behemoth exhibition “Beyond the Streets,” which showcases over 1,000 works by ...

How spray paint, ego and activism turned graffiti into an art form

Martha Cooper remembers the moment she started seeing graffiti as something more than “a random act of vandalism.” It was in the late ’70s, when a young boy showed Cooper — then a New York Post pho...

Introducing: Beyond The Streets New York

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 societ...

Nina Chanel Abney

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 Chane...

STICKERS NYC

Graffiti stickers — handwritten tags on a variety of labels that can quickly be affixed to almost any surface — have always been somewhat of a minor form of vandalism, at least in the eyes of most ...

KATSU

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, m...

Exploring The Power Of Street Art With The Legendary Roger Gastman

I know Roger Gastman from his magazine “While You Were Sleeping.” They did an article about me sometime in the early 2000s. But more than that, we were always sort of in the same orbit. When I was ...

PAAK HOUSE PARTNERS WITH BEYOND THE STREETS LA

Article originally published on www.blackenterprise.com  Anderson .Paak partnered with Beyond The Streets, to provide foster high school graduates from United Friends and The Department of Childr...

Beyond Banksy: This Massive LA Exhibition Dramatically Expands the Story of Graffiti

Article originally published on www.artnet.com Walking through “Beyond the Streets,” the sprawling, adventurous show of diverse work by street artists housed in a 40,000-square-foot warehouse nor...

Street Art: Love It or Hate It

If you saw or heard of graffiti art 50 years ago, it was considered to be a blight of the city streets. But now, decades later, it’s quite a different story. Thanks to such artists as Keith Haring ...

« Previous 1 12 13 14